ADL president watched The Mummy and thought Benny had the right idea

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Thing is, any federal employee who will be affected by the shutdown is trained in how to avoid Hatch Act violations.

100 docs/mo should be enough for anyone conducting ethical research (ie not feeding a word-munching machine)

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

It's strange to read the CSIS report on the drop in right-wing terrorism when I keep seeing videos of roving masked gangs kidnapping people of color right off the street.

I don't think he knows what cognition is

Tipper Gore was right?

We all know it’s his signature. It’s just another instance of performative public lying. Agreeing that it’s not his signals a willingness to let him get away with raping children.

Ended up having to take an Uber yesterday, and a Tesla showed up with a temporary paper license, so I knew it was newly acquired. Unable to cancel it (it was booked on my behalf), I just gave the guy a 1-star rating and I don't feel the least bit sorry for it.

What he won't do is remove the statue of James Buchanan so that Meridian Hill Park can officially be renamed after Malcolm X (as it is known in the neighborhood).

... again.* * See Hastert, Dennis (R-IL)

AI’s primary function is to vacuum wealth up from below and move it to the top.

Someone get this ghoul a mirror

All the smart money keeps telling me that AI is just going to get better and better... without acknowledging that all of these tools are being developed by sociopaths and misanthropes

"Just asking questions" is accurate insofar as they never listen to the answers

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Do not believe misanthropes when they say they're trying to improve humanity. AI boosters are misanthropes. How do I know? Every concrete value proposition they offer eliminates humans from some social process.

Would’ve been funnier had the guy gone to Ben’s Chili Bowl instead of subway

I have to admit that for all the damage it does (environmental degradation, plagiarism, learning loss, dehumanization, etc) the thing that I will never get past is how utterly boring everything associated with AI is (including all discourse about AI)

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

This administration is trying out all the ignorant ideas that thoughtless conservatives have given for addressing social problems, "solutions" that seek to resurrect the cruelest 19th century institutions, but with 21st century technology

Billionaire AI pushers are, to the last, sociopaths. Giving them this much agency in the intellectual development of children is just about the worse choice we can make as a society.

Every decent Trump proposal is a bluff

Endorse

Weingarten should lose her job for this

Just clicked on the "Explore" button by accident and as always the algorithm is cursed

Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film

Gen X observation: it's wild that Anthony Michael Hall went from A-lister playing loveable nerds to a serviceable career as a working actor playing meat-headed bullies. Good for him.

Academics (particularly political scientists and international relations people), a question: How long do I wait to remind a journal editor that their submission portal shows that reviewers have returned their reports? Portal shows "Decision Pending" for over a month.

This administration is like a hundred thousand Libraries of Alexandria going up in flames at once

My university is developing guidelines for citing LLMs in written work, and I have a suggestion: Cite every source used in training the LLM, because the LLM is paraphrasing and synthesizing previously published material, and we have well-established citation guidelines for that.

Cuomo's viability is yet another "somehow, Palpatine returned" moment. This is not a defense of SW-ROS for its realism, but more damning evidence that reality is often unjustifiably banal.

ICYMI: @centeronbudget.bsky.social has been busy analyzing #Medicaid and #Marketplace provisions in Senate Republican's not-so-beautiful bill. Here's a roundup: www.cbpp.org/blog/trackin...

Are we supposed to start haggling with gas station attendants?

I can't believe he wears his stupid hat in the situation room while launching a stupid war

@peterbeinart.bsky.social writes an entire piece about what Congress can do to prevent US military action against Iran without mentioning the people in charge of the legislative agenda. This is one way elite journalists fail to hold accountable people in power www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

I've yet to work backstage at a peer reviewed journal, but 4 weeks seems a long time for a manuscript to have the status of "Decision Pending" after referees have submitted their reports.

Tapper on CSPAN articulated perfectly the problem with the way "elite" journalists treat Trump, saying that his confusions, ramblings, etc. are a matter of "personality" rather than cognitive deficiency. He's not breaking down because of age, he's broken because that's just who he is [shrug emoji]

Jake Tapper thought Harris was going to win, and chose to write a book that would stand as a challenge to the party in power. The fact that he's STILL on a promotional tour for his obsolete little book makes him and CNN look really pathetic.

@nytopinion.nytimes.com Please explain the difference between an endorsement and "voting advice"

Seriously, how does the NYTimes justify publishing a whole David French piece about the deterrent effect of nuclear weapons in the Israel/Iran conflict without mentioning the fact that Israel possesses nuclear weapons?

Authoritarians want you to feel isolated and alone, to feel like their vision of the world is the only one. That’s why taking part in public protests matters. You connect with other people like you and you show those numbers off to the world. It’s a great feeling. Try it!

Super-strange to see posts that are simultaneously about 1) Dem legislators getting assaulted and arrested for protesting the lawless administration 2) Dem legislators doing nothing to protest the lawless administration Can't be both, folks.

Not terribly important, but Jake Tapper's voice is super nasal and irritating

Likely reasons why ICE agents wear masks: 1. to intimidate 2. to protect their identities (including cops whose deputizing to ICE would have political consequences) 3. to hide the fact that many are Jan 6 insurrectionists, proud boys, 3 percenters, etc., who until Patel were on FBI watch-lists

I spent almost a decade writing on military officers who disobey, and the most common feedback I got was: “This is rare and inconsequential, so why should we care?” Pushback of various kinda on orders is in fact common, and has often been highly consequential. 1/x academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

The Musk/Trump alliance had a marginal (though possibly decisive) effect in 2024. The Must/Trump rupture (if real) could have a structural effect in 2026 and beyond. Dems should focus on restoring and strengthening their own coalition while the GOP coalition fractures.

Corporate America is convinced government is full of waste, fraud, and abuse because corporate America is full of waste, fraud, and abuse.