Trump can take our half of Hans Island from our cold, dead hands! 🍁🍁🍁

Turns out, Bill Ackman is funding Francesca Gino's legal bills. The Data Colada folks had people generously chipping in to a GoFundMe. Gino has a billionaire. (From a 4,100(!) word Tweet from Ackman's X account)

lmao jfc

The only true way is the Canadian way (As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

Time to Streisand Effect the hell out of this.

Go to a gym, press some buttons to have robots lift the weights, then wonder why you’re not any stronger

Did a fun, short podcast for @asanews.bsky.social, where I talk about #Jeopardy and social science, based on my new @spquarterly.bsky.social article:

How do we reverse this decline? 🤔 (Not being facetious: Those 30-second ads universities get during college football games are sometimes really effective.)

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo. 85%

The anti-vaxxer coach who got fired from Washington State ended up at *Cal* of all places?!? 🤨 #berkeley

This deserves the Pulitzer Prize in Pettiness. 🏆

Lawrence Lessig is more credulous as a podcast host than Joe Rogan.

It’s sort of clarifying to see him describe this dynamic so directly www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

I hope the TAMU faculty spam the holy hell out of the president's email.

They got rid of Nixon for far less than this

new meme

This kind of announcement may help explain why so many people are using LLMs to flood preprints servers with papers about AI

Joke's on Trump: Those agriculture and farming programs are literally on Cornell's campus. Kidding aside, it's sad to see another venerable institution capitulate to Trump.

The best thing anyone can do — and this is why the Ontario Reagan ad was so useful — is illustrate to people who chiefly vote for Republicans that the Republican Party no longer shares their values, values that were held by Republicans for a very long time!

I didn't think a Shams Bomb could ever shock me as much as the Luka Dončić trade. I stand corrected.

I once submitted an R&R that did this to my prospects for acceptance. #peerreview (Weird that Porter has been a politician for such a long time, and still made such spectacular comms mistakes as a front-runner.)

Looking forward to Liberty U becoming the next Johns Hopkins. 🙄

Francesca Gino - and academic fraud - as white-collar crime: "HBS determined that the file was last saved on Sept. 23, 2023, but had been intentionally backdated to appear as if it was last modified on July 17, 2010." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.

Being a Vegas bookie must be fun, because you get to cheer against all of the insufferable teams the general public loves (Notre Dame football, Duke basketball, New York Yankees, etc).

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

This week's "hate speech isn't free speech" calamity has, somehow, reached another new low: The president of the United States suggesting that speech he finds unfair to him is hate speech, and targetable by the Justice Department. We are in deeply dangerous territory.

Clemson doesn’t have a law school and it shows.

A totally serious commitment and not at all extended in only one direction.

Thinking about him

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

"We need to get up from under our desks and persuade our fellow citizens that the institutions that they have helped create with their tax dollars are incredibly precious and important."

the two americas

I think 182 year old research articles should be free I want to read about the man

We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.

Now I want a ridiculous camera.

My colleague is having an easier time working on her beef trachea than I am working on my code. #coworking

Every day, another piece of nauseating news hits my gut in a way I thought I’d become immune to, reminding me that the decline towards fascism takes place through the actions, not just of the fascists themselves, but of weak humans who choose short term self-preservation over courage and conviction.

Take out "...in an effort to reduce crime" from the question and the disapproval gap would be even higher.

(Herman & Chomsky, 1988)

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.