Moonlight Mask, Golden Bat, and Skullman were the original Japanese superheroes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdY...

"While elite journos and businessmen kiss the ring of Trump, people in jammies and slippers confront ICE in the street. The courage of ordinary people has been stunning compared to the elite." On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

This could give Trump his opening to go for the Insurrection Act and Martial Law. He's desperate and his falling in the polls and can't escape the economy or the Epstein Scandal. A cornered rat will chew through anything and anyone to stay alive.

Doing this when the recent elections and all the polls suggest that any fair election will thoroughly reject Trump and Republicans isn't just about cowardice. It's a declaration of allegiance to Trump's war on higher education.

This all about the crypto bros network state in Honduras fpif.org/crypto-bros-...

He paid the Bribe. Venezuela is the result of Trump meeting with the oil company's and promising them what ever he wanted for a billion dollars. He is paying that off. www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/videos/...

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳

Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.

chat are we cooked

One of my fave posts from the other site

The best photo I've ever taken of her #caturday

Pete Hegseth must be immediately called before both Houses of Congress and be told to his face in front of the nation and the world, that if he gives illegal or Unconstitutional orders, he will face prison for the rest of his natural life.

WASH POST: “As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed Hegseth’s order to leave no survivors.” Lawless. Murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Day 313 on Time Out Americans slash holiday spending as economy sparks fear. The Felon-in-Chief vows a pause on “Third World” migration, freezes all asylum, plans to pardon a Honduran ex-president, & Putin plays him on Ukraine talks. ICE detains a Native American actress over a tribal ID.

Unless you pardon them first. On Friday, Trump fully pardoned former Honduran President Hernandez, convicted in 2024 for conspiring to bring 400 TONS of COCAINE into the US. His sentence was 45 yrs!

Since Trump said he was deporting immigrants because they are criminals and drug dealers, he has brought in 17 family members of notorious cartel leader "El Chapo", accused trafficker/rapist Andrew Tate, is pardoning the Honduran drug trafficker, and has pardoned hundreds of convicted criminals

Sen. Tim Kaine on Trump’s Pardon of Fmr. Honduran President Who Brought Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US: “This is a disgusting and incomprehensible decision…” ("And Trump claims he's trying to fight narco-trafficking?" Riiiiight.) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...

"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026. In the meantime, here's the free digital version. >> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com

At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.

When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.

I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.

I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.

It's like they just keep...forgetting? Or they read the instructions and completely disregard them, even knowing that they can't pass the assignment without demonstrating really clear skills (citing material, writing on a course text, etc.). They just...don't do it. And don't seem to care.

I am forever explaining assignments which, to me, feel fairly basic. I do offer some creative options, which need a bit more context. But so many of my students seem unable to follow instructions, even when I return to them multiple times, write them down, or turn them into games or quizzes.

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.

btw if you or someone you know is a beginner/intermediate gamedev having trouble finding friendly teammates we connect people in a flexible process to finish long-term projects together, freeware jam vibes but 2-6 month schedules. no genAI art etc, the whole purpose is for people to learn and collab

lawyers posting about trump news every day

In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

I dunno if Elon actually knew how bad this would end up looking for conservatives the world over or if this is just another in a long line of baffling stupid decisions, but man am I glad calling out bots is so much easier. Bluesky needs to implement this like, yesterday.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

The number of times I've had to be extremely careful with what I said about AI at work because I will get shouted at if I'm not sufficiently "on board" is ridiculous. My honest opinion is it's garbage, but my work has made it so I can't be honest about how I feel and why.

"doesn't understand why people don't like AI" have you tried... listening. I'd like to think everyone's pretty vocal about the specific reasons. do you need it written down in a gDoc or something

There was a recent interview before this where Nadella describes how his AI agents summarize podcasts, book, emails, calls etc to him and so everything is just filtered through some kind of AI. So, essentially, yes.

WHY would you guys not want Obnoxious Unreliable Omnipresent Clippy marketed to you in the exact same way innocent geese are fed to make foie gras?

What a great headline

It's going to be hilarious to watch Stephen Miller spend the rest of his life writing stuff like this on the walls of his prison cell.

"Dear Hatemongers, We Aren't Going Back" Trump, Stephen Miller, & MAGA have already lost. No matter how hard they try to send people of color "back" to our "third world countries," there are just too many of us. We're here & we're winning. thelefthook.substack.com/p/dear-hatem...

The main thing Trump and his ilk have in common with Netanyahu and his ilk is their unwavering thirst for collective retribution. Hey when’s the last time retribution against an identity was industrialized into enslavement and mass murder hmmm…

I've been to all 50 States, worked overseas for a decade, and married into an extended family in Southeast Asia. None of my life experience supports this bile spewed by Miller. People are basically the same everywhere, good and bad. What a lonely, stunted man.

🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad. "It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees... "Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer." www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Hegseth is an undisciplined man in every respect. Therefore, he resents rules, guardrails, and laws because he lacks the ability to comply. Instead, he behaves and believes like an evergreen adolescent. He lobbied for the pardon of Eddie Gallagher. Talk about signs.

“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024. It’s almost as if there were signs! bsky.app/profile/anna...