Although I've had my work stolen by billion-dollar corporations through piracy sites and am obviously not happy about that, I do have to say that without Anna's Archive et al., writing research articles would be nearly impossible for independent (i.e., unemployed) scholars like me without ILL access

holy shit, if you are scared of the "race ideology and gender ideology" that are allegedly included in the works of fucking PLATO, you have officially lost the plot. lololol. omfg, what is wrong with these people

WICKED being banned text is the level of on-the-nose that 2026 deserves.

Gave a talk on crisis comms at my son's high school today to a classroom of 15 from all four grades. I must say, the kids are alright. Fully engaged and lots of fun to talk to. Paying more attention to mainstream media than I would have guessed.

someday a future generation of Chinese media will be able to climb the Great Firewall to inform Americans about what really happened on Jan 6.

The better you’ve become at curating what the internet looks like to you, surfacing the valuable and filtering out the rest, the less it resembles what “normal people” see. It’s like using a new computer without all your personal tools and tweaks. This is obvious, but easy to lose sight of.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

"Wait... it's something out the drapes? the curtains? dammit... Alexa! Alexa! What's that quote..."

Curtis Yarvin is beloved of people of mediocre mind and weak character. They want to go Nazi, but they don’t have the cobbles to do it without a gloss of mediocre pseudo-intellectual gibberish supporting it. /1

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

Six Flags has debuted a new program where you can hire someone to go on the roller coaster for you.

Audible has invented a “play” button that will read audiobooks for you when you get bored and take your headphones off

my gender reveal party

“X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter” Thank you FT for presenting the directors running the circus. In clown face. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated. Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court

every fascist intellectual is nothing more than an adolescent pseud with faux gravitas whose output is sophomoric fanfiction the sole purpose of which is to rationalize fascist barbarism

When you're in college and you go to a friend of a friend's to get high, and the dude turns out to be really creepy and starts going off and you need to get out of there but you're really high and don't have a car

This is one of the least upsetting parts of the article, but the *fucking gall* to blame the victim for violating the *terms of use* of your people-pleaser plagiarism machine that's been helping people down into an early grave with frothy compliments www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Absolutely true, and somehow not-discussed point: The US **ALREADY** has all the strategic advantages it could gain by "owning" Greenland. Through treaties and (until now) close NATO cooperation w Denmark The US has a naval base & 'space force' base there. You see USAF planes at Grndlnd airports

Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

IR people who decry gender studies or arguments are fish refusing to believe the study of water is important.

More from the White House X account. Oh. And Grok.

This was just a few months after January 6, which is when I knew law enforcement organizations had every interest in defending January 6 because that was how they would amass power. Police do not work for "the people." (Then, of course, Biden funded them anyways.)

Great job, America

Reading “International Law is fake and gay” is the logical conclusion of every misandrist thought I have ever had. Just contemptible little manlets asserting their dominance.

Basic problem of most corpo news: "“I’m constantly confused by what her definition of ‘making news’ is,” a second current CBS News staffer said. “It seems like she only cares about big names saying controversial things. That’s not the same as newsworthiness.”"

I can't get over how half-baked Miller's rhetoric is. This is supposed to be "they're scared of America," but what he's really saying is "we're bluffing because we think Denmark doesn't care about Greenland or sovereignty." Uh, okay Temu von Clausewitz, real strategic genius move you got there.

Helping The Kid with some research for a school project, and read this in one of his books. 🫠

It puts the lotion in the basket, and

Five years ago.

I think about this post probably five times a week now.

John Dickerson watches in silence, evening cocktail in hand.

Excited to see the new movie from the point of view of the money changers in the temple.

Just throwing away decades of brand equity to hype the worst major AI platform on the market.

Betty Boop just came into public domain. I can't wait to see the gritty realistic new take on her.

Every few years, an optimistic studio trying to do a "gritty, realistic" take on a public domain property like Robin Hood or King Arthur:

The Trump admin cut many soft power initiatives last year, moving away from USAID, USAGM etc. The new soft power push is via unregulated and unmoderated generative AI, social media, podcasts & digital platforms owned by US oligarchs. It's driven by algorithms and engagement based incentives.

There is going to be an after him time. It's crazy how many folks are completely burning down their reps and credibility. They have a $50+ billion endowment. What is the point of having F U money, if you're too scared to tell somebody F U?

It’s a framework we’ve generally accepted—corporations are liable for the injuries caused by defective or negligently created products, for instance, and for torts caused by human employees speaking on the corporation’s behalf. Saying it would be bad if that applied to LLMs needs a special reason.

Thinking more about this brilliant D&D style. This should be a meme template. Waking up ready to face 2026 like:

Roses are red, Sunlight is bright

Has a court ruled on whether, under Section 230, a web site’s AI generating content based on a user prompt is treated as the web site’s speech? Seems to me it should be, just as if the site operator published speech answering someone’s question. BWEPRA

Thinking again about this sign. Should I post this up in my classrooms?

oh hey, linguists! do any of you have secret prescriptivist pet peeves that i could share as a funny short anecdote in my book? (just to be like "yes linguists experience this emotion too, we just try to not be rude about it")

"Fragmentary records indicate the emergence of a new fasting period known as 'Dry January' among the upper classes of the late imperial period. Although it has not been conclusively linked to a religious movement, it gives Protestant vibes."

I also love that cross-listing courses in the LMS is extremely unintuitive and must be done with some arcane 14-step process for each section. That's a blast when the school makes you have a lot of sections for the sole purpose of keeping their official class size average down to help their ranking.

Tom Brady is 100% letting ChatGPT pick the Raiders next coach

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.