Kevin Corlett
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7year old this morning: Mama can I look up where brain rot came from?
Me: Oh, sure—I think it’s an internet thing but look it up…
7: It says here it’s from some author, Henry David Thoreau?!
Me: ?!?!?!
Dying laughing—but the OED also cites Walden for the first usage of the word…
Me: Oh, sure—I think it’s an internet thing but look it up…
7: It says here it’s from some author, Henry David Thoreau?!
Me: ?!?!?!
Dying laughing—but the OED also cites Walden for the first usage of the word…
January 9, 2026 at 1:05 PM
7year old this morning: Mama can I look up where brain rot came from?
Me: Oh, sure—I think it’s an internet thing but look it up…
7: It says here it’s from some author, Henry David Thoreau?!
Me: ?!?!?!
Dying laughing—but the OED also cites Walden for the first usage of the word…
Me: Oh, sure—I think it’s an internet thing but look it up…
7: It says here it’s from some author, Henry David Thoreau?!
Me: ?!?!?!
Dying laughing—but the OED also cites Walden for the first usage of the word…
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/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump.
Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.
Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.
January 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump.
Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.
Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.
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the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
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Excommunicate the bastard.
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Excommunicate the bastard.
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per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing
Why is Trump fixated on Greenland? @sbg1.bsky.social recalls what he told us in 2021: "I said, 'Why don’t we have that?' You take a look at a map...I love maps. And I always said 'Look at the size of this, it’s massive and that should be part of the United States.'" www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland (and Everything Else)
There’s no Trump Doctrine, just a map of the world that the President wants to write his name on in big gold letters.
www.newyorker.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing
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I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour.
I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.
I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.
January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour.
I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.
I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.
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I guess I lost track of Brigitte Bardot after my childhood where I learned that she was a famous hot lady from the past and am just catching up on her recent activities of loving animals, hating non-white people and being dead
December 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I guess I lost track of Brigitte Bardot after my childhood where I learned that she was a famous hot lady from the past and am just catching up on her recent activities of loving animals, hating non-white people and being dead
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
December 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
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If Vince Guaraldi had known the actual A Charlie Brown Christmas assignment: "Compose iconic score that people will love forever," he could have been intimidated. Instead, "Write music for weird show CBS might not even air" probably freed him up to do his best work.
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If Vince Guaraldi had known the actual A Charlie Brown Christmas assignment: "Compose iconic score that people will love forever," he could have been intimidated. Instead, "Write music for weird show CBS might not even air" probably freed him up to do his best work.
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The ironclad law of podcasts is that if it was sold to Spotify for 300 million dollars it is unlistenable within the first 15 seconds but if the three people are sharing one meal from Wendy’s you can listen for hours
December 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The ironclad law of podcasts is that if it was sold to Spotify for 300 million dollars it is unlistenable within the first 15 seconds but if the three people are sharing one meal from Wendy’s you can listen for hours
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Human attention, expertise and judgment can rarely be automated; the labor of attention, expertise and judgment merely gets shifted without corresponding compensation.
Generative AI is also causing me more work as a college professor, in teaching, research, and admin work.
So far AI is causing me more work.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Human attention, expertise and judgment can rarely be automated; the labor of attention, expertise and judgment merely gets shifted without corresponding compensation.
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And yes, I know it never was what I thought it was
But man. I knew I was the last generation of free range children. Now I feel like I might be the last generation of free range adults
But man. I knew I was the last generation of free range children. Now I feel like I might be the last generation of free range adults
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And yes, I know it never was what I thought it was
But man. I knew I was the last generation of free range children. Now I feel like I might be the last generation of free range adults
But man. I knew I was the last generation of free range children. Now I feel like I might be the last generation of free range adults
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I always get pissed off when lettuce gets recalled for making lots of people sick because it’s like fuck man you know what doesn’t get recalled? Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I always get pissed off when lettuce gets recalled for making lots of people sick because it’s like fuck man you know what doesn’t get recalled? Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.
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The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.
FALLON: “And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
ALTMAN: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
ALTMAN: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.
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It really is the purest encapsulation of this movement in terms of both its leaders and adherents: an old angry guy who can’t do pull ups making everyone watch him try to do pull ups
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It really is the purest encapsulation of this movement in terms of both its leaders and adherents: an old angry guy who can’t do pull ups making everyone watch him try to do pull ups
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One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
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This is an incredible photo with 50 incredible things going on but my favorite is that by far the most "alive" seeming person is the portrait of Reagan
I see Stallone sent a cardboard standee instead
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This is an incredible photo with 50 incredible things going on but my favorite is that by far the most "alive" seeming person is the portrait of Reagan
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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But the memes are somehow still worth it right gang
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
But the memes are somehow still worth it right gang