Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Bari Weiss doesn't want you to see this unless it includes "the other side" from an administration official

These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Read @jvl.bsky.social on "a focus group so vile that if it hadn’t been published approvingly by a Trump-loving publication, you’d have thought it was parody." www.thebulwark.com/p/behold-the...

Once more to point out: Bari Weiss only rose in the media world by the attention she got trying to get her professors fired. Censorship is her greatest media credential. It’s the only reason anyone has ever hired her.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

It’s funny this author of the ‘guide to the constitution’ didn’t buck when Project 2025 was unveiled to destroy the constitution and the constitutional republic.

They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.

This is true and also not a basis for inferences about whether it’s also good or bad.

Nothing against LLMs, but the book is an exceptionally amazing technology. You’re a fool if you haven’t grasped that by the end of 2025.

All of the replies here are missing the point. Depressing.

The basic error here is that scaling up knowledge is only scaling up *knowledge* if the validation process is also scaled up. Otherwise it’s just scaling up information.

Reminder that Bari Weiss’s entire career is based on trying to get her professors fired. Censorship is her entire career in media.

Down the line in the cursed discourse we’ll get to the point at which humanities scholars are pressed to specify and validate the operations and inferences involved in reading itself, denied the opportunity to handwave the questions by claiming ‘real intellectual work’ or something like that.

This is a pro-AI post, where are the bots and haters?

The most intelligent thing Nicki Minaj has ever done is rhyme ‘office’ with ‘orifice.’

HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that? HASSETT: Uhh --

the vice president is a klansman

I used to be obsessed with the NFL, until gradually the endless stoppages and rule disputes made it unwatchable. But also it’s always been the most stylistically fascist thing in US entertainment.

This is pointing in the direction of the correct theory of genre. Thing A is genre B if it’s usually empirically classed that way. This instance didn’t make it so, and perhaps as notable exception proves the rule it violates.

Unbelievable

I can’t even parse this headline grammatically

There was a period in my 20s when I was kind of fascinated by boxing. But I had good enough sense to know it’s not the kind of thing you want to do just to prove you’re brave or tough. It’s a serious discipline for which fame and desire are no substitute for acumen.

The mainstreaming of Naziism is, to say it mildly, beyond tiresome.

I can't believe those athletes wasted all that time lifting weights. There isn't a single barbell on the field during a game!

The current AI bubble is going to burst, which will mean neither that AI as a technology will fail and go away (anymore than the internet disappeared after the dot com bubble) nor that it will take over the world, and the hype-merchants and the Luddites will both look extremely stupid in hindsight.

I actually it’s very easy and also common to criticize CRT without being racist or being called racist.

This is I think the crux of it:

If your bulwark against ‘AI’ is either an appeal to ‘the human’ or an appeal to intentionalism, you’re already past fucked.

I think this is not a good way to frame these things. I’m sure people broadly enjoy their scholarship and also sometimes take stupid (or experimental) shortcuts for more contingent reasons than lack of love or passion or enjoyment. Shame perhaps warranted, but not enjoyment-shaming, surely.

My guess is people are experimenting with LLM use cases in many different ways, many of which are very stupid. In time there will be better norms, as with any significant new technology.

WELKER: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved just days after you interviewed her? BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it? BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk

Perhaps the combination of nihilist brainrot, naive superiority complex, and right-wing media norms is fertile ground for neo-Naziism.

A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt. “I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/2393f4A

Deneen is a fool

I’d like to see Jack Smith’s testimony in full. This is my country. Our country. Show the testimony.

This was a human being. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Oh is this what jd vance meant by “demographics?” bsky.app/profile/joel...

The thing is virtually no one wants to know what Gen Z Republicans think and what follows in this thread is exactly why:

BS started doing it with higher education and couldn’t contain the spread of such a content-free, irrational approach to politics. People underestimate how fundamental the politics of getting professors fired is to wider MAGA politics.

Adam Smith explained TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO how destructive this kind of thing is.

UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.

If AI makes people generally more circumspect within the modern information environment it’s probably a good thing. Google search has been goosing results for a long time now with little awareness or pushback, for example.

Not to nitpick but there are jobs in academia for a lot of fields and no jobs for a lot of fields and it does everyone a disservice to flatten this simple distinction.