From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

one of my big takeaways lately is in 2026 we are now basically at 20 years of social media. this is a clear marker. we can now look back and assess the results. i am tempted to say we will determine social media was basically about as socially beneficial as the plague.

As @jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I wrote, “Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist.” Same goes for instructors.

darkly funny for the U.S. to do lebensraum in service of its version of AI, which is far more material and energy intensive than China’s Deepseek. it’s akin to annexing your neighbor’s house because you need more space for your dial-up modems. or stealing a continent to fill it with cars and lawns…

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them

It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.

this seems small in comparison, but we need a boycott of the World Cup. we need to see empty stadiums, teams staying home, and massive financial losses. it gives me no pleasure as a soccer fan, but anything less is a tacit endorsement of war crimes.

Is there a BDS for the US

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

The United States is a rogue actor throwing the world into disarray. It hosts war criminal Netanyahu, sanctions ICC and European officials, launches strikes around the world, and now kidnaps foreign leaders. Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

The 'financialize everything' company is helping ghouls, demons, and scumbags cash in on this stupid, unlawful invasion

this is an illegal kidnapping that should land every single member of the Trump administration on the Interpol Red Notice list

It’s been said, but I am legitimately shocked at how the anti-DEI shit has just morphed straight into,”Why are there Black people in [insert institution]?”

“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

It drives me nuts too but its literally how the American criminal justice system treats death by driver. If you can prove you were just a typical American driver and not trying to commit a homicide, you might spend at most a week in jail, if not that.

Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

I am not a moral absolutist about gambling. I’ve been to Vegas and Atlantic City and several casinos in Connecticut and Maryland, and I used to play pick up poker with buddies in college. But the degree to which our society has expanded it in recent decades strikes me as a sickness, a rot.

in 50 years, people will be astonished that the 2075 equivalent of Duracell once produced cars that murdered people and its owner was the world's richest white supremacist

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

the vice president is a klansman

The wealthiest 10% of humans emit ~47% or ~77% of global greenhouse gases annually, depending on whether emissions are allocated based on consumption of emissions-intensive goods and services on on ownership of polluting assets. wir2026.wid.world/insight/exec...

The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:

This was a human being. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Another incredible case of white racial grievance about the academic job market. He reveals at the end that he wouldn’t provide the necessary application materials!

Cheap Nation Falling Apart https://theonion.com/cheap-nation-falling-apart-1850156543/

My normiest opinion is that one of the most important organizational innovations ever was the separation of ownership from management. Alfred Chandler (🐐) was cooking with that observation. Small business despots, even overgrown ones, need to be kept as far from the levers of power as possible.

Geography, Environment, and Sustainability at UNCG is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental science with an emphasis in hydrology and water resources. Interdisciplinary approach and ability to connect to social sciences and humanities a huge plus. Come work with me!

reminder that these people are completely feral and any incoming non-fascist regime needs a concrete plan for shuttering, disarming, demobilizing, and deradicalizing ICE/CBP or we'll be facing the largest and most well-armed band of white supremacist privateers on US soil since the 19th century

Critical minerals currently being stockpiled by the Pentagon for weapons could be used to decarbonize the economy instead– at a time when our shrinking climate window demands decisive action. Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...

I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)

perfect encapsulation of the generational failure of media to grapple with the far right

“faculty lounge” lol, I eat homemade frozen burritos at my desk

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

a real "what would you call this in any other country" kind of story

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

this is praxis, the chatbots can occupy themselves while we go touch grass, live decent lives, and unplug them

there are five trains per day between Raleigh and Charlotte and almost every month they set a new ridership record

Publicly posting course syllabi will harm North Carolina’s universities ncnewsline.com/2025/12/11/p... (commentary) #unc #ncpol

Our syllabi are already public record so the only conceivable reason to create a public repository is to encourage bad-faith attacks on specific faculty and departments in order to impose ideological conformity to Heritage-approved topics. Please sign the petition!

these men proudly admit their lack of curiosity and hatred of knowledge acquisition because it is a core selling point of their products: to enable users to remain intellectually and emotionally little more than a child but do things we used to expect of adults by default