I’m at the Las Vegas airport observing increasingly deranged slot machines

Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 14h ago

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

Last unread Sebald (apart from the criticism)

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

Me whenever I fly: it’s fine if I get there super early, I’ll just do work at the airport The level of work I produce at the airport:

Deedee Megadoodoo Megadoodoo News Fail

Alt: Deedee Megadoodoo Megadoodoo News Fail

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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

#271: Hübotter-Ledeboer-Busch Architects, Church of the Apostles, Bocholt (1961-64)

#270: Hübotter-Lebeboer-Busch Architects, Zum Frieden Gottes (To the Peace of God), Bergisch Gladbach-Heidkamp (1961-64)

PSA for New Orleans: Free IUDs for people without insurance and who make 400% or less of the Federal Poverty Level w/proof of income. Basically, if folks wanted an IUD but cost is a barrier, this is a great chance. via @nolanews.bsky.social

CrescentCare in New Orleans is giving away free IUDs in August. See who is eligible.

To be eligible, a person must be uninsured and make 400% or less of the Federal Poverty Level. Without insurance, an IUD typically costs between $500 and $1,800.

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please hop into a time machine and bring back shame much earlier than the events of this article I am begging

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Lecture 6

Very sad news: Robin Middleton has died. An extraordinary architectural historian and awe-inspiring professor. RIP to one of the greats. Nice mini-obit by Barry Bergdoll here - yes, I remember the green snakeskin jacket! #architecture palladiomuseum.invionews.net/user/yhuiguu...

Stop saying "log into a portal." Sounds way too cool for what's happening.

University officials say finances have taken a hit from declines in research funding and foreign student enrollment. Faculty say leaders’ slow response and lack of transparency have deepened the crisis.

Illinois Institute of Technology cuts 160 faculty and staff just before fall semester

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Lecture 5

Statio Dominus Mundi, the Meiser family’s private chapel in Illingen, Saarland. Alexander von Branca, 2000-2002

It’s great that whenever you search you get helpful things like this

This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d ago

However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.

“And so they were - the place was crawling with them - and you know Shriners in convention, wearin' they li'l red fezzes, ridin' up and down the hotel hallways on they tricycles…. Every hotel in Memphis was crammed with Shriners, and on top of that, 10,000 grieving, hysterical Elvis fans show up.

It’s August, which means it’s time to post the great Molly Ivins’s greatest article: “Just Another Nutty August at the Heartbreak Hotel,” published August 9, 1993 archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1993...

So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16

It’s August, which means it’s time to post the great Molly Ivins’s greatest article: “Just Another Nutty August at the Heartbreak Hotel,” published August 9, 1993 archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1993...

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

Recently learned that one of my most disliked high school classmates writes copy for an AI company which is surely the funniest job out there

There has been little mention of the 72 people who drowned or were crushed trying to reach Ceuta last week. A shocking figure that's been eclipsed by right wing press fear mongering. The incident and how it started is now coming under welcome scrutiny www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Chaos of border crossing gives way to limbo for Moroccans on Ceuta’s streets

People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospects

theguardian.com