When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

Me: [drinks straight from OJ carton] Troy Aikman, appearing from behind the fridge door: That’s why he struggles, Joe, and it’s not getting better

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Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.

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24 year olds will say the craziest shit. at a dinner tonight a dude said to me “you know, the costco guys? boom boom boom? they work with the rizzler”

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no. Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

I mostly agree with this, but more so: Any time spent on saying "they have incoherent politics" is probably better spent saying "what ideology, which policies, what social strategys have produced this violent nihilism, and what analogs do they have historically?"

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is: - An abdication of responsibility. - An abandonment of hope. - A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

me: clean up your citations, it's easy to do! just a little mindless activity you can do to tidy up a document before you submit and make sure you've dotted your is and crossed your ts! :) also me: nnnnnoooooOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ah! ah! ah!!!!!!!!!!

A blanket condemnation of "political violence" in our current cultural context is worthless given the ways that any disruption of the status-quo is treated as "violence." In contrast, Pritzker locating the source of increase in violence in Pres. Trump's ongoing rhetoric attributes a cause.

“oh there’s like a bridge in there” @asrivkin.bsky.social

Well, let me put this in terms that a scientist might understand: when you throw your colleagues to the wolves, you are training them to expect to be fed

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

hey @asrivkin.bsky.social looks like someone got inspired by the kuiper carborne observatory

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

Time to unionize

Sharing this again because too many in higher ed think the appropriate analgesic for this pain is AI.

here’s just a list of numbers

this is the flight i take to my home town what the fuck are we doing!!

Sharing this post from Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha about the absolute moral bankruptcy of the NYT’s coverage of the genocide in Gaza Full post here www.instagram.com/p/DMYha-ESnN...

anything we can actually do we can afford

these people think you're stupid and hold you in absolute fucking contempt

They used to have to fabricate or deliberately misinterpret intelligence to give the veneer of legitimacy to these actions. They don't even think you're worth that anymore.

Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

Large sections of Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Mount Lemmon and Madera Canyon, and parts of Mount Graham, would be eligible for selling off as part of proposed Senate legislation that

No, totally, Portnoy's language has evolved, a little. For instance, what was once the "Smokeshow" section of Barstool is now called "Pics." You have to hover your cursor over "Pics" to see the word "smokeshow," and also the smokeshows in question. An evolution!

Aaaand...now they're closing it. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

a “blind spot running through all of Abundance’s anecdotes: the limits of the private sector. The primary conceit is that in many areas, the private sector is ready to invest…if politicians would only lift public barriers…There is little evidence that is true.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

if astronomy only fights for astronomy we’re fucked

Again reminding everyone that the relentless Sinophobia from both parties results in harm to Asian Americans.

lol I just got momentarily hysterical thinking about the fact that the New York Times got its managing director for communications to confirm on a Saturday that it is standing by its reporting that young women in China have tiny hands and this is why Apple has its factories there

this is with no exaggeration a david duke line

Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.

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& i appreciate it even more when i see paul dourish remind us that critical & difficult questions are vital — especially re:”AI”— when it seems like more and more people are setting aside messy questions in favour of doing what seems cool or financially attractive or the path of least resistance

With a big coalition of UMD groups we're demanding UMD President Pines provide more communication and more support for our international students who are under attack by the government. Please sign on: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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i read judith butler in college, realized like 80% of the bullshit in my life had to do with my willful disinterest in performing masculinity in anything like a normative way, and then did some quick extrapolations about who might have my back on that and whose back i should have in turn

The US science community relies on a massive network of post-bacs, graduate students, and post-docs, many of whom are foreign nationals. We train these students and in return we get a ginormous scientific output that makes us a stronger nation - BUT this system is now under attack. (1)

what a team-up! two historical titans of Crying Because You Got What You Want

NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy. The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

“There will be wins, there will be losses. I think right now a lot of people are feeling the heaviness of multiple losses, back to back, on different levels. But stick in there and remember that there’s a collective of other big-hearted, empathetic people who are fighting as well.”

The thing about this exchange is how brutally clearly Cottom points out that in the minds running elite media poor and working people might as well not *exist*. Do you think Bret Stephens *ever* thinks about the kind of people who sign up for University of Phoenix out of desperation?

When I was being illegally discriminated against, a senior man declined to help me because he "just wanted to do science". It's a fucking terrible thing to say, stop saying it.