The most pointless and expensive "could've been a drunk Signal message" in history

Not to brag, but I outsmarted a terrible conspiracy and act of sabotage* today. *and out-of-order escalator at a metro station

Calling GWB the devil and (apocryohal) shoe-banging are looking like pretty reasonable now, eh UNGA?

Schrödinger's international law: simultaneously made up nonsense and a core national security threat.

The US is about to go full-tilt against the ICC (an escalation from its current "80% of full-tilt") while also doing its best to starve every other IO of funding.

Those Disney+/ESPN numbers must've been (delightfully) terrible

Bit of a short-ish notice/longshot situation, but if you work on civil-military relations (US in particular or more broadly) and might be interested in speaking with some really great students, let me know? Current events are leading to some course reworking...

"You just read the assignment, summarize it, assign rough percentages for how well the assignment fulfilled expectations, and the LLM will do the rest!" Really glad to know that a LLM can 'help' with grading, assuming one first does all the work.

In the DOJ's defense, this outcome could only have been foreseen by anyone over the age of 12 with a passing familiarity of current events.

If only folks had stayed at the beer hall, then they never would've tried the putsch

I don't know if I'll ever understand Syracuse football...

Imagine directing your adult life toward reaching a position of political power, while also being scared shitless of exercising said power or engaging in any meaningful form of political action.

So either folks are 1) lying about how religious beliefs influence their voting or 2) have separated their morality from their voting? That, uh, doesn't seem great?

Libertarians are very concerned with big government. Namely, they're very concerned with making sure big government goes after the people they don't like.

Which fits neatly into fascist views of the law where its protections hinge starkly on in/out groups where the out-groups secures none of the law's protection.

Great stock value news for tech firms with VPN services, I guess?

Have the Lions considered that the trick might be having Ben Johnson in the building? Not on staff, just around

Out with Tesla, in with TeSlaa

The one job ChatGPT can unequivocally take is whatever the fuck led to this.

The students are great - prepared, engaged, open to discussion - but starting the day with a two-hour class on democratic backsliding and the 2024 election, with a bonus political violence/current events discussion, is more than a bit draining

Tenured folks, you may not know how to catch up on preparing, so some starting points from someone who was once faculty & is now a higher ed labor organizer: -Join your campus AAUP chapter. -If you don't have one, start one—talk to another AAUP chapter in your city/state to make connections. /cont

Going over my class notes one last time before bed, as if a class explicitly structured around "thinking critically about current events in a certain North American country" isn't in a state of constant flux

Something may be used as a justification without actually being its cause or motivation. Just putting that out there.

Well, everyone better tiptoe around Putin. Can't risk pissing him off, the guy could launch an armed attack against Poland or something.

Teach the Court, and the Constitution, as they are - as political institutions operating through a language of law.

John Roberts is a pro-death, anti-constitutional, hack.

Impeachment gets a 30-day CR, removal gets a 90-day

Mike Johnson thinks everyone should like the taste of jackboots as much as he does.

And if you're a European leader banking on the "non-NATO" thing, I have some bad news about the credibility of US commitments in the era of Trump.

For it to be a strategic mistake, Netanyahu would have to be (or have been) interested in good-faith negotiations. None of his actions have indicated that. This isn't a strategic mistake. It's a violently blunt reminder.

Longstanding German automaker (still) pretty chill with secret police and enforced disappearances.

Amateur hour all around. The real trick is to wear everything so you don't even need a suitcase. Show up to the airport wearing 17 layers. Stuff your pockets full of toiletries and chargers. Worst-case scenario, you get gate-checked.

At this point (one game in), if you're a Detroit Lions fan, there's one question. Do you trust the coaching staff? Today's game was all sorts of rough and messy, but - rough and messy is fixable. It's coachable. For what it's worth (not much), my answer to the question is yes.

I've watched a whole lot of Detroit Lions football and, of all those games, this is certainly one of them.

"Yes, I might grant you that this machine is being used to harm and slaughter. But I ask you, is that really a reason to stop putting fuel into the machine?"

"Technologist" isn't a professional and it's ridiculous that @npr.org treats it like one. Riparbelli is a (snake oil) salesman hawking AI slop machines to schools. His idea of what education would look like isn't informed by any analysis beyond "what future will make me money?"

This is a really clear piece of fact-checking that can be applied beyond Australia, too. Recognizing Palestinian statehood in no way violates international law and those who claim otherwise do so out of ignorance, malice, or both.

Well, I've finally managed to pull together a turntable setup (with all vintage/second-hand pieces), so if you need me, I'll be working through the stacks of vinyl that I had been accumulating with no way to play them

The entire international law justification is a nod in the direction of the "unable/unwilling" doctrine. Unable/unwilling is, notably, the "self-defence" justification that you use when you don't actually have a legal justification.

I'd say it's less an escalation and more a recognition that things have already escalated.

This is, like many things this administration does, blatantly illegal at a whole host of levels. Criminal from the White House to the Pentagon to the personnel involved in carrying out the orders.

At home or abroad, the US military sure does love an illegal operation.

The one thing you receive after taking the SAT is a metric shitton of mail from universities urging you to apply. Letters, postcards, booklets, all sorts of glossy recycling. None of which are admissions offers.

Safe travels, grant application

A good read, an interesting case, and a fantastic reminder that the systems regulating international sport are - to be technical - really damn weird.

It's "the trains run on time now" updated for the American aversion of mass transit

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

The US will be the only country - in the world - not participating in the UPR. The stated reasoning is bs, too, and points toward further US-UN/US-human rights antagonism to come.

Hey, look, a fresh round of "Taylor Swift only writes breakup song" jokes, brought to you by folks who haven't listened to her albums and import their jokes fresh from 2013!