This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

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I finally made it guys. Flavortown

In the world small kindnesses, nothing stands out to me as much as the daycare saying “it’s nothing serious” the instant I pick up the phone.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Our friends at Princeton EAS are hosting Jianqing Chen Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. for "Love as/in Game, or Chinese Streaming Media in the Age of Involution." Looks interesting! Details here: eap.princeton.edu/events/love-...

Well, I went ahead and wrote it. An attempt to work through the discomfort people feel with AI agents on social media by reframing it as an aesthetic problem.

The sound of my childhood. I was turning in dot-matrix printed papers, faithfully output on continuous feed paper, through the end of high school in 2001. I don't think my dad retired his ImageWriter II until it was 15+ years old www.youtube.com/shorts/fO04_...

Watching pairs skating, as a lady gets flung spinning into the air, one of the four-year olds shouts: “Daddy, pick me up so I can do what she is doing!” Girl, I love the confidence, but I’m pretty that would be the end of both of us.

And how many missed opportunities because women are (rightly) warned away from certain prestigious people and places. I can say from my own career and observations of friends’ careers that this happens frequently but is rarely discussed.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

"This how men behave." NO IT IS NOT. Not once in my career have I offered a description of someone's appearance, nor I have I ever been asked. WTF. This dude should not be teaching. And we ask ourselves why women fall out of fields like CS, as if it is a mystery with guys like this out there

FIRED? Who gives a fuck about “fired”?!? How about “send them to jail for life”? And I mean ALL of ‘em.

I think the fuck not

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

Can’t believe the government headed by a man who sexually abuses children, who had all of their technology led by a man who sells CSAM for profit, whose first act was to nominate a child sexual predator for AG, is now publishing CSAM.

We all love Chotiner making his clever little remarks but he has been on a run of feeling so (correctly) disdainful of his subjects that it’s bordering on him going Chotiner: so you’re just a big piece of shit aren’t ya? Doug Warcrime: I guess so Chotiner: seems that way

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

Texas, sabotaging its people and its future. Criminal.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

I received a graduate certificate in women's and gender studies from Texas A&M in 2018. If you know my work, you know how much that foundation shaped what I do. I'm not sure what else to say right now.

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This advice is bang-on. Who you will work with as a graduate student will have far FAR more repercussions for your career and who you become as a scholar than the school you go to (and it makes the day-to-day much more tolerable than going somewhere that is more prestigious but is a bad fit).

I was just in the library doing some prep work to propose a new class for the fall, and as often happens, I got distracted by an unexpected book on the shelf next to the one I came to grab. Fodor's Peking, Revised Edition, published 1973. It is WILD.

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every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Tomorrow I’ll be teaching my first graduate seminar since I taught a readings in Classical Chinese seminar at Leiden. Seven years is far too long, and I am extremely excited! It is on computational analysis of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text, and it should be a great semester!

Border Patrol is pulling out of Minneapolis. Bovino is ending his punitive tour of blue cities. Calls for Noem's resignation are mounting, even in conservative media. Senate Democrats are dug in now on refusing to fund DHS and ICE. "Abolish ICE" is now a mainstream position. They are losing.

Prosecute him

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them. they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

I certainly hope to live long enough to see Stephen Miller imprisoned for his many crimes.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

"Abolish ICE" is the law-and-order position

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980) #everynightapoem #ofsorts

Very regular; a good boy

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

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Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

👋 We're kicking off the spring semester with the return of our Modeling Culture program! Join us on February 2 for "Modeling ‘Worth by Association’ in U.S. Book Reviews, 1905–1925" with Matthew J. Lavin, Assistant Professor of Humanities Analytics at Denison U. cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Could have gone full wall scale with this, but exercised some restraint and just did 48in by 51in