But which version and in which language

Imagine having to grade this as a piece of student work

Who gives a shit?

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Remarkable stuff right here 👇🏼

Hello! I’m a historian of religion who’s written extensively on the crusades, on the modern invocations of holy war, and am writing a book on the long history of Christian violence! Ask me why Mike Johnson and JD Vance don’t know what they’re talking about

just the sweetest little pangolin you ever saw

fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world

Everyone knows it sucks

What a 🧵 🥳

In addition to the Code Switch episode, this is pretty good:

The Last Supper.

"I'd like to gavel in today's board meeting of the American Medical Association...."

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

Wrote about this today: Statements like this, from Cowen, betray a child’s understanding of politics (and/or a high level of disingenuousness).

Don’t waste time listening to people who can’t conceive of the political conflict beyond a simplistic binary of perfect democracy vs full-on dictatorship.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (the greatest celebrity-on-celebrity social media takedown of all time)

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell:

Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad.

The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Ilan Wurman @ilan_wurman 🚨🚨🚨Columbia law professor Philip Hamburger just dropped an essay arguing that Trump is right about birthright citizenship. That now makes at least seven prominent law professors arguing to varying degrees that Trump’s EO is constitutional. Read about this development here: https://open.substack.com/pub/rationallybased/p/philip-hamburger-joins-the-birthright?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

SEVEN whole law professors?!

Here I was thinking that what mattered was every single judge who has ruled on the issue, 125+ years of accepted understanding of the 14th, and centuries of common law on the contours of jus soli. But if Ilan Wurman's side has SEVEN law professors, man, WOW. It's over.

I have seen one good example of this plate

Sweet. Sally. Shitpants.

It is good! So get yourself a copy!

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Someone please publish the curriculum and assignments when it comes out. I’m dying to know how exactly one becomes certified AI proficient

Exactly this.

I write because the writing *itself* energizes me, and shortcuts like AI would deprive me of that payout.

I discussed some of this in a recent issue of my newsletter:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-215-...

Or like saying you don’t need to learn how to play the piano because there are player pianos. It misses the whole point.

I love seeing this every time he writes it

A SEPTA ad that says Unless you have more than one butt, you don’t get more than one seat.

Give the entire SEPTA marketing department a huge multiple-seat raise!

hello good morning howdy, I am teaching undergrads today for the first time in a long time and I hate that I have to start with the AI speech. Has to happen. I just hate it.

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www.mediaite.com/politics/mit...

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."

Microsoft: LOL