James is Self-Partnered

Everything you read on the internet is fake. The government is not your friend.

@pourfairelevide Why must the novel go anywhere though

Nobody of my generation is writing in English with this combination of intellectual ambition and style. Missouri is the best of us. Vivisectors is a must-read if you care about where the novel is going.

@SaraSchon Elephants out in the wild (not in rooms) need no acknowledgement

sending this to my boyfriend while he plays video games next to me on the couch and saying “acknowledge me”

@questionableway The Bear was my favorite of his. Although Rose for Emily has one of the best passages in English literature imo. The bit about how for the old, the past is a meadow winter never quite touched bottlenecked from the present by the last decade.

started reading faulkner for the first time (absalom, absalom) and while this man is obviously a genius 90% of reading his writing is just untangling increasingly nested subordinate clauses

@gelliottmorris I have to give an oral presentation on fossils. Since I already know how to talk, the remaining 10% of the work will be researching about fossils.

one of the best tweets of all time

@TravisTsunami @Seur101 Neither did I but I read Sirlin’s Playing to Win at a young age

@Seur101 They never played sports growing up

Why do casual players insist on playing competitive then get upset when people are mad at them for not taking it seriously lol

@hotdamhistorian In Making Shapely Fiction, Jerome Stern cautions against excessive metaphor and simile because readers get fed up being told what things are like and want to be told what they are. I imagine the unnecessary negations have similar effects.

has anyone effectively explained to their students why negative parallelism that AI does is bad? I'm writing feedback on essays right now and i have no idea if i'm being forceful enough in explaining why this sucks so hard.

@LegHvmper When I watch the replay I never feel like I deserve trap. I get vacuumed into it from 5 feet to the side.

Reactions to different Overwatch stuns graphed

@hilarium_ I could’ve sworn I saw Youbi pick Sierra for a moment.

Every hero that got real playtime at OWCC 2026 I'm not entirely sure about a few of these so let me know if I missed anything or crossed something out that shouldn't have been crossed out

@c0co_101 Do they think the professors are paid like, based on the tuition lol

These are the ppl yall are trying to talk sense into. Just go enjoy the beautiful weather outside

@Astreairl This mode is ass

Most painful grind currently in existance

@hausofdecline Nobody does it based on Lilith from Frasier?

@DallasFuel Paris Eternal Brig and LA Valiant Mercy. Worst pulls yet.

For those who stayed up late for the drops, what did you pull on Day 1?

@JReubenCIark Also cheese

Incredibly useful and versatile new react image just dropped.

@eron_wolf @riotgames And Riot is allowed to control the ways you access their game--that you didn't even pay for.

It doesn't matter. Everyone should be allowed to access the memory on the computer they bought to play your games with. It's their computer not yours. Stop doing these things.

Well, that escalated quickly. There’s been a wave of claims by cheaters about Vanguard “bricking” their PCs, so let’s clear that up: Vanguard does not damage hardware or disable your devices. The photo we posted is a picture of cheat hardware devices that are sold explicitly for cheating in VALORANT (not normal PCs or PC components). Through our latest updates, Vanguard now makes those devices worthless for VAL, but does not in any way brick PCs or PC components or PC software. Our latest update enforces standard platform security features, like the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU), on accounts identified as using Direct Memory Access (DMA) cheating devices. These protections are already part of modern systems and when enabled, they block DMA cheat devices (such as those shown in the photo) from accessing memory in downstream applications, like our games. If a cheat setup continues attempting to cheat after those protections are enabled, the system may generate hardware faults or instability. This is expected behavior under IOMMU when attempts are made to read protected memory. Disabling IOMMU allows the cheat device to function again, but IOMMU will still be required to play our games. This means the cheat device won’t work with our games, but your PC isn’t “bricked.” We would not, and cannot, impact your PC’s functionality in any other fashion. This functionality only applies to systems attempting to use DMA cheat devices, and players who are not using DMA-based cheat setups are not affected. We’ll keep investing in anti-cheat to protect competitive integrity, and we’ll keep being as transparent as possible about how those systems work.

@thinkingshivers Both sentences have phrases that imply each other and could be trimmed. Both are telling instead of showing. AI is not helping you.

I submitted a draft of my short story to Claude for copy editing. Sometimes he’ll suggest a re-write of a particular sentence. My version: “She was just a rich girl, with a carelessness about her that could only come from being born into privilege.” Claude’s suggestion: “She was just a rich girl, careless in the way only privilege allows.” It's a matter of taste, but I personally think Claude's version is better. It's saying the same thing but more deftly. But when I swap his sentence in then plug the paragraph into Pangram, it goes from being high confidence that it's human to low confidence that it's human. If I keep doing this, will it start to read like AI slop? If I keep doing this, is it even my writing anymore? So I'm keeping my version, the one I think is worse, and I'm disquieted by the fact that there could be a better version of this story that I now need to specifically avoid.

@mauddweeb Like you can't tell me panels 3 and 4 enhance this comic:

@mauddweeb I got blocked by Pixelated Boat years ago for saying his comics were all too long and overly explained (nude from the waist down Spider-Man should be 2 panels, fight me). I thought it was part of the gag but I guess not.

there are two replies to this, one says that the last panel doesn’t need words and the other says you can make a comic from just the last two panels. I regret to inform you all that dunking on Haus for ruining his own comics with too many words has escaped containment and, like the breakfast question, midwits now just Pavlov response to every comic with “less is more” and remove text from it because they saw smart people engaging in discourse about it.

@xasperxd The sustenance

Yall be eating hotdogs for the shape or the flavor ?

@aKaShady__ @LiterallyJunoo Major perk really shouldn't give attack speed bonus for whiffing the dart.

might be the most braindead take i’ve ever seen on this account

@allgarbled I'm so mad that multiple judges of a contest thought this was good

In some ways this is the funniest piece of AI writing since bottomless pit supervisor. “Big in the way of women who never apologize to furniture”….pure poetry