White genocide is when the nurse at the gastroenterologist tells me to stop eating "ethnic food" and when I ask what that means specifically she literally does the "you know the ones" meme.

I must admit I miss seeing shiba inu profile pics and thinking "ah yes, a teenager that trolls the Russian MFA, good guy" instead of "teenager who maybe shredded a government agency for Elon." Memes are weird.

Executive summary: "To beat China, we should act more like the sector of the economy that routinely gets rolled by China" says committee of influential nepobabies, credulously buying the marketing hype from startups that run on ketamine and dunning-kruger.

Happy "The Grading System is Experiencing Connectivity Issues (Completely Broken) But Grades are Still Due" Week to all who celebrate.

Should be grading, but there's aa thought that won't quit so I'm making it everybody's problem: The subversion of education in the US is rbad for kids, but so is the corrosion of educator training. This year *alone* I have seen so many teachers fumble basic, impactful interactions with students.

Every time I see a Super Duty on the road in NJ I know I'm going to see it again in January, pulled over with the hazards on after spinning out on black ice in a jug-handle.

It probably has a marginally better record than some fields, but that might be more "prior inclination to humane thinking" than the study itself. Plus, its an open secret in the humanities that certain areas and programs consistently produce either "Toady for the Emperor" or "Aspirational Hitler."

I think all the time about how Ray Kurzweil's dad died young and then Kurzweil spent his entire life imagining a world where a magic moment would arrive where technology suddenly advanced so quickly he could somehow get his dad back. It's very sad and very sweet, but that does not make it real.

I mean, voters in Florida have been trying really hard to give Minnesota a few more above-zero days but I'm not sure they'd explain their goals that way.

this really nicely encapsulates why my visceral reaction to these Yud types has always been “these are children living a child’s fantasy of escape from the inevitable cruel tension of existence”

I simply treat all doomer rhetoric as a psyop: listen, even if you're not actively trying to encourage people to give up and accept the situation--essentially same-side disempowerment--that's what you're doing. You are assisting the boot on your own face. It is better and healthier to say nothing.

Controversial opinion: for the purposes of baking a pie or cake, there are sometimes direct advantages to using previously-frozen fruit. Also your grandma's recipe for lemon pie filling is likely overcomplicated because of historical artifacts/compensation effects in the recipe.

11 stars, Germanic font, appeals to Western civilization and...Lincoln? The Department of Labor's social media team thinks nobody will notice they swapped American iconography for Neoconfederate slop if they just appropriate the image of Lincoln. I can hear Sherman clawing out of his grave.

In an Extreme Philadelphia Accent: in this [midatlantic] house we eat garlic and hate the Confederacy and we never run out of either thing.

Distasteful and disingenuous is right! The article is a bird's nest of professional ethics violations. Hostile student relationships and using nonconsenting human subjects in an "experiment," for starters. Most of the cheating, lying, and failing in that class was coming from the professor.

So, some questions: 1. Was there an explicit policy about AI use? 2. If so, was the policy enforced consistently and explicitly? 3. Were students aware that there would be "traps"? 3. Were students provided the tools they needed to read, conceptualize, and write the essays they were assigned? 6/8

One of my foundational values as a teacher is trust and respect, what I call radical honesty. I posted a thread on this on 11/17/24. That's where I want to start. If you're "trying an experiment," "setting a trap," or planting a "Trojan horse" into your assignments, you've already lost the game. 3/8

Neighbor buzzes up to borrow a cup of sugar (mixed with animal-safe red dye and 1 cup of water).

It's me. I'm your guy. On Thanksgiving I become a "rent-a-grandma," a merciless machine of Thanksgiving food production. You didn't want stuffing inside the turkey because it's "unsafe"? Skill issue. Dry white meat? Skill issue. Burned your house down trying to deep fry instead of roast? Weakness.

I regret to inform you that the Epstein plotline is so perfectly conspiracy-shaped that we've damaged the suspension of disbelief on reality. You can expect the following by Friday: -Intermittent mild to severe plot armor -A precocious golden retriever sidekick -Heretofore unknown magical abilities

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Me: I have a chapter to revise, papers to grade, episodes of Dispatch to play through, a chicken pot pie to make... My brain: New Rimworld colony.

Future humans consulting "The Bread" before major decisions like Romans reading rabbit entrails before battle. Baguetteomancy.

Prediction: a K-fueled brainfart from Musk that will use AI and the cloud and 5 other PR terms for technologies that don't do what he thinks they do. It fails immediately but unpaid fed workers pull several all-nighters to make sure nobody dies, resulting in the president thinking Musk was right.

Just heard that James Watson died, which by James Watson logic means I’m the first person to discover this

The term boxed beef tells me he's talked to caterers a lot but has never seen the inside of a grocery store even once in his entire life.

I see the biologists are having their very own Kissinger Day and I wish them the best.

Honestly one of the really good things about the No Kings protests is that, in my experience, it's a lot of 55+ straight married suburbanites who haven't protested since the 60s (if at all) actually offering to do some lifting, even if it's mostly symbolic.

Further evidence for my "actually NJ is just extremely weird [despite/because of] being a giant suburb" theory.

With each passing day, Medvedev's arms seem to disappear. He's approaching his truest form: a literal talking head.

My electoral constituency has shrunk by 50%! (Forgot to remind my spouse to write my name in for the school board election so that neither of us would vote to renew the local reactionary goofball already on the board and running unopposed.)

My counterpoint is that schools did, in fact, do a poor job of teaching Gen Z history, but that Boomers' parents and teachers did an objectively abysmal job at the same task so that both are extremely vulnerable to vibes-based history nonsense and presentism especially re: the Middle East.

Regardless of the outcome of the NJ gov election, I think maybe Sherrill needs to fire her entire comms team. How do you milquetoast-flavor a navy helicopter pilot and prosecutor? Why are all your ads cornball wholesome nonsense from some midwestern state? Do you know how New Jersey works?

Weirdly, I came to this exact thing in print genre fiction, and ended up writing my doctoral diss about it in the context of crime fiction.

Did I just read an entire CBS News article about the NJ election's early vote totals that was supposed to be an objective report but...only interviewed the GOP candidate? Yes.

Every time somebody quotes Popper on the paradox of tolerance, I remember that I: 1. never heard of the problem phrased that way in my entire philosophy curriculum and 2. arrived at a same conclusion by simply identifying tolerance as a form of societal contract, at age 20, with no prior context

When a retired navy officer accidentally reinvents the guided missile destroyer from a combination of first principles and what I can only assume is a significant memory impairment.

ai video games are going to take the innovative gameplay step of divorcing cause and effect

The CHE running an article with the headline "Your College President Makes 6x as Much as You," meanwhile when I did the math two years ago for one of my faculty positions, the prez made 41x as much as me. Four-thousand-one-hundred percent. An entire department of me's for one guy.

As long as we absolutely do not call it a "brown scare," sure. Maybe "microdosing Nuremberg."

It's conceivable Platner didn't know what it was. There are a lot of dumb people in the world. But it's still a very well-known symbol, even now, and I'll be goddamned if nobody ever told him before. You get tanked up, get a tattoo, someone tells you that, where do you go first? A doctor!

America needs a highly competent Self-Insert Character who can Do Things without experiencing The Consequences due to a Fortunate Plot-Armor Technicality.

Yeah to be clear this about like career HSI guys who signed on to fight actual drug smuggling or customs evasion. Anyone hired in the post-2024 explicit mass deportations stage that you can’t put charges should be put on physical border enforcement on the most remote sectors possible until they quit

If the massive line of new PATCO passengers figuring out the ticket machines today is any indication, No Kings was rather successful in mobilizing the 55+ New Jersey Normies caucus.

My most positive opinion about Woodrow Wilson is that the NJ Turnpike rest area which bears his name as a convenient public restroom.

Is THAT what happened? Hi to my several dozen new followers.

A New York politician who isn't terminally mealy-mouthed and who pronounces the word "bullshit" with the correct intonation is, I must say, a nice change.

Every retired typewriter repairman just sat up in unison but since none of them are on the internet, they don't know why.

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

We're all laughing but Kristi Noem has invented a time machine and arrested a citizen of the Weimar Republic. She also reportedly struck up a whirlwind romance with an Austrian art school dropout.