www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech... The assault on LGBTQ+ people and the assault on the university are thoroughly intertwined.

last thought, and i am still thinking through this, is that not only is there nothing wrong with this, it is something to *embrace*. a project of transformation is one way to build a political party into something closer to a political movement.

general indictment reading guidance: you may ask yourself, does the stuff in the splashy narrative in the opening pages align with the actual conduct alleged further along................

If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now

Yeah I gotta say if it turns out *this* is the thing that bothers us, rather than, say, what is done to the image of Christ found in the poor and dispossessed themselves, then all those Calvinist warnings about idolatry basically seem correct to me.

We need an arsenal of ferocious academic revenge ideas like this for at least the next 3 presidential cycles

Another casualty of AI in education: total collapse of the value of online course credits, let alone degrees.

For anyone who's waking up to this Palantir statement, I wrote a guide to the company and the fatuous chauvinism of its "defend the West" cosplay ideology a few weeks ago

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This is a good thread, and it's worth noting that the strategy of complaining that conservative ideas are being ignored *in spite of all the attention is being paid to them* is basic right wing strategy and has been for decades. It's long been the primary way of disciplining media as well.

At least we can get back to our regularly scheduled 'fuck Harvard' programming now.

My morning PSA: TurboTax is a parallel structure. An attempt to privatize the IRS, dismantle its capacity to audit & prosecute the wealthy, & charge capta rents to the rest of us.

“Harvard is pursuing a more integrated strategy — placing new [right wing] faculty directly within existing departments.” You *know* you’re enjoying academic freedom when admins start picking dudes in blue blazers, throwing them into your department meetings, & making you call them your colleague

every time a peter magyar or lee jae myung like guy pops up calling for the jailing and firing of ancien regime guys it sort of makes the democrats nothing-they-can-do look even more embarrassing. unfortunately though there is nothing they can do

This is the way. And we can do this here in the USA, if we have the courage and dedication for it. We can grind the entire MAGA political machine into dust. We can vaporize the stock valuations of every company that gave or accepted bribes from the MAGA regime. We can imprison every crook.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Absolutely jonesing for a new campus moral panic.

TO BE CLEAR this piece isn't actually about Paige and Azzi and their ability to function well as teammates, or even about what their relationship status is. It's about the way interpersonal dynamics function in lesbian spaces, which WNBA locker rooms are!

A lot of people in the church were critical of Benedict, opted to stay in the church, and, rightly, didn’t receive much opprobrium. I left, for a host of reason but the handling of the abuse in the church, for which it still hasn’t fully atoned IMO, was the inciting factor.

I’m enjoying the dogpile on JDV as much as anyone but it proves how short people’s memories are. When I last considered myself a practicing Catholic (20 years ago) there was a conservative Pope who’d literally been in the Hitler youth, and presided abysmally over a global child rape scandal.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAND IT TO HIM

The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.

And this is, I think, the X factor we haven't yet accounted for economically. The asshole markup. When you alienate your trading partners, they don't feel obligated to cut you the best deals anymore. They're going to seek out new markets instead and cut THEM the best deals. 4/

In as calm a voice as I could manage "Why is the price so high this year? Is it tariffs?" He sighed and leaned forward confidentially and said "It's a combo of things. Tariffs, fuel, shipping, but worst is that our suppliers just aren't cutting us good deals like they used to. Everybody hates us" 3/

If you don’t show people you’re actually capable of fighting, what’s your positive case for why they should bother turning out for you? Like, we go through this every cycle. Democrats seem allergic to rocking the boat. Rock the damn boat!

There is absolutely nothing surprising about the person who lies shamelessly (explicitly or by implication) for political advantage turning out to be a rapist. It's the least surprising thing in the world, actually. We should consider the implications of this as a principle more carefully.

Just a reminder that @ericswalwell.bsky.social smeared Mamdani during the campaign by saying “I don’t associate myself with what [Mamdani] has said about the Jewish people.” Mamdani said he’d protect Jews in NYC from antisemitic attacks. Swalwell doesn’t associate himself with fighting antisemitism?

hear me out: what if the reason to do a thing were ever, fucking EVER, that it was the right thing to do

"democratic welfare state" = Jim Crow segregation + New Deal "Race Communism" = Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, repeal of Johnson-Reed immigration restrictions

Students were told for a decade about how incredibly important free speech on campus was. And then it wasn't. What lessons did we teach students over the last year? If you are a student today, do you feel confident that the government, media and university will support your speech rights?

David Broder posted the picture on the left and I had to go find the original. ✊

“A standard correction noting a few missing details won’t cut it. The entire premise of the article — that this company represents the exciting realization of AI’s business potential — is nonsense. Every element of the narrative is tainted”🧵

Whatever you think of the New York Times of a few years ago - and I understand a lot of people are critics of it as an institution, it's important to understand that there were rules. There were standards. There was accountability, or at least a public reckoning, when they got a story badly wrong.

The federal government is literally striking words from official record based on them being too “woke” and pundits are arguing if the wokeness is what went too far

IT JUST KEEPS HAPPENING

“If you can’t define the question, I’m not gonna answer the question” really needs to be the stock answer going forward for anyone targeted by culture war bullshit. We should be able to have conversations with each other, but if you’re trying to use someone for a headline, fuck off forever.

Insert Princess Bride meme with the text "Cease fire, I don't think that means what you think it means"

NATURE IS HEALING

This is true on basically every scale. Nobody should have enough money to make themselves a societal problem, and no nation should have enough power to make themselves a global threat. Nobody should have enough financial power to trap their family members at home.

For those of you who were curious about what it looks like when a consummate bullshitter gets dementia… now you know.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Also read this thread, for that matter.

Read the whole thread. Do yourself a favor.

Impeachment is not a political option. It is a Constitutional duty. If you do not act under these circumstances, there is no justification for the existence of Congress. Impeach or resign.

He needs to be removed from power immediately.

I genuinely don't get why "neoliberalism" is a term people think is especially ill defined or fuzzy. It's, shall we say, no more or less so than any other term for a broad social form. And "highly marketised societies that emerged after the breakdown of postwar Keynesianism" may as well have a name?

yep. and this wasn't senility or incompetence. it was biden simply following through on the zionism he'd embraced his entire career.