it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools

A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.

I wouldn’t want to make a family with someone who doesn’t care about making the world a better place. That’s where our children are going to live!

This is betraying a serious lack of understanding about what accommodations actually are that seems grafted from the right wing narrative of affirmative action (which I’m sure this person would reject). Accommodations are not a boost or advantage. They allow disabled people to function.

If there is a legit conversation to be had about “overaccommodation” it’s about well meaning people lowering expectations for disabled kids and not giving them the opportunity or expectation to do cognitively demanding tasks. It’s not about giving kids an ufair advantage.

the thing about extra-time accommodations is that either they help you a lot or they don't matter much, and if they help you a lot that is evidence that you should get them

I'm starting to get concerned about how we are talking about the boat strikes. We are getting bipartisan consensus about the fact that the second strike on a boat, the one against shipwrecked sailors, was illegal, and there is somehow appetite to go after who is responsible. (1/6)

I recently read a book on the Mexican-American drug trade and one of the main insights of the book is that part and parcel of the drug economy is protection rackets, and that drug violence is a result of people vying for control of those protection rackets. I don’t doubt any of this for a second.

I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?" As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he

Listen, the crappiest Thanksgiving food can still make a good Thanksgiving if you have good people and loving family around you. That’s why I know that Karoline Leavitt, who had her nephew’s mother detained by ICE as a favor to her brother, cannot possibly have had a good Thanksgiving.

I know this week can be really hard for queer and trans folks. So if that's you, remember that I love you and you are under no obligation to hide who you are for anyone. You're perfect. And if your family can't see that, it's their loss.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.

okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article “oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions ghouls, the lot of them

this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.

And almost nobody has "cancer money” of the type you need when it’s really serious which is why I’m increasingly skeptical thinking about how the idea that wealth is protective (which it is…until it’s not) causes us to overlook how ind. wealth, not Bezos wealth but like median white wealth,

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI' Remember that. Remember her.

Fly Away Home is an exceptionally beautiful movie that I watched over and over again as a young child (I called it “big girl Amy”). Now that I’ve lost my mom it means even more to me.

It has never been so obvious that capitalism has outlived any supposed usefulness it ever had a claim to

Given that the emails in question were about him exploiting his position against a junior-scholar mentee, he should not be allowed within a million miles of a classroom and should not be allowed to serve on any dissertation committees, etc etc etc.

Anybody got some good anti-AI graphics/propaganda posters? I might print some out and put them up in my classroom. Bonus points if they riff on historically significant imagery, since I’m a history teacher.

These students have been failed so utterly by their institutions and leadership.

Man this is as bad as legitimizing anti vax talking points. This is gonna result in a lot of pain and unplanned pregnancies that people now can’t get proper care for in many states.

Could a depressed person do this?! [shuts down Opus Dei]

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is an incredible social achievement from the last sixty years. Look at how racial resentment stays steady and then starts to linearly drop in 1960. This is the culture war white supremacists have already lost, and are desperately trying to relitigate.

web.archive.org/web/20241122... Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.

I got #83 of this 500 a while back, and I'm surprised that there are still any of them left, honestly. The book is so good I assumed they would vanish instantly. The fact that they haven't means you still have a chance to get one!

Agreed. In my professional legal opinion, the email about Trump blowing Clinton is classic hearsay: you hear it and it's your obligation to say it to others. Y'know, like the JD/couch thing.

see, it gets me to thinking, would trump actually care this much about stopping the release of the files if they only show that he’s a corrupt pedo (for which there is already ample evidence)? This might hit the sweet spot of unexpected and humiliating with his base that would motivate concealment

jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away

I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands

Ok i gotta say it’s completely nuts that democrats didn’t blow up all this exact stuff much earlier. They truly did not attack Trump with everything they could have. Even those of us who always hated him didn’t know exactly how much of a criminal he was. Isn’t that what oppo research is for???

In Pre-K, social emotional growth is literally the thing that matters most. Like the whole point of it is for them to learn how to function in a communal setting so that they can show good citizenship and learn in older grades. To pre-pare for Kindergarten

Your man couldn’t even find an image of the cover of the book he was pretending to listen to

Happy Armistice Day.

In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.

At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

Also, there is nothing stopping you from doing both. The DSA works very hard to reform the Democrats while also building their own party to relevance.

Six year terms are nuts. As a democratically elected official, you shouldn’t be able to only think about what your constituents need and want every five years.

when i was eight my family visited the Galapagos for about a week in April. While we were there they overthrew their president. Our flight from the Galapagos to Quito was delayed because the people were on the runway stopping the president from fleeing the country.

More specifically: a failure to fund the government is called a lack or failure of "supply" in most parliamentary systems and is always treated as a matter of confidence in the government. If supply fails—as it did here Sept 30—the govt would have to resign, & there'd be new elections

The senate needs to be made irrelevant if we want a chance at an actual democracy. A ridiculous, decrepit institution with ridiculous and decrepit people.

quality of life is increasingly going to be determined by the willingness and ability of state and local governments to maintain infrastructure and services in the face of federal retrenchment. there will be no floor, and over time there will be greater and greater variation across the country

You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake