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On twitter, I had an underscore in my name. Here, I don’t. Everything else is basically the same 📍 Carrboro, North Carolina

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23 concerts for the first half of the year and 21 concerts lined up for the second half of the year, which already puts me at eight more than last year

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the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

Trying to decide what's a better use of $40 to spend on concert tickets: Built to Spill or Protomartyr/Gilla Band

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In July, an incensed Elon Musk vowed that Grok Imagine would produce a "full-length" and "historically accurate" adaptation of Homer's Odyssey to put Christopher Nolan's woke version to shame. Three months later, we got seven minutes of slop that Grok itself admits is not historically accurate.

wired.comGrok Says Its AI-Generated Version of ‘The Odyssey’ Is ‘Not Historically Accurate’Months after Elon Musk declared that the xAI model would outclass Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic, the bot itself admitted defeat.

at the Dev Lemons concert in Durham, wearing an “I voted” sticker and realizing that some percentage of the crowd is not old enough to have done that

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I think one of the more important skills you can have in 2026 is knowing when someone is performatively using progressive coded language to argue for something that is fundementally not progressive because they can claim a perceived moral high ground.

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my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite

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The AirBnB people whining about the incredibly postmature rules changes are hilarious. Hey, here's an idea, if you don't want to pay someone to clean up after guests don't run a fucking lodging business!

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for those of you unfamiliar, the most powerful social unit in Cincinnati is your high school class, which outranks friends, family, even lovers

Kirsten Bladh@kerstanley.bsky.social

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

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"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

I'll be up to 53 concerts for 2026 by the end of this week. Over the first four months of the year, I had only been to seven, and then things really ramped up starting in May

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Waiting eagerly for the reckoning. Give us a reckoning. We deserve a reckoning.

Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Billionaires, too. And maybe some chickenshit law firms and universities. Powerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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what's killing me about the cheesecake factory discourse is that Obama didn't even say the cheesecake is bad, he said it looks crazy in there and it does. even if you like the food, it does in fact look fucking crazy in there

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I had to double/triple check this, but it's true: 27% of North Carolina registered Democrats have banked their ballots for Tuesday, November 3. And nearly 2-in-10 NC registered voters have also cast an early ballot. Today's analysis of early voting numbers and potential trends: #ncpol

Day 10 of NC Early Voting: The Critical Number Continues To Be 36% The pathway to nearly 3 million early ballots cast before Election Day 2026 is set with one week left. Over one-quarter of NC registered Democrats have cast their ballots. #ncpol ncpoliticscenter.substack.com/p/day-10-of-...

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thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

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our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S

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It's a choice (a bad one) to tell readers this driver "passed too close to cyclists" when there's video evidence showing he drove his car into them, made contact and hurt someone. Fellow journalists: we can explore the nuances of punishment for drivers without obfuscating their dangerous behavior.