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Wrote a book about American literature, masculinity, and magazines https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/ He/him

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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.

Habermas dead. Arguably outlived the public sphere. apnews.com/article/juer...

14.03.2026 14:29 👍 77 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 10
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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.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha ...

*gasp*

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha ...

13.03.2026 23:56 👍 146 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 12

Can’t wait for season three of One Piece. The whole cast is gonna be so ripped by then.

12.03.2026 01:04 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Vincent Price vs Peter Lorre in Wine Tasting Contest
Vincent Price vs Peter Lorre in Wine Tasting Contest YouTube video by Dr. Lance Boyle

My daughter is obsessed with Vincent Price, and I had no idea how amazing he was until she showed me this scene from “The Raven” where Price and Peter Lorre have a wine tasting contest. Absolutely without irony one of the great scenes in cinema history.

youtu.be/OSl41mW0NK4?...

12.03.2026 04:02 👍 47 🔁 3 💬 7 📌 0

Can’t wait for season three of One Piece. The whole cast is gonna be so ripped by then.

12.03.2026 01:04 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve decided to be really pedantic about “fewer” vs “less” but only when other people fuck it up.

10.03.2026 23:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve decided to be really pedantic about “fewer” vs “less” but only when other people fuck it up.

10.03.2026 23:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Bart, does it strike you as odd that Uter disappeared and suddenly they're serving us this mysterious food called "Uterbraten"?

10.03.2026 20:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Louis the wheaten terrier barking so loudly it shakes the foundations of reality.

Louis the wheaten terrier barking so loudly it shakes the foundations of reality.

Louis is telling me that these are highly barkable times, and that he will not self-censor just to keep me comfortable.

10.03.2026 17:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.

I, for one, find Carney's push for less government accountability and diminished oversight of corporations quite concerning.

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www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

09.03.2026 12:22 👍 38 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1
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On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure.



As per Jello:

09.03.2026 18:45 👍 398 🔁 206 💬 37 📌 87

I’ve seen a lot of students worried that their papers will get flagged as AI because they’re already strong writers. Maybe that happens! All I can say is, when I suspect that an essay was written by AI, it’s because it’s a real piece of shit.

09.03.2026 22:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

If you want to become a scholar, you have to read a lot, and some of it will be boring. There’s no “hack” for this, but the promise of one is always going to be tempting.

10.03.2026 13:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format

10.03.2026 13:38 👍 597 🔁 104 💬 14 📌 15

I’ve seen a lot of students worried that their papers will get flagged as AI because they’re already strong writers. Maybe that happens! All I can say is, when I suspect that an essay was written by AI, it’s because it’s a real piece of shit.

09.03.2026 22:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Crashing the global economy is a small price to pay to cater to people who think they have a cheat code for bringing Jesus back.

09.03.2026 02:34 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

can we at least bring back disco, guys in short shorts, moustaches, and actors with interestingly flawed faces and bodies

09.03.2026 03:06 👍 1147 🔁 136 💬 60 📌 13
MST3K - Crow on Women
MST3K - Crow on Women YouTube video by LoneFullMetal

Happy International Women’s Day from MST3K

m.youtube.com/watch?v=-8O4...

08.03.2026 18:43 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It’s like how all the Spanish horror films under Franco take place in Britain.

07.03.2026 16:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some of the people plotting out how Dems can win senate seats in red states are starting to sound like Kevin Costner explaining magic-bullet theory in JFK.

06.03.2026 16:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Almost 3x as many Americans consider homosexuality “morally unacceptable” compared to Canada.

Honestly worth studying why a country that shares so much material culture with the US holds on to such different values.

07.03.2026 15:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got new glasses and I’m now seeing so clearly it’s giving me vertigo.

06.03.2026 17:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some of the people plotting out how Dems can win senate seats in red states are starting to sound like Kevin Costner explaining magic-bullet theory in JFK.

06.03.2026 16:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You should probably just pin this post.

05.03.2026 19:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hey guys I'm beginning to suspect Carney's actually kind of a terrible person and a liar.

05.03.2026 19:32 👍 48 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0

I guess there’s momentary joy, but the replacements are always worse. In a couple of years the entire admin will be made up of dudes who have been banned from Applebee’s.

05.03.2026 19:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jean Baudrillard was ahead of the curve.

05.03.2026 04:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Filmmaking is the art of turning money into light” — John Boorman #filmsky

04.03.2026 02:33 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“Filmmaking is the art of turning money into light” — John Boorman #filmsky

04.03.2026 02:33 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Almost any Philip K Dick novel, but UBIK seems like a good fit.

03.03.2026 23:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0