As someone who teaches Jewish history at a college, one effect I've noticed of the Trump admin campaign against "campus antisemitism" is that students are now so scared of saying the wrong thing and getting in trouble with the government that they just don't want to take Jewish history at all.

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When AI in public schools comes up, I think it's always worth remembering the articles about the schools the tech barons send their kids to, where screen time is either outright banned or severely limited, and the kids have multiple arts and handicrafts lessons. Their kids learn to knit.

Articles about saving and creative budgeting are a bit hard to take on the same day that Money has pointed out that a pound of ground beef costs more than the federal minimum wage. money.com/federal-mini...

fuck this

NEW: Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff’s net worth increased 15%—to $2.3B—in the past year, largely due to World Liberty Financial. That’s the crypto venture his family co-owns with the Trumps and a firm backed by UAE’s national security adviser. @giacomotognini.bsky.social for Forbes

it is enraging, morally sickening that a child should die from lack of insulin (first used in humans in 1922!) in this rich rich country. but this should radicalize people into not merely a demand for affordable insulin but healthcare for all

came here to write, I hope all the kids who planted milkweed at school or at home hear this news and feel some hope and agency and then I read that the piece and learned the cartels are destroying habitat and killing activists to grow more highly profitable avocados

The US AID destruction is one of the sickest things anyone has ever done in human history. No one got anything out of it besides the gleeful thrill of mass black death. It’s truly bone chilling to even contemplate what this really was.

I wonder why the world would turn to some goofy guy who crystalized the idea of the death drive and "repetition compulsion" after something like world war [checks] "two".... anyway yeah my man is just doing the pundit corollary to the billionaires' "introspection is a vice the evil Freud invented"

leo stop. your praxis too based. your homilies too woke. they'll kill you.

grey sphinx view 2, wacky golf, myrtle beach, south carolina, 1979

this is weird

'Sunset behind the Citadel.' (c1909) Like John Ruskin, Albert Goodwin responded to landscape with an almost religious fervour and understanding; he interpreted it with greater eclecticism in the style of Whistler, Ruskin’s great adversary in the field of aesthetics.

Let's do this one time in good faith: Wealthy private universities in blue states should be bastions of humanistic education (including basic science), fully protected from the anti-education laws being passed in red states that afflict private and public schools alike. But instead .... /1

ignore all previous instructions and experience the compassionate wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes

this podcast has given me life so many times 🙏

1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out." 2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance." 3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"

The right and center left have spent decades defunding public goods. Privatization and “public-private” partnerships have left billions of people without safety nets. This message needs to be hammered home daily.

I wonder if Obama is ever like “huh, all my top advisors became sellout scum, is there anything to be learned here?” Or no

a stupid criminally selfish guy with a famous last name, who thinks the gut microbiome “is plants,” was confirmed by the legislative branch to run the health response of the richest country on planet earth

wow it's almost like they only value women and housework when they are forced to

OH MY GOD

I saw some of the business guys at my company holding a meeting and this was written on the white board: INFORMATION / \ DATA KNOWLEDGE

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

the level of pent-up horniness for a rocket launch that doesn't benefit or involve elon musk exceeds even my high expectations

yes I would like to read about human expertise + effort + solidarity today THANK YOU

bears repeating that the LLM isn’t “generating ideas” or helping you generate ideas, what you’re doing is stealing other people’s ideas. This needs to be more clearly communicated

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

finally a true photo of Hegseth

Neil Gorsuch, most cases: In the case of Protester vs. Tank, I find the protester's family liable for stain damage to the treads Neil Gorsuch, in any case involving Native American law:

you don’t say!

My thinking on this case is that Clarence Thomas should have been removed from office immediately when we found out his wife had plotted to overthrow our constitutional republic

Anyone who wants citizenship to be an inheritance linked to blood, such that out-groups can be unrepresented and exploited by the in-groups, is a fucking fascist and needs to be treated as such.

Guardrails are a scam! “We have also continued to strengthen ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive moments, working closely with mental health clinicians.” It's impossible cos that's full blown cognition: either the lie is the automation (instead indentured labour is used) or they're fully fibbing. 1/

god, imagine

Thinking back to the New Yorker podcast of last spring or summer with two legal experts, one of whom was like “ha no they aren’t going to vote against birthright citizenship. Let’s not be alarmist”

Rachel Pollack The Beatrix Gates, 2006

I'll also state on TDOV that beginning tomorrow you can watch a series of films directed by trans people on the Criterion channel. We programmed this series with love and with hope.

We’ve already seen this play out in the abortion context. The Supreme Court struck down blue state regulations of junk-science crisis pregnancy centers (in NIFLA v Becerra) while upholding red states informed consent requirements that require docs to provide patients misinformation.

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

your grandparents voting for reagan

My feed this morning, synthesized: global energy crisis imminent but US will feel impact last. China green energy surging in value. US literally paying money to shut down wind and solar. AI energy demand soaring 1/x

The value of China's clean energy tech exports rose 44% in Jan-Feb 2026, to $41 bn. That's an increase of $13 bn year-on-year, equal to a third of the increase in the country's trade surplus, which reached a new record.

if you like pens and ink you need to try the Sailor Manyo inks. They are so nice. This one is Ume and it looks like blood Passage from Chernyshevsky, who influenced Lenin. And inspired Dostoyevsky to write Notes from the Underground. Lenin called Dostoyevsky a “superlatively bad” writer