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Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn't in my face in the morning, but now it is."

ICYMI: Wikipedia on "Overton Window".

More comically interesting: the menu of "Mode" choices now routinely displayed below the cartoon:

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Future Perfect

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Grammar

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TIL: "Sealioning"

As Wikipedia explains,

Sealioning […] is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[10] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki, which The Independent called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see".

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Pi(e) Day

I don't recall whether we've had anything interesting to say about "Pi Day", other than a reference to SMBC's  "PIE Day" back in 2023.

Today's Frazz notes the adjacency to the Ides of March:

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Weltarsch

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ChatG(eppetto)P(inocchio)T

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AI in education

Sunday's Doonesbury addresses possible restrictions on the use of AI in higher education. Here are the middle four panels:

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Girlsemanticsatiation

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Grading

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America-vectorized units

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AAA

SMBC, Zach Weinersmith, Oct. 3, 2025:

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Melvillian (non-)hyphenation

Frazz 9/10/2025 — Caulfield and Mrs. Olson discuss Melville's novel:

Continued in Frazz 9/11/2025:

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