Why yes, I did just put down a season ticket membership deposit for PWHL Detroit, why do you ask?

For the mobility challenged among us: I love the idea of liftgate/kick sensors, but am incapable of “kicking” under my car and remaining upright. The very sweet VW salesperson suggested I try waving my cane under the car and IT WORKS.

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Apparently the answer to the problems facing colleges (by which the author of course means Ivies--specifically Harvard) can be found in a rarified, settlement house-style experiment with manual labor. Forgive me if I don't think you need to become a ranch hand to learn community responsibility.

Respect to this Montreal Victoire fan (but also, go Victoire!)

I’m doing my best not to fall down another research rabbit hole, but Marshall’s opinion in Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center (1985) really doesn’t get enough attention.

If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish there were a theorist of ecological communism who also made great wallpaper," then I have an article just for you. doi.org/10.1177/1474...

… we have lost much of the civil rights act, most of roe v wade, most of the EPA, any remnants of a progressive tax code, the voting rights act. I’ll be shocked if the ADA makes it through the next two years. I want to vote for candidates who recognize the scope and are ready to try new things.

Because I am regularly exposed to students I can give the anecdotal report that someone saying “He used AI” is derisive as fuck. It implies that you are useless for group work, likely an active problem not just lazy and ignorant. That the only reason you’re in university is wealth.

(Go Habs)

No I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day.

This is really important from four of my law school colleagues who helped draft U of M’s institutional neutrality policy. www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

While I’m glad to hear “sweeping reforms are coming,” stories like this remain all too frequent (this recalls the 2019 “quiet rooms” series from ProPublica and the Chicago Tribune on the use of seclusion in Illinois public schools).

This mass courtship event typically marks the beginning of Waymo mating season, and the general public is advised to avoid approaching them or their young and maintaining a safe distance at all times as they can get even more unpredictable in their behaviour towards humans at this time

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

As someone whose face telegraphs absolutely everything I'm thinking, I am in awe of the women behind Van Holland. No amount of dissociating (or botox) could stop my left brow from making my feelings *known*.

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Once upon a time, years of training and competition were required to rise to the top of classical music. But as Jeffrey Arlo Brown reports, the under-qualified ultra-wealthy are skipping to the front of the line, wads of cash in hand.

(Go Habs)

Leon Botstein resigns as Bard College president - www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... [gift link] - looks like Bard students won.

The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can now purchase the Rise plushie/ZGI on the NASA Exchange.

A few short years ago I might have argued that too many things were being described as "eugenic" or "eugenic-like." I stand corrected.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

Things I didn't expect to see today: Mamdani opening a statement about improving New York's heating infrastructure by quoting Val Kilmer in the "not fully appreciated 1995 Michael Mann classic, HEAT".

The @portlandfire.bsky.social's furriest teammate 🥹 Megan Gustafson’s dog Pancake is a Media Day pro!

Adding this to the next iteration of "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" alongside Clarence Day's "Legs vs. Architects" (1920).

There's "iPhone face" and then there's Matt Damon

With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape. Across the 7 states with new maps: —11 districts have shifted toward Democrats; —9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.

It's that time of year again. (Go Habs.)

Not me facing down 34 reading responses, 12 paper drafts, 17 final drafts, 26 papers, and 39 final projects (and that's an improvement on where things stood on Friday). HALP.

Gee, Jake, I really don’t know if this *pocket square* is enough to salvage your reputation.

Okay, from Monday onwards I’m just going to start my emails with ‘You there!’

close friends, france, 15th century

somehow *not* The Onion

We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...

I have spent the last hour sending choice snippets of this gem to the group chat.

Somewhat beside the point, but what would it look like for a Pope to be "strong" on nuclear weapons, exactly?

bring back shame

Humbly calling on Pope Leo to make JD Vance’s no good, horrible, very bad week even worse.

Michigan folks! The The Doing (Disability) Research from the (Disabled) Margins Project is excited to welcome Jina Kim (Smith) to the UM on Thurs, April 9, from 4-5:30pm. Jina will be giving a talk entitled "at the end of the world, let there be you: Crip-of-Color Writing in the Apocalyptic Now"

God grant me the confidence of the white men in the replies arguing about tribal sovereignty with *Maggie Blackhawk*

I am watching a student rolling along on a Onewheel hoverboard while also holding a conversation with a friend (walking alongside). This is a level of balance I cannot fathom.

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

Many a man has debased their scholarly reputation by attempting violence against the annals of history, profiting nothing but the praise of Samuel Alito and the prospect of a fleeting mention by the Solicitor General at the Supreme Court.