This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Jeez, things are not great inside Google www.linkedin.com/posts/amshal...

Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

wow -- Trump appears to call Rachel Scott a "bitch" as he finishes taking questions from reporters

Honestly, that sort of 'old fashioned' assessment is going to come screaming back because it is entirely resistant to LLMs. My students are already reporting that professors are shifting back over the bluebook exams from take-home assignments of all kinds.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

It’s @bretdevereaux.bsky.social who has made this point better than I could but there’s something lost when people don’t aspire to be better educated, informed, etc than they are at any given moment. (it’s not the amount of knowledge, it’s the striving, and the aspiration towards it as a good thing)

Again, this total, multi-dimensional failure of both strategy & tactics is simply not getting remotely the same tone or intensity of coverage that JOE BIDEN FAILED EPICALLY IN AFGHANISTAN AND IS WALKING AMERICA AWAY FROM THE WORLD got in 2021.

**blinks in minneapolis**

Just to point out, he is not talking about the United States blowing up dozens of Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean Sea. I know it can be confusing.

It was an enormous mistake by higher education (and, frankly, left-leaning politicians) to surrender the field and just adopt the view that the purpose of college is simple credentialism as if the only function universities accomplish is admissions. It's also a further product of Ivy-Disease.

I dunno man, if I had to do this much work to get someone to be honest with me I'd just talk to someone else

‪ In Memoriam of #StephenOwen October 30, 1946 — May 1, 2026 📌#QPBibNotes article: ❝Transparencies: Reading The T'ang Lyric❞ Stephen Owen Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Dec., 1979), pp. 231-251 (21 pages) available on @jstor.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/2718852

Tucker Carlson invented a brand new facial expression, confustipated, decades ago and decided he would never use any others ever again.

The first article I published was on the poetry of mourning in early medieval times, a somewhat embarrassing piece when I read it now, but there was time to learn then, and for this I am especially grateful. In fond memory of Stephen Owen a 擬悼亡詩.

Other than my family, no one has shaped my life more. What an immense loss.

One of the fascinating things about the arguments with the Platner Panzers is they have this headcanon of him as some person who has gone through some deep and sincere repentance that is not only completely unsupported but constantly belied by new things he does.

The only correct answer: get drunk with 歐陽修.

One of the “seven respected law professors” who think SCOTUS should end birthright citizenship

Let me get this straight: Bari Weiss has radically edited the new Trump interview on 60 Minutes? Let's not forget that Weiss lost her mind over standard editing of a Kamala Harris interview in 2024. But as Juliet shows, this Trump editing goes way beyond standard broadcast practices. Good grief.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Like this....? m.youtube.com/watch?v=WIs2...

unrelenting

Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.

tulsa, the city mullin is from, has one of the highest violent crime rates in america. on a per capita basis one is far more likely to get shot in north tulsa than dc or nyc.

This is not wrong.

"This city once aspired to be the Athens of America. I’m not about to disrespect that majestic civic aspiration by acting like a goddamned fucking barbarian."

NEW: Absolutely bonkers tale for @wired.com by @timmclaughlin3.bsky.social about Beijing spying on Chinese dissidents in the US, including Alysa Liu's father (and Alysa as a result): www.wired.com/story/the-we...

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

Grey wolf

If this hasn’t crossed your feed yet, take a second to enjoy this certified banger

All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):

We all have days like this

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

another one falls : (

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

Space stuff is cool. We should do somewhat less war stuff and somewhat more space stuff. Artemis II is $4bn per launch, roughly the cost of 2-4 days of War in Iran. What if we did not do War in Iran, but instead did cool space stuff?

It was always noteworthy how little attention Biden's Catholicism got in the US media. He went to mass every week! bsky.app/profile/mark...

THREAD. This single headline in the NYT contains two outrageous claims reported as fact: 1) Vance "tried" to end the war; and 2) he "opposed" it. Neither is supported, but the thing to understand is: why is lying about the *intention* of powerful people so key to propaganda?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. for the first time I can remember, there’s no supposedly obvious alternative path to reliable employment that our leaders can demand we pivot to. indeed, they’re not even bothering to try to offer an alternative - and scamming starts feeling like the only answer

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)

I wish more people would be talking about me instead. I’m a feminist public health professor and the only elected union leader in the race for Susan Collins’ senate seat. I’m also the person who chalked on the sidewalk in front of her house in 2022. We know she’s afraid of me. Andreaformaine.com