This was a fun discussion.

Lol.

The fact that we allow deducting first class plane tickets from taxes because they are “ordinary and necessary” business expenses is so infinitely fucked up.

1) those folks built the friggin houses; 2) Wall Street is the real culprit The end

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

Elisa [K]New.

I think this coin toss is rigged.

Elisa New? Larry Summers’ wife? Harvard professor Elisa New? In the Epstein files!? Impossible

Billionaires are the most superfluous and mediocre philosophers in existence and this is demonstrated forcefully in the Epstein files. Gates, Bezos, Musk, Page, Allen, Schmidt, Zuck. All products of luck pretending they are the result of thoughtful work.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Old enough to remember when Vance killed the previous Pope.

here's a 13GB .zip with all 33,572 images from the Epstein doc dump, converted to pdf and OCR'd drive.google.com/file/d/15UfF...

NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12 Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:

MAGA Haberman takes the prize for the best interneting in the internet

So true www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7Or6X...

Th NYT is basically the canonical embodiment of journalistic malpractice. They might have actually killed democracy in the US but hey, Wordle makes up for it.

Just ended a fun panel on Latin America and study abroad at the CIEE conference in Buenos Aires. It was so professionally done it reminded me how chaotic academics are when they run things. What a great experience.

Maggie is, well, quite the journalists isn’t she

Yeah. Remember when they removed Claudine Gay in an expedited way because Rufo didn’t like her and without a vote of no confidence by the faculty unlike Larry?

The technical term is homophily.

Pedos.

The "hang himself" is a bit too on the nose, tbh

Remember when he was nominated to the Supreme Court by the democrats? I do. Vividly.

These people have killed hundreds of thousands with the aid cuts. Do we really think this is going to have any consequential effect? MAGA is happy living in eternal cognitive dissonance. They won't change.

Someone needs to set up an automated "Is Schumer gone?" account.

This is true, though a critical constraint is the logistical power that current right-wing billionaires hold over the infrastructure that would be needed for this alternative. I mean, Bezos didn’t think twice about destroying the WaPo, and Amazon Cloud is basically the internet.

I am incredibly happy to discover that my friend’s book was selected as one of the NYT/NYPL best illustrated children’s books for 2025 for The Lighthouse Keeper. Felicidades @eugeniofv.bsky.social and Mariana!!! 🎉🥳🎊 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

While research and higher education institutions scaled up during the 20-21 century, they didn’t change the basic process for both evaluating and rewarding research, leading to this crisis.

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

Thank goodness they put Government Data next to Alcohol. Pairs well.

lol. What a shitty timeline.

Buenos días, Buenos Aires.

Never heard a single regret from a democratic senator for having confirmed unanimously one of history’s greatest mass murderers, Marco Rubio. Never.

The fact that not a single member of the Senate Dem caucus has called for Schumer to be replaced shows you how deep the rot is. This includes Sanders and Warren.

What did I miss?

Still fuming they are using the Lovelace name to give themselves licence to bring together five dudes to discuss the future of the UK’s research system #AdaWashing

Stop taking my money!! www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

The oak trees of… Cabo San Lucas.

How is the comparison even possible?!

A brand guide produced by ChatGPT. The wonders of Corporate America* *and you wonder if this is a hegemon in free fall. Wonder no further

Dude in the row in front of mine on a flight is literally producing the entire marketing campaign of a _________ fellowship using ChatGPT. Coolio…

lol. We’re doomed and hinging on a series of catastrophic strokes among uberelderly senators

Sir. I’m not sure you live in the same planet as the rest of us but taking a stand against and not giving an inch to the republicans was “fighting”. Unless you are referring to taking actual arms in hand—which, I am sure, you are way too cowardly to do—I’d kindly ask you to shut the fuck up.

One is a newspaper, the other one is sliding slowly into tabloid-land. You decide which is which.

One is a newspaper, the other one is sliding slowly into tabloid-land. You decide which is which.

Could it be that the reason we can’t find intelligent life is that all alien civilizations had the equivalent of the Democrats who decided to do jack shit to avoid the collapse of their societies?

Could it be that the reason we can’t find intelligent life is that all alien civilizations had the equivalent of the Democrats who decided to do jack shit to avoid the collapse of their societies?

It’s almost like they aren’t all about shoving financialized products like branded credit cards, medallion qualifying dollars, or “buy more and get a 0.5% discount” schemes. It’s almost like they actually are about… selling stuff.