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Readme Summer School


My Relationship with the Ready 2 Ride Mobile App

Yeah, I know she’s unpopular.

I know you want your analog methods back. This is like the NYC Metro card all over for you, huh? Well, I don’t care. I’m in love, and I’m proud of it.

Me and the Ready 2 Ride Mobile app met on the …

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CMU to Issue Free and Open Source Driver's License

In the software industry, the Free and Open Source Software (or FOSS) movement has long pushed for licenses, such as GPL and BSD, which allow code to be seen, copied, and improved upon by anyone. This is in opposition to proprietary software, in which the source code is private and …

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README Found to be Plagiarizing the Tartan

Have you noticed an increase in the quality of README’s articles recently? That’s no accident. You might think it’s because our staff is getting more experienced at writing satire legitimate news, right? NO!

We in the editing staff felt a strange sense of familiarity while reading over our previous …

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TSA-TSA Mixup Causes Dangerous Situation

Recently, a mixup occurred on CMU's campus at a recruiting event for the Transportation Security Administration, the agency responsible for securing air travel to, from, and within the United States. The event was booked for the Danforth Lounge, for 6 PM on Sunday. But in the neighboring Danforth Conference Room, …

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I Woke Up and My Butt Print was on the Fence

When I opened my eyes that fateful morning, I saw evidence of last night’s rager all over the room. It looked like your average CMU party. Beakers of titrated Hennessy littered the kitchen table. Kilts were strewn about on the ground, some with accompanying pairs of tartan underwear. Someone cuddled …

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Readme Reads the Paper

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Boeing's Accident Rate Drops 15% After Buying a Slightly More Expensive 3D Printer

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After a streak of disastrous quarters for the aerospace industry giant Boeing, a new audit reveals that their commercial airliner accident rate has fallen by approximately 15%. Internal memorandums note a new development at R&D is to thank for this success: an upgrade to the 3D printers …

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A logo depicting a dragon with a black head and red jaw, which has "CMU" stamped on it in serif font.

(New) Intern's Report

We have intern, Ian “Meat” Turner, here by his own free will to write an article for us. Right, Meat? intern’s note- understood

strike Has rEadme in a chokehoLd. writers comPlain about lack of financial coMpEnsation.

iT appears tHat rEadme, the reallY cool newspaper, wHo hAVE becoMe loved …

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Winning the War on Christmas

As we all know, Christmas is falling out of favor with the American public. “Merry Christmas” has been replaced with “Happy holidays.” Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts have replaced their Christmas-themed special cups and boxes with holiday-nonspecific red and green cups and boxes printed with tinsel patterns. Christmas movies are …

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A marriage certificate for README. The name is filled in using pasted bits of cut-up newspaper.

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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Glossary of Jewish Terms for the uneducated reader

Afikoman: Christians celebrating Easter wish they could be us. Oh you search for colorful eggs? Try a part of a large cracker. Your seven year old cousin will become a feral Sherlock Holmes and it will become everyone's problem.

Bar/Bat mitzvah: The service in which a 13 year old …

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Am I the bazonkle?

Yesterday, I was taking the Zoop line back to my shelter pod after returning from a short half system-cycle trip to the flubble swamp. Now if you don't know anything about the flubble swamp, it's the peak of relaxation. There is no greater feeling in the multiverse than letting its …

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So you're on a couple waitlists

This past week CMU students were given the opportunity to register for spring semester classes. Due to over-enrollment this year some poor sops (me) were given 9:30 pm registration times. By noon, 15-122 already had a 370-person waitlist, which is fine, it’s only a pre-req to every single course I …

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An Indiana Jones movie poster for a film entitled "Indiana Jones and the Collapsing Market," with the subtitle "dead men make no sales."

CMU was always a social experiment

Carnegie Mellon. You all know the name – founded in 1900 with the supposed intention of being a “technical institution” where our “hearts are in the work.” These are all lies that you have been fed by Big Behavioralism, because we know the real reason that CMU was founded.

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Readme Through The Ages

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I'm not going to do it, but it would be SO easy to kill my roommate, several report • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Dedicated Gender Studies student finds clitoris, loses track of penis • Tenth dentist speaks out • CMU Physics rises to #1 worldwide following particle accelerator heist • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • Everyone still remembers that time you pulled several times on a push door. Everyone • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science • Hallmark Movie Cityboy Exes Support Group opens doors • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • Unethical P-hacking in science and society: a critical analysis of the tortoise and the hare • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • Local first-­year unable to use restroom without the lulling of reels from adjacent stalls • Megachurch forms PokéStop • I'm not going to do it, but it would be SO easy to kill my roommate, several report. • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Dedicated Gender Studies student finds clitoris, loses track of penis • Tenth dentist speaks out • CMU Physics rises to #1 worldwide following particle accelerator heist. • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • Everyone still remembers that time you pulled several times on a push door. Everyone. • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science. • Hallmark Movie Cityboy Exes Support Group opens doors • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces. • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • Unethical P-hacking in science and society: a critical analysis of the tortoise and the hare. • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • Local first-­year unable to use restroom without the lulling of reels from adjacent stalls • Megachurch forms PokéStop