The correct answer to this is the Big Dumper.

I’ll be referring to this for a while, because it’s so on the nose. Nearly everything in here is a 1:1 for post-secondary education and, in my case at least, libraries.

Shout out to Haidt and Weiss and all the other reactionary centrists for leaning so heavily into grievance culture that they made university censorship actually happen. When you run your mouth into a megaphone for clicks, it has an impact.

One of those occasions where even I don't quite understand the point I was making in my quote. That said, I think it's important not to engage in revisionism around the history of OA, particularly the idea that "driving commercial publishers" out of academic publishing was ever a goal for funders.

thus concludes National Library Workers Day! spent it talking shit, the thing that connects all workers!

I’ve been binging the backlog of If Books Could Kill and now everything I read is in @michaelhobbes.bsky.social’s voice and I want to make snarky comments about it.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

It's interesting, because Canada spent $6.48 billion last year alone on the RCMP: rcmp.ca/en/corporate.... & yet I'm not being inundated with articles about the fact that the service is a financial gaping maw

Just to note that in the US prison system this amounts to choosing between slavery or slavery.

nobody asked me but i actually strongly support the idea of a posting website that goes down for nights and weekends

This is a heater.

Congratulations to Hungary on moving back from fascism to run of the mill hardcore conservatism. I don't want to diminish any gains but it'd be cool if the pendulum had swung just a little bit further though!

Viktor Orbán to join Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

I did a speedrun of Glass Joe on the newly discovered prototype of Punch Out! It doesn't play any audio though, so I ended up doing a complete restoration of the audio using very advanced tech. Please hear the tech you won't regret the tech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Fj...

Why are we allied with these people?

I lived in downtown London for a year and it was abundantly clear to me that neither the city nor the police gave much of a shit about anyone down there. I still remember when they hosted figure skating championships and disappeared all the houseless folks out of town for the weekend.

This is an all-timer Goldman post for sure.

I've been saying

got a much needed long laugh from this

It would be great if I didn’t have to so regularly open the app and go “what now?”

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Oh like he can read

klan shit

“It’s-a me. Mario.”

[butterfly meme] is this antisemitism

I did not expect to be jump scared by a Charles Barkley blimp during my commute. 😂

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

i think a simple way to improve the videogame Rogue (1980) would be to present the player with a choice of 3 to 4 powerups, randomly selected from a list, every level up

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

Today, we’re excited to have never read a room. We’re dedicated to creating solutions in desperate need of problems.

Proposal to replace the term "agentic" with "slop-based" across the entire internet

Very possibly a work of Actual (pure) Genius.

My latest! I'm keeping a list of the cuts that Mark Carney's government has made, and what impact they'll have on our public services. noraloreto.substack.com/p/counting-t...

I have to know what phishing email he opened to make this happen

With alt text

Oh man, NYT misled in its reporting on trans issues? What a huge shock.

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I think the NYT Op Ed folks should be put in prison.

a mid tier Guided By Voices song is better than what like 95% of songwriters who write for big major label acts (i.e. the people using Suno now) are capable of writing. there's never been a dearth of creativity: but there is dearth of actually creative people being broadly successful and celebrated.

"If a researcher used an LLM to generate their peer review, instructions hidden in the watermark prompted the LLM to include telltale phrases in the review text. The presence of these phrases revealed that an AI model had been used to generate the review." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

MLB’s Korean marketing slogan used to be “It’s big ball chunky time”, and I will never stop thinking about it

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Yeah it’s wild how like if you keep doing nothing about renter’s rights and rent control that the landlord lobby will make your [entire region] unliveable for people.

✊ universities milk contract and sessional instructors to cut costs and so many of those positions are precarious and way underpaid. Solidarity for sure.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

What a fascinating application of “edgelord”, a term typically applied to (checks notes) that old fashioned South Park humour.