Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.)

Hard disagree If it's not McQuarrie it won't do, dang it - nuts to you Atkins stans

Congratulations, Republicans. I'm a well-off white dude in his 50s. I'm a lawyer. I have additional degrees (plural) in commercial law. I am institutionalist and adverse to major change by nature. And, thanks to your decades of hard work, if I'm not a socialist now, I'm just a short step away.

"One outcome of cynical Republican redistricting is that Black and white, urban and rural voters alike in Tennessee have the chance to consider an alternative to both mainstream Democratic and hard-right Trumpian politics."

Wow. This is a fantastic ad.

Ars on the new Apple Music brand. The core point: humanity matters, and it should be celebrated.

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

So we have an accusation of the Ramaswany campaign (or its big-money enablers) lying through their teeth from that noted liberal rag called... *checks notes* NATIONAL REVIEW.

CITE YOUR SOURCES, BECKER WHERE ARE THESE NAPPING CHAMPIONSHIPS AND HOW DO I REGISTER

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

I'll name two.

Oh, so Jacksonville won. That takes the Jags to a sterling, shining record of… …4-1? who are you and what have you done with my hometown football team

OKLAHOMA WINS. HOW.

Flipped over to Eastern-Akron just in time to catch a great band kid joke. @sickoscommittee.org

North Dakota State making the playoff without upgrading anything whatsoever and Sacramento State being the worst team in FBS while thinking money solves everything would say confusing things about society

What a week for Atlanta sports. Not you Braves

The Canvas Lite Terms and Conditions dropped. Face scans for all instructors. It's probably not a good idea to give any personal or student information to Instructure (data breach in April) and Veriff (data breach in December 2025). www.instructure.com/policies/can...

30,000. Thirty Thousand. That's how many AI game recaps FanWord wrote for college sports programs last year. www.foiaball.com/p/fan-word-a...

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

To me, this sums up why having researchers with a range of backgrounds and life experiences is so critical to scientific innovation. We all experience different chaos and develop unique abilities to solve our way out of it. Science is poorer when it does not draw from many different lives.

An American tragedy. Of all the American televangelists, he had so much intellectually right. And at so many points, he was so close to really understanding his place. And his ego simply never let him.

never the wrong time for this classic

No, no, Malik Tillman You intentionally miss the third goal Sakes, the kids these days

Literature people: you WANT to work with Rattner.

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

cool, Indiana is the reigning football national champion

I think #chemsky has discussed before how NO-ONE should be feeding unpublished or proprietary data into public models. It really feels like that is worth reiterating.

Shut down the computers. There. Problem solved.

SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.

tell Michigan I want them to know it was me

I'm so tired of everything Texas Longhorns Football and I want them to lose. But apparently, from my social feeds, every Republican politician who has been hiding from the state of Tennessee turned up at Neyland Stadium to get pictures taken with Donald Trump. So I'm not mad Tennessee lost.

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.