I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

An important thread and article for the “It can’t happen here, it’s not legal” folks.

I was never a fan of Kant’s 'What is Enlightenment' but now it feels like generative AI has made it very relevant for students

Like, are you a teen feeling like you're having a hard time fitting in (all of us) & you type in some questions about how to make friends or how to be popular or cool or sporty or arty or ??? The "exploit my vulnerabilities" machines will reprogram to exploit that. Their only incentive is to do so.

I’m enamored with this lil’ guy

A few moments from the spectacular medieval collection at the Convent of St Agnes. First, her resting place (minus her head, sadly, which was stolen in the 1940s).

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Time for our weekly reminder that there is only one ed tech investment that is proven to work, and it's hiring more teachers and paying them better.

This paper, further explained by the thread, poses a significant, serious problem for political science as a research discipline.

i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!

A reminder that “Auschwitz,” “Treblinka,” and “Terezin” were towns before they were extermination camps. They still are. But their names will always mean genocide.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Me on February 8 1637: now that tulips are relatively cheap, off by 18%, this would be a great time to get into the market

As Karl Marz said in his hit song, “You make me feel like I’ve been locked out of the means of production.”

*you see the Johns Locke from across the room and like their vibe*

people keep telling me that llm hallucinations are decreasing, but I'm slightly concerned about a few of the women philosophers represented here

DoorDash Discourse is entirely wrong. Since the pandemic, percent spending on groceries are up, food away from home is down, and this is especially true for young people. Trends point to food affordability being a real problem. Dig into the CEX with me! newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/stop-blami...

I’ve never been one to think that debate clarifies much. But I wouldn’t mind seeing a few debates between the average Minnesota Catholic mom and the average ICE agent.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

goodbye White Settlement, hello "Racialized-as-white Settlement"

No political scientists in the Epstein files, multiple economists. These are facts.

Can someone who was far more online than me in the early 20teens explain what’s being discovered about Epstein and 4chan?

Can't help but feel the quote marks are in the wrong place

bovino's access to the DHS social branded he was using has been suspended, which is like the death penalty in the Posting Administration

like D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce wrote of life in the body--in the actual, physical body; V. Woolf never dared give us a single moment of a woman in a woman's body, her good breeding wouldn't allow it. a generation later, Doris Lessing would throw down the gauntlet. no turning back!

A long-underappreciated component of "Do not obey in advance" is that doing so often not only makes you look like a coward and a fool, but also results in considerable unnecessary work.

Roger Berkowitz, on state power when the federal levers are broken and corrupt.

A long-underappreciated component of "Do not obey in advance" is that doing so often not only makes you look like a coward and a fool, but also results in considerable unnecessary work.

Wow, turns out all those movies with Nazis as the enemy were spot on after all.

Save this list for any time you ever visit the Twin Cities

Toronto poli sci PhD applications: 201 two years ago, 385 this year. Trump's policies are working great, just not for the US

Cry-Baby, John Waters (1990)

Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills

This sounds like a job for the Harper‘s letter signatories

A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry

one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

Even if this is true (and it mostly is) those in the academy have a moral responsibility to listen to, work with, and publicly recognize those doing this work from the margins.

Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true. They are getting creative!

im a dumb-dumb who dropped out of college and it took me like 30 seconds of barebones googling to find out the black guy the nyt quoted as saying trump was doing wonderful was a gop operative. dont tell me the nyt didnt have access to that info. its fucking deliberate.

Notice the limitation - this only applies to the @ Grok X account, not the ‘Grok Imagine’ tool which is where the full nudes and hardcore video are being generated. Media - be sure you ask about Grok Imagine specifically.

If liberals really cared about freedom, they would spend more time protesting stuff happening halfway across the world in a country that they don’t know much about and less time protesting stuff that’s happening in their own backyard

This is a beautifully written, powerful and *almost* optimistic piece about American democracy. And btw, thank you @adambonica.bsky.social for taking parental leave, and discussing it publicly. That is one of the most feminist actions fathers can take! open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Who is going to be the first member of Congress to propose the “Donald J Trump credit card interest rate cap bill?”

I mean, I guess we can do away with Gender Studies, since gender doesn't operate in politics, markets, or psychology anymore.

If the term "gender ideology" can refer to Plato's Symposium then it is, as Judith Butler argued, nothing but a phantasmic projection of all of society's fears of sex and gender.

ten philosophical approaches proving human immortality

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.