I feel so sad for the students, faculty, and staff of Texas A&M

gentle reminder

of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

The next march has to be against the Democrats.

Flew Charlottesville to Charlotte last week low enough they didn’t even pressurize the cabin

Credit where it’s due!

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Young women have had it with your shit.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

Screaming

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

He put out an ad in Arabic and one in Spanish, though fluent in neither. More politicians should do this! Just make an effort! أيضاً اللغة العربية هي الأفضل وأحب

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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

If only every single critical "AI" researcher had warned about the likelihood of this danger for machine learning-based systems for the past decade or so and if only an acronym like "GIGO" had existed for decades Prior. Oh If Only 😐 "Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’"

ICYMI

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

People are already unhoused due to rent hikes, and groceries are more expensive than ever. Now millions will lose their food benefits, and health premiums are rising. But the WH will have a gilded ballroom.

yyyyeah let's go ahead and ban it

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absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

Huh I feel bad for Greta Lee that the writers at The Morning Show made her talk about her “inner white guy.”

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I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Y’all haters corny with that Illuminati mess.

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There’s a soul-destroying attitude that I have difficulty explaining but basically when people take the risk of people not liking their art out of art the art is worse

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

Give people money.

They are called writers

I have written, worried and worked around the “fairness gap” described here my whole academic career. I will say that the changes in reading that we are currently talking about aren’t really about that. It is so much bigger & sudden than that which is why I think people are talking about it.

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To explain: At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?” Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“