billionaires repeatedly buy and destroy communications platforms to dominate information flow this week's 🙄 Bluesky silo redux discourse downplays that people of sense and empathy were chased here unwillingly and are focused on survival and connection, not revolution

When a company doesn't make it clear who you should write to, I always choose investor relations. Here is the email I sent to United.

Literacy is essential, actually. And we should be doing all that we can in our own ways to improve and to increase literacy. This is simply not controversial. It really is not. Let's fight about other things.

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Tip for young men: you might get more dates if you support and celebrate women’s success 🤷‍♀️

Gambling ads immediately following the moment of silence for both Brandon Clarke and Jason Collins, absolutely classless

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

A general, a historian, and an economist are discussing Iran: General: Overwhelming military force is the only way to break the stalemate! Historian: Iran is extremely unlikely to relinquish the leverage which this threat gives them. Economist: Let us assume that the Strait of Hormuz is open...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

"But AI can transcribe quickly for me!" The lack of time for transcription in the archives is not natural, it is created. The time to transcribe, which is also time to read and think about material, has been taken from us by those with the power to fund our work. Now they want it without funding it.

Major study used to justify AI in schools and widely cited just retracted by a Nature outpost.

I think there's a large loud contingent of adopters, a large quiet contingent of adopters, and a surprisingly small percentage of resisters. I thought there were more of us but it seems many colleagues are quietly eaten by the blob

I'm planning on putting a position statement at the front outlining very explicitly that I did not use genAI at any point or for any aspect of the research, planning, analysis or writing or ANY part of the work at all. I'm so sick of the assumption that everyone uses it.

Construction of River Drive on West Bank of Mississippi (1938) Source: Hennepin County Library. Franklin Avenue approach to the new road leads directly to river level.

Why is anyone debating whether or not to “let Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent”? She has not asked to be in a tent with you. Nothing indicates that she wants to be in it. She is positioning herself to appeal to people who hate your tent, and possibly to peel off a few people at the edges of it.

Craig could learn a thing or two here

Peggy Flanagan, here in person, gets enthusiastic reception at CD5 DFL convention. Guy speaking on behalf of Angie Craig inspires a lot of turned backs.

I think generally, people who do not work w/HS students do not fully grasp how much students do, in fact, see, understand, & care, & how much they will, in fact, actively show the courage of their convictions. For HS grads who attend college, many just ARRIVE that way. College does not convert them.

GARgantuan thank you to @governorwalz.mn.gov for recognizing the value of our native fishes! FINtastic meeting him AND getting getting a photoGARph! #NativeFishDay

I am extremely troubled by the amount of standby pay issued to MPD officers during Operation Metro Surge. MPD data shows some officers were paid nearly 24 hours per day for 32 days straight, while dozens were paid 8-12 extra hours each day while we stood out in the cold protecting our neighbors. 1/

If Council Member Palmisano is saying that Todd Barnette is incapable of answering on the spot questions, maybe he's not qualified to be the city's highest paid employee leading all public safety departments. Let Todd live his life. Stop the humiliation. youtu.be/w7k3wtbDuw0?...

Yes, individual PhDs don't spring forth from the dissertation defense as fully-formed master teachers. But our disciplines are organized around centuries worth of knowledge. We have collectively figured out how to teach this stuff thru trial and error. Only fools would sneer at that much expertise.

Tech guys talk to teachers like "hey you're a broke loser and we hate you, so please use our products, also we've got your boss on the phone"

The Met Gala is the new Bradley-Martin Ball of 1897. In the midst of Gilded Age, workers faced poverty & unemployment. New York elites held a lavish costume party, spending $400,000 (=9 million) to dress as kings and queens. I hope Mamdani also raises taxes as happened in the wake of that ball.

So much thinkcentring

If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Genuinely, how can The Onion outdo “Elderly Democrat Warns Kids Against Progress From Hospice.”

PSA: I added a section with anniversaries coming up in the rest of 2026 including the 60th of Medicare going into effect in July, 40th of Pixar's first film and 180th of the Smithsonian in Aug, 95th of Al Capone's conviction of tax evasion in Oct, and 100th of both Route 66 and NBC Radio in Nov!

3) it cynically exploits social justice issues to claim that preventive measures against a product will necessarily be discriminatory 4) it claims that educators must adapt to the rules of commerce, which, if subject to regulation necessarily results in the discrimination cited in number (3)

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

This is Tupelo Bayou in Faulkner County, Arkansas. It's the spawning area for the alligator gar. It's also the site for a pump station and pipeline for a proposed billion-dollar data center. I'd rather have alligator gar as a neighbor.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

Everyone, stop what you’re doing. There is a Black girl named Kameirah who is in Google’s top 5 “Doodle for Google” contest that can win a $55,000 scholarship. I just voted. VOTING CLOSES TOMORROW APRIL 29! doodles.google.com/d4g/

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

An alliance with Canada *would* be politically expedient in these troubling times. Triangulate.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED

I would rather not live in a world of easy violence, but whenever anything inevitably happens to one of these thoughts and prayers motherfuckers I'll save my grief for people who didn't actively choose this reality for us.

15. …Are driving a widespread shift in higher education away from a mission-driven institution dedicated to a well-educated, civic-minded, and upwardly mobile public. By treating colleges and universities as businesses, the emphasis shifts to the student experience and “workforce development.”

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

Journal editors need a blacklist of people who submit AI-generated research. One strike and you never publish anywhere again.

George Washington, the effing Founding Father mandated vaccination of the Continental Army in *1777*.

“We know certain things to be true of men, family, violence, and power in this country. We’ve all seen the darkly pointed memes of how the media treats regular white men who annihilate their entire families. “ open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Counterpoint: no, it isn’t. Leo is in line with the traditional teaching of the church. Trump is a warmonger, corrupt, delights in humiliating others, and is blasphemous on a level that wouldn’t even occur to most people. This isn’t hard.

not coincidentally, right wing uncles and university leaders are the two groups most likely to ask why the hell you’re doing a humanities degree

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

AI ruins so much. Wait until you learn about “vegetative electron microscopy.”

We’re supposed to have sympathy for the guy who exploited the rules up to maximum self benefit? He makes a choice to be a portal merchant. “Paid mercenaries”, right? Painter and Izzo with zero combined portal entries in 2026 would have been able to enjoy Monday night just fine.