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Good thread
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Good thread
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there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food
In the hallmark movies where the lady goes back home from the big city, they never talk about the game she must play pretending that the ethnic food in the small town is anywhere near as good as her family thinks it is. Just grimacing while eating mid Thai food.
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food
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My absolutely favorite artwork for today, capturing the holiday more poignantly than any other: Alice Neel, Thanksgiving, 1965
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My absolutely favorite artwork for today, capturing the holiday more poignantly than any other: Alice Neel, Thanksgiving, 1965
I am so sorry to the real Blue Horse artist’s family, because it’s not funny, but truly you cannot understand Blue Horse Lore without knowing that it murdered him.
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I am so sorry to the real Blue Horse artist’s family, because it’s not funny, but truly you cannot understand Blue Horse Lore without knowing that it murdered him.
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
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I have muted so many words but you all keep getting around them
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I have muted so many words but you all keep getting around them
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My professional political opinion is that people who want to stay in power should not take glee in their constituents losing jobs and children going hungry.
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
My professional political opinion is that people who want to stay in power should not take glee in their constituents losing jobs and children going hungry.
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Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page.
It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.
wapo.st/3J2IdIh
It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.
wapo.st/3J2IdIh
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
wapo.st
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page.
It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.
wapo.st/3J2IdIh
It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.
wapo.st/3J2IdIh
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going "oof ouch owie stove hot" when the dow drops after you talk about China tariffs and then reaching for the stove again five seconds later
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
going "oof ouch owie stove hot" when the dow drops after you talk about China tariffs and then reaching for the stove again five seconds later
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Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
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in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”
September 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”
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oh nice the trains will run on time
BREAKING: President Trump extends his control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak.
Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says his department is taking management of Washington's main transportation hub away from Amtrak, in another example of how the federal government is exerting its power over the nation’s capital.
bit.ly
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
oh nice the trains will run on time
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rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
August 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
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Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
August 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
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AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet
theonion.com/aol-to-...
theonion.com/aol-to-...
August 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet
theonion.com/aol-to-...
theonion.com/aol-to-...
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I don’t have anything smart to say about this. It’s foolish, cruel, and deeply autocratic.
www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
Federal agents spread out across D.C. streets amid Trump vow to crackdown on crime
President Trump promised a weekend crackdown of Washington, D.C.'s homeless population and criminals. Trump activated federal agents to also be a show of force across the district.
www.npr.org
August 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I don’t have anything smart to say about this. It’s foolish, cruel, and deeply autocratic.
www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
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Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views
University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....
www.washington.edu
August 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
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New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
Hot DC tip: use this site to ask the city to water sad public easement trees and help them survive the summer. 🌳🌲https://treewatering.ddot.dc.gov/treewatering/
DDOT Tree Tool v0.2.9
treewatering.ddot.dc.gov
July 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Hot DC tip: use this site to ask the city to water sad public easement trees and help them survive the summer. 🌳🌲https://treewatering.ddot.dc.gov/treewatering/
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I need to go buy 25lbs of coffee rn
*BRAZIL POLICE CARRY OUT SEARCH WARRANT AT BOLSONARO'S HOME: G1
July 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I need to go buy 25lbs of coffee rn
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a fantastic oral history of 'but i'm a cheerleader'
“Wow, This Is So Gay”: An Oral History of ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’
Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, director Jamie Babbit, and dozens more remember making the seminal queer rom-com, 25 years after its release.
www.vanityfair.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
a fantastic oral history of 'but i'm a cheerleader'
I feel seen
The difference between you writer nerds and me (some rando dummy on the internet) is that my saved shortcut is this:
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July 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I feel seen