"Sweltering conditions expected for [women's] March Madness games in arena with no air conditioning"

Carver does not have A/C. It's supposed to be 86 degrees in Iowa City tomorrow, with a sellout crowd.

For the 1st time ever, I asked a basketball coach, Jan Jensen, about how the temperature could impact the game.@KCRG_Sports pic.twitter.com/yTOEFNDlc8

— Collin Davies (@DaviesCollin) March 20, 2026

"Thousands of Hawkeye fans and college basketball supporters are expected to be packed into a 15,000-seat, sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena building with no air conditioning when Iowa faces No. 15 seed Fairleigh Dickinson to kick off its NCAA Women's tournament run."

A good Chuck Norris story

Don't sleep on the Chuck Norris story in Jessica Simpson's memoir. https://t.co/6hHSNAYjDv pic.twitter.com/I1ZktjqGcv

— Sam Rosenfeld (@sam_rosenfeld) March 20, 2026

Here's video of her telling the story on Kimmel

New video game Humble Bundle features "red-hot transportation games "

Including "The Slaverian Trucker" and "You Suck at Parking." Starts at four for $8.

Today's news and jokes

haha, never knew this—was wondering what that cloth headwear spacemen wear under their helmets was called

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— LEE GATLIN (@neilaglet.bsky.social) February 26, 2026 at 7:20 AM

Kevin Maguire posted a bunch of new headshots

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— Kevin Maguire (@maguirekevin) March 16, 2026

For sale when I checked

$7m conservation project aimed at solving Fallingwater's endemic leaking problems (art roundup)

A $7m conservation project has focused on mitigating the engineering issues of the architect's masterpiece as well as preparing the building for a changing climate. buff.ly/la1W2Yr

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— The Art Newspaper (@theartnewspaper.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM

A Reddit post from two months ago: "Shy Girl by []. Does anyone else think this was written by ChatGPT?"

The NYT today:

On Thursday, a day after The New York Times approached Hachette citing evidence that the novel appeared to be A.I.-generated, the company said it was pulling the book from publication. By Thursday afternoon, the novel was removed from Amazon and the Hachette website.

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Hachette said it will also discontinue the book in the U.K., where it was published last fall and has sold 1,800 print copies, according to NielsenIQ BookData.

A Reddit post two months ago, after discussing (perceived) AI tells:

I have got the Prologue in front of me. Let me throw some of it up here, and you tell me if it pings the AI sensor parts of your brain. I am not an expert on this, just someone whose job has meant that I've read a HUGE amount of ChatGPT creative writing over the last couple of years, as well as loads of not ChatGPT writing. It seems so obvious to me, but let me know if you agree.