I regret to inform you that we have officially reached the point in contemporary literature where ordering a hamburger and French fries constitutes serious literary fiction. This author—whose sentences are as childish as her restaurant order—is reportedly being considered for a creative writing professorship at Columbia University. These people are training the next generation of literary writers. No wonder our fiction has grown so insufferable.

This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.

Coach Campbell on the Week 4 loss.

Free advice to Chicago culinary visitors: Just say “Dipped. Hot. Extra napkins.” if you’re planning to discover a Chicago Italian Beef. You’ll be fine. No need to parse the beefs stand menu and hold up the line.

The Detroit Lions have deployed man coverage on just 21.0% of their snaps through two games, 17th in the NFL (per SumerSports). Last year, they were at 35.4% (3rd), and in 2024 they led the NFL at 44.2%. Watching last night, I didn’t come away thinking one of Detroit’s biggest issues was an overreliance on man coverage. If anything, I almost would have preferred to see more of it.

Kasparov was the best chess player in the world. He was sure that even a machine calculating a billion positions a second couldn’t overcome human anticipation, intuition, and imagination. He beat Deep Blue in 1996. The machine beat him in 1997. Chess isn’t AGI. But the confidence in human specialness aged badly. A lot of people sound the same way now when they talk about controlling machines smarter than us.

This gives us a glimpse of what Baudrillard might have thought of AI-generated images.

One day after Alexi Giannoulias entered the race for mayor with a demand for a "responsible" Chicago Public School budget and a promise to confront school closings, Johnson portrayed Giannoulias without naming him as the second coming of Rahm Emanuel. chicago.suntimes.com/brandon…

Update: 21 Chicago Office Building Sales 401 S. State St. ↓94% $4.2M vs $68.1M in 2016 300 W. Adams St. ↓92% $4M vs $51M in 2012 Building split from land after 2012. 55 W. Monroe St. ↓90% $25M vs $243.25M in 2014 216 W. Jackson Blvd. ↓89% $2.5M vs $22M in 2013 100 N. Riverside Plaza ↓87% $22M vs $165M in 2005 Leasehold Interest 19 South LaSalle St. ↓86% $4.2M vs $29.9M in 2006 175 W. Jackson Blvd. ↓87% $41M vs $306M in 2018 311 S. Wacker Drive ↓85% $45M vs $302M in 2014 600 W. Chicago Ave. ↓83% $89M vs $510M in 2018 550 W. Washington Blvd. ↓83% $18.5M vs $111M in 2013 111 W. Jackson Blvd. ↓81% $25M vs $135M in 2013 70 W. Madison St. ↓77% $85M vs $377M in 2014 500 W. Monroe St. ↓76% $100M vs $412M in 2019 131 S. Dearborn St. ↓76% $137M vs $560M in 2006 250 S. Wacker Drive ↓74% $23.8M vs $90M in 2011 205 West Randolph St. ↓72% $8.0M vs $28.7M in 2016 180 North LaSalle St. ↓72% $56.5M vs $198.5 M in 2016 200 S. Wacker Drive ↓68% $68M vs $215M in 2013 161 N. Clark St. ↓62% $125M vs $331M in 2013 401 N. Michigan Ave. ↓53% $132.5M vs adjusted $281M in 2017 600 W. Fulton St. ↓44% $17.6M vs. $31.7M in 2006. @julie_kelly2 #commercialrealestate

So lets get the timeline straight 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 • Terrion Arnold linked to robbery/kidnapping 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 • Amik Robertson walks • Detroit signs nickel CB Roger McCreary • Lions re-sign Rock Ya Sin 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 • Draft Keith Abney to play NICKEL How was outside CB ignored?

NEW: One Kalshi trader has $2,312,333 on Cape Verde to NOT win over Spain today. $2,408,680 potential payout on Kalshi.

😳Joe Rogan says he hates the idea of having an UFC event at the White House: “The White House thing is odd. I don't like the idea of fighting outside at all. I just don't think you should compete in a world championship fight in a non-controlled environment. It should be inside an air-conditioned arena. Like, you wouldn’t ask them to play world championship basketball game outside on the sun. That would be crazy.” (via @joerogan)

There is no magic phrase that proves AI wrote a draft. No single word. No punctuation mark. No detector score you should trust blindly. Still, AI leaves tracks. 🧵

"Our food is growing less nutritious. Many of humanity’s most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago," per WaPo

Like what percentage or the population has actually read Joyce’s Ulysses? I think I read about a page and a half when I was sixteen. I’m not intending to revisit it.