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I keep having to tell students that the true "product" on a homework, essay, or test is not the completed assignment, it's the brain that has gone through the thinking required to complete the assignment.

I've been thinking a lot about this. It's true that companies are increasingly using AI. It does not logically follow that students must train in AI use to be employable. Rather, the skills that are needed are the things that AI *cannot* do well, which require genuine expertise and critical thought.

I don't get why a bunch of people on BlueSky instantly concluded this assassination attempt was fake? I mean, like, I guess it could be, wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened ever. But probably not, surely? What would even be the point of that? Just - why the weird conspiracy brain stuff?

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

i voted for her and you people have been telling me to go fuck myself ever since so like

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

My recent episode was in memory of Lubna Alyaan, a young violinist who was killed in an airstrike in 2023, along with her family, in the ongoing Palestinian genocide in Gaza. In this episode we look at 3 composers who were executed during the 20th century. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I think we should all start blogs again. Or online journals, even. That was a nice time. Just writing a few paragraphs about your day (don't forget to list the sad song you're listening to!) and maybe your friends will leave a comment. Then you go and read theirs and comment. It was fun.

The 6 articles of impeachment filed by Ansari:

As the author of the screenshot, let me state it clearly: I do not consider myself a "bully" but if "bullying" is necessary to keep influential people from working on behalf of scams like Kalshi and Coinbase, I think it's worth the cost. Working for private enterprise is fine. Selling their BS isn't

As far as I can tell, the only acceptable way for Democrats to run on affordability is to say "things are too expensive these days!" and then not answer any questions that contain the word "how"

“What about the guy who was elected mayor of the city your newspaper is in? Does he have any ideas Democrats should emulate?” No for that we have to look to the man who won the hearts of Szeged

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

The idiom "screwed the pooch" should forever be replaced with "fucked the couch" Example usage: JD Vance and the negotiators really fucked the couch on this one.

What Hasan argues in the clip is that it's important that in the process of defeating the Republicans, Democrats do not become the Republicans. I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about this concept.

Magyar now polling third in the Iowa caucus.

joe you tried to eliminate the department of education in the 90s

Never Trumpers pushed the Democratic Party rightward, contributing mightily to their defeat in 2024. Hasan wants to be treated like a NTer in that he wants the party to push itself in his direction so that the democrats can actually win. You know, like in 2020.

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

Anti-Orban concert in Hungary with the audience chanting “Russians, go home”

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Hey Dems, if you want to reach young men, maybe tell them that, if they allow Republicans to keep Congress, there's a non-zero chance they will die losing a war that Trump started for no reason. Everybody knows now that is a very real possibility, and you need show them where you stand on it.

HOW DO YOU HAVE A MISUNDERSTANDING OVER A DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENT? HOW DO BOTH SIDES NOT AGREE TO TERMS WRITTEN ON THE SAME PIECE OF PAPER? I'M LOSING MY MIND.

this is not just the trump pitch. hierarchy is the republicans pitch! and if you think about the structure of the hierarchy at all, its not a coincidence that white men are the most ardent GOP voters and black women the most ardent Dem voters!

The art of the deal

So the terms of the ceasefire, if they held beyond the end of hostilities, would be Trump giving Iran something like 25-Iran-Deals worth of cash *per year* in exchange for not limiting their nuclear program at all, apparently (they have not promised to give up the HEU).

Imagine you’re in a crowded room and a guy waves a gun around and says “I’m gonna kill somebody,” then changes his mind. What’s the first thing that happens to that guy when he lets his guard down for even one second?

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

I’m not a Christian but didn’t Jesus flip some tables because people were more focused on money than basic morality?

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

ICE agents shot a Venezuelan immigrant and then lied profusely about almost every aspect of what had happened. Newly released video outs their lies.

Republicans have an ideological commitment to supporting criminals, it's part of their overall might-makes-right framework. Republicans genuinely want to see fentanyl suppliers in India and China succeed because those dealers are mighty while the people they hurt are weak.

I think especially because the news media has recently demonstrated what "we think the president is incompetent and that he should not be in office" looks like in how they covered Biden post-debate and don't do the same for Trump

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

starting now i am going to start sharing the books i read. finished this volume this morning. it is terrific.

Agree 100% . (Ron Fournier longtime AP bureau chief in DC.)

Probably the only show I’d be okay with the guest being trump

It is quite objectively a news story that the most prestigious media outlet in the world is deleting the president’s statements to conceal his insanity in a war crime threat, and other news outlets can report that story very easily in a way that could both inform their audience and peel off readers

Paging the New York Times and The Washington Post: This is how you write a headline about Donald Trump’s unglued Easter post threatening war crimes against Iran.

This is the wildest part Elon did eventually become a source of ire and was targeted with protests but not because he killed hundreds of thousands of people.

I'm not trying to be pedantic here; the language matters. Children of immigrants are not some special, weird category of citizens; they owe their citizenship to the same thing that the vast majority of the rest of us do. That's the point!

incredible comment on one of my youtube videos

Mail-in voting is very popular, with 58% approval which would be higher if not for Trump’s ridiculous campaign against it. Millions and millions of people voted by mail in 2024 without issues. The problems he cites are myths. Oh and it’s a state responsibility, not federal. Get outta here with this.

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

The contradiction between what Wurman put in his scholarly writing, versus what he put in a court document, where he is under penalties of perjury, is enough, IMO, to initiate tenure review at any self-respecting academic institution.

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

took the unwelcome urge to comment on discourse and directed it towards writing a column/essay on the birthright citizenship case that, i think, is pretty good (and might ruffle a few feathers)

As the parent of transgender child, I can testify that the standard of care was EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE even before the recent moral panic. I cannot stress this enough. EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE. Anyone who says otherwise is completely uninformed or blatantly lying. Period.

We all know this is fascism.