The elf on the shelf is an agent of the surveillance state (he works here)

I've been putting off sending a professional email since July because I've dreaded the response.

I sent it today, and received a reply of "no worries that's fine" in about three minutes.

I will learn nothing from this.

i don't know why we would realistically want to colonize the moon but you have to admit it would slay to go down in history as the first astronaut to succumb to Moon Madness

I drew the perfect being many years ago and have never been able to draw him since

college

incredible that the first few digits of pi are “3.14159265” — the chance of that happening is only 1 in a billion

this week, i learned that yet another china/rights NGO has been targeted by AI-produced porn

i am frankly a little triggered and remembering all the times chinese male intellectuals/dissidents were accused of rape, and all the female intellectuals/dissidents accused of whoring

I've had this experience multiple times, where someone repeats something from TikTok and you realize the sudden consensus-formation is only obvious outside the TikTok bubble. Inside: nobody else could possibly know anything about the topic; it's old niche knowledge that's just now been rediscovered.

Saying ‘I don’t know’ in talks has become a lost art, unfortunately. Super interesting discussions require us to be open about what we don’t know and what still needs to be explored. Here’s my recipe for answering questions in talks:

"Follow me, I know where the seminar room is"