The enshittification of weather apps is *deeply* annoying.

and in framing themselves as the only True Knowers, the data boys fail to understand how they form part of the complicated, contingent outcomes they’re claiming to observe objectively. “We can only respond to poll numbers, not shape action,” is itself a theory of the world that evidence doesn’t back

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

OF COURSE they are using non-doc’ed immigrants to process applications to the Afrikaner Refugee program. www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Let's not forget, these grifters were there too: bsky.app/profile/josh... Very much the "I'm not saying he's a white supremacist...I'm saying white supremacists say..." bit.

A coup in Guinea-Bissau and an attempted coup in Benin, both countries that have been democratically backsliding. Coup leaders claim they’re defending democracy, not upending it. My latest, in @goodauth.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/guinea-...

'tis the season to wish I could just report percentage grades as the final output of the semester because it would vastly reduce: 1) my email volume in December and May 2) the number of times I have to explain the mathematical concept of rounding in my lifetime

I need someone with whom I can do craft exchanges. I want a big old solid wood chest that can be storage and also a bench by the outside door. In exchange, I can offer mending, garment-making, or quilts.

Do you ever think Gavin Newsom, in a moment of self-reflection, wonders why he is continually invited to panels like these? I do realize this assumes…self-reflection…

I may not be Southern, but I’ve learned a few things…

Quant researchers that suddenly throw in a qual project are all, "Look! I made a salad" Meanwhile, the salad they made:

Brilliant…of course, I’m old enough to remember Trump’s failed tariff policies from his first term that led to billions of dollars in bailouts to farmers. But remember the fight and the court striking down Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan as unconstitutional

Sometimes, you just have to make something with your hands to feel better

'tis the season to continually say: "I do not give grades. I just evaluate your work. You earn grades."

You do not, under any circumstances “gotta hand it to” this guy… …but I will say, the proliferation of *stuff* in the modern economy is kind of awful? The sheer volume of small, plastic junk is alarming and completely unsustainable.

the feminine urge to do LITERALLY NOTHING for all the live-long day. (yes, I recognize this is an ancient and fossilized meme. leave me alone. i'm old.)

/I will die on this hill\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \

my latest, out in Perspectives on Politics (and open access!) The upshot: online information environments are really complex. Truth and lies are often blended together. Fact checking doesn't really work and is unevenly implemented. What we need is an ethnographic approach to online misinformation.

Me: why don’t people take me seriously?? I’m smart and capable! I know stuff! Also me: (constant self-deprecating humor to be *likeable*)

When scheduling a room for a makeup exam, I am required to answer questions like "Will there be... - alcohol? - open flame? - particulate matter? - merchandise sales? It reminds me that there are people whose jobs bring joy, rather than...makeup exams. (no, I do not want those jobs)

I made Victorian-style tinsel and hung it up today, and I’m fully obsessed.

With all the money he has, you’d think he could do better than a cricut on copier paper, but here we are…

It’s 2025. Stop playing “do they know it’s Christmas?”

If I were a Ken, my job would just be “small bowls and containers of not exactly junk, but weird bits and bobs that I have to figure out a place for, and no matter how many I sort through, there are still more to sort”

Imagine being proud of a peace prize from a sport where games routinely end in ties.

...why is the ocean made of cornflakes?

The Pantone color of the year is…white? Is this trolling by the swatch people??

Love to do public-facing scholarship. To be called both racist and a race traitor for a single piece: ah, what joy. what professional fulfillment. So great to engage with the public.

IDK, I've never loved anyone enough to let them dismantle the most successful pediatric public health interventions in human history... ...I guess romance *is* dead.

I've never heard of the DealBook Summit until the last few days, and it seems like it's basically the Davos meeting, but for edgelords? Why do we do these things?

This is insane, and possibly criminal. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/d...

Here I am, again, talking about the Afrikaner refugees, but in the context of the last 100 years: "South Africa has always been a shadow case for the US…It’s a way of talking about US politics without ever saying civil rights, without ever saying United States." theconversation.com/the-american...

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

My whole an entire kingdom for party leadership that says "immigration is good, actually."

New quilt! Just your reminder that neon can be neutral if you REALLY want it.

Real Question: Is there an actual way to take attendance in a large (200+ seat) lecture hall? I am supposed to do it because...freshmen. We don't have a scanner for students to use with their IDs (how I wish), and the integrated attendance (PointSolutions) is a NIGHTMARE.

I do not need another hobby. (Browses sales on basket weaving courses) I do not need another hobby. (Looks into a sale on looms) I do not need another hobby. (Served an ad for a natural fabric dyes workshop) I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER HOBBY.

I do not give one single nor solitary hoot about collegiate football… …but it is a good day when the denizens of Oxford, MS are angry.

I pulled off a Facebook Marketplace miracle: Sold our old IKEA table and chairs at 9:30 AM for $200. Purchased a new, solid wood table and chairs at 3:30 PM for $200.

The story here is about the president being crazy not that he’s a difficult architectural client.

Northwestern chose a weird time to cave.

Happy Thanksgiving, you beautiful yahoos.

The many brown foods of Thanksgiving, just out of the oven. Pumpkin pie, pecan pie, acorn bread

Tired: Landlocked countries Wired: Land-encompassed countries Inspire: Land-embraced countries

Oh hey! It’s me! New article now available and Open Access. Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful. Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.

No handover to the US will happen at the G20. Instead, the US delegation can come get the materials if they make an appointment, after Monday. "We will follow protocols. We expect Washington to follow the same rules followed by all G20 states." SASSY DIPLOMACY www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU5o...

I want to know who was the first person to think of clipping a full panel curtain to the side of a crappy folding table to make it look ~*fancy*~ because that right there is a MONEY idea.

TIL that AI doesn’t really know what Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, or Elizabeth Warren look like… …it is an interesting collection of Dems to choose, tho…

Parenting cheat code: My kids have been squabble monsters all weekend. Just getting at one another constantly. I *forbade* them from playing with each other. “Everyone to their own corners!” And now they are sneakily cooperating on something and they think I don’t know. It’s perfect.

This is actually a fascinating “cost of labor in the tech sector” dataset…