"And this is why we — former mercenaries with Nazi tattoos, a history of edgelord message board postings, various gradations of sexual assault and sex pest accusations — can't have nice things."

"Some researchers praise the tool — but others are voicing concerns" —an actual sentence from this writeup about a program **whose entire purpose is fraud** since its goal is to help you pass off work that is not your own as work that you yourself have done

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

Absolutely this. Right-wing capitalism wants to reinforce the idea that the only meaningful 'returns' on education or intellectual endeavor are economic. They've successfully restricted the meaning of 'return' to mean $, salary, ignoring or dismissing the non-economic returns of thinking.

This is a great example of what's called "pluralistic ignorance" -- the phenomenon whereby most people share a particular view, but they *don't think other people share it*. In this case: most people are concerned about climate change but think others aren't.

This is the most powerful thing I've read in a good long while, and I urge all of you to read it too. I'm gonna be sitting with this one for some time.

I’m sorry to have to tell you about the Major Questions Doctrine and I know it seems to have been forgotten but as soon as a Democratic president reaches the White House suddenly the government will be able to do nothing because major questions

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Like his friend Paul Nash who he met at the Slade, Claughton Pellew believed trees held a spiritual quality. This work from 1924 likely features his wife Emma (also an artist) walking near their home at Southrepps, North Norfolk.

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

“The policy also appears to pre-empt any potential challenge from Auburn’s accreditor: “No external standard, recommendation, norm, action, or process shall limit the Board’s authority over institutional curriculum… or require the University to act contrary to law or Board policy”

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

"If it's guilt you're looking for, Buffy, I'm not your man. All you will get from me is my support... and my respect."

Oh no.

Pierre Bonnard (1891)

Carmen by Marc Chagall

I want to say one thing about this. This has been the hiring process for low wage workers for awhile. Wal Mart et al have been using automated job application systems to gamify everything from postings to schedules. The crisis, such that it is, is that it is now happening in middle skills jobs.

Politics is about power. Too many liberals think it's about moral suasion.

Art is for an embodied afterlife. Today’s conservatism has no vision of an after. Why make art for it?

Feminism made positive virtues available to all, so the only distinguishing feature of maleness are the vices we've historically been allowed to get away with.

no major Western country and no large state or provincial government meaningfully believes in such a thing as "general intellectual education," and I'd be willing to bet that well under half the people running BA-granting universities do, either

"the principle that a general intellectual education should not be the preserve of a narrow elite" has been totally abandoned across the West, by the combined effects of neoliberal administration, antidemocratic populism, and the promise that automation and "access" by subscription obviate knowledge

So the same people who have shouted and cried about colleges indoctrinating students for the past decade are now going to pass a law that requires students to take right wing indoctrination courses.

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

a reminder that segregation among other things is a form of theft

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

At over $29 million, the total cost to the public for Premier Ford's Gravy Plane fiasco is $21 million more than incorrectly issued OSAP payments.

Young Girls in Yellow (1921) by Elisabeth Chaplin

The struggle between authoritarianism and liberal democracy is an enduring part of American history. We are currently living through another chapter of this long running conflict. We've made progress towards being a multiracial democracy, but democracy has never been universally accepted here 6/x

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

JCK is wrong & this article is ridiculous, but universities need to emphasize what makes higher education different than AI / tech companies, and the answer to that question is that which they have marginalized for decades: curiosity-driven, rather than market-driven knowledge.

ELON MUSK: every woman should have at least two of my children. well, every white woman. only native-born white people and billionaire white South Africans should be able to vote. let's drown trans people. EZRA KLEIN: guy's just monomaniacally focused on accelerating the EV revolution. admirable.

@dianachanmcnally.bsky.social is going to be a tremendous councillor, already has a fantastic track record working for our community, cant wait to get out canvassing with her

Well I'll take that as official confirmation of the recent rumour mill: @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social seems to be running to succeed Gord Perks on Toronto City Council.

I’m running for City Council in Parkdale—High Park. I’m running because our neighbours deserve a councillor who has walked alongside them, fought for them, and knows how to turn community demands into real wins at City Hall. Join me at www.dianachanmcnally.ca.

This guy is indicative of people who are anti Trump not having a voice because Congress and SCOTUS have enabled Trump to obliterate any recourse they have when he does horrible things.

This guy does not have the profile of a mass shooter and he knows what he’s forgoing. I worry that we’ll see more of this because Congress and SCOTUS refuse to constrain Trump and people who would not otherwise be radicalized are feeling a kind of moral injury by extension

"When places like Hampshire College die, it’s impossible to rebuild them back... a whole generation of students lose an unique attitude towards the world.. Liberal democracy loses.. citizens with the imagination and creativity to find new ways to justify and legitimate.. individual human dignity."

Scientists are finding darker parallels to humans in the lives of the Ngogo chimpanzees. A group of researchers on Thursday reported that the Ugandan chimps are locked in a primate version of civil war. Two factions split about a decade ago and have been engaged in a lethal conflict ever since.

ICONIC

the bare minimum folks, and an potential example. we simply love to see it bsky.app/profile/minc...

Educators and researchers are urging a pivot away from computers and tablets while industry and misguided school leaders push more AI use. Something is going to have to give.

Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t