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Taps the sign: THE LESSON FROM UNITE THE RIGHT IS NOT THAT NEO-NAZIS DIDN’T FACE ACCOUNTABILITY. IT’S THAT THE REST OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM FAILED TO FOLLOW THE LEAD OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ORGANIZERS TO NEUTRALIZE THE REST OF THE NATIONAL FAR RIGHT.

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

All I want for Christmas is for The Bills to go to the Super Bowl. #GoBills #BillsMafia #DearSanta #JoshAllen

More high-profile thievery in what was, in the late 18th century, the land of pitchforks. This time it's silverware and porcelain from the Élysée Palace, the home of the president of France.

America in a nutshell: “It commodifies what fans in other parts of the world would see as a ritualistic or sacred experience.” So great

Instead, the Times offers this bizarre paragraph as the takeaway. Pace this framing, Trump’s extortionate actions here are entirely predictable, and not very different from how he has rolled out, say, tariffs. And the passive voice (“were defined by”) listing of problems misses the point entirely.

It may seem a minor point but mentioning Harvard first in the ‘dispute’ suggests that the university is equally if not more culpable. It would have helpful to note that no administration has the legal right to use extortionate means to “exert influence over elite colleges…it views as too liberal.”

This is not a “duel,” which suggests both sides are equally culpable, but the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s ideological war on Harvard and higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

anyway you don’t even have to read between the lines of this piece to see that the real complaint is that nikole hannah-jones won a macarthur fellowship and he hasn’t. which, talk about ego.

Kind of amazing that outlets are still saying the student cited the Bible in her essay - she didn't! The essay is incredibly short! You could just read it!

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

#academiclife goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...

9 of the remaining 10% is recruitment and supplies, which are entirely dependent on society and have massive consequences for society, and must be justified/legitimized by culture. You cannot make war if you don’t have troops, weapons, or food. Also, gender. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

This whole 🧵. @rweingarten.bsky.social has been embarrassingly, horrifically, harmfully wrong on LLMs (“AI”) in the classroom. To the point that you have to wonder if she’s being paid off by one of the companies that are, as @gregpak.net points out, the ONLY beneficiaries of such arrangements

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

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you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

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I ran into one of my first year students at the new books section of our college library. My favorite bookstore, I said, and it’s all free! She looked confused. “What do you mean?” she asked. She was stunned to learn you could check books out. Nobody had ever told her.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

also interesting that the administration thinks it has a say in CBS News personnel matters. perhaps they've been given an indication that they do.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.

NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up. She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12. She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions. She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

1. Keep your eye on the ball, people That Epstein-Larry Nassar letter has fake written all over it -- N. Virginia postmark, after JE's death, in a handwriting that appears not his own It's hard not to think DOJ WANTED this out there to then be debunked and thus discredit every mention of Trump...

No, you can’t do that, airhead. It’s not within your authority and it violates several laws.

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@academic.oup.com: So sorry, no more desk copies because environment and cost!! Also @academic.oup.com: We’re all in on environment-killing, money-gobbling LLMs!!

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

And she thinks she’s so cute and clever telling this story, too

And she assumed it would be easy because it was a topic she had an opinion on and so did not need to do any research. This is the epistemic world view of the ignorant, and, apparently OU leadership.

these “christian nationalists” aren’t afraid enough of hell

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

#Charlottesville FLOCK camera map (can be found at deflock.me) There are 10 active cameras reported in the City limits. They need to all be promptly removed by city maintenance staff.

ah yes a true holiday classic

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

This is a great example of what we're trying to tell you about the breadth of information historians use to do our research.

Exactly what we expected

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

It’s a lot more than just personal taste or inclination. The process MATTERS. It’s where you figure out that there are points between A and B, that A leads up somewhere other than B, that B doesn’t exist at all. In short, where priors and assumptions get tested and overturned in unforeseeable ways

a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product

The “solution” is to “connect to the University VPN using the Cisco Anyconnect app” when working off-campus. Because that totally reduces the number of steps involved in doing my basic work

City councilor Michael Payne on this appalling decision to invite data-scavenging private equity into Charlottesville city government. Bring back the parking attendants

I really hate that we let Hollins walk. They could’ve found money for him #BillsMafia

Dual authentification to use the %^*?! word processor on my new university-issued laptop? Really??!!

“The machine, in its quest to sound authoritative, ended up sounding like a KCPE graduate who scored an 'A' in English Composition. It accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire.” Fascinating piece for the AI conversation

Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.