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My Whirlwind Romance with the Lawnmower Bot

Dear Reader,

I’m back at Carnegie Mellon for grad school, and I have quickly noticed a new hot body roaming the Cut.

I’m sure you’ve noticed them. Sleek, shiny, not afraid of getting their hands dirty, always dressing in a provocative red. From the moment I saw them, …

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README Announces Partnership With Lockheed Martin

As the world begins to reckon with the effects of global war, the definition of what is considered warfare has broadened significantly. Modern warfare is not just conducted on the battlefield: it is carried out in the home and in the minds of every enemy citizen. Ever since humanity’s …

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The 'car' in Carnegie

Margaret Morrison Street is a beloved dainty throughway within the confines of Carnegie Mellon University bordered by many residence halls, such as Boss, McGill, Scobell, Welch, Henderson, as well as the biological hazard known as “Donner House”.

A safety analysis run by CMU’s highly esteemed professor Dr. Et …

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Derealizating

Sometimes you don’t feel like a person. Sometimes you feel like you’re asleep and the people around you are guests on a podcast you forgot to turn off. There are a lot of words for this feeling, and most of them are long words starting with D: dissociation, disassociation, depersonalization, …

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The Worm's Perspective: A Review of RFK's Brain

The human brain comes in a variety of different forms, from the quick and witty to the dull and sluggish. I had the opportunity to taste a unique and rare brain a few years ago, and had I known whose it was, I would have eaten the whole thing- what …

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Small European Town Actually Not At All Romantic

This past summer, Carnegie Mellon ran its annual language immersion program in Italy. For the first time, the program was held in the small Italian town of Cappuccinovecchio, right between that place you forgot from tenth grade history class and that place you forgot from eleventh grade history class. In …

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"CMU Designs new dating app!" [Image of a white man and an asian woman (promise this is relevant) grinning and pointing to a smartphone] "JOIN NOW if you are: an incredibly attractive Asian woman OR...just a white guy"

Update to "Ain't gunna work on Saturday"

All week I worked at carnival building my booth
Stayed up till 5am, shaving years off my youth.
Come Friday morning it was time to connect the final piece
But then it was almost shabbos, so I had to cease.
When people started walking in the whole booth collapsed,
The …

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An Open Letter to William Shakespeare

How now, sirrah, churlish Bard, bacon-fed knave!

Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat who taketh the name “William Shakespeare,” take heed! Thou seducest the innocent masses into sin with thy profane plays and pompous poetry. We address our grievances in the style thou’rt most fond of: the sonnet.

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Hey Shorty or Heyyy Shawty CMU Buggy vs Pickup Lines

In a few short weeks, buggy recruitment is going to get in full swing. As a warning, here are some choice phrases heard around the buggy tents that our buggy correspondent swears aren't just lame pickup lines.

“How tall are you?”

“Can you get inside?”

“Are you …

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Readme Travel Blog: Honeymoon Edition!

EXCLUSIVE: Readme has shared moments from their honeymoon with the Reader at a mysterious island getaway (Readme is on the run from the authorities for alleged “terrorism” in last week’s issue). The two used a private paper airplane to hop between exciting destinations around the world such as [redacted] and …

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The Scramble for Element 119: The Race Continues

The quest to discover new superheavy elements has in the past been analogized to a race. Since the discovery of berkelium, in 1946, scientists from various laboratories around the world have competed, and at times collaborated, to discover new elements, leading to a string of discoveries of element 97 up …

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Inventor Claims AI Powered Paperclip "DIFFERENT THAN CLIPPY"

Up-and-coming Silicon Valley entrepreneur Blake Fence introduced his new product WOOORD (stylized all lowercase) at the famed annual SouthWestEast World Tech Conference on Tuesday. Fence presented his novel assistive technology to a room packed with world leaders and the biggest names in artificial intelligence, neural computation, and autonomous agents.

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Carnegie Mellon Updates Enrollment Contract, Since Nobody Reads Those Things Anyway: Here are Some of the Details

In an email sent directly to students’ spam folders, Carnegie Mellon University has announced changes to the contract signed by all students upon enrollment. “Because no one is going to read this,” Provost Jim Garrett writes in the email, “we are proud to announce that we have made some of …

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Four logos: "work" with the "o" replaced with a scotty dog, "pipe it up" with bagpipes, "hang in there" with an emoji-ified Farnam Jahanian, and a sketch of Wean labeled "concrete jungle where dreams are made of".

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CMU students begin enlisting to improve internship odds

The recent influx of pasty-faced, weak-kneed 18-21 year olds to military recruitment booths has puzzled many. But it seems the phenomenon has a simple explanation: resume building.

“Well, I got rejected from probably three hundred companies,” said one ChemE major we found doing pushups. “Lockheed Martin, Boeing, RTX, Northrop …

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Auntie readme's Advice

After having been summarily shot for giving advice purely off of the terminally online references in my head, and having been resurrected by a joint effort of ReadMe staff and the biochemical engineering majors due to staff shortages, I am now fully embracing the magic of science and consulting with …

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Garden tour: the fridge you haven't cleaned out since winter break • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • CMU to sponsor 12-hour continuous drinking challenge • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • We lowballed our CMU tuition on Facebook Marketplace • With CMU named as "New Ivy" by Forbes, efforts underway to inflate QPAs and decrease minority enrollment • CMU Physics rises to #1 worldwide following particle accelerator heist • Meta-­analysis of several studies conclude that Gen Alpha sucks at drinking • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • UN rejects Readme bit for diplomatic immunity • Construction of Roko's Basilisk Pegged to Begin 2026, Per OpenAI, Meta • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • The Pitt season 2 production leaves 3 injured, 1 dead • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Local chapter of the KKK disappointed to see that the sun is black following total eclipse • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • Feeding students Tartan Express tenders considered 'cruel and unusual' • American Study-­Abroad Program expands school shootings worldwide • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • Student’s handwriting so bad they accidentally created a cypher • Deer given proper therapy and antidepressants significantly less likely to freeze in front of cars • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • README Purchases Scottish Terrier Mascot • My strong opinions on the Syrian Revolution an essay • Philosopher finally discovers the meaning of life, claims it's "not really all that special, honestly" • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half • I met Santa Claus, she's black • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Anatomy class adds study inside component • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • Garden tour: the fridge you haven't cleaned out since winter break • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • CMU to sponsor 12-hour continuous drinking challenge • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • We lowballed our CMU tuition on Facebook Marketplace • With CMU named as "New Ivy" by Forbes, efforts underway to inflate QPAs and decrease minority enrollment • CMU Physics rises to #1 worldwide following particle accelerator heist. • Meta-­analysis of several studies conclude that Gen Alpha sucks at drinking. • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • UN rejects Readme bit for diplomatic immunity. • Construction of Roko's Basilisk Pegged to Begin 2026, Per OpenAI, Meta. • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • The Pitt season 2 production leaves 3 injured, 1 dead. • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM". • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Local chapter of the KKK disappointed to see that the sun is black following total eclipse • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • Feeding students Tartan Express tenders considered 'cruel and unusual'. • American Study-­Abroad Program expands school shootings worldwide. • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • Student’s handwriting so bad they accidentally created a cypher • Deer given proper therapy and antidepressants significantly less likely to freeze in front of cars. • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • README Purchases Scottish Terrier Mascot. • My strong opinions on the Syrian Revolution an essay. • Philosopher finally discovers the meaning of life, claims it's "not really all that special, honestly" • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half. • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Anatomy class adds study inside component. • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M.