libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

Finally reading the first chapter of “the elusive shift” and being like, oh yeah, this book is about me fighting with forum roleplay people in the union hall in over/under

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

Many people are saying this Read this piece from Ximena!

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

My completely redacted documents are causing a lot of questions answered by my completely redacted documents

Latest column from @keithgerein.bsky.social — Edmonton's effort against homelessness has a vital new venue, but why was it so difficult? #yeg #yegcc edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away

Good episode

It is also unambiguously true that the White House is a symbol of oppression and suffering for a massive percentage of the world

we simply have to make culture "Unlike the left and especially unlike liberals, the right has assembled for itself an aesthetic program, an answer to what the future should look like, slopified as it may be."

ok, reposting someone's screenshots of an article that do a mediocre job of summarizing it bc they omit many important elements with a meme about leftists loving text is just anti-intellectualism idk, mocking the very idea of “an essay”

My guy she’s an architecture critic writing in the NY Review of Architecture, writing about what buildings should look like is quite literally her job

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards

he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post

This went viral in the bad way yesterday, but if you want a much smarter look at this kind of estranged mom, I really highly recommend this look at "estranged parents' forums," it really helped me understand the deeply toxic people in my life (thankfully not my parents)

there's something funny to me about remembering how people got so mad about sophie lewis and amia srinivasan's feminist reads of the octopus film, only to see this laughable fukuyama take years later

The loss of cultural criticism and criticism as a professional field is making society manifestly worse.

another year, another item in the sonoma williams hater's guide i need to bite my tongue to not defend

today i'm thinking a lot about wool socks

i gotta say the whole ai thing sure has made y'all confident telling people what the universal motivations of all artists are

"universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students+faculty as data mines frenzy w/o consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether gen AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact" www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

let me suggest that the impulse that leads someone to run to compact magazine to complain about DEI — "they took my job!" — probably does more to explain professional failure than DEI

by leaving people his government has deprived of housing the options of amputation, freezing to death, or incarceration, the increase in amputations indicates that Nixon is reducing homelessness without providing housing The purpose of a system is what it does www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Assess your own risk” was the most anti-public health slogan any public health official ever dreamed up.

My number one peeve in role playing games is “this spell” in a spell description

i have reached the point where i am specifically angry with procter & gamble for not selling tide unscented powder in canada

the disney and openai partnership is a bleak look into a potential future where all of these creative arts companies and media industry of every type is entirely owned and operated by big tech

Y'all think "as a running joke, we are referencing the name of a song we like!" is "brainrot"? Please. You are baby. Exposure to 60 seconds of Dada would kill you instantly. Y'all're the motherfuckers who started fistfights in the audience of Victory Over the Sun (1913) because you "didn't get it"

the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy

Calgary has had a record year… in pedestrian deaths.😔 Other cities have had zero and they attribute “that milestone in part to 30 km/h speed limits, redesigned streets, and reliable public transit” Will #yyccc be brave and do the right thing? #Calgary www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Once a month we do a level one dungeon crawl with whoever shows up to play at the bar and it is very good

What is going on here to make Rick bell apparently think that permanent bike lanes are reinstalled every spring?

Is claiming an artwork isn’t rigorously constructed the same as agreeing it should be banned?

Now that google discontinued the app for early generation nest thermostats the presence sensing feature has finally started working again. It turns out it was their terrible app breaking the core functionality all along

i understand being annoyed at a theorist who always brings up their one framework again and again but an automatic reaction against any kind of attempt critical categorization and description of how art works that refers to it, is pretty bad. this is why i'm a fake gamer i guess.

Enter the Casablancaverse

Ian Bogost reminding me that I wanted to go back and read Clement Greenberg this year. Got a few weeks left to pick something up!

2. ian, you old dog, you old troll, you still got it.

A few people have asked about this so here, this is what I've been working on and why chrisb.bearblog.dev/the-mork-bor...

And that's what makes the anti-trans sports stuff so clearly bullshit. Everyone on the "actually, there are some valid concerns!" side of things is cheering on this 61-year-old lady no longer getting to hag out with her friends and play tennis.

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Oh. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Pardon me?? Ben Mulroney, host of Global News’ flagship political Sunday show, and prominent journalist Steve Paikin are both in Israel getting a briefing from the Israeli government??? What the absolute fuck, dude.

I really like the “helpful information” column in the canada council grant portal that reminds you of documents you need but only on a single field that you have to click through in order, and you can't actually upload the documents on that page. you just gotta remember i guess?

It's a weird situation where licensed professionals are terrified of being sued if they give advice publicly and total charlatans and scammers give loud and confident advice and are apparently immunized. Guess what that does combined with the incentives of social media? bsky.app/profile/illi...