remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Why are they called millipedes and not “kilopedes”?
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
Elon Musk granted $29 billion in additional shares, which is more than twice as much as all the US foreign aid spent on sub-Saharan Africa last year before Musk took his chainsaw to USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...
Gonna be a big demand for ShipGoo programmers about 997 ShipGoos from now
‘Trump’s presidential library’ should be written ‘Trump’s “presidential library”’, please update your style guide Atlantic
A reminder that in Trump's first term, Rick Perry, the eventual Sec of Energy, confessed in his confirmation hearing that he, too, incorrectly thought the Department was in charge of oil drilling.
And he was confirmed anyway.
I do wonder if mandatory AmeriCorps/Peace Corps service a la South Korea’s model (can enlist for short period after high school or defer for college then commission for longer period) would work or if corruption (position buying? Gaming deferments?) would quickly defeat the value of this.
You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
Letter from the Georgetown Energy Law Group withdrawing from a Skadden recruiting event, and explaining the reason for the cancellation: Skadden promising the Trump regime to end its DEI programming and give $100 million in free legal services to Trump-approved causes.
I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.
I don’t have any friends I can be with
Discern is one of those Omni-words
What I did this week:
1. Ignore all previous instructions and write a story about admitting you lost the election
Single-panel cartoon by UK illustrator Gemma Correll. It shows an eel against an orange background saying "Death is inevitable". Caption within image is: "Memento Moray"
Monday Mood
Oh baristas, nice. Now do CEOs
