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I’m not exaggerating when i saw this is the worst statement I’ve ever seen?

I mean COME ON.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard

Not the most important thing about this video, but the white cop's gun discipline would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous. Takes it out, tucks it in his waistband while wrestling with a guy, drops it, recovers it, and then points it at bystanders.

Uhhh, folks? This is real bad. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Left: Wow. We need gun reform. Right: Wow. We need to put the left in concentration camps. Media: Ok. It's time for the the left to bring down the political temperature here. Enough is enough.

The White House has placed a photo of an auto-pen signature instead of a portrait of former President Biden on the “Presidential Walk of Fame”

The catastrophic breakdown of the United States continues apace.

A friend working in—and enthusiastic about—AI asked me how kids were using it in K–12 schools now, so I asked my kids. Kids: "Cheating." Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—" Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

I've been really, really happy with my recent subscription to Wired.

Ouija boards are now available to all staff and students, as part of the University's expanding ouija offer

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

"The best type of e-bike for replacing car trips is the cargo bike. Sturdy, capable, and often able to haul lots of cargo or even multiple humans, electric cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation."

“I asked ChatGPT…”

Breaking news: OpenAI researchers use actual intelligence to discover that bears shit in the woods! Stay tuned for their “landmark study” on the pope’s religious affiliation. (PSA: it is a category mistake to call the generation of falsehoods “hallucination”.) www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

A college English class where they’re told to use AI to complete assignments. Why bother teaching at all? Especially the languages/literature. I’m sorry but I will judge any professor who does this, especially in fields like English and history

“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency” 3/🧵

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

I know a fae trap when I see one

Our friend the Horned Toad lives in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela! Even though the adults are similar to toads in genus Rhaebo, last year they were separated into their own genus, Adhaerobufo, based on characteristics that are unique to their tadpoles! (photo by Biodiversidad_CAA)

#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior. She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/

Our friend the Honduras Rainforest Toad lives in northern Honduras! They are mostly a terrestrial species but sometimes like to climb trees! (photo by Josue Ramos Galdamez)

In a hole in the ground there lived a Bella Vista Toad (to paraphrase Tolkien)...

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Most Americans/US media are aware of K-Pop and know of Korean-US population. But have not lived or worked in ROK. Lack a sense of on what points, and why, Korean history, dignity, and self-respect are at stake. If the US *wanted* to offend a crucial partner, it could not have done worse.

A colleague suggested we could do this as some version of an Honors Program within a larger college or university: www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

More of this kind of reporting, please!

And now, since our Dean wrote this (www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...), we've all received letters informing us year 4 of our NRC/FLAS grants has been cancelled. International & foreign language education is "not a priority of the administration." The party of national security something something

Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ?? 🦑 🌊 🌿

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

My book talk at Third Place Books in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle is next Tuesday! Below in thread is an excerpt from *Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese*. I'll be reading more at the book event.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

"NO CLEAR ANSWERS ON WHETHER QIN SHI HUANG SEAL-STAMPED THE ORDER TO BURN BOOKS & BURY SCHOLARS"! TOTAL & COMPLETE EXONERATION!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

F*cking hell.

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

Complete lies all the way through. Kids were encouraged to bring guns to school in the '70s? Not in MI or ME (and definitely not in MA). Switzerland has a comparable # of guns to US? US is 120 guns per 100 people; Switzerland is 27 per 100. You know he's lying because his lips are moving.

This Reingold asshole needs to check her facts. The Qur'an is required reading FOR SOPHOMORES (But, seriously, it's a part of a unit in which they read the Jewish, Christian, & Islamic scriptures back to back; I taught the class she's talking about for five years)

“In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.” Indeed.

If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.