Privatize profits and socialize loss. 😒

Facts. ““If it doesn’t rain in Tehran by late November, we’ll have to ration water. And if it still doesn’t rain, we’ll have to evacuate Tehran,” President Masoud Pezeshkian was cited as saying on Thursday by the SNN semi-official news agency.”

Raking leaves has to be one of the most intense full body workouts there is. Any guess what I spent part of my day doing? 🍂 🍁

Happy #caturday from puty tat to all who celebrate

All along, they’ve tried to slander and cast doubt on the numbers of the Gaza Health Ministry. And all along the Gaza HM has been, if anything, very cautious and conservative with these numbers. Numerous aid groups and academics have estimated the totals as being much higher. Horrific.

That headline… the very fact that governors’ time is actually being taken up, not with ordinary state administration, but with, checks notes, restricting troops from other (maga-led) states… completely believably unbelievable.

Required reading to understand the groypers

President of the richest country in the history of the world appeals to his country's supreme court to allow him to let millions of poor people starve — and the court says “sure, go ahead”

They are paying ICE, the military and for his stupid ballroom They won’t fund SNAP or air traffic controllers These are choices Budgets are moral documents

Hallucinations are a feature not a bug. No one should imagine that they can replace human receptionists and other phone operators entirely.

Wow, shocking.

US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say flip.it/plyKhZ

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

A twisted maga variation on de-Baathification.

Tragically telling. Eleven cases listed on this Wikipedia page. And these are only cases where there is a fairly direct alleged/likely link. One shouldn’t forget about potentially countless others as indirect consequence of rampant and rapid chatbot-ization (eg, medical malpractice by chatbot).

Neither government nor defense requests anything at this time…not even an afternoon snack. So that—and I know you’ve been waiting for it—is a wrap.

Just made my two afternoon classes today optional (l'll be there, and please come if your want to ask questions and review for Monday's test"). I wonder how many will still show........?

Anecdotal for sure, but it’s registration time for the spring. I was curious if my super strict AI policy - which I’m sure has gotten around campus - would make my classes less popular. Well (not to flex or anything), but my GenEd’s were the first in my dept to fill, within the first few hours.

Love seeing a new crop of academics, indicated by a number of new follows, joining us here. Welcome. Discussion and engagement is so much better here (for now; let’s hope it stays that way) than former yonder place.

It’s been a while since the last big summit, “peace” announcement, or photo op. The boss needs to feel important… quick, think of something, anything!

"Netanyahu sought to forge an alliance with the Christian right..reasoning..that evangelicals were more reliable supporters. of Israel than liberal US Jews..Having lost the left, Israel is losing the right, as Christian nationalism supplants Christian Zionism" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

SlopBot, TheftBot, PolluteBot, BrainrotBot, DeathBot

It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.

Not the first tragic story like this. Won’t be the last. This tech untested, unregulated, yet is being marketed to us and forced on us everywhere we look. It’s a billionaires’ experiment and we are the lab rats. Just say no. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Reupping since @bsky.app has come to think that we all really love baseball. Whole thread for photos of the old (and better) Tiger Stadium.

Some of us love it enough to use it as a profile photo. Honestly, this Esquire cover is one of the most haunting baseball images I've ever seen: Joe DiMaggio hitting in a suit in an empty Yankee Stadium in 1960.

If Trump really does put US military into Damascus then buckle up because Israel has been actively intervening and bombing and destabilizing Syria ever since Asad fell.

kitsch me if you can

This calls for a celebratory, um, sandwich. Heavy on the mustard please.

What does Kazakhstan get for this Did Israel agree to render Sasha Baron Cohen to Kazakhstan

“Here Are Airports That Could Be Affected by the Air Traffic Slowdown” Well, they’re not all in states with Democratic governors/majorities. Kind of surprised, not gonna lie.

Heck, he’s not even cutting the cheese or the dust

I feel this. I do get to teach upper level courses regularly, but at an undergrad teaching institution, I churn through *a lot* of Gen Ed courses where I can only go into the basic/bottom 3-4% of what I know or care about on given subjects. And still I’m sometimes dinged of making it “too advanced.”

Resist GenAI

Inquiring minds want to know: how in the name of all sanity did anyone ever believe he had an “edge” to begin with?

OpenAI is a scam that hemorrhages millions every month and has no viable path toward profitability. They should pay their own goddamn bills - isn’t that the message that Altman and his libertarian slop-pharaoh friends are constantly shoving down our throats?

None of this is inevitable. These are all choices being made. From using or not using GenAI at home to refusing to regulate it in local, state, and federal governments.

The second Trinity to suffer this fate in the greater Chicagoland area. First Trinity College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield. Now this, TCC in Palos Heights.

Update: Current and growing cost of unnecessarily keeping this coal fired plant open, $80 million

“Nothing has improved.” More than 220 killed since the big PR rollout of the “ceasefire.” As was feared and, sadly, all too predictable.

Y'all ever notice how nobody can ever actually point to any *specific thing* that Mamdani *actually said* that was antisemitic, and how people are just baldly asserting it anyway

Detroit elects its first new mayor since 2013, when we were under both bankruptcy and emergency management. via @freep.com : www.freep.com/story/news/p...

Gorsuch seems to think that unilateral imposing of tariffs are a one way ratchet” to too much presidential power. Ummmmm….

Glad I got out to enjoy the fall colors as much as I did the past few weeks, as in the photo from last week. As always happens, today was very windy, a November “Windsday,” and just like that, many of the trees are bare :(.

Yep. And it shows in how he was able to reimagine the political canon. When was the last time a major candidate cited Vito Marcantonio? Eugene Debs? Jawaharlal Nehru? Heck, the premise of this ridiculous NYT piece was that it’s a scandal Mamdani studied the humanities.

Most humanities depts have those slightly cheesy lists and brochures meant to attract new majors and minors, “What you can do with a history/philosophy/religious studies/African studies/etc degree”. Time to update our lists to include: “Mayor of New York”

Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!

Well, it appears that the unbelievably shocking scandal of “auntie gate” didn’t sink Mamdani after all :)

Vile. These people have trained themselves so thoroughly in anti-virtues that they are incapable of self critique/reflection. Their obsessive need to point all “blame” at their imagined bogeys has taken over their personalities. No, pundit class, there’s no convincing them or meeting them half way

Election results suggest American voters may find pig-headed neo-fascist criminality less enthralling as a system of government than it was as a campaign platform.