I have written, worried and worked around the “fairness gap” described here my whole academic career. I will say that the changes in reading that we are currently talking about aren’t really about that. It is so much bigger & sudden than that which is why I think people are talking about it.

I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.

Also one part trying to arrest a perceived (white) sexual reproduction crisis by disciplining bodies. Most especially the bodies of women, trans, and disabled folks.

The Birds is such a wild movie. On one hand, it's a creature feature, with a lot of standard creature feature setup and delivery. On the other, it's shot through with as much weird psychosexual undertone as Vertigo. "Do the birds hate this independent, intelligent, capable blonde woman? Maybe."

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

i am firmly on the prefer to read the article side of this divide tbh

Was thinking of what name would best describe Stephen Miller as a bargain basement nazi and the best I came up with is “the GoBot Goebbels”

THE MEME IS REAL

This framing, where Dems/libs should avoid being “condescending” to the right, is one of the ways the media sells Dems/libs on the false idea that we’re higher status & have more power than the political right.

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

Anti-ICE? Hey, you’re nice. Anti-trans? I’m throwing hands.

what anil said. also, two things are true: 1. america has a horrific, brutal facist and authoritarian tradition which has prepared for this moment; 2. that is not the only american tradition, and pretending it is helps the fascists.

tl;dr: Fascism, in a very literal sense, is for dead-end losers.

imagine emailing a senior research fellow at the Moneybags Institute of Wealth Creation to let him know that there's $500 and a lunch catered by Sodexo waiting for him if he's willing to fly coach cross-country to give a talk

Blocking off a week of travel to hear a man reeking of vodka at 10 AM read a speech ChatGPT wrote from the prompt “speech the cool guy from Avatar would make”

If there is one good billionaire in the world they will buy me all of these and give me a place to put them

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

Paranormal Activity is a movie about how even demons don't like being filmed without their consent.

“Every aspect of the university needs to incorporate AI. Also, humanities research only counts if you can print it out.”

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

CHOTINER: Just once I wanted someone to interview *me* DOCTOR: Oh I know just the person, the interviewer Issac Chotiner is in town, I have his phone number right here CHOTINER: (sobbing) but doctor, I *am* Chotiner

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

The truth is there are three kinds of people: the disabled, the pre-disabled, and the doomed to die suddenly. Most of us will be disabled at some point.

bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread

this exists it is called thinking

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

*inventing clam chowder* Hey guys, you know those slugs that live in the rocks on the beach? We should put those in some kind of hot milk soup

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Every single social justice concept — safe spaces, intersectionality, microaggressions, representation — is embraced by the right when they talk about men or whites or straights.

They’re treating the murder of Charlie Kirk like the 9/11 terror attacks, as an excuse to go to war. But this time they’re going to war against the US.

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

They’re calling it “the polar opposite of a ‘must read’”

Hey there, Delilah Can you hear me through the floorboards Below which my dismembered corpse Provides the only records Of your crime? A long way back from hell I've had to climb Now I speak in rhyme

I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!

They wanted a war against they/them but the enemy is unfortunately we/us.

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

If you didn't know that trans people existed until Time magazine told you they did I don't think you actually get to weigh in on if there are too many now.

No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.