there's a lot of competition but i think you can make a valid argument that the TikTok ban is the biggest political unforced error the Dems have made in modern history

So this is apparently a thing that exists, but unfortunately their events page is completely broken so it's a little difficult to figure out which coffee shops to boycott.

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

It’s actually amazing that Dems are both dumber and worse at politics than Republicans. Really hard to believe, but there it is.

Correggio, Martyrdom of St. Rocky (1524) (h/t Todd Burks)

one day, everyone will have always been against this

I think you'll find that this isn't true.

THEY'RE CALLED GROYPERS COOP. A GAGGLE OF YOUNG MEN ONLINE WHO CAN'T DELINEATE BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND ENTERTAINMENT. DARNDEST THING. ONE OF THEIR SHELL CASINGS TURNED THREE OF OUR BEST AGENTS GAY.

GWOT made everyone dumber.

Pretty gross! NYT characterizes the murder of civilians as part of an “uneven track record” and immediately parrots that the killings were “justified.”

America’s answer to that Japanese dog that sells sweet potatoes.

I imagine that in 30 years, historians of this period of American decline will probably call it something like 笨蛋时代.

There are many fascists working in higher ed. They are a minority, but they know that this is an unprecedented moment for them to gain power within the institution. They are making their plays. You can just tell them to shut up instead of extending good faith to their nonsense.

the uva interim president isn't just any old FedSoc member, he's in good enough standing that UVA's local chapter named an award after him then, in classic FedSoc self-dealing fashion, proceeded to give it to his wife two of the first three times it was awarded www.fedsocatuvalaw.org/chapter-awar...

“The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies through a database created by UC Berkeley and Stanford University.”

Context: he wrote "nature is healing" in response to someone saying they saw a cop crying in his car because Trump lost in 2020.

Copyright is a form of policing. It’s inherently rooted in censorship and surveillance. Historically, copyright accelerates consolidation of power and extracts creativity for profit. If we use copyright to fight AI, it consolidates power further. A future where everything is licensed? No thx

This AI lady just can’t get enough of that horrific leg lengthening surgery.

i havent seen a columbia with this little integrity since 2003

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“antisemitism tsar” is an incredible phrase

THE STARS AT NIGHT TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.

It has come to my attention that Marc Andreessen looks like Bill from Guess Who

Well, sure. Bibi and TJ are of a kind.

American History X The Everything App

Holy shit, this is amazing

I have lots of thoughts about AI companies’ practices, but the particular outrage this piece wants to stir up seems misguided They purchased in-print books from major retailers & destroyed them during scanning—no rare books were harmed—books are not sacred objects simply because they’re printed

here are the results: since january 1, 2021, rufo has appeared in the WSJ 32 times. in the same period, he appeared in NYT 167 times.

The UVA board members collectively gave $4.8 million to Republicans. Only 16% of faculty gave to political campaigns. If the same percentage of *all* UVA employees donated, we'd have to each give more than a thousand dollars to Democrats to match these 15 board members.

The pseudonymous account Rev. Howard Arson accused Saeed Ismail of being a fake, AI-generated person. After I wrote about how Saeed is real, Arson is now creating AI videos of Saeed and his blanket. I don’t know Arson’s goal with all of this, but it strikes me as incredibly cruel.

Coming to America is a strange experience for someone with a complex racial, religious, ethnic and national background. These many identities get subsumed under a racial or national identity that is then hyphenated with America.

"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.

Eugenicist source aside, the NYT Mamdani college admissions story is illustrative of how a person of color can be accused of playing the race card simply for existing as a person of color. Shameful, but not surprising.

I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.

You are disgusting hideous scum, not a person but swine, and I hope I can count on your vote

me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.

It occurs to me that Jim Ryan calling in the state police to violently suppress peaceful protestors probably reduces the chance of that he’ll get bailed out by a Teresa Sullivan style protest movement.

If you're about to post something mean about Andrew Cuomo, I urge you to pause, take a deep breath, and think of something even meaner.

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

next up: can you primary the times ed board

brad lander primary chuck schumer

all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat

To treat Zohran Mamdani as the kind of “dangerous” force that requires pulling out every dirty trick, agèd reprobate, and millions of dollars while handling Trump’s constitutional demolition derby with kid gloves is simply unforgivable.

“They say that the next ones will be sent by a woman.”

I get so tired of all the ways pundits talk around Democrats’ real problem, which is so obvious that an entire industry exists to obfuscate it. They cannot describe, let alone attack, the real sources of injustice in this country because to do so would indict themselves and their donors.

if you have a well behaved, sociable dog it can be fun and appropriate to bring them on leash to some demonstrations but please bring water for them & be prepared to leave early if they show signs of heat distress. i am seeing some dogs who are not doing well out here.