Scott Stein

Good news. It gets worse.

Beer glass and bottle on a kitchen counter. Kasteel 11 Donker Quadrupel ale

I hope some of you have a weekend. Cheers, if possible.

c) you will never get all of it out of your car

Not what football fans mean by "The best defense is a good offense"

Counterpoint: stubbing your toe

Watching the news and thinking I'm gonna need stronger beer and then realizing they don't make it any stronger.

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Verification depends on it

Just spent nine weeks (one to go) teaching a course on Franz Kafka, to undergraduates, while living on the planet Earth in the year 2026.

I am not impressed by Claude's anxiety.

And left that someone off the credits.

Keep the good parts.

"Writing a novel lol sob"

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It's why we have the famous saying "No pain, no pain."

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When Up Was Down The stock market was down. Gas prices were up. Home values were down. Inflation was up. Savings were down. Unemployment was up. Production was down. Foreclosure

About those gas prices. And the job numbers. And a government that says up is down. Literally.

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Give me a discount on booze and I'll overlook a lot. Not that, though.

"Unconditional Surrender" but it's just the name of a cheap shampoo.

When Up Was Down The stock market was down. Gas prices were up. Home values were down. Inflation was up. Savings were down. Unemployment was up. Production was down. Foreclosure

This satire I published years ago fits the current moment so I have just posted it on my site When Falls the Coliseum for those who like silliness, wordplay, and not being lied to. Also, check out my novels.
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"Up is down" is the premise of a satire I published years ago in, of all places, National Review. It fits the current moment really well so I have just posted it on my site When Falls the Coliseum.
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AI "has begun showing symptoms of anxiety."

One more art that AI will never be better at than humans.

It's basically Daytona Beach in the 1990s

Liberated from jobs and gas and eggs and the right to assembly and free speech and sanity and

At the very least, spider-poenas.

There has never been a stronger argument for the importance of a humanities education [gestures at world]

AI "has begun showing symptoms of anxiety."

One more art that AI will never be better at than humans.

a group of men are sitting around a table with the words top men written on the table Alt: a group of men are sitting around a table with the words top men written on the table (from Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Everything is going to be fine.

The famous Stephen King novel "Pet Secretary"