This is a lovely Old English-style poem so appropriate to Hild's feast day. #medievalsky

As Langdon Winner put so well 40 years ago, don't fall into the trap of accepting "RISK" as a good framework for these conversations. Business interests love framing their violence in terms of "risks & rewards" bc as a society, we love to heroize & reward risk-takers. Talk instead about "HAZARD."

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

Alan Dershowitz redefining the semantics of "pedophile" isn't hairsplitting, according to the plain meaning of "hairsplitting" by Steven Pinker

all of these are things people very much do in China, a state where the police often torture people, dissidents are disappeared, and which runs labor camps. even in authoritarian states there are different layers in who the police have impunity to brutalize and who they don't.

Trump's new autopen scandal. Every accusation is a confession.

very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math

1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.) 3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories

I have some great news about this guy

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

"Directly or indirectly, sex and money are always linked in women’s lives, a remnant of our long history of oppression" lithub.com/so-do-women-...

WSJ does the math: the United States President Donald Trump is mentioned in 1670 email threads with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

Oreoboros

No single thesis has ever been so vindicated as 'they like Trump and want him to win'

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

I am very excited about getting my first footage of a cougar. This is a rare sight in Manitoba.

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

a “Space Force”, if you will

It makes you think!

It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn

Harvard should sack anybody who had anything to do with Epstein and use the money to load up on a bunch of promising junior faculty; lord knows there are a ton of great people out there to choose from

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

it's a hell of an act -- what do you call it

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

I worked at Harvard when he was president there and have 100s of stories about what an absolute boorish asshat he is. I was at a bar with coworkers, including one of his assistants and he called to demand she go to his house ASAP. Because he didn't know how to change the batteries in his TV remote.

This monkey has seen things

the thing is, if you listen to it in the full context, it makes even less sense.

Sorry, but if you depend on Ch*tG*T to teach religion at a small religious school, you should quit your job now so that someone willing to actually do the job can have it. And quit quickly before admin follows your lead and just replaces you with a chatbot. www.chronicle.com/article/ai-h...

No health care, no deal.

This right here.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

my new post for the @digitalorientalist.bsky.social is out! A simple intro to the 敦煌文化 resources - a very handy database with plenty of information and media about the Dunhuang manuscripts, and more!

True.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

lol. The "religious freedom" crusaders are literally trying to ban people from praying outside of immigration jails.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

This looks fascinating!

This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast. We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.

ugh www.chronicle.com/article/corn...