“As some universities and journals adopt AI-text detectors, they risk creating a feedback loop that constrains how authors express themselves. I have seen colleagues intentionally simplify their grammar or break down complex rhetorical structures to avoid arousing algorithmic suspicion.”

Ahh, false spring in the Midwest!

Don’t miss this little gem: www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

For me one of the most disturbing aspects of the links between Epstein and academia is that the power and incentive structures that encouraged this entanglement are all still in place. Structurally, nothing has changed.

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

Imagine if they got more competitive about curing diseases or some shit like that instead of this stupid shit that sucks

this always pissed me off when fellow bartenders would say it. it’s just an excuse they make so they can treat black patrons worse.

14/ “DOGE employees uploaded Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud, agency whistleblower says” 8/26/25 fedscoop.com/doge-social-...

“[It’s] just over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture and the reality of the meaning of gender,” “It’s unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it’s fucking wrong. And you can quote me on that.”

The influenza reporting dashboard for Massachusetts shows that 260 people have died from flu-related illness in recent months — including seven children and 253 adults. Seven adult deaths were reported in the most recent weekly period. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

A white rider carrying a Black Barbie doll with beads around her neck like a noose on a float called “Crack Pipe.” I look forward to the excuses about how this was “misconstrued” and how “liberal and diverse” Tucks is

To commentate Valentine’s Day, community members and Recovery Bike Shop help put hearts along central at spots where our community members were taken. In the last 3 months at least 38 people have been taken around central Ave.

🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract. The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

Scott Presler should give Elon Musk more credit. Musk’s “DOGE” team also overhauled and expanded the f#cked up “Save” system that is the cornerstone of the GOP’s f#cked up “Save America Act”, a f#cked up voter purge scheme that Musk has relentlessly promoted on X using his f#cked up algorithms. 1/

The Nation: 'The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize' 'With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.” www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Mayor Mamdani: “Our city has a duty not just to honor this legacy, but to live up to it…I will always fight for a New York City that invests in our LGBTQ+ community, defends their dignity, & protects every one of our neighbors—without exception.” hyperallergic.com/defying-trum... @hyperallergic.com

Judge gives US 2 weeks to retrieve student deported to Honduras while traveling for Thanksgiving trib.al/ZC8ItVD

Gavin, goddammit. What nonexistent group of voters are you trying to appeal to now?

Beware the menopausal Gen X, we were raised by coked up parents who left us all alone in the house at 7 years old, and were lied to about shoulder pads and acid wash. We have all the rage and zero fucks to give.

Trump: “The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections. This was not what our Founders desired … There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!“

More evidence of an emerging police state in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Apple’s Cook donated at least $1m to Trump and last year during a visit to the White House made a gift to him of a 24-karat gold sculpture. He also most recently attended a private screening of MELANIA. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Terrible. The bill now goes to the Senate. Make those calls. 202-224-3121 www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

You can call fascists vile without using their tools. You don't need to make fun of bad people for being fat or ugly or for their gender or ableness of their bodies. It's just shitty, white guy behavior. None of us like Pam Bondi, but now none of us like you either.

underground groups are delivering groceries, taking ppl to appts, doing laundry for ppl too afraid to leave their homes and go to a laundromat. it’s bad here and hasn’t gotten better despite what the regime says.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Today I thought to myself, after discovering the criminality of Nixon, Americans chose Carter as POTUS, a man with more integrity than any other President before and after. It made me feel hopeful that the same type of person will be elected after Trump is gone.

Dear Legislators, The regime is buying warehouses. Lots of them. FOR HUMANS. Maybe you should try to stop them? Sincerely, My generational trauma

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

Widespread Twerking is my new band name.

US HIRING AT RECESSION LEVELS: HIRING RATE AT 3.3%, MATCHING THE 2020 CRISIS AND NEAR A 13-YEAR LOW.

I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change

once again, the ancient and quirky institution of the grand jury stands up for liberty when all kinds of modern institutions have failed.

This one is in Longfellow

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

If you eat CHICKEN without owning a HOME???? Check your priorities or build a home out of CHICKEN BONES

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

When a 6 yo told me that “some girls have a penis and some girls have a vagina” I was shocked at how much better she was at explaining transgender than any of my adult friends are.

“Can a girl marry a girl?” Way easier than “What color are our souls?” five minutes later.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

I think it’s supercool of the authoritarian panopticon doorbell company to name themselves after the demon video that kills you in 7 days; almost as cool as the authoritarian panopticon precrime software company to name themselves after the evil demon orb that puts its users in thrall to Sauron.

Minneapolis for the win.

An American in Milan apologizes to the world

Rowan and Dani have been on a beautiful journey. Next time in Toronto, Understory will be my first stop for coffee.

Walking up to an open restaurant and pulling on the door before realizing it’s locked and you need to wait for someone to let you in. Pretty common experience the last 2 months around the metro. Minneapolis, February 2026