It’s an incredible time to be alive if you’re mean and dumb as shit.

Trump tariffs depress hedge-fund managers.

Everyone’s like “this can’t be fascism it’s too dumb” but they don’t understand that fascism is in fact almost always very dumb! Fascist dictators are cruel and stupid men. And it’s popular because many people are cruel and stupid!

Time is a flat circle

LOL. LMAO.

I've played Pandemic, I know where this is going...

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

Experimental evidence of something @kellymsocia.bsky.social and I wrote about, building on work by Hirschfield & Simon (2010). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end. (this is an experiment in thread transfer)

NSF now sending “stop work” notices on funded active grants. Doesn’t sound like a pause.

Well that's not fucking good. NIJ has cancelled all open grant opportunities.

Saw this painting at the National Portrait Gallery in DC back in 2020, and it was his eyes that were really striking. Not sure if it's my favorite painting overall, but definitely my favorite portrait. (John Brown 1800-1857)

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

Both vaxxed and unvaxxed groups showed impairment in cognitive functions and quality-of-life measures compared to the benchmark. While vaccines reduce the severity of acute Covid, they don't appear to reduce the neurological sequelae of Long Covid. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Using new IPEDS finance data, I took a look at the public and private colleges that consistently lose money. Forty-nine of the nearly 1,500 four-year institutions with available data lost money in eight or more of the last ten years--not a good sign. robertkelchen.com/2025/01/07/w...

I, for one, welcome our new viking overlords

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNv... White wine in the sun

New publication: Preliminary data shows if you teach op-ed writing skills, most students like it and plan to use it as a tool for scholarly dissemination! Thanks for my co-authors Stacy Fandetti and Ava Peters for collaborating on this. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/DYKVI...

How did Tolkien write so much? The answer is he didn't have two-factor authentication for every aspect of his life

Welcome to Saturday morning labor education. (I have to work today, so I might as well.) What are your Weingarten rights, and how can you use them to protect yourself against a boss on a power trip? 1/