Bart Bingenheimer

Flavio Bolsonaro to join the Harvard Institute of Politics

Can I disavow tomorrow’s curriculum committee meeting?

Confronting my dog now about whether or not he disavows the Muslim Brotherhood.

Shit, now that I think of it, I’m not sure I’ve ever disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood.

Katie Zacharia to join the Harvard Institute of Politics.

My birthday wish was to receive more six-digit verification codes and guess what? It’s coming true!!!

I hope everyone is having a great Cybersecurity Awareness Month so far!

theonion.com/cornell-vows...

It’s bullshit how they won’t let you try out the toothbrushes before you decide which one if any to buy.

They went there

I still got it, baby!

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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Who radicalized Karl Rove?

If the tech billionaires are serious about regulation and pacing, the least they could do is refuse to provide financial support for the campaigns of politicians who aren’t meaningfully engaged in enacting such regulations.

Guys, bad news. The $500 Dyson CameraJet toothbrush with AI-powered optical targeting is currently out of stock, just as my birthday is approaching. 😢

Still wondering how Nikki Minaj’s cousin’s friend is doing.

Economist peeps: would it be accurate to think of the current situation in the following way? Protection against the existential risk potentially posed by AI is essentially a “public good,” with perhaps some small parts that could be privatized?

One of my students suggested that I might be able to survive for a while in my underground bunker after the AI takeover by drinking my own urine through a LifeStraw but ChatGPT thinks that’s not a great idea.

What I imagine when I hear Trump claiming to have been carried away from the Ground Zero rubble by two firefighters on 9/11/2001.

Respect, I guess, to the person who came up with the idea of Ironman branded reading glasses.

Not to seem paranoid, but I am beginning to suspect that some of the people whose cars are parked in the grocery store lot may not actually be shopping at the grocery store.

Everyone is thinking it, might as well say it: Books are awesome but there are way too many of them and the situation has become completely untenable.

Okay, I’ll bite. What is a “Dolly Parton”?

This guy was chilling in my neighbor’s backyard this morning.

Finally the adult male allowed me to get a photo. Unfortunately, due to the angle of the light, you can’t tell how smokin’ hottt his gorget is.

How it started, how it’s going: the 2026-27 academic year.

Counterpoint: Age is not just a number.

Facebook in it’s wisdom is suggesting Evan Dando’s mother as a possible friend connection for me. Does this mean that it’s also suggesting me to her? If so, why has she not yet sent me a friend request?

Isn’t she a beauty? I’ve been waiting since early April to have hummingbirds visiting my feeder!

This makes complete sense when you realize that the core principle of conservatism is that the state exists solely to protect property and preserve power relations. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wut?

It never really occurred to me before that rainbows would have reflections.

I had a bug on me.

Sometimes it’s the people you love best who are the ones who steal your pen.

Hear me out: the @aba.org 2027 Bird of the Year.

I would definitely read a 5,000+ word essay about similarities and differences between the Honey Badger and Jimothy and what all of that can tell us about what qualities people value in contemporary society and why.

The neurologist says my tremor is essential but tbh I could easily do without it.