“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.

so it is very apparent that 1) You are not going to be able to know for sure who or where an order came from, much less if it is legal 2) The President and SecDef will disavow any order that retroactively proves to be unpopular or risky

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

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you can throw them billions of dollars in subsidies to rebuild their economy and as soon as the other side whispers "woke" at them, they'll abandon you in favor of billionaire grifters who are taking their health care away to pay for enormous tax cuts and deficit-financed immigrant prison camps.

workplace AI is an elite circle jerk

to be clear I don't think we will get anywhere remotely close to agi, I am just frustrated by pretending we will and spending commensurate amounts of money

If you spend decades undermining a liberal arts education, you get college students who can't write a decent essay. But you also get adults who can't recognize a decent essay and sincerely think the issue is the beliefs and not that reading this is painful.

Easy peasy!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

One thing that Pyotr doesn’t say directly, though he infers it repeatedly, is that the Oligarchs are essentially sucking all the transferable wealth out of the Russian state right now, and dumping their unusable (internationally) rubles to pay for it.

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Brand new at @theunpopulist.net, @polphilpod.bsky.social's fascinating piece showing how Elon Musk's deployment of Tolkien is straightforwardly fascist.

One useful thing that graduate school in the social sciences does is they force you to read a bunch of Marx, which is handy later on when people out in the world are trying to tell you about Marx and Marxism because you will be able to tell that they actually haven't read any

None of this is the product of raison d’état

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

👇 in the special for TN 07 the last chance is in two days - Tuesday, December 2nd 👇

Are they even war crimes? There is no war. This is just wanton murder.

If Tim Fucking Burchett is the one calling his fellow reps knuckleheads then that should tell you there's catastrophe level dysfunction, because it's Tim Fucking Burchett noticing it

The issue here is that “criminal” doesn’t hold the same evocative power for people when they’re picturing the people Trump pardons, the political power of “crime” is due to what people picture “crime” and who they envision a “criminal” to be…

The median annual income in Nigeria is about ~$1000 a year. Most populous country in Africa. The median annual income in India is ~$2400 a year. Most populous country in Asia. Worldwide, it's about $2750. When we say "tech peaked in the 1990s," I think we omit "For rich Americans and Europeans."

Hell yeah this guy and all this

Once you accept the framing that there are Good Groups and Bad Groups and the latter must be purged from society and the former must have special privileges without oversight, it matters very little what you *call* these groups; the gates of a bottomless atrocity machine have been thrown wide open.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime

COVID myths are foundational to modern fascism. Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview. Understand?

The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive. Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma. 1/

*insert audio of Curt Gowdy "How 'bout that!" here*

lolol

CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS is a very racist book

If a student’s reaction to assigned material is “I reject the assigned material outright as a matter of personal belief,” the response should be “we respect your beliefs so much that we’re unenrolling you from this class to make room for a student interested in engaging with the subject.”

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

saw a woman today wearing a shirt that said: WARNING I match energy so you decide how we gon act

They got it all the way up. I wonder how many days, or maybe they just left it

The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.

We have BINGO

“If you can’t win on the field you can always play quarterback for the culture war” aka The Failing at Life-to-MAGA Influencer” pipeline LOL

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

From the people who brought you "oh so it's racist to say that white people are better than black people?" comes "find me a single place in the law where it says not to commit murder."

Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich. Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent) www.wsj.com/world/russia...

The IDF blew the head off a guy in the street who had been talking to an ITV camera crew, the moment they stopped filming, very obviously just as a fuck you. Calling for them to investigate themselves is just saying Oh no, this looks bad, then doing nothing.

"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."

Trump betrayed Ukraine, secretly colluded with Russians against Europe, and has a secret line with the Kremlin outside of official overview, hidden from everyone including US spy / national security agencies. These are the reddest of flags. A spy sits at the White House.