My first three paragraphs of my dissertation acknowledgments were dedicated to my advisor, my wife, and my dog. If your advisor or a committee member is going to be petty enough to ridicule the acknowledgments... tell them to grow the fuck up, act like mentors, and stick to the goddamn scholarship.

This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists. Ethics matter, especially in science. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

People too quickly forgot about how unhinged some letters to the editor could be on any given day when you sat down to read the local newspaper.

Since no students seem interested in stopping by today, I'm spending my office hours period this morning reading Dutch-language newspaper articles that mention Dianne de Leeuw... good times.

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

I just re-read Arundhati Roy's post 9/11 piece in The Guardian and, in 25 years, has the core message really charged? www.theguardian.com/world/2001/s...

As someone deeply disgusted with the state of the nation, I completely understand why others would stay away. As someone who grew up in a community that depended almost entirely on tourist dollars to survive, I feel for the communities that will suffer because of the diminished number of visitors.

It's really easy to say that you'd be negligent with someone else's life when you've already been protected yourself. 100% guarantee that this piece-of-shit mom had the MMR herself as a kid.

A Nazi bar might draw a big crowd. It is most certainly a moral decision whether or not that is the type of audience with which you wish to engage. Acting like your choices have no moral weight is a telltale sign of someone who knows what they're doing is bad but wants to be told it's okay anyway.

I love how this works no matter what type of person you are.

NBC is seven years late to the party. Real Sports did a full segment on the Norwegian system back in May 2019.

here you go

US institutions were created by and to privilege white monied men above all and are functioning as intended. The senate was described at our founding as being a cooling plate for democracy. It, too, is functioning as intended Do with that information what you will

If you read enough comment sections of articles, you see plenty of fans gripe about their favorite pastimes becoming "entertainment rather than sport"... I always wonder what these people think sport is supposed to be if not entertainment. That has always been its mission.

Accessibility is not at all difficult — and it is the only sensible choice if you actually give a shit about reaching the broadest audience possible with your work.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

I gotta say that it was really nice to see this come down in the same week that I begin my five-week module on social identities and sport in one of my classes.

Only a true fashy piece of shit would say something as abjectly stupid as "the original sin was the ousting of Margaret Thatcher"...

This one is easy for me. I left the theater disgusted as fuck after Happy Feet. What a thoroughly shitty lesson to convey to kids, that animals are only worth saving if they do cute shit for human entertainment.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I have the opposite problem. I often spend way too much time fussing with footnotes and not enough time writing the body text.

The @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social is 100% correct here. These AI images are damaging history and they are a very real threat to the history of the #Holocaust.

As long as they heat up the ice cubes, I'd definitely watch this.

You have the right to exist and be yourself 🏳️‍⚧️ No really, you do

Woke up with this classic from my childhood playing in my head this morning. Feels like 10-year-old Zach should be getting ready for the school bus back in Wyoming.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Sure: Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.

"Vote for the party of Kristi Noem the dog-killer to protect your dog" might just be one of the twenty stupidest fucking thing ever said in public.

It takes a real dipshit to create a line graph that has neither a title nor labels for either axis, all in service of accusing someone else of saying something stupid. If this guy really is affiliated with MIT, they should ask for the diploma back or put them on remedial staff duty or something.

the evil is simply bottomless and jeffies and schumer are saying this can be reformed and hillary clinton is boasting about how many people her husband and obama deported

I'll just sum this up by quoting Crash Davis: "Christ, you don't need a quadraphonic Blaupunkt."

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Monstrously evil. Abolish ICE. Melt down its weapons and sell off all of its assets. Release everyone from its concentration camps and grant citizenship (if they want it) to everyone whose rights it has violated.

Entirely, 100% this. If you're the type of asshole who is all too ready to throw someone else in your coalition under the bus, you might as well throw your ass under the wheels first — because you are thinking no differently than the enemy.

The image quality makes Jones look like he's a star in this old classic...

Once again begging you to move your newsletter and or to stop clicking on Substack links. Tell the people still doing their work there that you won't read/support them until they go elsewhere. Take a stand. Have a backbone.

This just describes the past 30 years of Democratic strategy, which has not exactly broadened the coalition. Ross Perot playing the spoiler from the right won Clinton the presidency, not tacking right himself, but every DNC think tank every since 1992 has taken the wrong lesson from that election.

I loved my PhD experience, & my advisor went above & beyond. The problem was that there was no institutional support for anything beyond learning how to research. How to effectively teach, how to effectively fulfill service obligations, & how to navigate university environments are never taught.

And the award for commentator with the most integrity ever shown goes to ... this fella. Words can't express how grateful and how much respect I have for this man.

Human trafficking ring says they will not do human trafficking Don't believe them They made this choice already They cannot be trusted

Stop with the goddamn euphemisms. You're not a trader, you're just a gambler. A "prediction market" is nothing more than a sportsbook. And that is true whether or not the event in question being "predicted" on is a sport or not, because gambling by nature sportifies any event it touches.

If you’re using a sportsbook app, you’re a degenerate gambler, but if you use a prediction market you’re a “trader” seeking alpha. I’ve been noticing the word “trader” in coverage of prediction markets and would be interested to know if it was seeded as a deliberate PR strategy.

Oh you better believe that the triangulatin' 90s were all about trying to stuff people like Jackson back into a box.

This is how you drop the fuckin' mic. What powerful words.

Full text of Ben Hania's powerful speech:

I really need to get my grandmother's recipe... hopefully it's still at my dad's house.

Facebook needs to fade away like Myspace.

Jesse Jackson wrote this powerful & poetic telegram to Tommie Smith after he raised a fist for justice at the 1968 Olympics, inviting him to speak all-expenses paid with Operation Breadbasket activists. "You may have been on the wrong side of the Olympic Committee but on the right side of history."