You might ask, “What could be more American than someone whose parents moved from Mexico and met in LA, who went to MIT, worked as an engineer, got into politics in response to immigrant issues, and eventually got elected Senator?” And the answer is “Reactionary nativists and their henchmen.”

The LAPD Tactical Donut shot works quite well as a cover for all kinds of classics, tbh

Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with current “Very large numbers of Americans live in big cities, that’s one of the main reasons why they are big, you see, it’s just, like, science man”, discourse, with real Census data and everything.

RIP Bill Atkinson. “-2000 lines of code”

Folklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code

The long-sought pinnacle, the very apex, of a well-rounded education, the platonic ideal of the life of the mind, is to become a full-time fact-checker and nonsense-detector for devices that extrude plausible-sounding slop for the benefit of people who are trying to get away with something.

AI Slop “content” package (an advertising vehicle) appears in the Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere. Summer Reading list includes mostly real authors with mostly confabulated titles. Recipes include quotes from an imaginary food anthropologist at Cornell. Also an imaginary nutritionist and her imaginary book.

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Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

They conkered them, obviously; Jesus Christ do I have to do everything around here

Viable Post-LLM Pedagogical Strategy: – In-person, active learning only – One-on-one instruction – Examination via practical tasks – No lectures, just enigmatic remarks – Classes offered only in Swamp – Breaks for intensive physical exercise – Hit obstreperous droid with walking stick

Nice example for your Time Series Are Tricksy files. When “Compared to the same time last year” leads you astray because the same (calendar) date is not the same (social) time.

Has International Travel to the U.S. Really Collapsed?

Despite some ominous signs, a close look at the data shows that travel to the United States is largely holding up — at least so far.

Nature reports that the NSF has stopped funding awardees entirely, “until further notice”. This administration is determined to destroy the country’s scientific research infrastructure by choking off funding and taking a wrecking ball to the merit review system. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2