Not everyone can hold a mic while having their hands cuffed

📢 New SCS Blog Post

Amy Norgard and Joshua Nudell -- in the first part of a two-part series -- explore the deep roots of our thinking about the nature of human relationships with artifical companions, stretching from Hollywood to Ovid and back again.

Great reflections on classical reception here!

Adults settle things in regulation

Him and the Ancient

My sense is yes

My mom went to high school with Tony

"and these ANALYTICS say you PULL YOUR ACE when he's SHUT DOWN the OPPOSING TEAM. it STINKS, TONE."

"it STINKS, wilbon."

The job of the convost is much more satisfying in some ways

A cathartic threat to read

The word is INTERROGATIVE

But here's the quote

It just started making the rounds again recently, it's from 2023: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol.... It's behind a paywall...

is why Russia can invade Ukraine and Israel Gaza too. International law is pretty toothless without the consent of the governed.

He figures what will turn out to have been legal is whatever they can't stop you from doing. That's especially the case when the Supreme Court is as corrupt as it is, but the international law piece is unfortunately all around us. It turns out the lack of an enforcement mechanism -

I think that story that came out about Miller telling the generals they didn't understand the limits of international law so it was okay to bomb boats is so telling because it reveals how Miller approaches legality, not in terms of what the law says, but in terms of what will enforce it

Certainly when Republicans put nonsense into the world and we address it by arguing with it, even just to dunk on it, the main thing that happens is we mainstream it, even make it seem plausible

Yeah, like - I'm not going to say it COULDN'T happen, next year, Trump's main expertise is corrupting processes in ways that other people would never dare. And many authorities have shown themselves to be surprisingly willing to use pleasing Trump to fluff their own sense of objectivity but -

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

Appeal to heaven now you d

Again, one of the many reasons that "stay out of the way, let Republicans become unpopular, win big in the midterms" is a bad fit for the present times as a strategy is that you actually need ppl awake enough to fight for their own elections

People know about my trick shots but not my tender Big Thief covers. Maybe there’s a reason for that

Bluesky may not have the amount of sports talk that made old twitter fun but it definitely has more people with sciatica

Psh, I went there three times and all I got was this lousy professor job