over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

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Fellas, is it gay to eat regional brand Cheerios?

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

Damn fossils are cool

After having time to sit with it, I have decided that I did not care for Del Toro's 'Frankenstein.' I didn't like Victor, and I thought that most of the changes from the novel (I like the 1818 version) were less impactful. The first act was fun, though.

Far and away the best live-action Batman movie out there.

My contributor copy of Tales of Sley House 2025 from @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social came in today! Pick it up to read my story, "Scratches," the second piece of fiction that has been published! It means so much that people want to share the stories I've been working on.

Socrates, c. 380 BCE

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thanks to AI you can now become the malignant illusion spinning demiurge whom Descartes had to axiomatically banish in order to make Rationality possible

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

'Gremlins,' Joe Dante (1984)

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Huh. It's the right call, but I can't believe there are some actual consequences. Good for the IGA.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

I think the final boss of Metroid Dread is one of my favorites of all time

Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane? Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.

My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated. The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.

Wild that this is happening at the same time that the Popularist crowd has decided to declare a jihad against any kind of climate policy.

It's impossible to teach anyone anything under these rules. There must be something that kills your ability to educate people when you become an administrator. They're the worst.

We could do easily (and cheaply) overhaul education by getting ed tech out of the classroom, but we don't. We don't because bad products pushed on dumb administrators in the name of "efficiency" is a big business at our expense.

Turning 'Animal Farm' into a dreamworks-style, jokey kids movie is like a '30 Rock' bit

increasingly clear that the academy’s mad rush into AI & concordantly away from the humanities corresponds to that same shift in the priorities of intelligence & defense funding—so accustomed to it now that they no longer know how to do anything different. the university as cargo cult

I read a few stories from this collection on Kindle, and when I finished "Tiptoe," I preordered this book. Barron's onto something special with this collection, and it deserves a special edition.

Sweet, fancy Moses...

Buddy, you couldn't get a confession like this out of me if you threatened to murder me with a gun. He sounds like a terrible father.

Batshit insane to ask people to be impressed that you wrote a prompt. It's like calling yourself a talented artist because you commissioned the painting. Everyone thinking that's work is a colossal fucking idiot.

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

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Every time I boot up Metroid: Dread, I wonder why I play any other games in my library. It's become a new favorite, a new comfort game to pick up during high-stress times.

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30

Would pay an embarrassing amount* of money for a Shining Force II one of these. *probably about $35 max

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And if Tarantino, as much as I like his work, had ever directed anything as good as the Matthew Lillard scenes in Twin Peaks: The Return, maybe he wouldn't feel the need to shit on quality actors.

This extends to teaching, I think. The best essays I've encountered this year are unique, personal, reflective, and (of course) weird. We are most ourselves when we indulge in the weird, especially when it comes to writing.

Tinker Tailor Soulja Boy

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death"

This technology that people in school administrations and higher education are demanding everyone get behind because it's "the future" and "we just have to accept it," which is, nfn, the language of abuse.

Sure, Jack.

I'm at the combination