and any society that creates supercitizens empowers them to designate homo sacer

Uh www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not

don't claim it. doesn't matter that it's free. Don't.

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

imagine being randy rainbow and continuing to make the songs when "cuomosexual" happened and so has everything since then

"The watchlist is not a little sunglasses icon. It is a scope with someone’s sight that you would think of on a gun for precision. That to me is terrifying. It is threatening. You don’t have to be very far between the lines, between figuring out what a watchlist might mean."

Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.

Bonus Ricardo Delgado Enterprise-E concept sketch.

palatino for body, johnston in various settings for headings, titles, tables, and captions, with georgia and gill sans as (barely) acceptable substitutes

has anyone considered that the whole "we need to bring manufacturing to the provinces through industrial policy to increase prosperity" is kinda just Deng Xiaoping Thought?

FIRE has spent a lot of PR time this year trying to put a moderate sheen on its very long record of right-wing attacks on speech and civil rights, sponsored by its hard-right donors. The CEO’s loud, uninformed stance re Musk reveals where it really stands - and it’s not on the side of regular ppl

The ceo of @thefireorg.bsky.social was all over X last night, uncritically promoting Elon Musk’s false talking points in a regulatory case involving the EU. Was the ceo out of his depth, or just reflexively adopting the stance of his long-time right-wing patrons?

-Can you explain your thinking in Parents Defending Freedom v Olentangy that the pronoun policy was compelled speech given the factual record says otherwise? -Can you explain your support for conversion therapy in Chiles v Salazar and why a counsellor’s personal religious beliefs take precedence?

-More broadly, do you foresee a need to widen support, both financially and philosophically, for your organization? -Do you envision any adjustments in your casework given the current climate? Can you tell us briefly the guiding principles you will apply?

-Does FIRE plan to take a position in the case of a trans University of Oklahoma instructor who was suspended? -Can you elaborate on your efforts to expand individual, membership-driven donations, which you describe in your annual report, and offer some context on their relative importance?

One thing that struck me as I reported our story was how antagonistic, even personal, senior FIRE officials are in response to criticism. (I kept screenshots btw.) So I'll list the questions we sent to FIRE last week. We would've liked to have heard their thinking and incorporated it into our story

NEW: FIRE positions itself as an alternative voice for free expression, but an analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social found deference to religious-based viewpoints in free speech debates — and in some cases, the elevation of those views over all others. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Shit posting is the best form of science communication, how else do you get people to eat their veggies without a little treat? Now, time learn a little about evolution with Jokes. 🧪🐟

this would fill me with so much unquenchable rage

"TNG and DS9 didn't have Villains" is certainly a Take™️

Remember this as companies keep pushing ai. Remember nfts as companies keep pushing ai. Like, we don’t have to let these evil little dweebs dictate everything, they are wrong so often

I cannot stress enough that is some rando responds to something you reposted trying to draw you into a “but have you considered” discussion of it, they are not acting in good faith, and you just block. Please, embrace the blue sky way. block. block. block.

portland city politics is a battle between woke DINKs and evil retired boomers and we’re all just caught in the middle

The Perks of Being A Hundred Wallflowers is about a teenager with the superpower to turn into an army of shy people. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hundred PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

'I can't believe they turned Star Trek into a teen drama, it's gotten so far from what made it good, wah wah wah' Meanwhile Star Trek in 1993:

NORMAL PEOPLE: The Netflix/WB merger would be an unconscionable consolidation of power, and an attack on filmmaking itself. ME: They're gonna have The Rizzler wrestle a Stranger Thing

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

what's the faculty senate doing? does dartmouth have an @aaup.org chapter?

had to put a baby lock on the fridge because the dog has figured out how to open it?!?!

No one could’ve predicted that putting a lot of Opus Dei weirdos on the Supreme Court would end our democracy

what’s more virgin than a computer

"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.

I worked at a university where the five highest paid employees were the men’s basketball coach, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired before that one, the former president who had been fired, and the current president. In that order.

Been holding onto this one for a while

When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.

I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.

It's like they just keep...forgetting? Or they read the instructions and completely disregard them, even knowing that they can't pass the assignment without demonstrating really clear skills (citing material, writing on a course text, etc.). They just...don't do it. And don't seem to care.

We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

it's so funny (read: infuriating) that I can't see more than three things in a row in my LinkedIn feed that were either posted by or interacted with by someone I follow before a suggested or promoted post a) about AI, b) transparently written using AI, or c) illustrated with an image generated by AI

finally catching up on The Morning Show and I can't express how good it is every time Marion Cotillard and Billy Crudup are on screen at the same time. They (along with the chemistry between them, Al Finney, and Jessica Lange) are the reason I love Big Fish so much.

England has had juries for a thousand years, at least. Arguably the things, when investigating and sitting in judgment, were proto-juries, pushing it back another 300-400 years. Seems like a bad idea to roll that kind of local democracy in judicial processes back with a bare majority