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An action figure of Jessica Fletcher from the tv show Murder She Wrote.

My sister got me the greatest birthday present ever!

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

Entering the kitchen and a tutorial pops up:

[Hint: Combine two or more Pastas to create a Pasta Medley.]

Hall of fame FT correction

HEADLINE: they actually put transparent legs on geodude at a parade in japan Three mascots of Pokémon, one of whom is Geodude a cranky rock man. He has transparent legs

WALTER CRONKITE (gravely):

Imagine there was an entire technological revolution in lip-sync technology and people who have never sung and can’t carry a tune kept asking Adele and Christina Aguilera why they don’t try lip-syncing everything and if it wouldn’t make their jobs easier?

it’s simply too vulnerable to nacho theft from the fans sitting behind/above you. at $1 a nacho, i’m not risking it

Justin Crawford and JT Realmuto bump butts in midair as Kyle Schwarber runs in, squeezing streams of pink liquid onto Crawford.

The third base side photog for the Phils was going absolutely bonkers today

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April from Parks and Rec saying “because I didn’t think March 31st existed.”

It’s like:

1/ in medias res drop in to scene of story’s subject with narrative description of an event (jack was halfway up the hill when he realized Jill was behind him. He’d been climbing his whole life and his tall, lanky body used inly muscle memory to reach the top)

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Did You Know Music Streaming Has Roots in Pittsburgh? | Pittsburgh Magazine Dotti White oversaw Telephone Music Service, which streamed music into Pittsburgh bars long before the days of the Internet.

Related: this is a piece I wrote about Pittsburgh’s unique Telephone Music business that essentially operated as an analog streaming service via a small network of ancient telephone-connected jukeboxes around the city.

KURT RUSSELL WYATT RUSSELL MONARCH LEGACY OF MONSTERS promotional image

If you took King Kong out of this it would look like this is a show about Kurt Russell being a horrible dad, but I suppose King Kong is a pretty important detail

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Oh.

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Betraying the Dream (Machine): NET, the FBI, and Regulating Public Television Content in the 1970s - Allison Perlman, 2026 This article investigates the history of content regulation in the US public television sector. It analyzes the context and consequences of an October 1971 deci...

With the #Colbert and CBS/ #FCC news making the rounds, it’s a great time to announce our forthcoming special issue of Television and New Media on histories of content regulation. You can get a sneak peek with this open access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Before: In Munich, Ocasio-Cortez Ties Income Inequality to Rise of Authoritarians After: Ocasio-Cortez Offers a Working-Class Vision in Munich, With a Few Stumbles

Change in Headline

In Italy, it’s actually called Nerovirus.

They’ll be hearing from his father

When he was a kid, did a movie theater beat him up and take his lunch money

I was going to post Elisabeth Moss talking about how “Fred Armisen’s greatest impression is that of a normal person” but when I looked it up to get the wording right I learned AI has somehow turned it from being a scathing post divorce condemnation to being a really nice complement

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.

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