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Happy Halloween! I love found-footage horror films, warts and all. But more than that, I'm fascinated by genuine found footage. So on this spookiest of days, I researched one of my favorites: The Redwood City Arsonist AFAIK, this thread is the fullest single summation of it.

I thought this was bashar al assad

@t_hildy Honking while shaking my head so that any onlookers know I don't approve

Hard to be in a bad mood biking through the city

@havingalaugh insane album to drop just two years before Allegations

@annia @melodymercadotv One would hope, but…

@g3thaunted @melodymercadotv Agree. But I suspect even some tech industry execs are like "hell no I'm not letting my kids anywhere near that stuff"

No teachers, just AI: A new elementary school is opening in Chicago this fall. The school says students can master core subjects in two hours a day. Researchers say the evidence for replacing teachers with tech is still shaky blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/25/an-…

@annia @melodymercadotv Tech industry execs, libertarians, etc

@melodymercadotv What kind of imbecile pays real money to send their kids to a fake school?

@kevintumlinson @razorsmile @BeckyLTuch @nytimes What would PROOF look like to you?

It seems likely she used AI. It also seems likely that the editor at Hatchette didn't do their job, or they would have spotted this sooner. But the real point here, and the thing that irks me, is that they don't have PROOF that she used AI, just speculation and "feeling." They're taking no responsibility, but instead putting it all on the writer, and hiding behind the distraction of public outrage. If she broke the rules, violated her contract, then she deserves the consequences. But Hatchette is behaving as if they were duped in all this, and had no responsibility.

Wow. This 2025 Modern Love column in NY Times. Human writing or...? 😬 I don't want to falsely accuse writers of AI-use. But this reads EXACTLY like AI slop. And this is the frickin @nytimes Modern Love column, which is notoriously competitive, super hard to break into. Just sad.

@slothanova Incredible game

what a night in the NBA baby!!! basketball is here and it never left

@ESPNNBA If Scott Foster has no haters then I am rotting in the earth

Naz Reid receives a technical foul and gets ejected in overtime vs. Houston.

@jacobdotgov I thought I could only get so hard, and yet

@TrevorSheatz Sir, the question was, "is this your handwriting?"

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

@jacobdotgov I was hopeful when we picked him up that he'd top out as a serviceable end-of-the-rotation guy, but man he's been a lifesaver

@bullock_sa9554 Yes, where would you like me to leave my Social Security number and banking info?

@CokeSipper goddamn this is good x.com/solomonmissour…

Dell Curry had his jersey retired tonight so good time to repost one of the funniest threads ever

No one respects poetry because it’s a zero-budget artform, but that’s also what makes it trustworthy

Another day of owning fat gays fans 🥱🥱🥱🥱 just another day at the office

@jbienkahn Kind of a misnomer to call her a writer at this point

This is extremely big and public and humiliating for this writer, but just know: I’m also privately cancelling each and every writer who pitches me with AI (and I’m sure many other editors are too)…

@tyra_elisabeth It's so beautiful

Imagine someone showing you this image at the beginning of the season

@roddreher @tnajournal Hold up, you're telling me THIS guy dated someone who sounds like a child? I don't believe it

Fantastic piece of cultural reporting by Robert Mariani in @tnajournal. He writes abt "Diner Gothic" as an emerging culture among downwardly mobile American young people. Really fascinating, and explains what I see when I go to Walmart back home visiting. thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…

@TheRoyalSerf pathetic-loser-with-an-alienating-personality-disorder behavior

It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.