Nicholas Werner

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
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Did yall see the finish to the 2026 LA Marathon?

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Imposter syndrome is the mistaken belief that other people know wtf they’re doing.

He was at the LA Federal Building when it happened! I don't know why, but that's wild to me.

Lovely shot

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

There was a whole episode of Entourage about this! It would look like complete gibberish today.

David Lynch's birthplace! Interesting easter egg.

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

I once wrote a short story on this premise! Not just memory, but personality. People change as they age; how much would you change if you were a thousand years old? Since no human has ever lived that long, my thought was such a person wouldn't even behave in a way we've ever seen before.

Sparta lost its war against Athens

"Irish origin" is a... uh, creative reading of early America

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
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DAY TWO CLASSIFICATION 🚨

Charles Leclerc sets the fastest time on the second day of Pre-Season Testing in Bahrain 👏

#F1 #F1Testing

So LA is doing the World Cup in 2026, the Superbowl in 2027, and the Olympics in 2028.

OMG. How have I missed this all this time?

Another one for my series of comics on Theoretical Physicists . This one is an EPICALLY niche joke about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. An illustration of Werner Heisenberg driving a 1930s style car down a German street Text reads: Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer Jaunty Art 26

Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Pretty sure that Jason's saying that *Jason's* "extremely opposed."

"I love this, but am opposed to that."

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

when I was 8 or 9, I got really into the poetry of e. e. cummings, so I got a book of his work from the library and copied a bunch of the poems down. my mom found them and thought she had accidentally raised an avante-garde modernist fourth grader and freaked out

NASA rolls out Artemis II rocket to launch pad for astronauts' flight to the moon NASA is now four miles closer to returning astronauts to the moon. The agency rolled out its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft in preparation for the Artemis II mission to launch a...

For the first time in 57 years, a rocket that will carry astronauts to the moon stands atop Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida...

Ugh, sorry

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.

Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.

1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

Any reason?

To those with California Derangement Syndrome, it's time to update your talking points.