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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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Finals Week Sestina

As I enter the cold concrete cervix of Wean,
the gold plaque of Raymond smells my fear.
I order a coffee that’ll make me shit
out all my self loathing and lack of sleep.
I don’t think I’ve retained a thing from this class.
It might be worth risking the …

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"Invasive plants winning the fight? Stab them back. Martial arts training, garden trimming services, occasional humor, and more, at ReadMe." [background is a thorny berry plant with a knife tangled up in it]
A word search, but the words are all censored.
"HELP WANTED: Looking for help moving a large shipment of 122 homework keys. Must be discrete and good at withstanding torture. Will discuss pay upon arrival."

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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Optimal Conditions for Black Mold Farming

Abstract

Black mold (Stachybotrys chartarum) is a fungus known to grow in apartment buildings rented out to college students by slum lords. This phenomenon is usually absent from buildings with proper ventilation systems, begging the question: how could black mold be grown in a dorm room? Many of the …

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Tax Guide for Santa's Presents

After much confusion and arrests during last year’s Christmas, the IRS has decided to release an official tax guide for any presents received from Santa. This will be a comprehensive 50-page guide listing all the various rules for how to declare these presents, factoring things like value, type, Christmas spirit, …

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Artificial Intelligence – For Real, This Time

13 minute listen at: https://cmureadme.com/podcasts/artificial-intelligence-for-real-this-time

SAFFRON, BYLINE: Welcome to our first installment of LISTENUP, our new README podcast hosted right here out of the heart of Pittsburgh.

(SOUNDBYTE OF PATRIOTIC BRIDGEBUILDING AND METALWORKING NOISES)

SAFFRON: Today we’re here with a very special guest. I’d like to introduce—

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The packaging for "Children's Tylenot [sic]", labeled "Does NOT Contain Acetaminophen"

readme booth to bring back factory towns

Visit the Readme booth during Carnival! Or if you missed Carnival, what’s wrong with you? Absolute buffoon. Were you even looking? We are located somewhere between where CS kids go to die and Dietrich students go to thrive off of adult validation. It’ll be like a fun challenge for everyone …

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Readme Crime Report

As always, Readme has another very real crime report. Only the best for our dear loyal readers. Anyways, here are the crimes!

Student’s Mouse Problems Turns Ugly

Recently, two CMU students had been sued by the Mouse himself after selling charms and prints featuring a black anthropomorphic mouse …

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Sweepstakes forbids new live-birth method

Just weeks ahead of Carnival, Sweepstakes has dropped a bombshell on all buggy teams: due to existing rules prohibiting mass loss during a race, the “live birth method” is officially banned. In previous years, buggy drivers would impregnate themselves prior to Carnival, nourishing the fetus with Stack’d and melatonin gummies. …

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O-Week Crime Report

Hello freshmen, welcome to the best years of your life! And to everyone else, we are so glad you didn’t drop out or quit. While you all were busy, we at readme were also busy, sniffing out crime on campus. Really getting into the dirt for this one. Interested? Read …

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A Grad Student's Guide to Carnival

Me and the freshman from the other page have one thing in common: we have never been to Spring Carnival. If you’re a first year Master's student, you need to lock in, because there’s a good chance your program (which also has a 1 in 5 chance of having the …

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Love Letters To README

Dear Beloved Reader, Periodically I find myself thinking of you. My horoscopes tell me our stars align. ~ Yours truly, Readme

Dearest Readme, Today I was particularly drawn to your comics section. I have to say, you’re my type(face). ~ Eternally yours, Reader

My Darling Reader, No pressure …

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Zeno’s Paradox Reason Why Our Sports Teams Suck • Man showing off new AI model really wants you to stop asking questions about ethics • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • Alumni find 50% of soul returns after donating to Readme (cmureadme.com/donate) • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • Carnegie Mellon Athletics unable to record result for game since nobody was in attendance • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • College of Engineering to drop ethics requirements from core to better align with industry standard • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter • Florida legalizes abortion “if the fetus shows early signs of ‘a homosexual disposition’” • "Wean Eight-­Floor Dash in event of broken elevators" to become Olympic sport • CMU students take pictures of Hunt library light pollution after mistaking it for Aurora Borealis • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030 • CMU students take Pitt finals: “It’s nice to be good at something” • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • "Hello foot fetish artist? Yes...I'd like to commission a meter." • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • Zeno’s Paradox Reason Why Our Sports Teams Suck • Man showing off new AI model really wants you to stop asking questions about ethics. • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • Alumni find 50% of soul returns after donating to Readme (cmureadme.com/donate). • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm. • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • Carnegie Mellon Athletics unable to record result for game since nobody was in attendance • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • College of Engineering to drop ethics requirements from core to better align with industry standard. • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter. • Florida legalizes abortion “if the fetus shows early signs of ‘a homosexual disposition’” • "Wean Eight-­Floor Dash in event of broken elevators" to become Olympic sport. • CMU students take pictures of Hunt library light pollution after mistaking it for Aurora Borealis • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030. • CMU students take Pitt finals: “It’s nice to be good at something”. • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • "Hello foot fetish artist? Yes...I'd like to commission a meter." • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option