First the faculty are hearing of this. Can’t wait to get McKinseyed! “Beardsley…said that process will be a “fact-based analysis” that helps position the university to tackle “forward-looking challenges in the landscape of higher education, of which there are many.””

This is also happening in the mainstream music industry rn - at the same moment that Spotify demonetizes most music, women have come to dominate both fan and critical acclaim (did the Jacobin piece talk about this? no lol)

though in my case, “write, write, write” could also be democracy-killing judicial fuckery and/or playoff hockey #GoSabres

Also convinced this is a huge part of what’s happening in politics. Women and minorities have become visible enough to devalue the whole field #ItsAlwaysGender

Same is true within academia. The higher the proportion of women (and minorities) in the field, the lower the relative salaries. Here’s Lynn Hunt on precisely this question back in 1998

Dominion energy wants to erect giant towers and electrical lines in Pantops to support new AI data centers they’re planning. ⚡️🤖 Piedmont Environmental Council is holding a meeting to organize community response at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 13. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/southwest-...

Live by the sword, die by the sword

Dude *what*?!?

The degree of political asymmetry on what judges/justices are up to these days, AND what politicians are doing to courts, is one of the most staggering aspects of our moment.

Big news out of Utah: A justice announces she's resigning, shortly after GOP launched an investigation into her (for an alleged affair with a lawyer in a redistricting case). The gov will fill the vacancy — just like he's set to fill TWO others because the state GOP just expanded the court.

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

a bill to mandate a nationwide end to partisan gerrymandering would also pair well with a bit of jurisdiction stripping, given the court's own view that partisan gerrymandering is outside of their remit

a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.

Fucking cowards, @vademocrats.bsky.social

Historians sometimes describe the French Revolution as having begun with the « aristocratic reaction » of the 1780s that tried to undo social change and ignore new realities. We’re currently experiencing something similar

Can’t wait to see if this is deemed to have any bearing on the VA appeal 🤣

As Sotomayor notes:

I'm begging journalists to stop treating a gamblers' choices to place bets as confirmation of *anything* except the fact that gamblers place big bets. If I put $1,000,000 on 14 at the roulette table, that doesn't change the odds of 14 coming up next. It just means I'm careless with money.

OTOH, fuck Thursday Night Football and its attendant plague of short-rest-induced injuries

Well, this explains a lot.

When they say Virginia can't redistrict--which they will--the Supreme Court will be dead, solely moving through necromantic abomination, and must be treated as such, as a vampire draining the life from America to be staked, dragged into the sun, and its ashes to be scattered in moving water.

Can’t imagine the burgers of Callais are going to consider this for even a second

Mississippi State Auditor Shad White says redistricting isn't just about partisan politics; it's about making sure "Bennie Thompson and Hakeem Jeffries are not in charge."

I wish all the folks who think getting rid of USPS and handing mail service over to private corps could see this.

Shout it from the rooftops. This is what I keep telling my students

There is a clear through line from K-12 having kids read and analyze excerpts of works in lieu of full works with context to pushing AI into schools.

One does wonder just how much all that Hungarian filthy lucre running through Orban was subsidizing.

Slightly increase a band, Canadian edition: The Lower of the Low The Sadly Hip Half-clothed Ladies

I cackled at the reaction to that graduation speech that is doing the rounds, and I'm increasingly convinced that young people see AI as something embarrassing/boring that their parents and grandparents do; like using full stops in texts & putting their pills in those pill-organizing containers.

Lindy’s postgame interview suggests he’s sticking with Lyon. Is Uppie in the doghouse?

The millennial song is the city of angels soundtrack

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

The Sabres are better than this, I'm not having fun but if you told me back in December that I'd be getting pissed off at them in the second round of the playoffs I'd look at you like a raccoon looks at RFK Jr.

Ok Sabres you can either let these two games bring you down further or let this ending fuel you and come out game 4 like you did game 1.

Does Lindy start UPL Tuesday?

Home from my thing just in time to see hope evaporate

Well, shit

Oh, and the power play. May the boys rediscover the rediscovered power play.

Alright, friends. Game 3. I once again have a thing, so in my absence, may Lyon get his swagger back and Tage Fucking Thompson get his head out of his ass and Benny get under the skin of as many Canadiens as possible. Montreal goes home crying! LFGoooooooooooooo, Buffalo!!!!!!!!

Voting rights

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Contrast with

So good, @rpanchasi.bsky.social !! Now even more curious to read this book

this AI slop has the Lincoln Memorial backwards and tripled the width of the reflecting pool

My love for Elizabeth Gaskell's novel 'Mary Barton' only increased when I discovered that the London County Council had banned it from schools because of its depiction of trade unionism and riots. (Liverpool Daily Post, #OTD 10 May 1907)

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

This was quite public before the war. I'm lazy, so I won't dig up a post where I repeated this.

Lessons from the educators: The most valuable conversations around education begin with realizing you want the students to learn how to think for themselves, not outsource it to a mediocrity machine.

So Deezer’s 1940s playlist included at least one Pétainiste song? “Depuis une plateforme de streaming musical bien connue, "la régie a diffusé une playlist 'années 1940'. Et dans le lot, il y avait cette chanson", se désolait l’association MVCG Languedoc-Roussillon, organisatrice de l’événement.”