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Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.

Oh, Odo, my dear, sweet man! I cannot WAIT for this!

New Yorkers just want a mayor they can hate for normal reasons

To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

I prefer my America neat

I'm not the only one who sees the resemblance, am I?

I've decided to become woke to own the cons

Lily Alexandre has made what I think might be the best video essay yet made. She got tear gassed by cops in the course of filming it and it hits like a truck youtu.be/cqhiup5qSY8?...

When someone says that AI "democratizes art," all I can think of is this exchange from Futurama ("The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"): FRY: I need to get really good without practicing. ROBOT DEVIL: Hell is full of ten year olds who wanted exactly the same thing.

Fetus Debris really should've won RuPaul's Drag Race.

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

keep coming back to this Hannah Arendt line from Origins of Totalitarianism:

Remember to sign up for TSA Pre-Detain to streamline the infringement of your rights

Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.

some day this will be called Playing the Trump Card.

The Trump administration is effectively undermining trust in elite institutions by appointing the stupidest, drunkest Ivy League graduates to some of the highest positions in government. No amount of defunding could damage Princeton's stature the way Pete Hegseth's group chats have.