Marble armrests seem super stupid even abstracting from everything else

The Theorem of the Mean Policeman—an excellent introduction to the mean value theorem vimeo.com/101691769

Yup

Unexpected by whom? — goose meme

it’s amazing in this moment for anyone in public education to say “you know what kids don’t really need to learn? how to speak for themselves and how to piece together their own arguments about what’s real and true in the face of a lot of bullshit”

My standard answer:

Many of us are exhausted having worked to learn the truth of our own history on our own, but also having to learn the history of American white people that most white ppl refuse to learn. That is partly why when you say “why are you surprised” it’s so annoying. Believe me, we are not surprised!

On the manly dog breed question: a rare orange Maltese is the president of the USA. That should answer the question

Hmmmm…. I didn’t think the history of philosophy properly understood was going to be the antidote to rightwing American lunacy, but it is looking that way now. “Foucault and Lyotard: post-structuralism as anti-colonialism and not as destructive moral ideas”

Or perhaps 4Chan left the internet behind…..

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Literally bragging about putting people out of work

It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.

I'm happy to announce that I've been awarded the Mind-Matter Prize by the Society for Mind-Matter Research. (See "news" at the top right). My prize-acceptance Lecture will be at the Society's Models of Consciousness Conference in Copenhagen, October 12-16, 2026. www.mindmatter.de/index.html

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Not what I thought it did, that’s for sure….

Thread on the proper DELCO response to It’s a Wonderful Life.

The world blowed up real good.

Make a Bind movie academic: License to Kill: Thank you for your paper; we have plenty of time for Q and A.

Fellas, can I love anything that doesn’t remind me of my penis?

Cod is dead

The NYT still somehow believes they comment on rather than participate in discussions of democracy in America. By distancing themselves from the criticism they make their own future as a secular institution less secure.

The New School was founded as an institution dedicated to critical inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspirations it once represented.

In social media posts designed to test boundaries, Trump introduced a new policy orientation toward his critics in media—swift death; some scholars question constitutionality.

I don’t know if this is an insult but one of my math profs once asked a question, listened patiently as a student gave an answer, and then responded with “that is exactly wrong.”

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

If management doesn’t feel itself bound to policy, collective bargaining agreements (where available), or law in the same way faculty are bound by them, this is the kind of thing that will happen.

271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.

Your neighbourhood historian of science agrees.

When it comes to disability, governments too often use a soft invocation of s. 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: they know that, in effect, their legislation and practices breach rights, but they are unwilling to do anything to change this.

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

The fucking gall. She has never been a journalist, and her version of building trust is giving a veto to Stephen Miller (or Donald Trump) about whether they are sending innocents to be tortured in a foreign gulag. The Who-Me destruction of institutions is a pervasive modern cancer in society

An (embarrassing) mastery of the passive voice, here.

But most of the press will treat this as completely normal.

The word 'treachery' implies that we Canadians are supposed to offer our loyalty first and foremost to a foreign - and now Actually Nazi - government. Buckle up, buttercup, and allow us to enlighten your feeble minds regarding this matter.

Cool—the USA hasn’t really done Christmas bombing since Kissinger

Fun fact from our textbook (to illustrate how crime is socially constructed) to bug the Christian nationalists with: it was a crime to celebrate Christmas from 1659 to 1681 in Massachusetts Bay Colony.

One reason I can’t stand Newsom (while enjoying his social media’s trolling): Ever since he was a UC trustee as Lieutenant Governor, he’s been palpably indifferent to state universities’ financial condition and has backed stupid, demagogic higher ed policies to promote himself.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

If I were writing a gay romance about a winter sport, I’d go with curling. It has a more apposite vocabulary than hockey does.

'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...

I hadn’t heard about this book til tonight but I am still firmly of the opinion that if you lived in this country and saw what happened that horrifying year, and what the federal govt and others did in response, and experienced either directly or indirectly the effect of a million plus people here…

Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now

It's a weird world when dutifully regurgitating a bunch of carefully curated information that the world's richest man gave you is "fearless journalism," but reporting on how the government is kidnapping innocent people and sending them overseas to be tortured is "not moving the ball forward."

Eerily reminiscent of her and supporters’ misinformation campaign against higher ed. Instead of taking the bait (as many media orgs did concerning rampant discretions about college campuses), I hope journalists see that misleading campaign for what it is.

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump's name would be added to the facility. https://to.pbs.org/4sesdVc

The federal government abruptly cut nearly $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics in retaliation for criticizing policies of Health Secretary RFK Jr., the organization alleged in a new lawsuit.