"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Apropos of nothing ...

"Trump was largely absent from the campaign trail, but GOP candidates closely aligned themselves with the president, betting that his big win last year could provide a path to victory this time. They were wrong."

"One of the most pernicious misconceptions about climate change is the idea that climate models make projections for the next 100 years by simply extrapolating the globally averaged changes in weather patterns over the last 40 – 50 years into the future."

Actually, it is a little old by their standards ...

"it’s clear that Republicans messed up badly on the implementation of Project 2025. Immense cruelty was always part of the plan, but policy wasn’t supposed to get this cruel, this soon."

Tattoos, like the internet, are forever: "In 1991, the ice-preserved remains of a man who died around 3250 bce surfaced in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. There were sixty tattoos – mostly dots and small crosses – on his lower spine, right knee and ankle joints"

"Henry’s reign was more than 500 years ago but there are extraordinary similarities between Tudor politics and those of today: they both drift towards the idea of strongman government, interested in only a few starring individuals who have more glamour than worth."

'Academics, educators and critics alike refer to Oklahoma as ground zero for pushing education to the right. Or, as one teacher put it, “the canary on the prairie”."

Not The Onion: "Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health and human services (HHS) secretary, is planning to issue guidance encouraging Americans to eat more saturated fats, contradicting decades of dietary recommendations and alarming experts."

Trump believes he has already won. Never forget: HE HAS NOT

I've shared this before, but I'm fucking sharing it again, because the Impossible is something we must embrace to overcome.

"tackiness and tyranny go hand in hand. ... the grotesqueness of his White House renovations is structural as well as personal. For the excess and ugliness serve a political purpose: to humiliate and intimidate."

The destruction of the White House, which I do not support, by Donald Trump, who I do not support, is nothing compared to what the M$DNC shitlibs tried to do to Russia, which I also do not support. by Glenn Greenwald

Among the institutions that stand out in their rejection of Trump's "Compact On Ejukashun", both MIT and USC were notable for their emphasis upon their core values.

"The project seems silly at first, but the deeper I looked, the uglier this got. The writing they’re publishing is unapologetically fascistic, and at least one article appears to be written by an alt-right academic. ... Scratch a MAGA supporter and a fascist bleeds."

"The long-delayed realization that what was once considered our grandchildren’s problem is now our own is arriving not in the form of hurricane-force winds, but as a letter of assessment from an insurer."

Today's class, Fascism 101: "In front of a few dozen faculty members at a town hall–style meeting on Oct. 10, Angelo State University president Ronnie Hawkins said, repeatedly, that new university policies prohibiting discussion of transgender identity in class would not be written down."

"Pullman understands that true evil is never about the distorted cravings of a single person. Evil is aided and abetted by the banality of institutions and their functionaries."

"Cornell University has agreed to end disciplinary proceedings against Dr. Eric Cheyfitz—an 84-year-old professor of American studies who was battling a discrimination case that sparked concerns over academic freedom—in exchange for his retirement after a paid leave through June 2026"

"Special interests and Trump’s pettiness aside, my sense is that there’s something more visceral going on. A powerful faction in America has become deeply hostile to science and to expertise in general."

1018 Rise up. Resist. Insist. Persist.

Although I would resist speaking of "definitions" and speak of "characterizations" (for example) instead. The latter is more heuristic.

Sec'y Girlie-Chinups is not happy with the optics of Operation Dessert Storm ...

"As the Trump administration swings its wrecking ball toward the institutional bulwarks of American education, bolstering them from within might seem futile. But crises can reveal new sources of strength. If there is a future for higher ed, it’s one that will likely require collaboration"

Double bubble, toil and trouble (AI and crypto, the two bubbles vulturing over the economy, which is otherwise showing significant signs of slowing down.)

"The firings of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been reversed, according to several reports citing officials familiar with the matter, and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)"

"Late on Thursday, Bray posted on the social media platform Bluesky: “Our plane to Spain is in the air!”" After previously being stopped at the boarding gate, the Bray family has been permitted to depart for Spain.

MIT turns down the "free" taste from the drug dealer:

Not that these lawless thugs would allow such a thing to slow them down. www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/u...

"According to its website, the mission of the watchlist is to expose professors who discriminate against conservative students." -- In reality, Turning Point USA's primary mission is to Dox professors and then unleash stochastic terrorism on them.

"The furthest reaches of inaccessible terrain on our planet are now far easier to reach from London than were most places in Western Europe a century ago. "It’s mind boggling."