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First ever PI-Parent conferences

Carnegie Mellon University held the world’s first ever PI – Parent conference this week, allowing principal investigators to meet one-on-one with parents of graduate students to discuss research progress, work habits, lab space conduct, social development, as well as home environment.

University officials said the initiative was introduced in …

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We asked our favorite staffwriter to prove she's human

Write an article that sounds like it's written by a human. It should be 200-600 words long and use a lightly formal tone appropriate for a college newspaper.

In this article which sounds like it's written by a human, I'll be convincing you in a lightly formal tone that …

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Santa Claus sues NORAD Santa Tracker over privacy concerns

Late Wednesday, Claus threatened legal action against Norad – North American Aerospace Defense Command – and “organizations who supported harm to my family.” Claus said a stalker followed and blocked a sleigh carrying his favorite elf “Lil Pimmpin,” in the North Pole, thinking the occupant was him. The assailant climbed …

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Help Wanted: Password Guesses

A check made out from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to readMe Incorporated for $400,000, with a memo identifying it as being for "releasing the children unharmed" As all of you astute readers are likely aware of by this point, your favorite factual news source readMe is going through a mild financial crisis. Luckily, readMe was always aware of this possibility, and four years ago the editor stored a nest egg(courtesy of a friendly local business), just …

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CMU Computer Science has gone WOKE!

Imagine that you’re a new student at Carnegie Mellon University, and it’s your first day on campus. It has long been your dream to graduate from CMU’s prestigious School of Computer Science, and today marks the first step of realizing that ambition. You walk into Gates and look around with …

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Overheard at CMU

Jan. 19

inside me, there is a wolf.... woof... woof WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK WOOF YPYIP AWOOOOOO WOOF WOOF WOOF ARHGHGHGHHGHGHG


Jan. 22

"I can get a white lie shirt with 'my cousin never jacked off a salmon on accident" on the back"

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An illustration of a Scotty dog pawing at the legs of someone who's just entered through a door.
A GoFundMe page to "support readme on strike," with a photo of picketing readme writers. One sign says "Eshaan owes me $20."

Top 10 ways to die during Carnival

1. Buggy crashes: Is this one even close? Buggy is like having kids - ­it makes no sense at all when you actually think about it. It’s highly dangerous. The preparation takes up several months of your life, and leads to uncountable sleepless nights. And yet, we can’t seem to …

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A Letter from the Editor

readme was nominated for several dozen awards over the last week, including several "Best News Source" awards for their coverage of the War in Vietnam. Unfortunately, after the Pullitzer committee discovered the Vietnam War ended in the 70s, and readme was just two asian guys in the UC at 4 …

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The realization that the year 2014 is in 4 hours 5 minutes 17 seconds, and its aging-related implications

In this paradigm-shifting study, we unveil the startling truth that our perception of time is seriously flawed. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the year that occurred four years ago was not 2016, but actually 2020. This conclusion was arrived at by the fact that 2024 - 4 = 2020, and not …

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Sanitation Concerns Raised over Birth in Bethlehem Stable

BETHLEHEM, Judea – Locals are shocked that a young Galilean woman named Mary has given birth in a manger. Although many have no qualms about sharing their living spaces with domesticated animals, some are saying that a stable might be a bit too far. Experts confirm that a manger is …

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Optimize Your Garden With These Simple Tricks

Dearest reader, consider this inquiry: You are the sole proprietor of a home garden (a real one, not in Animal Crossing or wherever AOC makes her press releases nowadays). You own the land free and clear. You go out for mocktails every week with the two other gardeners in your …

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An ad promising to "enhance your erected with this one simple trick," next to photos of Walking to the Sky (100 ft., maybe) and the Cathedral of Learning (535 ft.).

An Analysis of CMU's "Ring-By-Spring" Culture

As a former freshman, I know that most of you are coming into CMU with one goal in mind: marriage. You may think this is a far-fetched dream, but by winter break, your peers will be proposing left and right. Enormous patches of grass on the Mall will die from …

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Evolution of Hetero Sapiens

Up until the 1960s, the student body of Carnegie Mellon University consisted solely of gay men. Passionate academic rivalries and long nights in the lab together fostered a thriving homosexual population at CMU. De Fer ran out of iced coffee by 8:03 every morning, and the CMU Philharmonic played nothing …

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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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Taste-testing Messiahs

Pretty often now, we'll have these bearded fucks wander into the temple telling us they're the savior we were promised. They like to wash people's feet (a little too much honestly), and go on and on about the true spirit of the holidays, until someone rich bothers to have them …

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A Song for Dear Ol' Tech

I am the very model of a student here at Carnegie,
With plans to triple major in AI, CS, and ECE
I've memorized the answer key to every leetcode medium
I spend my time on Stack Exchange to mitigate the tedium

I’ve crashed in classrooms everywhere from Gates to …

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Wait, people actually read this?

Just to like confirm, people read this shit? Like, this? Like ReadMe? This ReadMe? There’s not a different ReadMe CMU satire magazine right? Just this one? Which to reiterate, people read?

I thought this magazine only existed to use up our print quota. I thought we only put this …

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Fact Checking The Gettysburg Address

With the election season reaching its apex, I have found it necessary to untangle some of the webs of misinformation that have been weaved through underhanded political campaigns. At the forefront of this country's greatest deception is none other than the highly esteemed so-called “honest” Abe.

That’s right! If …

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CMU Missed Connection

On November 7th, 2024 I was headed up to floor 4 on scaife hall via the elevator. I entered on floor 1, and so did some girl. I do not remember any details about what she looked like, I regret to inform you all. She pressed the button to go …

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Illustrations of stick figures getting injured in various ways, with bold text reading "STOP STICKMAN ABUSE."
Banana shortage has monkeys going bananas • "Surely this one will work," says student on sixth cup of coffee • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Gelt still more real than crypto • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • "I'm still alive guys," Elvis, 1978 • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Investors in shambles as numbers aren't going up • CMU History Dept. buys new textbooks with oddly attractive pictures of Andrew Carnegie • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Paddington 2 makes Citizen Kane look like Paddington 1 • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives • Engineering of murder too well set up; MechE majors absolved • How I stopped worrying and learned to love the dorm shower mold • It's a Christmas Miracle! Readme disbanded • The Pitt season 2 production leaves 3 injured, 1 dead • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad • “I'm such a freak. If anyone saw my search history I’d be on a watchlist,” says man who just looks up vanilla porn • Drinking in Young Adult Duos Study discovers new kind of alcohol poisoning • I met Santa Claus, she's black • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • Actual fire in Morewood; No one leaves this time • CMU students need better fashion sense than red CMU hoodies ­ Report • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces • Tartan branded adderall popular among seniors trying to graduate on time • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • President Jahanian pledges to invade Pitt in State of the University address: "They will greet us as liberators" • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Architectures, Civil Engineers meet to discuss making Carnegie Mellon infrastructure even more unfriendly • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • "Wean Eight-­Floor Dash in event of broken elevators" to become Olympic sport • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • Banana shortage has monkeys going bananas • "Surely this one will work," says student on sixth cup of coffee. • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video. • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Gelt still more real than crypto. • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • "I'm still alive guys," Elvis, 1978 • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Investors in shambles as numbers aren't going up. • CMU History Dept. buys new textbooks with oddly attractive pictures of Andrew Carnegie • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game. • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Paddington 2 makes Citizen Kane look like Paddington 1. • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives. • Engineering of murder too well set up; MechE majors absolved. • How I stopped worrying and learned to love the dorm shower mold. • It's a Christmas Miracle! Readme disbanded. • The Pitt season 2 production leaves 3 injured, 1 dead. • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • “I'm such a freak. If anyone saw my search history I’d be on a watchlist,” says man who just looks up vanilla porn. • Drinking in Young Adult Duos Study discovers new kind of alcohol poisoning • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • Actual fire in Morewood; No one leaves this time. • CMU students need better fashion sense than red CMU hoodies ­ Report • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces. • Tartan branded adderall popular among seniors trying to graduate on time • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • President Jahanian pledges to invade Pitt in State of the University address: "They will greet us as liberators" • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Architectures, Civil Engineers meet to discuss making Carnegie Mellon infrastructure even more unfriendly • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • "Wean Eight-­Floor Dash in event of broken elevators" to become Olympic sport. • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer