“Write every day”. Impractical, joyless and, above all, balls.

the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.

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In the ballroom, with a red hat

Today, with the windchill struggling to reach 0°F at times, thousands marched down Lake Street in South Minneapolis protesting the actions of ICE. “ICE Out of Minnesota!” "MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!" "Immigrants are not the problem"

What in the world is the point of getting a PhD if you're going to let the robot write your articles? Go do something else. There are plenty of us that love this stuff.

Lol my alma mater just established a "college of AI" and the letter I sent was like "please 'remain competitive' by fixing your shit, everyone hates this, it's like a college of subprime mortgages."

worth watching a movie set in the 1970s, like THE NICE GUYS, and comparing to a movie made in the 1970s, like DIRTY HARRY

It's like Prince said: She went in through the "out" door.

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They should go ahead and change the name from Purdue University to Purdue Vocational Training Center

Vanity Fair

Still extremely funny that the University of Minnesota has buildings called both Anderson and Andersen and they were nordicpilled enough to think that people should intuitively understand the difference.

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

It /is/ a problem that the right has articulated a reactionary vision for the humanities and the left has pushed ROI analysis to boost tech and marketing degrees.

As former humanities dean, I learned "ROI"/"data" matter if they serve the larger narrative, which is set by not just admin and trustees, but by the public. The narrative is that (a) humanities is irrelevant and (b) costs are too high. So, sacrifice hum to serve costs, even if data show otherwise.

And the actor who played him, Carol O’Connor, summed up Archie Bunker so damn well, so long ago. Incredible foresight by Rob Reiner 💔…the Archies have nearly destroyed America 50 years later It’s really profound

The mayor-elect's decision not to point out the identity of the hero who saved Jewish lives in Sydney today was a leap of faith that we Jews would do so, and we will: Ahmed al Ahmed shone his light in the darkness. May he be quickly and fully healed. To save one life is to save the world.

tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore

Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional. They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

Yep. Because the obvious thing to do in Amerikkka in response to one of the daily mass shootings to help lessen the trauma for innocent kids is to storm the joint with war weapons, tactical gear & camouflage Aggro men with penile compensatory big guns all auditioning for a Stallone film Fucked up

After hiding in fear from a gunman while simply trying to learn, the final challenge of their quest to stay alive is to do everything the men with guns say.

Here he is taking the photo.

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

I'm only at the university for salt mining skills! I have no interest in topics outside of salt mining.

For me it was an art appreciation class. I have no talent in making art, but it taught me a new way of looking at aesthetic and also made reading that referenced art much more rich. Pound-for-pound, I probably learned more in that class than a lot of my journalism classes.

God I can't wait. And Notre Dame's loss.

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"Are you a cognitive psychologist or a feminist techno-science researcher?" Questions of this ilk are not complex. They should be answerable by a graduate-level researcher. (How do you see the world? What methods do you use? Who do you read?) And yet, they are often stumped.

Hope: Just want you to know how much we love and support you in this incredible, outrageous and unforgivable moment. We love you, we love Minnesota, we support you. We think your family is awesome. Best to Gus and to all of you. XO(Chicago)

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Heck yeah I’m pre-ordering the next Perveen Mistry book from Sujata Massey! I look forward to learning about India’s film industry in the 1920s and 1930s while enjoying Perveen’s sleuthing. #CrimeFiction #WomenWriters #Books

When I told people in California that I was moving back to Chicago they'd typically say something like: But what about the weather? The thing is, I love Chicago in the winter.

Ugggghhh, but this is familiar: “All of the programs on the chopping block appear to be profitable, according to the leaked spreadsheet… every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run.” #cdnpse

Organize the events, make the exhibitions, publish the texts, create the art etc etc etc... We cannot be stopped no matter what the fascists attempt. We have agency and need to build more collective power.

It’s Friday. Start a new book this weekend!

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

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Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it. I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.

Several major universities are essentially giving up their ability to teach students much of anything with the hopes of avoiding repercussions from awful people, that care nothing about the academy. Seems like a losing battle to me.

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

One of the most beautiful sights in Indianapolis during December is the Indiana Historical Society’s Festival of Trees. To top it off, they host an author fair giving the public an opportunity to meet with 60 incredible Hoosier authors. Plus, swag bags & educator lounge for teachers! #booksky

I shouldn't have to know what Lane Kiffin is or isn't doing. I have a lot of problems of my own and live in the northeast. Get it together dude.

❌ learn to code ✅ learn to read

The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.