B&W photo of Abe Vigoda in a fedora, hand on his chin, thinking
Jason Alexander is all wrong for the twelfth Columbo it should be Abe Vigoda. Vigoda has the surly, swearing energy, but heart of gold. Alexander should be the seventh, especially in that costume.
Not overselling: This is fucking incredible
Photo of a black dog chewing on a toy bone
Your Daily Stella: our girl has a new bone
I just had a time-warping experience. I called my CPAP supplier to update my insurance and got an AI agent, which efficiently transferred me to a human who took my new info, and then said she would fax it over to the billing department.
Screenshot of the Slate Pears game that declares the word "lexeme" is not in the dictionary
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breakfast: I can’t believe I haven’t done this one before
#etymology #wordorigins #language
Simple, direct graphic proclaims "Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores.
Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.
blasphemy
#etymology #wordorigins #language
Photo of Terry Jones in bishop's regalia smoking a cigarette, surrby three priests in sunglasses
Drop your crime-fighting Catholics
(Yes, they're actually C of E, but high-church Anglicans are more Catholic than most Catholics)
Photo of a black dog with an orange ball in her mouth
Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet
(Stella trying to make fetch happen)
I didn't catch that one as I skimmed through the paper.
I skimmed because regardless of topic I usually can get the gist of a well-written scientific paper even if the details go over my head. But this one was inscrutable.
anachronym
#etymology #language #wordorigins
My guess (I have no knowledge of what happened) is that the paper was written with editorial help (human or AI) submitted, peer reviewed, & accepted without an abstract. Then the abstract was hurriedly written at the last minute without help from English speakers and probably non-AI autotranslators.
Especially as she straight out admits that she's "here about no taxes on tips"
Yeah, the real problem is with the editors. The authors are clearly not native English speakers. While they should have sought help, the editors should never have let this get into print.
Not old or in the wrong circles, just British.
French toast
#etymology #wordorigins #language
As a candidate, Eisenhower threatened that he would use nuclear weapons to end the Korean War
One of my favorite songs, which is strange because it's not typically the type of song I like, and I had no idea who Asha Bhosle was before I discovered the song.
Love Actually. Passing off a series of deeply disturbing and dysfunctional relationships as romantic.
Truly terrible, but Cameron knew his demographic. I was trying to suppress laughter as the ship was sinking into the ocean of pathos when I heard what I thought was giggling from the row behind me. Then I realized it was 2 15-year-old girls sobbing.
At half and hour, this video is a bit long, but well worth your time. It's a rundown of photographs from the Artemis II mission, astrophotography from a different perspective.
#artemis #astrophotography #space
intifada
#etymology #wordorigins #language
I use this quote in my writing classes
Murray and Dionne from the movie "Clueless"
a movie couple who definitely have a podcast
My dad flew 26 bombing missions over Nazi-occupied Europe. He told me three war stories: 1) eating olives off a tree in in Italy; 2) "liberating" a can of fruit from the officer's mess; and 3) and on one unusual occasion telling me about hosing the remains of fellow airmen out of another B-24.
Tarmac, aka tarmacadam, is named after engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836) of Ayr, Scotland.
Macadamia nuts are named after chemist, doctor and politician John Macadam (1827–1865) of Glasgow, Scotland.
It is important not to confuse the two. Dry roasted, salted tarmac makes a poor snack.
