How much would it cost in today’s dollars to build the Six Million Dollar Man? Do we even have the technology? Or did we piss it away on AI data centers?

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

It would help if the y-axis had a zero, though.

American universities are not controlled by leftists. Campuses are just that rare place in American public life where leftist ideas are not unwelcome.

“Conan! What is best in life?” “To get a good night’s sleep, wake up in the morning refreshed, and to have breakfast with my family.” “WTF, Conan?” “Talk therapy, man. Try it. Did you know we don’t have to crush our enemies?”

My son said something about having ‘other options’ yesterday, but I heard ‘otter options,’ and pretty soon I had an unnecessary complex narrative about otter politicians debating between “a fish for every couch” and “war with the dolphins.”

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

This handbasket is getting awfully crowded. The fire marshal is even here, and also on fire.

"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest." – Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #AcademicFreedom #AcademicSky @texasaaup.bsky.social

This is really important, y’all.

This is what gets staff members fired at Ball State now.

I’m trying to imagine the FCC attempting to take down Johnny Carson.

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

The rampant violations of academic freedom and intrusions on extramural speech are escalating rapidly. Faculty members have the right to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. Expression of opinion as a citizen does not constitute grounds for dismissal.

It’s a good time to discuss (or revisit) academic freedom with your students. Great classroom-ready resources linked below. #TeachTheTruth #DefendHighetEd

“I spend some time with them, hang out, until they start annoying me then I leave. And then afterwards, I just stay at home and watch movies or I’m into Lego now, so I do Lego.” Dear God. He mastered running AND parenting.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... "President Walsh should reconsider and reverse course, reinstate the campus leaders he sidelined, and reassure all faculty that their ability to teach will not be sacrificed to political whims.”

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Vol. 3, Issue 2 of TCSJ is now live. This has been a horrible week for higher education, so I’m glad to have something positive to share. techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tcsj

Why bother destroying university systems when they’ll do it willingly? Yet another university that seems run more by its lawyer than its president/chancellor/board.

A night ago my young sons reported an orange lizard in their room and then proceeded to run around the house shouting ‘LIZARD ATTACK’ like its Jurassic Park: Kids Will Die. I go in with a Tupperware bowl and scoop up a one-inch-long terror which they immediately coo over.

“One cannot escape the impression that Welsh’s rationale for firing the professor is just a pretext and that the real explanation for her firing is better captured by the public social-media posts of Texas elected officials.”

“the current publicly available description of the course in Texas A&M’s Undergraduate Catalog is ‘Representative writers, genres, texts and movements.’ This is hardly inconsistent with a faculty member conducting a classroom discussion of gender identity in children’s literature.”

The AAUP stands in full solidarity w/HBCU faculty, staff, students, admin, & alumni. We call on law enforcement & governmental authorities to treat these threats w/ the seriousness they deserve, investigate thoroughly, hold responsible parties accountable, & strengthen preventive measures on campus.

It’s been a long time since I read The Cask of Amontillado, and having looked upon it again, my first thought is that Poe’s prose rhythm and Roger Zelazny’s are almost identical.

The AAUP calls on Texas A&M & Texas State to reverse the ideological firings of faculty members. We condemn the removal of the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences & the chair of the English department at Texas A&M for supporting the academic freedom of an instructor as a draconian abuse of power.

My wife just informed me that my 7-year-old has been using my copy of Ian Banks’ Use of Weapons as a hammer. I’m anticipating a visit from a drone from Special Circumstances.

And Texas State just fired a tenured professor over a conference talk. universitystar.com/32736/news/t...

🚨🚨A second public university professor, this time tenured, has been fired immediately by Texas State University following political pressure. This cannot continue. www.president.txst.edu/communicatio...

good!

🗣️📢PRESS RELEASE: “Texas A&M University Caves to Political Pressure, Violating Faculty Rights to Academic Freedom and Due Process.” 🧵 1/5

Agreed, except that the regular curriculum committees may have been abolished by SB 37’s demolition of shared governance and due process.

Here's what's extra gross here. The TAMU president keeps saying the course "doesn't fit the catalog." The catalog only says this on the left. Then the prof's version says this on the right. A lot of recent books do focus on the things on the right, of course! And the Dean & dept chair agreed!

I spend a good amount of time with my university's academic catalog. There is not a single university in the country, probably not a single department, that would meet TAMU president's directive that "course content must match catalog descriptions for each and every one of our course sections."

This is a reminder that if you are faculty in Texas or anywhere else for that matter you need to join @texasaaup.bsky.social and @aaup.org . Your administration will not protect you from right wing attacks

Right after the Texas governor called for the professor to be fired, the president of TAMU has fired the professor and claimed it wasn’t about academic freedom. president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

We are deeply concerned about this unfolding case. Academic freedom, which Texas A&M endorses, refers to instructors’ right to teach in their area of expertise free from government interference.

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

What pettiness. Anything to make the world worse.

The IU Bloomington chapter of the Association of University Professors decried the new policy, calling it “draconian.” www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

The SCOTUS majority really doesn’t like the 4th amendment. Or the 1st. Or the 10th. Pretty much open season on all of them. Maybe they’ll let us keep the Prohibition repeal. I wouldn’t place any bets.

This is one good illustration why diversity on the court matters: Sotomayor can imagine a version of the world where this ruling would affect a younger version of herself, her family and people that look like her. Kavanaugh cannot.

Taking S1 of For All Mankind as a documentary, I see.

Didn’t have the guts to say ‘trans,’ though. Hell remains balmy.