twitter fail whale being flown away to heaven by bluesky butterflies

I had a reading this week about universal design and the font did NOT work with OCR which is hilarious and frustrating

He does not know what a Pharisee is even in the New Testament sense

There is probably some kind of correlation with my desire to wear a bodysuit and how bad my brain is doing

I looked at Politico for one (1) minute and lost all hope for humanity lol

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

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...

If you really want to know how fake money is take a gander at forex trading

“Teen birth rates have crashed 81%” presented as a bad thing

garlic soup finfluencers: they run an IG account named doji_catz; jim is a sniper, olu trades bond funds, zheng plays the long game, archie sniffs out the stocks moving on trends and news

Like 600% of $5 is only $30

Idk y'all like this is a stupid move by a penny stock company and it will probably flop as fast as it went up

The Allbirds stock thing is not just about lemmings buying AI. It's about lemmings buying "line going up rn."

allbirdsgpt: you're abshoelutely correct

I'll never forget my student who told me he didn't use AI for anything besides teaching him calculus

LRP: Strongly agree but I'm gonna need my STEM colleagues to stop outsourcing their basic education to Khan Academy videos as well as stop dissing first year writing

More higher ed discourse like this please

You can hear that shit in your head clear as day

Also like my God these situations make me wonder what Gamergate would have been like if ChatGPT had been around

it will also show posts you strongly disagree with that have enough traction going for you to hop into the fray.

A lot of AI is so much about validation, and that is extremely bad

This is a loose connection to the below post but it's making me think about my ongoing question of why Instagram specifically has gotten so bad. I think its algorithm is so finely tuned to show you what you already agree with that...

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Blackbeard is soft on free trade !

“pope is soft on crime” bouncing around in my head like the dvd logo on a classroom tv

I grew up reading the Berenstain Bears and the messy room book is burned into my brain. I think boxes will solve everything and they do not lmfao

Just put a pegboard on the wall using toggle bolts and I'm very pleased with myself

I wonder if we are in a period of time where we should no longer use approval rating to a) predict anything and b) as a metric for leaders to determine policy decisions. Maybe as a whole, approval shouldn't be a goal

Only eight weeks till I can really rest