Took my oldest to see Phantom of the Opera, which was very fun and the songs still hold up. Although ... the plot is much more deeply problematic than I had remembered.

Is this bad

Was thinking more about AI lit reviews, so I gave Opus 4.6 a shot to do a lit review I know well (marginal structural models in the social sciences). Looked pretty good until it credited me with a paper by @smtorres.bsky.social Unfortunately, Google AI overview confirmed by authorship...

I know we are well past this but ….. … just imagine if Obama had done this ….

Treating this as a debate worthy of discussion over the last several years is a huge part of the problem, as it has been for things like "do tax cuts pay for themselves?" & "does mass voter fraud exist?" & "can the United States of America afford to pay its debts?" since about 1980.

Weird how holding politicians accountable when they try and illegally subvert democracy seems to work everywhere in the world, but in America it is just too extreme.

A powerful call for university leaders to live up to the moment. And I am once again embarrassed to find my own university lining up on the wrong side of history. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Between the ads for AI and the AI ads I feel like this is some sort of cultural inflection point.

Love that open AI just put up Bayes theorem in their ad like it was some kind of new invention.

I want to reiterate that this shit is nuts. A federal invasion of state-run elections, an intelligence community invasion of federal law enforcement, a White House invasion of a criminal investigation, and a president’s insane treasonable sore loser obsession all rolled up and muddled together.

NEW: "The rule of law be damned." This opinion by Judge Fred Biery ordering the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is one of the most incendiary judicial takes on the Trump administration I've seen. Read the full document and our story here: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

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Today's parade of horrors was awful. But this one just broke my heart.

This is what social media was made for....

I don't have anything to add to this perfect headline

I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history. The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership

The HBO show The Pitt is amazing television. But as a parent this is horrific to watch.

This is how democracy ends.

personally I think it would be great if his colleagues—including Dr. Sweet, the department chair who acted as a conduit for the censorship demand—had his back.

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Has anyone tried teaching stats using Jasp? Thoughts?

No one *licensed* anyone to make CSAM of their kids, and the tech company that provides both the production technology and the distribution system should be prosecuted out of existence.

In competitive authoritarian regimes, the government deters and undermines opposition by using its powers to inflict costs on those who challenge it rather than recognizing their legitimacy as democratic opponents

Thanks to Bari Weiss for testing whether the Streisand Effect still has any juice.

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

Man I had really forgotten the crazy gender dynamics of the first 20 minutes of Die Hard….

THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU

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

Weird how checking this website persistently hasn't helped me grade. At. All.

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

It’s not just that Trump lied constantly during his speech tonight; I’m not sure he said a single thing that was factually correct.

Simpler times

This really is painful to watch. I don’t know if they believe what they say or they believe they have to say it. Regardless, these are people opposed to American democracy who will be given a lifelong opportunity to corrupt it.

Just to stir the pot a bit .... If you are really, deeply against using machine learning to create synthetic survey responses, I have bad news for you about MRP.

American Greatness!

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

13 years ago, 20 children and 6 educators never came home from Sandy Hook Elementary School. They were killed in their classrooms in a shooting that changed our nation forever.

>Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a “high risk” watch list in the Canadian city of Edmonton, a This is terrifying.

Liberals are constantly trying to indoctrinate our young people. You can see the proof in this colorful PragerU video presented by the Young America's Foundation at a Turning Point USA school club meeting.

Friendly holiday reminder that people rush to submit before the holidays and declined reviews get even worse than usual. And editors want to enjoy holiday time, too. Patience and grace to all (and to all a good night)!

Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool

I was unprepared for the fact that one of the only American institutions stand against authoritarianism would be the jury system. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...

missed this last week: trains in Lancaster were cancelled after AI-generated images of a bridge collapse were shared on social media following a real earthquake. god, we're really not ready to resist an engagement-driven online ecosystem empowered by AI fakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Now that you can't fail with the Bible, and we are moving finals for football, the questions, "Is Oklahoma in the south?" has officially been answered.