It was a delightful presentation, I learned so much! But also I blame you for the fact that I had to be at the conference, and so unfortunately I cannot like your response and will be blocking you instead.
the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?
Economy so bad even Supreme Court Justices living in a two-income household.
(the conference is a parody of academic conferences, not a conference about jokes, to be clear)
(I learned about Adrian Chiles at a joke conference last week, and I haven't laughed so hard in a long time)
An onion will do well for such a shift
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
This is what I was asking about btw www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Just learned (after thirteen years of marriage) that my husband has his social security number memorized in three groups of three. Profoundly upsetting.
the penne opticon
Pretty sure a road trip with Chris Fleming and Dolly Parton would heal anything
A sign that reads "Tomatopalooza: Enter Here"
Late thirties fucking rules.
Passed a coffee shop in our neighborhood that apparently specializes in "frothtails." AK has been singing "Frothtails!" to the tune of the Ducktales theme for the past forty minutes. Hell is real.
Yes exactly, I knew you'd understand.
I think if the arch is paid for with repurposed NEH funding, we all get to repurpose the arch. I will consider carefully what to do with my brick or hunk of gilded concrete.
[shocked pikachu.jpeg]
Update on today's Chicagoland federal immigration agent activity from community group Hijos de Migrantes:
As of 2:24 pm, the group reports at least 4 people taken, plus 1 person reportedly detained by DEA.
Reported sightings w/o confirmed detentions in Elgin, Glendale Heights, Pullman.
At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
A serial-numbers-filed-off version of the Succession theme playing in the background is a very nice touch.
Truly the stupidest!
Love to feel morally superior, and this was a quality huff.
Just passed a cybertruck while aboard a public bus. Difficult to imagine a greater chasm in nobility between two vehicles.
Leo, former head of the Augustinian order, visits the site where Bishop Augustine (future saint) developed foundational texts to catholic just war theory, about which convert JD Vance is trying to popesplain right now.
thoughts on this:
- this is just an interesting look at how marketing works now when attention is so fragmented & algorithmically mediated
- it adds some pretty interesting context to how a track from Winter's solo album rather inexplicably blew up as tiktok audio
- psyop is prob not a helpful term
For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵
( @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social can talk about the bossa nova of it all, or could if they weren't busy chairing a department here in the year of all crises 2026)
With the online periodical sector now gutted by venture capital (yayyy), this video is instead pitched directly to fandoms. Heated Rivalry, SITP, Katseye, the Olympics - here ya go, fans, take and eat, etc.
By "2010s-coded" I mean big-budget cameo- and reference-saturated, designed to be listicled and thinkpieced. Think "Bad Blood," Lemonade, "Thank U Next."