We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Not just any crab. A crab of mischief!

dude at Pitt Starbucks drew me a crab and it is making me unexpectedly very cheerful

Just played around with some of these examples and damn.

Hello, in your fields, are conferences held during the work week or on weekends? This is the second time this year I am dealing with needing to attend a work event on a Saturday and like... daycare is not open on Saturday? But also, why are any of you working on Saturday? Anyway, hard no here...

GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.

When you take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, you get a score, a useful result no matter how you perform. Not so for Portuguese -- if I flunk the B2 test, I won't walk away with a certificate saying I speak at a B1 level. Why design the test this way???

Book historians, tech history folks, everyone: what are your favorite examples of pre-computational automated writing systems, machines, etc? I take a capacious idea of “automated writing” here: prompt books, Dadaist poetry, autopens, etc etc

Most academic books started out as an article that was later extended into a book. The core argument can usually be extracted from the original article. So... this was my trick as a lazy rotten undergrad ;-)

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

LOVE ME TIL MY HEART STOPS

4 and 36

send me to the old folks home

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

BRB, need to make another donation to Wikipedia.

Donut holes don't exist as traversable spaces in real life.

I hope to live long enough to see science better understand the brain. It's so fascinating and we understand so little...

I had this when my dose was too low. Amphetamines? NAPTIME.

Grateful to grow up in a generation of two body academics who had people like Lenore & Manuel (or Manuela & Jose) at CMU to show us that family life and a life rich with intellectual curiosity are not at odds.

Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Not joking its the same in Portuguese

A British billion is a million millions

I'm sure this is a serious social issue (on which I'm not qualified to comment) but I did find this genuinely hilarious:

'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'

oh I loved that book as a kid but def did not read it on repeat like that

Still have not discovered every cute thing in this search and find book

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