It's interesting to see the framing/videography choices here. They're out of norm for content like this. And not in ways that flatter the host.

if you want to run for office you should be required to adopt some sort of label as shorthand so that voters can easily guess at your whole deal. one could call these labels "political parties", perhaps even organize campaigns on this basis. anyone thought of this yet

Look, I hate VT as much as the next Hoo. But why are they even on here?

I find the "Its not my fault" just infuriating. They want to have their cake and eat it too. I'm not an anti-democratic racist! I'm just stealing an election by disenfranchising black voters!

It will not, in fact, destroy the university or an entire generation of young Americans. ChatGPT can't save you on an in-person exam. It can't magically grant good enough taste or judgment to evaluate the quality of its outputs, either. The ugly, vicariously educational FAFO is already happening.

Whiskey Fridays with Kirsten Gillibrand

Episcopal Clergy. 72. Half for power/succession reasons, but also for pension reasons.

The funniest thing is that the post *had* some very good digital folks (still does) but a bunch left (or were shoved out) and then made Local News International. They're falling because they chose to.

Do not look to Homer for uncomplicated heroes. (the closest must be Hector, who of course fails and dies, consumed by a war he could neither stop nor escape, but which will destroy his entire family - a staggeringly tragic figure who is helpless despite his prowess and knows it).

Also, it's hilarious that the guy complaining is using Vergil as a pseudonym. The guy who wrote an epic fanfic about a fuckboy wife-guy wanding about the Mediterranean at the mercy of capricious gods?

Shit is bad out here. Ducey's flat tax is going to utterly destroy the state if it isn't ended.

The Navy has made a lot of stupid choices in the last 30 years. This would be worse than all of them. Anyone involved in this should be sent to operate the LORAN station in Port Clarence.

Still can't believe the navy killed DDG(X) for this shit. They went for the low risk, incremental, clean sheet design that they've desperately needed and have given it up or at least massively delayed it because uhhhh lol

This video of @hankgreen.bsky.social's is very good and is basically what Dostoevsky meant by "beauty will save the world." It's not some shallow statement about aesthetics. It's about how we're uplifted and inspired to do good by seeing good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVu2...

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Number one problem in political economy is people not believing in hard scarcity when it exists. Number two? People believing in it when it doesn’t

Cease your internecine bickering. Over what "fighting" is. Over content moderation. Over *shudders*millennial songs. Eat some cookie dough.

Let’s be honest. None of us have the guts to say half the shit we say on here to somebody’s face. If we all met, we’d spend the entire period staring at our shoes mumbling polite nothings pretending not to remember the various beefs.

"In-unit laundry is unpatriotic in this wartime energy crisis"

Rules for thee, but not for me.

Children do not have any rights adults/parents are bound to respect.

The young and the liberal don't count as a part of the polity.

It won't just be California. California refineries fuel a lot of the West. This is gonna suck for a lot of America West of the Rockies.

What the hell is "prohibited anatomy?" Is it the new "male presenting nipples"?

NTK is reliant on levels of trust and common mission/values alignment that basically no large organization has anymore. A lot of the ennui and general Gender-Panic of office work these days comes from excessive abstraction and an absence of esprit de corps.

And I get that "total transparency and public consensus" are ideals, and more often rhetorical tricks for condemning society in ignorable-at-this-point tones. But as a method for handling chronic issues of conspiracy, complex systems *have* to bias to transparency, or else abet their demise.

I think the places where conspiracy thinking and explanations arise the most often are the zones where, at least for the past century, authorities have asked for people to take results on a kind of trust, or faith, rather than transparency. And the modern kook movements have played in the gaps.

I don't understand this "we tried." If the purpose of the referendum was to protect American Democracy, why the hell are you giving up so quickly. Actions and rhetoric are wildly out of alignment here.

Ehh I think they should have retired all the virginia supreme court justices just because I'm so tired of these judges being like "what are ya gonna do, STAB ME?"

gonna have an essay in the reconstruction papers about this exactly: the idea that courts are the sole interpreters of constitutions is a doctrine fundamentally lethal to democracy. we all--and legislatures especially--are equally allowed to interpret and execute constitutions.

Cowards. Worthy of nothing less than disdain.

What fucked over the humanities is precisely the fact that, while math and science in the ivory tower have a dysfunctional but deep relationship with their applications, their colleagues in the humanities are typically barely connected to their topics' very real applications at all.

A fun thread. Not arguing in opposition, but maybe to the alternative (and on a grander scale): I’d…pitch…that “the humanities” have been in a kind of cope/flux for a long time, like back into the late 19th century. Technological/material progress shot past philosophy for most Western societies. 1/n

It really seems somewhat underrated to me in the assessment of the future of this technology that Americans hate the shit out of it. Like, Pew has AI as effectively 10/50 (negative *forty* points) underwater. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

I maintain my belief that any *good* graduation speech comes in under 5 minutes, inclusive of any introductory fluffing. But this is a speech written for someone other than the audience.

Too young. You start edging into older Zoomers. You need a song from ~2006, before the eldest Millennials aged out of your criterion. Which means, unfortunately, it may be "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas. youtu.be/iEe_eraFWWs?...

i think the Republicans are going to live to regret mostly redistricting out the very elderly black centrists who were most skeptical of the procedural radicalism which would have diminished their structural power.

Are ya ready fellow Westerners?

we don’t really need to report on/talking about this using dumb incel culture terminology. we can just call it “male body dysmorphia” because that’s what it actually is

Sheppard has the same energy as like a third of folks I follow on here.

You dont get credibility or reputation by meeting your own self claimed expectations and intents and current reputation. Only in exceeding do you gain it. Which is a problem for people that credit for 'doing what they are supposed to'

The entire conversation of 'you don't have power if you are afraid it will be exposed as absent if you try to use it' is about this with every governor inhabiting this position of Administrative Head of a state operation, but that's it, it doesn't go beyond that, as demonstrated.

Very simply, the reason we didn't have this internal Democratic Party reckoning after the 2016 fiasco is because the situation had not degraded enough over time to a legibly irredeemable extent.

I think 'earning' or 'deserving' or 'good' billionaires or 'bad' billionaires are all sort of missing the point tbh. There are decent people who are billionaires and there are unobjectionable ways to make lots of money but that's not the point. The point is that level of unaccountable power is bad.

"Indeed, the superiority, in this last instance, is much greater; for the people possess over our constitutions control in act, as well as right."

there are going to be a lot of conflicts like this in the coming years and i am of the opinion that they beat you when they beat you but that democrats have to get more accustomed to forcing the issue. literally for morale

either leaders like spanberger lead with rhetoric and an agenda to come back and win, or other people lead with tools other than rhetoric. there's not a secret third option where the gop wakes up and goes "oh wow lmao whoops let me fix this real quick"