people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

Spectacular thread.

Excellent analysis today from @atrupar.com in PN: The GOP "has done untold damage to the nation over the past two and a half decades, particularly during its domination by Trump. America would probably be far better off sending it into the dustbin of history." www.publicnotice.co/p/late-trump...

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-... Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:

Had a delightful night in St. Paul at Grandiloquent, the one-man show by the incomparable @garygulman.bsky.social. This wasn't a mere stand-up act; this was narrative art. Gulman's riff on 90s grunge and Mookie Blaylock is alone worth the price of admission. (Pic from his '23 show at "The Fitz.")

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

When Jesus said, "Don't be afraid, little flock,” it isn’t as pastoral as it sounds. Instead, it is a clarion call to resist the empire without fear. Because God isn’t on the side of billionaires and “bad shepherds.” Sunday Musings open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

Honestly never gonna get tired of this. I love the useless trillion-dollar plagiarism robot that's propping up our sham economy and giving one out of every three Silicon Valley guys instant schizophrenia

It’s a difficult proposition for undergrads to work through, but choosing a major isn’t really about what kind of jobs you want to do so much as what sorts of questions you want to think about or *how* you want to think about questions throughout your life.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

For thrills, I chatted with ChatGPT about the ethics of a president accepting a gift of a jet from a foreign government. I never mentioned Trump and the Qataris; I just asked about the ethics, history, and likely outcomes of such a scenario. Worth reading. chatgpt.com/share/682210...

Our nation is led by ghouls, who were elected by 70+ million tiny fiends in ugly red hats.

Legacy media keeps pushing “young man have radicalized” narrative, to fit their equally wrong “the people have become more right-wing narrative. Real story is “radicalization” of young women… but, like their sisters in previous generations, they only live in shadows (negations) of their male peers.

Credulous Princeton prof throws the humanities under the bus after being seduced by ChatGPT. Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Related to this: America's current crisis can probably be traced to the utter destruction of the idea that the humanities are higher education's foundation.

How is it possible that citizens would elect someone this dumb?

New in PN: Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big deal "Voters by now have demonstrated their ability to choose diarrhea forever over everyone gets a puppy, & to vote away their own rights and democracy. But the WI election is a chance to start turning the country away from authoritarianism"

People are seduced into autocracy by their hatred of bureaucracy, which is really their hatred of democracy, which is really their hatred of anyone controlling them, which is really their hatred of controlling themselves.

This is the crux of it. Leaders *change* public opinion. Trump has *radically* changed public opinion. Democratic consultants who do focus groups aren’t who Democrats should be listening to—they should focus on leading the public and aggressively reshaping views of Trump.

This is an evergreen tweet for this era.

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Happy Presidents' Day. No more kings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...

Wait...people really think Kendrick Lamar's performance was supposed to be patriotic? Please bring back liberal arts 😭😭😭

I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtrooper's.

An unelected billionaire is illegally seizing control of the US government apparatus and carrying out a flurry of crimes as part of an unprecedented authoritarian power grab that directly violates several laws and the US Constitution. Say it plainly. It’s fact.

You can obey the Constitution or you can obey the Trump administration, but you can't do both. We need more voices, from more sectors, stating the problem in those terms. Anything less implies there's a compromise position or middle ground. There isn't. It's constitutional democracy or fascism.

There’s a lot of value in a humanities education, but being able to see through glib con men is a nice one.

Joe Biden is not transferring power to Donald Trump. He’s transferring it to you and Mr and everyone who still cares about democracy and who will do everything they can to keep it alive.

An underappreciated aspect of the Nazi rise is how quickly German *society* fell into line. In early March 1933, a majority of German voters voted against the Nazis. By late spring, pretty much the whole country backed them. How did that happen? Here's a little thread. (1/6)

As a genX Minnesota Vikings fan, I commend FoxNFL for playing Husker Du while heading to commercial after that Viking field goal.

Writing is an act of rebellion. Writing is an act of creation. Writing is an act of salvation. Writing is an act of exploration. Writing is an act of emotion. Writing is an act of confession. Writing is an act of speculation. Writing is an act of reflection. Keep writing.

I’ve written a lot about how we (product folks) love to talk about how our teams build things: releases and sprints and product operating systems... But some colleagues are deeply uninterested in what happens in the kitchen. A thought on reading the room (audiences) www.mironov.com/read-the-room/

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Every day I give thanks to the universe that I came of age in the 1980s.

Yes to this. Too many in our weary world seem to think that the scientist and the artist are inherently at odds, and that to advance one domain we must diminish the other. That is not true, and never had been.

This coulda been our president-elect tonight America but you chose authoritarianism instead

When you're looking for all the reasons this old tweet suggests Kash Patel may not be a suitable choice for a position like FBI director, don't overlook "he doesn't understand the difference between singular and plural possessive forms." "The Deep States' ass"? One ass possessed by multiple states?

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I was re-reading my article, “What a Healthy Team Looks Like” and I realized that in all the best teams I’ve been a part of, everyone was involved in discovery in some way. The best PMs don’t presume to know all the q’s and create time & space for the team to pursue discovery activities.

For anyone still in high school please do not let the wicked movie encourage you to get a degree in musical theater. Save your money move to a city with a healthy arts scene, take a class with a crazy teacher who would get fired from a traditional university, see shows, maybe-

IMO — After the insurrection — our elected leaders obeyed in advance… #FightFascism And they are continuing to do so. He and all insurrectionists should have been imprisoned immediately. We cannot allow our country to be invaded domestic nor foreign terrorists.

While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:

I know they collapsed to let the Bears tie the game but that was a great win for the Vikings. To come up with a stop and then a score in overtime after the momentum had totally swung in Chicago’s favor was impressive. #skol