Resolutions for 2026: - get the anthology to press - push one of these monograph ideas forward - write/create more for public audiences - stop feeling guilty when I take time to rest - walk another 400+ miles with the dog - exercise (besides walking) a little more regularly - read more for fun

This goes for all politicians of course

A policy that excludes Médecins Sans Frontières isn't about security. It's about continuing the genocide.

Robin Hood would kick the piss right out of this little bitch.

THIS ❗️ Israel didn’t even thought about an excuse to ban humanitarian aid groups, they just did. Their goal is very simple, to starve Palestinians to death. This is NOT a conspiracy, Far-right Israeli minister of internal security itamar Ben-Gvir said that’s the goal himself.

This is why I have always thought the complaints about “indoctrination” were projection. They aren’t opposed to indoctrination a long as it’s their doctrine.

Why is my first thought immediately wondering whether Saint Barthelemy is the new Little Saint James for all these sick fucks?

This is my 2026 resolution... stop wondering whether my ideas are worthwhile and just enjoy producing some fun things to read, both as a writer of my own work and an editor of others' writing.

Today marks the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. Wild. Just wild.

that part

Moderate positions aren't popular online because they're the equivalent of thinking there's a reasonable amount of shit to have in the punchbowl.

The original Heritage Classic in 2003 was a visually-stunning event. Yet it mainly worked because A) the NHL had never played a regular-season game outdoors, B) it involved two historic Canadian franchises, & C) it took place in cold-ass Edmonton. It should've remained a unique one-off spectacle.

There's really only one possible choice for me.

Gavin Newsom epitomizes the phrase, "The enemy of your enemy is not your friend." Just because this bigoted piece of shit attacks Trump online does not make him worth your time in the ballot box. After all, he is what he's always been — an enemy fighting against the interests of the working class.

They are slot machines. You pull the lever and maybe something worth it (to you) pops out, but mostly it doesn't. Yet you enjoy the thrill of sitting with the endless potential that something *might* be worth it and that is what you think these tools are giving you. Possibility. They are not.

COUNTERPOINT: The first software developer to explicitly come out and say that they will categorically refuse to incorporate gAI Mechanical Turks into their software will be the company that has a shitload of sudden brand loyalty.

If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"

The idea that academics are not responsibly engaging with the actual existence of gAI is simply making up a guy to be mad at. It has no relation to the way this problem is being negotiated in universities. That fact in no way changes the need to oppose this technology in every way at every level.

Took parts of 5 days, but Buddy Christ has risen.

Make a Bond movie academic: (three from the world of sport history) — From Russia with Love: A Structural Analysis of the 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series — Diamonds are Forever: Bobby Bonilla Day and Structured Payments in Baseball — The Man With the Golden Gun: A Biography of Yusuf Dikeç

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

Totally agree. The only question to ask is can you meet the dog's needs? I couldn't provide either the mental or physical activity a border collie needs!

I dunno. I'm a man, and I've never thought about breeding with a dog.

Trick question... there is NO acceptable dog breed for anyone who refers to themselves as "MEN" in all caps, because those are the kind of people who are too narcissistic to give any dog the love it needs and deserves. For the non-wankers in society, any dog breed is an acceptable dog breed.

I was right. Been up for over an hour at this point.

I've been alternating between waking up at 3:30 am and 5:15 am over the past week during holiday break. Today was a 5:15 day, so I guess I'm going to be up early again tomorrow...

Only a soulless piece of shit who gives zero shits about their grandmother, about the environment, and about humanity would pull a goddamn piece-of-shit stunt like this. May this person who created this 'content' get dragged for the rest of their deplorable lives for their disrespect and depravity.

NOTE: Do not try this with the police. It will not be nearly as fun. (That said, I knew both my ABCs and the QWERTY alphabets by age 5, thanks to a dad who has worked in IT all my life.)

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and may everyone have a wonderful day!

Today's puzzle... 'tis the season, after all.

When you've been awake for more than an hour, you're probably not falling back asleep at that point. WHY my body decided 25 or 6 to 4 was the right time to wake up is beyond me. Must be a big Terry Kath fan or something.

Bari Weiss is doing her best Julius Streicher impersonation.

We could've had a college football playoff for the past 65 years... if only we'd managed to get past the taboo idea of college football going into the second week of December.

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

Pre-fucking-cisely.

even putting aside the energy costs or hallucinations or plagiarism stuff, i have not once run into a research situation where i’ve thought to myself: hell yeah, it’s AI time. suddenly bc it’s 2025 and not 2023 the entire research enterprise has to change? give me a break

"I would struggle to trust a chef who doesn't know how to use arsenic."

If you have enough money to be shooting up with dead people you have too much money

Dierre Hill is a beast.

Okay, that's enough of that. A.I. sucks. Think for yourself. Create for yourself. Struggle. Take your time. Do not cede your humanity to an algorithm because it's hard. Make something yourself. It won't be perfect. But it'll be yours. And call your mom.

I would struggle to trust a journalist who thinks that AI is a tool with a legitimate use. Being critical doesn't make the tool any more useful.

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...

legit this tech breaks the first and fundamental rule of education/academia: do not plaigirize. all while breaking other rules of education or academia. in my day you'd be expelled for half of what this shit fundamentally is for multiple reasons. from like grade school even.

Come up with your own questions.

It’s like a five year old complaining that another five year old with the same stencil set drew the same thing.

And I'm okay with that. #goducks

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness. You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.

I've said it elsewhere, but if James Madison happens to win, hats off to them. They earned their spot here and will be a worthy victor if they prevail at Autzen. Win or lose, they deserve to be in the College Football Playoff... That said, this alumnus hopes the Ducks easily take care of business.