🕸️Meg Conley

My kids asked if I have a celebrity crush. I said "Yeah, Kurt Gödel." They're now reading from Wikipedia while howling at how lame I am. "Mom! A dead recluse mathematician is your celebrity crush?!" "Do you have Dad read the incompleteness theorems to you?" Kids are amazing for real tho. So funny.

It’s also hypocritical for a media ecosystem that will seize on anything from emails, Hunter’s laptop, age, conspiracy theories, and play the song for weeks when it faces the other way, regardless of timing. They do it all the time. These reservations are very selective.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

with all of my heart i hate this rat motherfucker

One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

"The 'shut up and let this happen' of it all could give you whiplash." My latest rant about AI is up at Lit Hub. lithub.com/why-are-publ...

Ossoff: "We will repeal the tariffs, which will reduce grocery prices. We will end this disastrous war which has driven diesel to $6. And we will repeal the healthcare cuts that have doubled premiums for more than a million Georgians. Those are things we can and need to do immediately."

Heading to NYC in a couple weeks to attend a @narrativemedicine.bsky.social workshop. One of my daughters asked me to go to “the store Kelly Clarkson is in a blood feud with” 🩸So yeah the kids are funny and all right

The 20 new books out today include titles by Bonnie Garmus, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, and more.

If you read the Walmart's patents, it's pretty wild. For example US11687872B2, granted in 2023: "The price for other items the customer purchases may be varied based on what items are already in the cart, e.g. if a customer has tuna fish, they may be offered a different price for mayonnaise."

Rape, murder, grift: there’s no hypocrisy, they just want to be able to pick the target. That’s it.

"acting on their own" no, I need to know what the prompt was

V common thing with religions tho and lots of these promoters and true believers have faith that this technology is the beginning and the end

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

MACBETH: I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield To one of woman born. MACDUFF: Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped. MACBETH: Fuck.

i really hate that my brain thinks in em dashes and now they make me self-conscious about people thinking that i’ve used AI there’s just really no good substitute! it is a beautiful apparatus!

Annie taught me to how to pray. Annie taught me how to think. And so Annie taught me how to write. www.pocketobservatory.org/annie-dillar...

Since I was diagnosed, I’ve tried to make this thing that is neither true nor false feel real. And lately, it almost has. But as it’s felt more real, I’ve felt less real. And so... www.pocketobservatory.org/put-it-on-th...

This article is dedicated to the memory of the beautiful former Vanderbilt football player Jabo Burrow. Please support his family if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/jabo-burro...

i know this is what "i never thought the leopards would eat my face" is exactly describing. but i'd argue what something like the Milo incident shows is that their version is even shallower than that. they're playing GTA and everyone but them is an NPC. life's barely real to them.

This public and official announcement is one faction within the regime signalling to another faction that they are now in control, and that bad things can happen to them if they challenge the ruling faction.

the concern with the Arday story isn’t the fact of the media coverage, it’s the volume. it’s perfectly reasonable that there would be some coverage of the story, and basically indefensible that there was as much as there was.

Oh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!

This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples:

Just watched one of my astoundingly talented daughters perform 'Dead Mom' in a community production of Beetlejuice. She sang like she was really on Broadway. To get out there and do that after watching me- her not-yet-dead mom- go through cancer treatment for the past year? Very hardcore! I cried!

The thing is I can’t live without garlic powder. So maybe upcoming recalls could take that into consideration? Thanks!

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

(guy pointing at the first toaster) is this a bread witch

In Nolan’s Odyssey, the only (somewhat) decent nobleman was raised by a single mother. And you know what? He's right to say it. (I am only kind of joking. Or I am not joking at all.)

“i told her i had been suicidal but did not think and do not think it would be helpful to her to know i thought about killing her as well” SIR, I DISAGREE

recently read a piece that interviewed gambling addicts. one admitted that he fantasized about killing himself AND HIS WIFE and it occurred to me that having a male partner who gambles probably raises the risk of family annihilation 🙃