When Toni Morrison said “If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it” I think what she was really getting at was “computer, make video game character have my face”

They didn't even bother to record the woman's name.

To me, it suggests an alternate narrative (Judas's narrative) where Jesus is a religious leader who is losing touch with his message and drifting toward being given a mansion with guards at the gates to keep out the poor. If we assume these to be events that really happened.

Well, it was hard not to suspect.

I guess we should be grateful that we aren't yet required to watch it and applaud.

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

When you get off the bus it's customary to say to the driver "You appeared to me in my dream as a shimmering resplendent tower of light and in that moment I knew that everything was going to be okay"

Where I come from, you do it when you get *on* the bus. Then on the bus, you have to smile at the driver beatifically while humming a single note in unison with the other riders

Today’s gonna be the day, The New Yorker!

From my series 100 Years Ago Today: Real People Tell Their Real Stories. #1: Doorman

They've appropriated all the funding earmarked for bread and used it to double down on circuses.

maybe just booby traps and a gun by the bed then

It's ok, you just have to kill the original and take her place, like all the ones that came before

No it means you are the clone

I wonder how all the Supreme Court justices can even sleep in the same bed at this point

"One must imagine Sisyphus naked." — Albert Camus, giving advice on how to overcome stage fright

So basically tech oligarchs keep announcing they've successfully built a paperclip maximiser and demanding we devote all our money to funding it and all our energy to passing laws to stop it.