Mayor Eric Adams, asked by a reporter about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says, "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator. —Emma G. Fitzsimmons, NYT
I’m guessing that the Venn diagram between people who call Twitter, “X” outside of work posts, and the people who went “today we are all Maga” since Saturday is pretty close to a perfect circle.
i’ve got this thing i like to do where i form a complete thought in my head but only say maybe half of it aloud, leaving the rest a mystery to u
it’s not on purpose. it will happen again
Two Democratic U.S. senators announced Tuesday that they are seeking a criminal investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over gifts of travel, a loan for a recreational vehicle and other benefits he received from wealthy benefactors.
YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold an alternate debate Thursday night after failing to qualify for CNN’s.
Kennedy will answer the same questions as President Biden and former president Donald Trump in real time.
oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now
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A cybersecurity researcher set out to prove whether Meta’s virtual reality headset is susceptible to a certain flavor of ransomware.
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Put “Your therapy bots aren't licensed psychologists, your Al girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your Al copilots are not gods.” on a fucking t-shirt and sell it to me bc I will buy ten holy shit
I don't think we, as a society, really take the time to appreciate that Mary Shelley didn't just write a diss track to roast someone, she created an entire subgenre of literature to do it.
ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.