If you spent half of the time doing the fucking assignment that you spent complaining about professors failing you for using AI, you wouldn’t be failing all of your classes.

Between private equity buying up everything that’s not moving and AI trying to unemploy everything that does, we’re allowing a corporate technocracy to quietly but openly destroy the country and no one in Washington has even faked outrage about it.

All of the criticism of people like Biden, Pelosi, Schumer etc. has been valid, but let's not forget how much of a quisling piece of trash John Robert is. Presiding over the worst Supreme Court in ~100 years, Roberts has turned SCOTUS into a cudgel, beating democracy to death.

The new Instagram layout is trash.

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I felt my daughter kick for the first time yesterday and I’ll be damned if that isn’t the best feeling in the whole fucking world.

The Democratic Party is done. They just destroyed themselves.

The Democrats are done.

I adore this thing.

Just submitted my manuscript to the editor. So now we wait. And with any luck at all, maybe I’ll be able to announce some big news in a couple months.

Looking at our ultrasound pictures and seeing my daughter's tiny little feet gives me a shot of serotonin unlike anything I've ever experienced.

Fun fact; if you use Grammarly on a paper, AI detectors will flag it, even if you “wrote” all of it. Why? Because Grammarly is still AI, using similar algorithms as things like ChatGPT.

I hate the smarmy AI stans who're like "Oh so profs use AI to catch AI? So hypocritical! You must not be good at catching it!" So fucking dumb. We 100% can tell without the detectors. But because admins are cowards and won't take ban it, they tell us that "being able to tell," while effective at

OpenAI asking for a $1 trillion bailout from the government, after an expansion that can only be described as reckless, is not just peak corporate-socialism, but a great demonstration of why I have been telling you that AI is bad. These people are dragons, and they won't stop until that get you.

The debate isn't between Chicago vs New York style pizza. Both of them are fine at best. The real debate is Detroit vs New Haven style.

Now that NYC has a democratic-socialists s a mayor, I offer my services to the uninformed to answer any and all questions about what that is/isn't, what socialism is/isn't, what communism is/isn't, and why Mamdani is not going to turn NYC into the USSR.

Anyone who markets themselves as a "PhD Coach" is a grifter trying to take you for a ride. No self-respecting PhD will ever charge you for advice or help. I have a PhD; you can always reach out to me if you need advice. Don't spend money on something you can find for free.

Looking to expand my professional network, so if you follow me on here and want to connect on LinkedIn, please do so. Always looking to connect professionally with my friends and peers. www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-j...

This is way closer than I’d like it to be but Charlotte appears set to unlock an absolutely massive infrastructure plan with the 1% sales tax increase with billions for public transit and roads up by just shy of 8k votes with almost all precincts in.

What’s hilarious is that 26 billionaires spending $22 million is like 25 of my friends and I spending a combined $2000 or so. Like, they could’ve REALLY tipped the scales if they wanted to, but they 1) knew it wasn’t worth it and, 2) are too cheap to actually put their money where their mouths are.

From Georgia to California, Virginia to New York City, these were resounding victories tonight. Progressives and liberals winning by huge margins and in historic places. This was a clear rebuke of Trump and the Republican Party.

Yeah so that’s bullshit.

There is a 1:1 relationship between how fucking dumb society is currently and how much we’ve devalued the humanities. You don’t have this kind of stupid bullshit when you study history, literature, languages, philosophy, and the arts.

The YouTubeTV-Disney dick measuring contest is proof that we literally can’t have nice things. Our political leaders are so beholden to laissez-faire neoliberal capitalism that they’d rather let corporations gouge us to death than regulate anything at all. They take everything.

WASPs discovering the term "auntie" in the year 2025 is fucking hilarious and further proof that WASPs have no culture.

So dozens of major U.S. companies are laying off workers, thousands if not tens of thousands. AI is destroying the workforce and that bubble is about to explode. I've been saying it for 2 months; we are in a recession, and it's not even close to as bad as it's going to get.

Humanity is going to be held back for decades because of how many helpless and incompetent people we’ve created through the AI-ification of society.

Had onion kulcha for the first time. 10/10 would highly recommend.

One of the most conservative parts of the country is about to get worse.

It's crazy how many of my family members work for/get money from their parents but then are apoplectic when you talk about trying to raise taxes on rich people to help pay for social programs.

Demolishing the White House to build essentially a state party venue is the perfect metaphor for this regime.

Hey folks. Wife and I are gonna be moving in a month. Anyone know of any work opportunities within an hour or so drive of the Marlborough-Framingham MA area? Please and thank you!

No one asked, but my CFP Top 10: 1) Ohio State 2) Indiana 3) Texas A&M 4) BYU 5) Georgia Tech 6) Oregon 7) Alabama 8) Georgia 9) Miami 10) Vanderbilt I think we're too far into the season to not be rewarding P4 teams that are undefeated. At some point, winning has to matter.

One of the most realistic lines from The West Wing is the unabashed love that Josh and Bartlett express for apples and peanut butter. It's the best snack combination in the world: nutrient-dense, tasty, cheap, and varied (diff. kinds of PB and many types of apples).

Some of you know this, but I accepted the DoD's Deferred Resignation offer back in the Spring. As such, today is my last official day as a DoD Civilian and a Historian for the U.S. Army. Now, I'm just be another unemployed academic. I'll share more thoughts on this later.

Current Book Projects (words and est. % done): Monograph: 109,671 words (99%) Essay collection: 72,329 (90%) Novel: 43,236 (40-50%)

Anyone have experience pitching articles, essays, or stories to magazines like McSweeney's, Harper's, or Rolling Stone? Not just those 3, but magazines like those ones in general. I have no experience pitching my work and could use some pointers.

Another 800ish words of new writing for my essay collection, plus edited another chapter of my history monograph. All in all, a successful and productive day of writing. I feel like I need to do more, though, which is a problem. I think I'm putting too much pressure on myself.

It's not quite done yet - I need to tinker with the last essay a bit - but my essay collection is almost done. Currently stands at 227 pages, will probably hit more like 230. Not too bad, I think.

We could sure or prevent so many diseases in this country if the political will existed.

Applied to 10 jobs just now. It's wild to admit this, but it's truly exhausting to apply for work in the AI-ified HR landscape of the post-pandemic economy. It's so much time and effort and you know that it's not going to amount to anything.

Edited another chapter of Book 1 and wrote another 720 words of Book 2. A fairly successful writing day, if I do say so myself.

A nice, crisp 700-ish new words for the essay collection (71k now) and then edited a chapter of the other book (34 pages). All in all, a successful day of writing by any definition.

All right, I wrote about it:

The Gen Xers and boomers out there might remember the “genial” fella who represented the “conservative” viewpoint on 60 Minutes’ point/counterpoint segment, James Kirkpatrick. In the 50s and 60s Kirkpatrick had been one of the most vocal and influential segregationists in Virginia.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

I made a post about how Charlie Kirk was most likely killed by a right winger and my MAGA cousin got mad and fast forward a bit and he literally threatened me and made comments about my unborn child. Blocked him everywhere. Cut toxic people from your life, even family.

Currently making the edits that will (hopefully) get my book accepted by the press I reached out to (they were really positive and really liked it) and I just want to restate for the record that writing is hard even for people who are good at it and do it professionally.

I learned long ago that I am the most productive with my writing early in the morning. From the time I get up (about 6am) until noon is when I get not just most of my writing done, but my best writing done. Once I hit that point, I am usually creatively done. How about you?

70,481 words of this essay collection. I think I can finish this before/around 80,000. That seems not just doable for me but also a good length for a first (non-history) book, yeah?