Harris Faulkner last seen asking Grok to generate two dozen international airports in Idaho

THROUGH A SPOKESPERSON

Amazing that she's saying this while flanked by Kelly Loeffler, who paid for her MBA by mortgaging land inherited from her grandparents

Soviet science is back, baby

Kids, don't help AI steal art

Tony Blair used to just look like the guy who was bitter about having been kicked out of a successful prog rock band. Now he looks like a fucking vampire. Which he is.

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

trans rights might sound like a Big Ask to some people, but it's not a Hard Ask. the average person has to do literally nothing

The latest issue of ILWCH is out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

MIT closing three of its four libraries is shocking and appalling and underscores that the source of so much of the crisis in higher education comes not from attacks from the far right or the collapse of public trust, but rather from the university administrative class itself.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Meanwhile, MIT is closing its libraries

My heresy, as someone born and raised in NYC, is that I endorse this take

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

German language is still in Gen Ed, but the only words students learn are Gleichschaltung and Jawohl mein Führer

Milli Vanilli? i'm speechless -- like them

Zitron nails it www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...

Captain Beef-fart is going to route all those international flights into Tulsa and Abilene and it's gonna be a whoop ass time

Boy is the AHA dedicated to constantly reminding me why I cancelled my membership. 🗃️

The AHA (@historians.org) sent this condescending, chicken-shit email to its members today. While the organization has done next to nothing to advocate for scholars navigating a dismal academic job market, it has fought assiduously to silence pro-Palestinian voices within its ranks. For shame. 🗃️

These fucking demons told me that my neighbor wanted to eat my dog and now they want to talk about social trust evaporating

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

PopenAI

A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.

“It’s just burning. I just wanted to try to keep people safe.” ICE fired pepper spray at Senator Andy Kim and protesters outside a detention facility in New Jersey. Not another penny should go to these out-of-control agencies — and when we regain power, we will hold all of these thugs accountable.

Something something respect for our armed forces and their sacrifices

Fuck this, listen to Erika Andiola's "Homeland Insecurity" -- which NPR people should have listened to when it came out in 2020. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

I've been adding to this Coretta Scott King thread for the past month. But for Memorial Day, I wanted to highlight Coretta Scott King's longstanding antiwar activism & the ways she led the way, influenced her husband & stood up against "constant denunciation to oppose the Vietnam War.Please share.

I strongly encourage them to do this in July and August, key vacation months and just a couple of months before the elections apnews.com/article/sanc...

We won’t stay silent while ICE plans to expand deadly detention in our state. Join us for a rally and press conference on May 26 at 2:00 PM in front of the NC General Assembly. Learn more: https://acluofnc.org/sdrally2026

Writing is thinking Writing is drinking

why are people arguing about bluesky this morning? it’s a rainy day. you could be out there getting drenched and falling ill

Just gonna point out that Nazis' whole project is to create a big bubble by eradicating anyone who they don't think belongs in it

OK. But remember that Tillis was the deciding vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, voted to confirm RFK Jr, and called Kash Patel "the real deal" before voting for him as well. Every now and then (as with the BBB) he reads the tea leaves correctly, that's all.

Iran should hold out for the Epstein files lol

Stephen Colbert, South Carolina native, has the chance to do the funniest thing

Welcome their hatred

And he's from South Carolina

The good news: Leeches are much better than bleeding. Not so good: they both suck

NEW: Immigrants at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in NJ began a hunger and labor strike this AM. Local advocates and a wife of one of the detained organizers say there are hundreds of participants across multiple units, demanding their freedom. gothamist.com/news/immigra...

Hundreds of people inside Delaney Hall are on hunger and labor strike protesting their continued detention. They're demanding @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social come speak to them. Round-the-clock vigil happening now. #abolishice @north.dsanj.org

I posted earlier today about his approach to words with four syllables. Sadly, his approach to words with only one syllable is even stupider.

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

The major change is that people will be shifting to other search engines

Get in loser, we're going to the Problem Solvers Caucus meeting.

Trump has never encountered a four-syllable word that he will not pause and reflect on, stupidly, before thinking he knows how to use it effectively

Pallets of cash

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.