25 December 1910 | Nikolay Makarchov was born. A Soviet army soldier. In #Auschwitz from October 1941. No. R-2933 (Soviet prisoner of war) He perished in the camp on 27 October 1941. --- Learn about some 15,000 Soviet POWs deported to Auschwitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Y3dmCI5_E

We go agane

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Lest anybody think that it’s only the Coastal Elites™️ who care about this stuff, my parents’ neighbors in semi-suburban Georgia were talking about how Trump renaming the Kennedy Center is wrong

Oh, you’re not wearing flip flops on Christmas Eve? Can’t relate.

I try not to be a “kids these days” guy but come on man. If you can’t handle writing an essay in class in a blue book then there aren’t many jobs you’re going to be able to handle.

Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university. Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.

Fueled up with the breakfast of champions for a round at the illustrious International City Golf Club

Visiting mom and dad for Christmas = new kitties to pet (these are my dad’s office cats, he’s a veterinarian, not a hoarder).

this game is an escort mission for the colts. they have to gain yardage in small chunks and wait for philip rivers to walk up to the line. every couple minutes he spits out some dialogue like "hurry – we have to reach the satellite uplink so we can deliver evidence of the ambassador's wrongdoing"

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

These colts uniforms suck

Steele cat respecting the troops

idk why russian wikipedia doesn't have dark mode yet but they've really got to get with the program for the sake of my eyes

We occupy a very specific niche when it comes to the public discussion of history, and that niche is serious answers to the question of how bamboozled Hitler would have been by big chungus memes. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

the Lions remain absolute kings of “wait a game can end like that???”

what on earth

Human huh?

that's the craziest catch I've ever seen

i think software engineers insisting that everyone needs to pick up LLM tooling as a part of their job are mostly showing the depth of their own ignorance with respect to how other professions work on the basis that inevitably they must be right in some marginal way about the adoption of technology.

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

what a catch got both feet down too

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

“I would struggle to trust a historian who doesn’t know how to use the text theft machine that often gets basic facts wrong and makes up sources.” Well, we’ll try to find a way to survive without your trust I guess. Enjoy the ChatBots

Amazing how many of these papers are about “ethical use of AI in education.” It’s harsh, I know, but I do think if you incorporate a hallucinated reference it should be incredibly damning for you. There should be professional penalties.

Ridiculous animal

the 12-team playoff is a total waste, there were almost never even four championship-worthy teams, much less 12.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law. /1

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

anybody who's gone through the academic job search process in the last...twenty years? knows this is nonsense. it's a miracle if you even get an actual rejection email instead of getting ghosted, never mind being told why you weren't hired.

Human hiiii

cat.exe has stopped responding

“I’d love to get into it.” Allow Kirk Cousins to take you to school

Delaware should be legally required to run the wing-T.

Handsome mustache boy

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

Got them both to look!

These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.

These people are nuts. NCAR developed the GPS dropsonde, which revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated remote sensing platforms, as documented in over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last 25 years. And that’s just one of NCAR’s countless advances.

it's fine, starting wars over oil has historically worked out very well for the united states, nothing to worry about

16 December 1906 | Danil Zyevagin was born. A Soviet army soldier. In #Auschwitz from October 1941. No. R-8212 He perished in the camp on 13 November 1941. --- Soviet POWs at Auschwitz: Lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_20_jency/ Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Y3dmCI5_E

I’m being micromanaged

What an awful year. Oh and I played golf badly too.