A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?

Email 1: Can I Say Black? Email 2: Can I say Black American? Email 3: Can I Say Black American Politics? 😂

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u... “The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’” These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!

Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

So academic. Much freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

The lowly discharge petition is really having a moment.

The central message of Look to Windward is not, in fact, “do fascism so that you can digitize your consciousness.”

An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.

Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects osf.io/preprints/ps...

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

there is so much Beta in (econometrics) books

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

Donald Trump is Joe Biden now POTUS's job approval on prices is where Biden's was during peak inflation in 2022-23. Voters say 2:1 that Trump has made the economy worse. Oh, and consumer sentiment among independents hit a new all-time low in November, www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...

Guys he actually did it ....

MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems. My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this. Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage. Let people find joy where they can, please.

Cornell, like other capitulators, shamefully justifies this by saying it preserves *our* independence. Even if that were true, it is pure moral cowardice to take the every-institution-for-itself approach when extortionist is rampaging through our academic community.

10/10 take. No notes.

My next lecture is going to be so cringe, no cap.

Dear Pundits trying to figure out which of these people is the real and successful Dem party. They all are. This is a national party that has to suit our great diversity while being recognizably D together and being recognizably not R, esp today. Looking at you, Bezos.

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

bro are you fucking kidding me

Not all heroes wear capes.

I always wish I could be at the meetings for these. Is it like, “well sure we employ literally hundreds of experts in teaching and pedagogy, but what if we just had Shiela from comms write it.” Everyone: “Brilliant!”

Filling your social media feed with Deep Fake videos of yourself is a pretty good way to invite people to make other Deep Fake videos with content you don't like. C'mon Internet ... do your thing.

So this appears to be an AI avatar of the President of the United States talking about nuclear weapons? What could go wrong!! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

You can tell this is AI because he sounds too coherent. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

The pronatalist propaganda coming from the right these days is just deeply creepy. “In response to questions from The Post, Morgan pointed to a quotation from slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk encouraging people to get married and have children that Heritage displayed on its building.”

How can these two seemingly contradictory things about US politics both be true? 1. Partisanship is calcified. 2. Election outcomes are thermostatic. TURNOUT. It’s not the same people who vote every time. Mobilizing, organizing, educating, party infrastructure—it all matters.

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

'I could smell the onions and the mustard.'

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." -Anne Frank

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

For those of you who don’t know, the residents of Paterson are overwhelmingly Black and Latino. newjersey.news12.com/bomb-threats...

Just a reminder that there is no requirement for you to drop your hot take on the Internet about every political figure who dies.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. I am grateful for these helpful comments from the editor and reviewers and believe the manuscript is much stronger as a result. Below you can read my response to each comment and despair.

OK friends. He’s broken and the kids are too old for him. But how does one properly dispose of Buzz Lightyear?

The curse of our age is that ignorant people can become rich and famous, and that richness and fame are misread as wisdom.

This misreading of Tolkien brought to you by the same group of tech bros who read Snow Crash and thought, “yeah this world sounds awesome lets do that,” with out realizing it was a dystopian novel.

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

I keep reading the federalist papers and they just never addressed the “what if one of the branches of government can‘t be bothered“ situation we have here.