Jacob Romanow
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ars longa, vita brevis
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/jr75399
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St. Simeon the Holy Fool
15 days ago
The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!
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5 days ago
This NYT column by
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is the truest thing I've ever seen about the REAL reason public trust in the media collapsed
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Bolts
7 days ago
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has supported immigration enforcement against people with criminal records and defended an agreement her state has with ICE. âIâm all for getting the bad guys,â she told Bostonâs CBS affiliate.
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Inside ICEâs Only Contract with a Blue State
As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportationâeven as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.
https://boltsmag.org/massachusetts-prisons-contract-with-ice/
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The synthesis of this contradiction is IMO that a lot of the rhetoric of chatbot personhood is produced through and for sadistic fantasy. The *reason* a lot of people want to convince themselves that chatbots are people so badly is SO they can get off on "abusing" them
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Melissa Gira Grant
7 days ago
Fuentes then fantasizes about âbreeding gulagsâ: âSo just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women⌠They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.â
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matthew ellis
11 days ago
But when I read about *how* its being used, it's mostly stories like OP--people using it for convenience, and only later some developing serious confusion and mystification that god is speaking to them or they are dating a computer. The mystification emerges more from habit than epistemology
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Phil Lewis
13 days ago
The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haitiâs uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism
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Haiti's Winter Olympics team shines a positive light even as IOC removes patriot from uniforms
Haiti is making a statement at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with two athletes proudly representing the nation.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-olympics-uniforms-winter-games-diversity-f85baa15a623fadbc15569325efc61b5
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Thank you and farewell to this maestro of effervescence and sting
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Hetan Shah
26 days ago
âIn major assessments for maths, science and reading from 2011 to 2019, greater in-school computer use for learning correlates with lower scores. In contrast, students in classes with rare or no computer use at all typically score highestâ
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Hetan Shah
26 days ago
Blistering piece on ed tech in
@economist.com
. âAlthough ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schoolsâand often impairs it.â
economist.com/united-state...
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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
https://economist.com/united-states/2026/01/22/ed-tech-is-profitable-it-is-also-mostly-useless
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Stereogum
24 days ago
Legendary reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, one half of Sly & Robbie, has died at 73
stereogum.com/2486631/sly-...
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Judd Legum
30 days ago
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care đ§ľ
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
https://popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee
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San Francisco Chronicle
about 1 month ago
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has upheld a decision by city parks and arts officials to allow the controversial Vaillancourt Fountain to be removed from Embarcadero Plaza.
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S.F. supervisors clear way for removal of controversial fountain from Embarcadero Plaza
Preservationists on Tuesday failed to block removal of the Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza after a 10-1 vote by San Francisco supervisors.
https://bit.ly/49vGR1K
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Jonathan Cohn
8 months ago
These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.
jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
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In the new VLC,
@bassidiki.bsky.social
deftly reveals the shared imperial logic bridging the juridical + medical senses of "immunity," showing why The Sign of Four is an island novelâand, by bringing in Ross, a less exceptional one than people pretend. Read it while it's hot!
tinyurl.com/ywv45d3z
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Imperial Immunities: Ronald Ross and Arthur Conan Doyle in the Andaman Islands | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core
Imperial Immunities: Ronald Ross and Arthur Conan Doyle in the Andaman Islands - Volume 53 Issue 3
https://tinyurl.com/ywv45d3z
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Nitish Pahwa
about 2 months ago
Osita Nwanevu with the perfect rejoinder to that nonsense Compact piece (which way too many self-professed "liberals" took at face value), fleshed out with the types of actually diligent statistics and contextual analyses sorely absent from the conversation:
www.ositanwanevu.com/on-race-gend...
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On Race, Gender, and Journalism
Hello all. This is a little essay on part of another essay that's been making the rounds over the holidays. Expect a proper end of the year post shortly. One of the policy analyst Matt Bruenigâs best...
https://www.ositanwanevu.com/on-race-gender-and-journalism/?ref=nwanevu-newsletter
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*whispers* this would also be right about fan culture sorry đ
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Hyperallergic
about 2 months ago
Dallas City Council members approved exploratory measures for privatizing City Hall as they seek to sell the community site, demolishing its I.M. Pei-designed Brutalist building and a public plaza with sculptures to make way for a new casino funded by Trump donor Miriam Adelson.
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The Sinister Plan to Demolish a Brutalist Icon in Dallas
Behind the spectacle of City Hallâs potential demolition is the transfer of funding away from the public and into a few extraordinarily wealthy hands.
https://hyperallergic.com/the-sinister-plan-to-demolish-a-brutalist-icon-in-dallas/
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
about 2 months ago
I got kicked off a committee for repeatedly asking "why would we want that?"
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Texas Tribune
about 2 months ago
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a childrenâs literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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Texas A&M wonât reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with âgood cause.â
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/texas-am-system-fired-lecturer/
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Gregory Hays
about 2 months ago
Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them
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Sonja Drimmer
about 2 months ago
A better framework is to address the broader project of AI to displace interpersonal contact, thought, negotiation; and to normalize this project. This aspect of AI is essential to the economic agenda that it underpins. 2/n
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and she'd say "Nice catch!" when I pointed to a potential problem, or "Great observation" in response to my comments.
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Erin Biba
2 months ago
Steve isnât here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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charlotte g
2 months ago
itâs St Lucyâs day, so you know what that means â time for the best John Donne poem
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ali alkhatib
2 months ago
i really want to push back more forcefully on this dishonest portrayal of the self as a "neutral" party. like setting aside that it's categorically not true, it's specifically being weaponized by people who perhaps don't have expertise, but certainly have prior interests in these subjects.
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Bob Mann
2 months ago
To the New York Times, a constitutional provision is just something that's "traditional."
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
2 months ago
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution â in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller â dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
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Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York Cityâs congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the cityâs fiv...
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/congestion-pricing-improved-air-quality-nyc-and-suburbs
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Wait did everyone else already just know that What I Got is Lady Madonna đ¤Ż
2 months ago
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Nonsense from Castro. Clearly having well-funded candidates across statewide races is a good idea, but JC could obviously run for AG in any case! The idea that having a high-profile Lieutenant Governor candidate is make-or-break for an AG race is bizarre and self-serving.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
3 months ago
đ¨đ¨ Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
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Hamilton Nolan
4 months ago
It is worth saying that putting âAfricana studiesâ in scare quotes as if itâs a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. Itâs just racism. âAfrica is not worthy of a majorâ is the implication. Yeah dude youâre just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
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Will Stancil
4 months ago
Oh my god
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Max Berger
4 months ago
In contemporary authoritarian regimes, they donât ban dissenting voicesâthey have regime affiliated oligarchs buy up the big outlets and force out opposition voices. Anyway:
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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg)
4 months ago
The attack on transgender people is not made to solve a problem. It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
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In real ways I think a film better understood as an adaptation/remake of Oppenheimer than of Mary Shelley
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Bradford Vivian
4 months ago
Two "ideas" about universities are gaining stature today: *universities should declare institutional neutrality. *professors' speech is government speech (not neutral, partisan) if publicly funded. Some individuals endorse both principles, which is logically incoherent. 1/
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Chris Murphy
4 months ago
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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4 months ago
I love the French
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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NAVSA 2025
4 months ago
So excited for "A Study in Empire: How We Read Now" with brilliant colleagues Olivia Lingyi Xu, Jacob Romanow, Nasser Mufti, & Meghna Sapui at
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Wentworth fails to catch Louisa because, in his secret heart, he wants her to die
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Joanna Schwartz
5 months ago
Justice Kavanaugh: âIf the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.â
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Lovecraft Democrat
5 months ago
Rooted cosmopolitanism vs rootless nationalism.
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OlĂşfáşšĚmi O. TĂĄĂwò
5 months ago
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in itâremoves them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-can-we-live-together/
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