He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

Significantly helps people with heart disease *and* makes people 16% less likely to develop dementia? There should be lines at the pharmacy for this miracle drug.

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Mark Watkins of the Chronicle of Higher Ed says faculty should spend 90 mins a week to teach ourselves about AI & unis are now sending out emails w his recommendation. I write here about the gift of having someone admit that automation intensifies labor sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2026/...

“I nominated someone who I always thought was weak on security as Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center.”

And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.

Looms were one of mankind's first machines, but intact finds of the perishable wood constructions are extremely rare. In @antiquity.ac.uk, a Spanish team reports finding the remains of a Bronze Age weaving workshop, including one of the oldest looms ever recovered. @science.org

No wonder they don't mind having a machine do their "thinking" for them.

That smile talking about another person's death is so fucking chilling.

Seems like a bad reason

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ yo-ho!

This is monstrously fucked up and should be Streisand Effected to the greatest degree possible

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

I hadn’t known Donald Trump Jr was involved in both Kalshi AND Polymarket, and now that I do, my conviction is not just that they have to be burned to the ground, but that we as a country have to collectively piss on their ashes.

as Trump reportedly considers sending ground troops in to open the straight of hormuz, it's worth remembering how much extra, unnecessary danger it puts US troops in to preemptively declare "we will murder soldiers who surrender to us" (which is what "no quarter" means)

1/2 This is crucially important point. 1) "No quarter" is indeed specifically war-crime term 2) Under Geneva Conventions, after sinking an enemy ship, the attackers must "take all positive measures" to find and rescue any survivors. Text in next post No evidence US sub did so after attack, AFAIK

Sure he should resign but he should also be charged with 175 counts of murder

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

it gives me no pleasure to report that this is also my read of the current reporting

and he would have got away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

Superb question

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...

move slow and repair things

Had to doublecheck the date on this

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.

okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate

One thing I hate about all the defenses of Platner is the underlying, deeply dumb and destructive belief that it's all about casting. Wanted: Rugged bearded tell-it-like-it-is oysterman to appeal to the great anxious white center, the holy grail of politics. Further details not of immense concern. >

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

Polymarket to allow bets on the name of the new terrorist organization spawned by the war in Iran.

Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.

This really ought to be terrifying. We literally have people making decisions to drop bombs in the grips of apocalyptic fantasies.

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

🚨 Among other reasons, this is why YOU DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.

ctext.org/instructions.... Will become even harder now to convince students that it is fully worthwhile learning Classical Chinese ... (2/2)

platner had a nazi tattoo, retweets nazi podcasters, and has appeared on the podcasts of antisemitic conspiracy theorists. he was also a mercenary and despite his blue collar shtick comes from an extremely wealthy family.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

very unfair to call this guy a Nazi merely because he had a Nazi tattoo, retweets Nazis, and praises Nazi shows. after all, he could just be really astonishingly fucking dumb. seems like a great candidate!

The two options at this point are (1) that Platner is a straight up Nazi, (2) he is the dumbest motherfucker in the state of Maine, the second is arguably better in some abstract sense but both are disqualifying

Polymarkets seem bad but also the ultimate version of rampant encouragement to arbitrage everything. Find something neat on someone's stoop or at a thrift store? You should resell it online for more! Score tickets to a hot show? Resell them online! Figured out how to do something? Sell a course!

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

Obviously nowhere near the most important issue right now, but this is 100% going to be how Platner will act if he gets elected. Or possibly worse.