me when the students have done the reading

Turning the tide from this moment is going to take parents who make this same decision but who are willing to discuss publicly how they were misguided & regret it & want others to understand what can happen to your child if you refuse one of history's safest and most effective medical technologies.

i cant

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

Well my healthy-since-late-August-despite-having-a-second-grader streak has come to an end.

To improve the accessibility of course slides, I've built a Quarto-based workflow that creates revealjs slides, and then simultaneously creates a single-page "handout" version of the slides. Both the slides and the handout are html files. Working example here: www.paulkelleher.net/courses/Phil...

Turns out the cherry picking was coming from inside the house

“An AI agent… autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library.” Blackmail is a known behavior of chatbots. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement. Here’s the result of another evil and stupid act from the Trump regime. 🎁🔗

Taking this a little personally, tbh. I’m just a girl, standing in front of boys, asking them to make actual arguments.

Actually proud of this one

…IT IS ETHICAL BECAUSE A PERSON WE SEEM TO WANT TO CALL ETHICAL WOULD DO IT PLEASE DON’T ASK ME WHY

Oh no Scott A. actually deleted this app?

Holy s, just watched that US/China Women's curling match. Amazing!

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

physicists

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Happy 8th birthday to this future US Olympian. (The goal of the drill was indeed to hit one of the blue pins 🤯)

Okay it's out www.epa.gov/regulations-...

In addition, this account of why Rawls moved to political liberalism is incorrect. He was clear & consistent: *he* found an inconsistency in TJ, and he wanted to fix it. That he retained his 2 principles of DJ shows he wasn't responding to criticisms of them. www.persuasion.community/p/the-unexpe...

Imagine Charlotte's embarrassment if she'd put *that* in her web.

Who can remind me of/link me to the HHS statement that had at the bottom the disclaimer that RFK Jr. had promised Cassidy he’d include, even tho the statement itself was at odds with it? You know the one I’m talking about? cc @mirandayaver.bsky.social

Proposal: rename vaccination "pre-treatment"

Damn right we are

The next Democratic president should buy the coal industry and shutter it.

#AcademicSky #OnlyYouCanSubvertIllegalOrders

Very, very bad

Little to add to Trump's Endangerment Finding move that hasn't already been said, but here's the key bit: Framing matters. This isn't "economics" vs climate, or some kind of noble "cost-cutting" crusade. It's a handout to narrow fossil interests, counter to economic forces.

This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.

Yessir that's my colleague Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social) and here's his history of Puerto Rico - available in English and Spanish press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

, for co-authoring an op-ed in the student newspaper.

The most problematic passage is the one I attach here (link in next post). Whether a c. tax is politically risky is just as relevant to "the economics" as a tax's "economic optimality." From an econ POV, there's a continuum of "optimal" outcomes. Distributional preferences among are 💯% fair game.

Great thread for those (like me) who missed 90+% of the symbolism in the halftime show

Glad you're enjoying yourselves but IMHO the best way to stomp on New England is to hike in Acadia.

Do yourselves a favor and listen to the audiobook of this instead

I would actually watch the Super Bowl if all the commercials were the Progressive insurance ones where middle aged people start to turn into their parents.

Green Day should shut up about politics and just stick to singing songs about politics.

“I thought it was important to teach Shakespeare every year to keep my literary values straight, so I wouldn’t be running around…exalting some 2nd- or 3rd- or 4th-rater. If you like some 2nd- or 3rd- or 4th-rater that’s fine but you outta know it’s a 2nd-, or 3rd-, or 4th-rater.” — Norman Maclean

At a birthday party, my kid asked me if it would be ok if she didn’t sing at cake time I said that’s fine as long as she’s not obvious about it, which would be rude, but she’s welcome to just quietly not sing She said thoughtfully, “I’ll be quiet. I’m just going to think about Scott Walker.” ????

/2 Bad Bunny stands for “immigration” because he’s not white. His existence within the United States — and particularly his broad popularity and great success — are an affront to Trumpian white nationalist values. That’s the WaPo message, brought to you with Jeff Bezos’ Amazon smile.

15 years ago I gave a big talk the day after the Super Bowl.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "That’s right y’all, yet another author who uses ‘eschews’ multiple times in the same article."

I liked this thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

@richardtol.bsky.social What in the world is McKitrick talking about with the part I’ve highlighted? This comes about 56 minutes in. @andrewdessler.com

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

One of the most important scientific achievements of the last 50 years was making the causal links between prior viral infections (e.g. EBV) and subsequent serious diseases.

hahaha

I’ve been reading about this remarkable piece. Apparently it’s from 3 pages that Shakespeare wrote to be dropped into a play by other authors. Those 3 pages are the only surviving example of Shakespeare’s handwriting (beyond 6 signatures). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Tho...