“And you tell to me, Hastings, that this mother, the ex-beauty-queen, the proud society lady, she goes to bed early, she gets up before dawn, performs her morning toilette and dons the same ensemble of the Christmas Eve party the previous night? Non, non! This I cannot countenance!”

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes.

it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

Exactly one year ago today:

I always thought of "Madame George" as a reference to the Van Morrison song but I can't really close the loop on whether that is plausible and makes sense in context. Best I can do is understand her lyrics as evocative and poetic without being too on the nose or heavy handed.

i would like to paint a picture for you of a house i passed today:

- black lives matter sign
- harris/walz 2024 sign that says VOTE and the T is a uterus
- sign about how you should vote no for library funding
- audi in the driveway

*taps the sign*

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

Your daughter's name? Pete Rose.

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doordash grandma DoorDash does not have a specific policy for seniors or helping grandparents, as the provided articles do not mention DoorDash's policies or services for seniors. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know. how the fuck do I just search WaPo articles? To search Washington Post articles, you can use the "Ask The Post Al" tool, which is a generative Al tool that provides summary answers and curated results directly to users. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know. I asked. Show me article about "doordash grandma" There is no information about DoorDash and grandma in the provided articles. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

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crimepope

"Elmo is weak on crime" - Elmo

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)

I think the replication crisis can be explained by the fact that its primarily in psychology and economics

Girls with a time machine: Hello John Brown these are called "Kalashnikovs" Boys with a time machine: Hello John Brown these are called "Kalashnikovs"

you fucking guessed it! "Last year, Philz was purchased by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which also owns Popeyes Chicken and El Pollo Loco, for a reported $145 million, according to Mission Local, though the company did not provide details of the deal."

I'm sure I've posted about this before but whatever, here's a new thread on the subject: why it does not bother me in the slightest if my clients did what they are charged with doing.

66 Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding? A.R. Moxon

I keep coming back to this.

The mortar is composed of sugarcane, cotton, tobacco, and natural hydraulic lime, materials bound to histories of forced labor and extraction. Over the next three months, this prison sink-toilet will break down, planting flowers of abolition: plantain, yarrow, brown-eyed susan, and stinging nettles.

Official Launch Trailer for The House of Hikmah | Arrives April 8th, 2026 YouTube video by Lunacy Studios

I've wished for Arab-made games about Arab mythology for so long, and despite assisting on the project I still can't believe there's one swinging for the fences this hard. House of Hikmah is something very needed in a time where the world would rather erase us.

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It’s not just Ms. Rachel.

The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention.

Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

boss: here's a feature request, we need it to handle a wider range of scenarios

pull request: "You’re standing on a dirt road outside the tavern. A Magick shoppe stands to the east, and a dark alley leads north. Looking south, you see the snowy peaks of a distant mountain"