"The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what [professors] teach..."

"if"?

I'm pretty pleased with my current setup now. Not only have I ported Evernote, but I've replaced Trello almost entirely too (only lacking one collaborative board - just need to figure out how to sync them). While syncing via Git (saving $) seems worthwhile, for now, well worth paying for theirs.

US political powers failed to hold Trump and his administration accountable for crimes in America, so now we have crimes on people of other nations. War crimes. International crimes. Thus expanding the list of potential bodies that can hold law breakers to account. They must.

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

When economists say the president can't really do much to change gas prices, what they mean is he can't do much to *reduce* gas prices. Turns out they can do a lot to raise them www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-iran...

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

Absolutely trivial in the current moment, but frustrating nonetheless: companies buying up sporting events broadcast rights & burying them behind "top tier" paywalls on platforms that I pay base subscriptions for: FA-Cup mostly only on ESPN+ (not ESPN), and cycling now only on HBO's non-ads tier.

Grift is the new turtles.

We're out Iran-ing Iran while warring with Iran.

I'm not sure this coudl have been any more terrifying to read. A mad man is running us headlong into an unnecessary war.

Let's be clear: the U.S. had a deal that could have prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Trump ripped up that deal. Then he started a war instead of doing the hard work of diplomacy to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

“And it is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure and, in the process, fill the pockets of a few.” 2/2

'To me, education is inherently worthwhile – but I am probably a deluded old dinosaur.'

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Any #Obisidian users out there have recommendations on useful templates / plugins? I finally committed to making the jump from Evernote and am liking the flexibility, but feel like I'm only scratching the surface on how to deploy it usefully.

When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?

Fighting back works. Please take notes university leaders.

"Exactly the Chad you're envisioning."

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

What, they couldn't squeeze in an explicit poll tax or "literacy" test too?

Effectively shuttered extramural funding from NSF?

Failure is about as kind a word as I could muster were I writing this.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

I readily (enthusiastically?; it's in my profile!) practice tsundoku (the art of collecting books without reading them). The question is: why? 🤞 this mini-thread rationalizes (& dare I say even motivates?) my behavior, rather than providing evidence serving as another nail in my sanity's coffin.

AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities. Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

This week's cover @thelancet.com

I'm not here to preach but I will just remind you that Trump doesn't lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated. So you don't have to help him.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

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Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

We really need a sarcasm font.

Unfathomable! 7:21 pace for 100 miles. share.google/El8g0ALCFol6...

Is he intending to attempt to export measles?

2026 basically

Case in point: www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Purdue is a university. Perdue is a poultry company. Apparently both have a substantial problem with chicken shit.

While the reporting here is a useful read, "unusual path" is quite the way to describe this completely unethical farce.

"The logic of the stay was that deference to President’s claim of illegal powers was more important than the harm created by [the president's illegal actions]." (Generalizing the quote because it doesn't just apply to this stay/decision.]

Why do Brett and his buddies seem to think in their response that just because the Dipshit in Chief did something stupid/illegal that's complicated to unwind, that means it shouldn't be unwound?

Please let this be real.

ghouls.

"I'm going to reinvent the wheel. It's going to cost a lot to do so, more than the old wheel. And it probably won't roll. And it's gonna take awhile. And it'll be done by experts who specialize in squares." This is the bad place.

One of my favorite ways AI gets things wrong: me: "what's on my calendar tomorrow?" [assistant]: "I'm sorry, I can't find anything on your calendar for then." me: [thinking] "that's not something to apologize for!"

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

I think meme thread posts should embrace the absurd rather than just going performative. For example - most embarrassing concert?