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WHAT IS CAUSING THE RISING DEMAND, CNN

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What's the Odyssey About? [wrong answers only]

People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.

When I hear "there's no gay romance" "m/m was created by women" "romance is for women" I think of the number of author bios in the back of "Best Gay Romance" books, or magazines, especially the 90s, ending with notations of when those authors died and I get so fucking angry I cannot even tell you.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Moritz Seider's elite season continues, now leading *all skaters* in the NHL in Goals Above Replacement. 📈 Will Mo's stellar play lead to major award votes? ⤵️ #LGRW

Critical thinking is the most important skill gained in the process of become a researcher, in any field. I am not a historian, but it’s incredibly similar in the sciences. Knowing when and how much to trust a source, what the findings mean, what to do next…if you outsource this, why be a scientist?

A number of weeks ago, I mentioned that I keep a "craft journal" — a journal that's about the books I've read with analysis through the lens "how can this inform my writing?" Many iterations later, have a free PDF of what I'm calling "Reading Selfishly:" dl.bookfunnel.com/6dvlo8cnxx

Actually let me add: we like to think machines and software will be free of bias and prejudice, but that's illusory. Machines are designed by humans (yep even the so called "AI") so machines are bound to replicate that bias and prejudice, *esp* if we're unaware of said bias.

Not to mention that comprehensive reading is a great way to learn what works and what doesn't, how to recognize craft and quality, genre conventions and when/how crossovers and inversions work, etc. And it all helps you know how to understand someone else's words.

Primary rooting interest in CFB is for Harding (the most antigay school in all of college sports, probably) to get dumptrucked by Ferris State in the D2 national championship game www.outsports.com/2025/12/18/2...

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A lot of Christian’s treat Bethlehem like it’s a fictional town that doesn’t exist in time and space. An ugly example of this is when Canadian Christian nationalists went there and were disgusted that it had Palestinian in it. They went on video calling for a “crusade.”

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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Got hate-mail about this today; someone insists the art is AI-generated. The art was drawn by a scientific illustrator (credited in our piece) & provided to the press. Live Science does not use generative AI for writing or illustrating stories. For more, see: www.livescience.com/editorial-st...

Tell me how shit like this isn’t an existential threat to our ability to seek new knowledge. Tell me how it’s better that e never know what’s true again so you can fuck your chatbot and write overblown Disney princess fanfic.

Six days to Christmas! I remind y’all: I write queer holiday romances and stories. Most recently? "Upon the Midnight Queer," holiday tales retold queerly. Includes the new Village story "Folly," a novella-length queer romance based on "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas." Link: books2read.com/b/4X5Mk6

I had multiple professors 5-10 years away from retirement tell me they wanted me to go to grad school so I could replace them. None of those positions existed <10 years later, and only one of those professors had gotten to retire.

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

By insisting that gravity exists, physicists are excluding those who think it doesn't exist — and reducing the number of ideas by half. I am a professional political commentator.

I think a lot about Gene Demby's NPR "code switch" piece on Maklemore performing "Thrift Shop" dressed as the worst stereotype of an antisemitic meme. It ends with a metaphor about "accidental" black face. www.npr.org/sections/cod...

I know I keep posting about this a lot but seeing this behavior mainstreamed by a popular well known athlete has really shaken me up and I am going to do everything I can to educate about it and spread the word about how incredibly dangerous it is to Jews.

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it's been pointed out before but we got rid of a lot of the people equipped to deal with social issues at these places during the "stick to sports" blowback and now there's a vast lack at an editorial level (and probably, unwillingness) to dig into anything that isn't purely sports of a given story

If this becomes popularized like 6-7 was, it’ll require lots of public education to address it. It’s time for sports media to shine a light here and let folks know this is an antisemitic meme, not a joke.

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Sigh. Just sigh. It wasn't particularly subtle antisemitism either. I'm having trouble giving sports sites the benefit of the doubt here.

From my own niche: institutions of higher education should stop chasing trends, work internally to assert a set of values, and then build curriculum around those values.

Okay the only thing I’ll say about the Compact article is field specific: the trope of “traditional” military history vs. “woke” critical theory needs to die. How could we even write about the Roman military w/o addressing colonization, empire, masculinity, trauma, ethnicity?

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I know this is a bold stance in America, but I simply do not believe we should be declaring war on another country for “stealing our oil” when the oil is, in fact, under the ground of that other country

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The same three people in power keep not listening to people with new ideas. That's the issue. That's the whole thing.

I've done some AI product consulting and product folks are often like "well but if AI helps generate ideas, doesn't that make your life easier?" Brother that makes my life harder because then it's DOING MY JOB????? which I ENJOY???? and additionally it makes it WORSE because it does it shittily?????

The internet is now absolutely *jam packed* with AI slop, endless reams of videos and articles and images. We achieved infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters and so I ask: where is Hamlet? Perhaps art was more than letters and pixels after all. Who knew?

why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

This guy gets it:

I'm arguing against interest here as someone who makes his living producing various kinds of video content, but I believe if you want to think clearly about something, the written word is much more valuable than video content is. Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.

At this time of year & esp today, I often contemplate how to translate the NT's John 1.5: "The light shines in the darkness/shadows, & the dark does not κατέλαβεν it." It's translated as overcome/comprehend: but it's a wrestling verb: grapple or pin. Darkness just can't wrap its mind around light.

Old Man vs the SEA

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

the handoff is hilarious

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.