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This entire article is worth the read. Fuck Gilead

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JSTOR launched in 1995 with a radical idea: digitize academic journals to free up shelf space and expand access to knowledge.

A year later, our visual identity took shape. Designer Michael Mabry’s floral “J,” inspired by Renaissance-era typography, gave a face to the mission: rooted in print culture, built for the digital age.

In our new blog post, we’re reflecting on 30 years of JSTOR, including the design that helped define us and the origin story that brought it all to life.

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nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

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does any other rich person want to fund tumblr as a public good and have a hands off approach to managing it. tell those supernatural boys its time to pay back to their dues

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hey, i don't know if you're cozy right now, but if you aren't cozy, please, please get cozy. snuggle up. do whatever you have to do. please I'm begging

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when your friend says love you at the end of the call

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Please understand that not every marginalized person is going to have a list of peer reviewed sources and accurate statistics proving the bigotry they face in their daily life and you sometimes just have to decide to believe people when they tell you they are suffering

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just read the sentence “if you didnt listen to hozier in middle school-” and i stopped bc i blacked out. im loggin off. how fucking old are you guys

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My ex-brother in law was named Kai and he died at 13 years old a while ago. I was at a funeral (unrelated) a few days ago and the youngest kid of this one family was named Kai and it caught me off guard and made me feel weird. He kinda looked like the 6 year old version of my ex-brother Kai too (I first met him when he was 4).

I know my ex is still really sad about his brother dying and I just never know what to say. I think about Kai all the time too and I’m reminded of him a lot and it makes me sad but I don’t want to text my ex about it and make him sad. (I am still friends with my ex and we talk a bit) I want him to know he’s not alone and that other people miss Kai too and still think about him but I don’t want him to drown in grief. I don’t have siblings so my ex’s siblings were the closest I ever got and we all really grew up together. This shit is complicated but yeah I think it should be illegal for children to die. Most fucked up shit imaginable. I wish I was better at having feelings

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I just got prescribed a stimulant for the first time yesterday and it was so weird. Like every day normally I’m depressed and extremely sleepy and everything is really hard. Hard to wake up hard to take a shower hard to eat hard to go to bed. And I really struggle to be productive like 60% of the time 38% of the time I’m able to get a few hours of work done and I’m like yeah :) I did something. Then like one day every 1 or 2 months the planets fucking align and I go at max efficiency for like 16 straight hours and accomplish feats that the people around me are awed and alarmed by. Like wiping out 6 months of backlog work at my job, or rearranging and cleaning the entire garage in one day.

Well I’ve always been like this and I structure my entire life around making sure I still get things done on time even though 60% of the time I can’t do fucking anything. I start everything really early and try to finish projects weeks before they’re due because you never know when my brain will just turn off!

Well anyway. I take modafinil for the first time yesterday. It was a “I can’t do anything” day. And an hour later I was in turbo productivity mode. I got so much fucking school done it was amazing. Then it wore off after 6 hours and I went back to being depressed and sleepy? So strange! But it’s so amazing that I can now just choose when I want to be functional and I can force it to happen on command. I think I may be about to become motherfucker unlimited. Bro with my time management and coping skills + the ability to just be productive on command I’m about to be unstoppable

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im literally not exaggerating when i tell you guys this video saved my life

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Legolas/Gimli sketch…

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Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

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Just reflecting this beautiful Tuesday afternoon on the immense weight of guilt I feel at not being Jewish and the burden of responsibility that possibly all non-Jewish children of a Jewish parent must feel towards maintaining the culture and keeping the traditions alive. I had never met a Jewish person my age until I went to college, and then I met tons! It was so strange to be in a place with so many Jews, and yet they were only 2% of the student body. 6 million Jews were killed in the holocaust, and if there were 6 million Jews in America today, that would be 5% of the population. If 5% of the population were Jewish, I would have grown up knowing Jews that weren’t my family.

I’m agnostic and possibly slightly hostile towards the Hebrew God (though that’s Christian trauma honestly) and yet I feel a constant urge to go to a synagogue and convert. So much of my lineage was killed off. Isn’t it my job to pass along these traditions that brightened my childhood and have given me a sense of belonging? Don’t I owe it to my children to give them this cultural heritage? Don’t I owe it to all the dead who didn’t have children as well, to speak their language and keep their holidays?

Does anyone else relate to this? Like crushing Jewish guilt?

The reform synagogue is an hour from my house but I might have to just bite the bullet and go.

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On my first day in Germany I got to my hotel and I couldn't get the lights to turn on. And I was like "Eh, fuck it, I'll just take a shower in the dark." And then the shower wouldn't get hot. I waited and waited and it stayed ice cold.

So I go down to the front desk and I'm like "My lights won't turn on and my shower won't get hot" so they send this guy up with me. We get into the room and I flick the switch and nothing happens so I'm like "See?"

And he goes "You must put your card in the slot."

"I... what? I have to put my room card in the light switch?"

"Of course!"

Now I have been in many hotels in the US and never encountered this concept, but apparently it was something most of their guests already knew. So I'm looking like a fool at this point. I feel like an idiot. The dude is fully grinning at me. I put the card in the slot and voila, the light turns on.

Then he's like "Ok, let's see if the shower works. You know you must wait for the hot water?" and I just know he's thinking I'm an idiot who also can't use a shower. This stupid American can't wait for the hot water! She can't even use a light switch or a shower!

And I guess he was distracted by these thoughts of my stupidity, because this dude fully stepped into the shower. In his nice dress shirt and slacks. He just. Gets into the shower.

And turns it on.

Have you ever seen a playing field get leveled instantaneously

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Hand-knotted Turkish Oushak wool rugs.