In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."

I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

I want to be clear here--Richard Nixon would have LOVED to have vetoed the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. But it passed Congress by an easily overridden number and he wouldn't risk political capital on that. Nixon deserves ZERO credit.

reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine: "although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness." www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

A reminder to those with .edu email addresses, your institution’s library probably has a subscription to CHE so use that to get beyond the paywall.

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Since August, I have been carving out a little time every week to read Orwell’s interbellum essays, which is a little like saying, “instead of going to therapy I like to schedule a weekly kick in the nuts.”

It was amazing to write with @ehayot.bsky.social & each of us put our stank into every part of this essay. I have no memory of how we drafted it in October, but when we came back to it a couple weeks ago, I felt this paragraph in my bones.

And the intersection of Pop SciFi, Silicon Valley, and Creationism is 🤬 #GeorgeGilder.

Can’t be sad or scared if you’re too tired to feel your feelings. 👍🏼🏃🏻‍♂️

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Take it from someone who teaches AI ethics at the postgrad level: AI researchers care little about ethics. (AI, like a rock, does not care, of course) 😜

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

Same! Computers is my job, not my whole being (despite the user handle here). And I can’t help but be wary of those whose whole being is “computer“ as well as the industry that encourages such misanthropy.

Cheryl Harris's 1993 "Whiteness As Property" identifies this sort of personal injury as a new, post-Brown form of whiteness as property that emerged from anti-affirmative action lawsuits in the late 70s and 80s

As a former gifted kid myself I get it, we were groomed into seeing recognition from institutional authority, and oftentimes those moments were the one time we were given unequivocal affirmation and love and non-demanding attention But we can grow up!! There's still time!!!

Many boomer parents are in the denial stages of grief. A commonality between most of them is they either deny abusing their kids outright or think abuse is completely ok and something that “makes you stronger.” If you’re lucky, they’ll tell you your abuse is nothing compared to what they endured.

So, a version of IT"S A WONDERFUL LIFE on Amazon cuts 22 minutes of the movie including the entire Pottersville sequence.(via @pematson.bsky.social ) bleedingfool.com/blogs/buy-ph...

You wanna know what would make the Post Office an immense profit center? If it had been allowed and encouraged to fulfill its mission through providing email and forum infrastructure to Americans as a User Content Hosting Internet Service Provider

Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...

It is 2010 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2019 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2025 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2032 and

they put the postal service in the fucking constitution it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit aaaaaaaaaaa

Happy festivus! May all of your grievances be aired and feats of strength be shown.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

The obsession with debate in upper-class anglophone politics is one of the markers of a rotten culture where politics is a consequence free game of badminton and one must act as if your opponent is operating in good faith, regardless of reality.

read CHIPWRECKED here www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

Thread. This is important.

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

Original research worth anything takes time. A lot of time. The culture of speed and convenience in which we live is incommensurable with the craft of research.

Congratulations again to every major media editor who tried to sell Peter Thiel’s fake Appalachian messenger boy as a Reasonable Empathetic Conservative www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/jd-v...

Censoring a story about the outsourced regime gulag is not consistent with freedom of speech. But it is consistent with the belief that “free speech” is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

That is literally the CS mindset to just about everything. “Get out of my way peasants, I took Advanced Algorithms 546 at _____ University. Your so-called field expertise is nothing but hearsay next to my regression routines.”

These people have been told that the chatbox is an everything machine. The way out can't be to provide a better everything machine because that can't exist.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

#hugops to everyone at NIST Boulder

Oh wait turns out I got more

1. Please note how many things having to do with this administration you could write this exact post about as 2025 draws to a close. Then find yourself all those pundits, experts, institutional leaders who told you not to overreact. Get them fired.

It's also never driven by anyone who studies higher ed so it's always "I applied to some jobs and sat on 2 committees and I know everything" but the media never let's a sad White man down

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

to spin off Tyler Burge's example: you get to tell your doctor whether or not your knee hurts, your doctor gets to tell you whether or not you have arthritis. these are just reports about different things and weighing one against the other is confused

the whole thread 🧵

"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already decided" Dr. McMillan Cottom, 1:01 minute mark (and listen to every word) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...

This is exactly what my white empiricism paper was about!!! The paper they freaked out about!!!