I've got so many things packed into today that I am having to cut everything 5 minutes short so I can get to the next thing.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

At what point do scholars/media give a name to the generation that learns almost nothing because we have made AI ubiquitous in our educational system? Less prepared, less skilled, less thoughtful, and more in debt. This gen are partially to blame, but the neo-liberal order is the real villain.

Yikes!

Another reason to make all writing (at least at intro levels) in class.

I thought this was the best description ever:

Went to the ordination of a good friend of mine tonight. Good things are happening despite a flailing Christian nationalism in American culture.

Great post

The best part of writing/editing is letting it sit.

American adults with a four-year college degree Hindus 70% Episcopalians 67% Jews 65% Agnostics 53% Atheists 48% Muslims 44% Buddhists 41% Catholics 35% National average 35% Evangelicals 29% https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/19/which-us-religious-groups-are-most-highly-educated/

Gave two of the pups their spring haircuts. This goofball was odd pup out.

The possibility that *all of this* is just one giant interconnected web of money, information, corruption, abuse, and enslavement just keeps hitting us in the face.

Can we dupe him into pushing for scotus term limits?!?!?

I’m sure their families have heightened security at this point. I read that as a not so veiled threat.

This. One of my best friends in high school loved this show and eventually ended up chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader. It is an identity.

Been learning about the Strangers churches in 16th c. England. Pretty fascinating.

“Doers of the word”

Practical priority #1 is Dem control of the House, but the huge looming issue over our heads is that we cannot just rely on Dem election victories to give us a legis that is going to do its job of constraining the exec & putting the judiciary in its place. We have to solve the structural problems.

Lot of folks on bluesky scratching their chins at this use of "modern" hmmmm

Isn’t this basically how Facebook started?

Two-party system is big fun. If only we had had time to fix this.

It’s wild watching the rest of the world put enormous pressure on the US pedophile class by actually holding their leaders accountable. Love to see it!

You know what I would pay money to see on July 4, 2026 on the White House lawn? A locked cage with RFK jr and Kidrock (both unarmed) and a giant grizzly bear.

He’s lying. He knows everything.

This is just too funny. You can’t make up stuff like this.

Whoa

man, the English loved burning people in the 16th century. Sometimes I can't even figure out why they did it. "So-and-so lived a happy life and was in good graces with the church and the crown...and then he was burned at the stake." What happened??

no one, absolutely no one, shows up to vote without basic ID. What a clown.

This borders on blasphemy.

Jesse Jackson was the anti-christian nationalism Christian. Let's see how many institutions lower those flags in comparison to Kirk's death.

I have this campaign poster from Jackson’s 1984 campaign in my office. RIP to a real one.

Actually crying right now www.nbcnews.com/video/jesse-...

ICE killing in our town now.

“Users are not organically coming across enraging, polarizing, and addictive content. It is being served up to us on a silver platter.“ open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

I bought my wife a bird feeder with a video camera on it to live stream for Christmas and she is loving that thing. Our island is apparently full of all sorts of specie of birds.

Lots of reposting of this today, and at first glance it gives off Anti-Federalist vibes, but their argument was about population size, not ethnic purity.

Out for dinner!!

What's amazing is that I have any research requirements at all for tenure/promotion *and* my school doesn't even have JSTOR accounts for us. I can buy one if I want. But its pretty ridiculous.

Deep into the world of William Tyndale today. People had very strong opinions about translating the bible into English.

I’ve been doing a reading group on something ‘non-partisan’ (fiction) to draw people into larger discussions & it is fairly clear that most people live in some bizarro reality created by 24hr news. It’s hard to have discussions with them, bc they are so confused about what is actually going on.

Been wearing my Impeach Trump hat in the evenings when we go out and people are starting to give me positive comments about it over the last couple weeks. Trying to give people permission to believe that he needs to go.

Did you see this today? Anti #ICE protesters carried a MASSIVE U.S. Constitution through the streets of Minneapolis. Not a flag. Not a slogan. The Constitution. Thousands marched, demanding accountability and asking whether federal enforcement is aligning with the rights written on those pages.

“We’re going to grind all of you into dust on the factory floor. Because we can.”

We should put these people in prison for being stupid. I’m sick of it. www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai...

This reminds me of a recent AI commercial in which the AI would not unlock the door to the apartment to let the person leave for work until the person took their vitamin smoothie. Scary stuff.

This is the perfect encapsulation of where we are. The Sec of HHS, my friends.

You don’t do what they want either way. You do what is right and then navigate the consequences.

Just graded an in-class essay exam that began like this: “The major premise of the Declaration of Independence is that all white men are created equal…” 🔥🔥

Worked 12 hours with a one-hour break early evening to talk about a book with friends. Come home and have to deal with mom’s first bed sore. Hoping for some good sleep.

Things are garbage at the moment, but I have successfully shifted my writing mindset from 1k words a week to 1k words a workday. Forging ahead with some speed at the moment.