There are many examples of this even beyond those in the piece below - from specialized dance expertise to travel league soccer to fencing, sport is less and less an outlet and a place for growth among children and it is more and more another stressor and arrow in their resume-building quiver.

“Why do people think Uncommitted was uncommitted when they said they were uncommitted to being uncommitted,” the greatest debate of intellectual titans in the history of Bluesk-“ *my guardian angel snatches my phone and impales it with her celestial lance for the good of all.*

This troubling article is part of why I'm telling you that Donald Trump's conclusion in politics will not end this debate, and that the USA is still -more- welcoming than much of Europe where this issue is becoming only more and more salient.

btw, figures like trump and musk are now the biggest beneficiaries of this omerta policy

Yes, America committed war crimes in World War 2. On balance, the United States was one of the cleanest belligerents in the war. This is difficult for people to accept as true.

Strategic bombing, all of it, by all sides, was a very marginal source of death and destruction and its basically a rounding error against the infantry atrocities by the Axis powers in Eastern Europe and China, respectively

It's almost like this is the exact scenario that has to be reminded for folks who insist Dems need to make impeachment THE redline, when they don't even control either house of Congress ATM.

Again, Pelosi personally did half of all presidential impeachments in American history

Basically every middle to high-income country has its own Trump. And you can't say they were just imitating us, because many of theirs had careers going back to before 2016

Reminder that people in the past were bigoted but their bigotries were meaningfully of their time

yeah this is what I’m trying to do - read it as Social Justice Harry Potter with some historical set dressing. I think the book does itself a massive disservice, starting with the author’s note, by setting you up to expect something that’s really integrated with history

I really want to try to finish this but I just don’t think I can do it when every five pages the author jumps in to literally correct her characters from the sky and remind us, e.g., slavery is bad or England is racist

The funny thing is that definitions of America based on ancestry leads to Obama to be more American than Trump. Obama is a direct descendent (on his mother's side) of Mareen Duvall, who arrived in America as an indentured servant in 1659. And yet...

Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!

Solar power made up 9.1% of US electricity this October, up from 7.8% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.4% of US electricity, a record high!

Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!

Belle: hey Scrooge: sup Belle: left the house again Scrooge: lol Scrooge: did they do the song Belle: 🫠

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

Been arguing this for months now. You don't have to like it, but if you think students will stop using it you're deluded. Better off embracing it selectively and constructively and shaping its use.

this is what some of you look like in your chore coats

Last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day Kali ma shakti de

The feral years of 2020-2022 burnt out a lot of the cycles pf killing-revenge killing that drive homicide rates.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Yeah. Bad faith concern trolls are trying to shit on dems, as usual. However, it's rather easy to see who is really voting to erase trans people. Just look at the letter by the name of the sponsor on literally EVERY SINGLE BILL on this tracker: translegislation.com

I think a lot of leftists simply don't/won't believe that the higher prices they're paying are connected to the workers receiving higher wages. Because minimum wage wasn't increased and the workers didn't unionize, and the idea of worker pay increasing due to market forces is unimaginable to them.

MAGAts: "But what about Bill Clinton??!?1! What if Bill Clinton is in the Epstein files, huh? What then, liberal?!" BILL CLINTON:

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

And then the more reasonable “ok look I’ve looked through your profile and accept that you don’t hate dogs but I’m still mad because I’ve been primed to be mad so I’m going to assert that you didn’t do enough work in 300 characters to dispel the notion that you don’t hate dogs.”

Saw some folks on Twitter trying to argue that using AI to make the FF7 Remake/Rebirth characters properly lip sync the audio track doesn't count as "gen AI" "Gen AI" increasingly just means "AI I don't like"

We may uh want to have a conversation about the fact that the majority of popular gay male romance is written by and for women

minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here

when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money

I strongly believe the unifying sentiment behind the entire woo-crank JFK jr wing of politics is hatred of fat people

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the MOST dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with OVER 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed STRONG antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

I think a lot about how Hayao Miyazaki’s biggest problem with the modern anime industry is that the people making it just reference other anime instead of actual life experience or other kinds of media, and AI has kind of accelerated that same self-cannibalizing effect onto all of popular culture

"In Alabama, a U.S.-born construction worker has been detained not once but twice, at different job sites twenty miles apart from one another. The first time, agents kept him handcuffed for over an hour even after seeing his REAL ID."

Crunchy Internet shit kills women and it's not one we can blame on men. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

A reminder that MPU is basically uninterested in factual information regarding data center water usage and will go waffle-mode if you press them on it at all andymasley.substack.com/p/more-perfe...

Huge news: after many years, my bipartisan bill with Senator Todd Young to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force against Iraq was signed into law. This is a historic win for Americans and allows us to close the book on this forever war.

Anecdotal but it plays to my biases nymag.com/intelligence...

There's a dark triad for predatory scammer types: refusing to pay their bills; constantly name-dropping and social-climbing in pursuit of new marks; escalating depravity as if in an attempt to see if there's anything they can't get away with. The problem is that millions of Americans are like this.

NEW: A bill restoring money for pediatric cancer therapies was defeated in the Senate. My colleague @samsteindc.bsky.social — who has covered this wrenching story ever since the funding was first removed at Elon Musk's behest last year — reports on why Bernie Sanders helped defeat the bill.

i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--

Also it’s going to be really funny, as research confirms that it’s social media that is breaking politics, to see all the people who were scoffing at the idea and saying “it’s inflation, as everyone knows” turn around and say “of course it’s social media, everyone knows that”

Everyone calm down, it was just a dinner. It's not like Brooks wrote an entire column saying Epstein's crimes weren't a big deal and his critics are hysterical while failing to divulge his attendance!

What has worked for us: -Become familiar quickly with what streamers they are watching. What are the broad topics (Minecraft, NBA, NFL, etc) -No headphones or earbuds. You're watching, we are hearing. This is the most annoying part early on. Then we gradually allowed earbuds -Check phone at bed

this piece has strikingly little of interest to say about, you know, architecture.