it may interest you to know that a sick burn amongst the local 5th graders is to accuse you of doing a Trump Dump in your Vance Pants

Lady drinking tea saying, "They're doing it again because you didn't hang them last time."

I don't usually repost memes, but this one keeps being relevant.

can we please all stop deliberately consuming propaganda from any government

no..! omg!!

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio) YouTube video by Ace Records

an alternative perspective on the Artemis 2 stuff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2...

I have consistently made $200-400 each year on average in class action settlements for at least the last 8 years or so. is this a common experience? it just takes a few minutes of filling out forms online per settlement... it's wild

death by a thousand small apocalypses

pretty hard to feel good about your LA public school kid having Cesar Chavez Day off on a NORMAL new cycle...

what's more neuroatypical:
* watching ASMR videos, or
* watching ASMR videos with the sound off because it's too much

Every time

Jesus Christ, this is terrifying

the kid seemed pretty unflapped! pun intended

finally got so exhausted I accidentally said "meat flaps" instead of "vocal chords" in office hours today. gonna just fire myself I guess

losing an hour on International Women’s Day feels right

I read this as "I know this from munch, Squad" like it was a vocative, loved it a little more then

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

women FTW
"Instead of Googling Epstein, Aaronson, then 29, turned to what he considered an even more reliable source: his mother. She did some checking. “Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here,” she wrote back"

OCD 6yo organizing the liquor cabinet at 7am, referring to the Bacardi as "bat juice"

my kids say "yeet" instead of "throw" almost exclusively now and it brings such unexpected joy into my life

How to delete your cɦɑtgpt account. If you try via settings on the website (and you have a free account), it won’t let you (keeps it locked).

privacy.openai.com/policies/en/

gonna be a reckoning soon between semanticists who care most about language and those who care most about logic

I am sick of trying to convince people in my own profession that a semantic theory is responsible for empirical predictions about adjacent phenomena or languages

just teetered over the apex in my career where more meetings are organized for me than not; as privileged as that position is, my calendar is now full of meetings named "Meeting with Prof Fars" and I have lost all bearings

Wow: AI as faculty union bargaining issue

couldn't be more impressed with UC faculty for implementing this project to help employees move their retirement investments out from not just weapons manufacturers but inequity-promoting tech companies like Palantir. if you're a UC employee, take advantage ASAP!
ucmoveyourmoney.org

dedicating this paper to all the students who stayed away from office hours this quarter

The 2026 Elections: Resisting the Rigging - The American Prospect As Trump becomes more desperate, citizen resistance only grows.

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:

Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

search all of Epstein's emails here:
jmail.world

Chomsky and his wife exchanged 4,431 emails with Epstein, one of the highest rates of his celebrity acquaintances (more than Bannon!)

suck it haters (this includes UCLA admin and regents)

it seems impossible to defend the claim that, if you're a bastard in your personal life, you're necessarily a bastard in your professional life, and vice versa. but surely we can agree there's a correlation, and that learning about one should prompt us to critically evaluate the other

he's a linguist, he knows about word choice