“Where is the left-wing Joe Rogan?” He doesn’t exist but Saudi Arabia is spending billions to build their own version of Rogan

My kingdom for a year where the school photo doesn’t look like a hostage situation

What bothers me most about Klein’s call to comity as the missing aspect of politics right now is the complete lack of good faith or adherence to any set of mutual standards by one side. You can’t have good working relationships with people who fundamentally don’t believe in you as equals and [cont]

Someone should do a 20,000 word profile of this genius along with a photo shoot that makes him look vaguely cool-adjacent and not at all like a bleached squid in a leather jacket

OK, fine, I will name your baby for $29,000, but it’s a one-time discount.

My kingdom for a year where the school photo doesn’t look like a hostage situation

What bothers me most about Klein’s call to comity as the missing aspect of politics right now is the complete lack of good faith or adherence to any set of mutual standards by one side. You can’t have good working relationships with people who fundamentally don’t believe in you as equals and [cont]

Here’s the story Milan is referring to. “when faculty are acting as employees and instructors, they must follow President Donald Trump’s executive order recognizing only male and female genders as assigned at birth”.

I’m exhausted and it’s not even noon yet.

Re-upping Episode 7 of the pod with @mbkplus.bsky.social in light of the disturbing news out of @ttu.edu. Texas and Florida are seemingly in a race to the bottom.

Seems to me that a major question, independent of whether point (2) is true, is whether work that gets traction is low-quality with any appreciable frequency. Most academic work is barely cited or discussed even within the realm of experts.

All I know from having seen King Ralph is that they shouldn't pose for a group picture or Big Balls's cousin might end up as Commander of the Seventh Fleet

HBD to the paper that launched a million angry emails from retired engineers who say they used high-school algebra to prove the author wrong (spoiler: they didn't)

Seems to me that a major question, independent of whether point (2) is true, is whether work that gets traction is low-quality with any appreciable frequency. Most academic work is barely cited or discussed even within the realm of experts.

what ever started to "don't start none, won't be none"? these people who go looking for trouble are going to find it eventually.

HBD to the paper that launched a million angry emails from retired engineers who say they used high-school algebra to prove the author wrong (spoiler: they didn't)

Should just make this a pinned post, as it'll be correct indefinitely: "#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump"

"you know, we've cut blitzer's score by 1500%. I don't mean 50%, I mean 1500%"

Dart looks like he spends his weekends riding shotgun in Jeremy Shockey's souped-up truck and taking a baseball bat to mailboxes

<on my next annual grant report> I was not able to accomplish my research goals, my efforts this year were focused on coordinating with Bill and Ted to bring Socrates to campus so I didn't get fired by a guy who uses Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame as his avatar on X, the everything app.

The Trump admin, with the imprimatur of SCOTUS, is operating under the principle of “it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission”, and other institutions have adopted the same stance. The only way to push back is for illegal actions to be punished at a level that makes folks take notice.

The worst managers of nothing are now the top managers of everything.

All I know from having seen King Ralph is that they shouldn't pose for a group picture or Big Balls's cousin might end up as Commander of the Seventh Fleet

These MFers were hurting so bad that they couldn't even wait until Monday (still less than a week of shows) to retreat and put him back on the air

Heartbreaking: Best Player on High School Team Only an Average NFLer

@grok explain the implications to me in a LL Cool J / Kool Mo Dee rap battle style

Feels like Born to Run is one of those albums that's so canonical that people have decided it's cool to talk about how it's overrated, but all you need to hear is the first few notes of the first track (Thunder Road) to realize that's overthinking it. The album is absolute fire from start to finish.

Parent of two kids here. I've seen the absolute agony of a 104 degree fever and the relief pain meds can bring. One kid responded much better to ibuprofen than acetaminophen; the other was the opposite. Follow the best medical advice you can find, but I guarantee that advice isn't coming from 47.

Only Jerry Jones could come up with "Micah Parsons is a reason we didn't win a Super Bowl"

Wonder what this does to norms. Strains? Eviscerates? Transcends?

what ever started to "don't start none, won't be none"? these people who go looking for trouble are going to find it eventually.

I was saddened to hear George passed away. I didn't know him well but did have several interactions with him when I was a grad student at Berkeley (and on a few occasions when I returned). In fact, he wrote me a very nice email when I'd been accepted to the grad program there encouraging me to come.

Exactly. The two most likely outcomes here are this indictment crashes and burns, likely taking down the US attorney who brought charges, or it leads to charges for Hilary Clinton and others.

I fear you are barking up the wrong tree, Supercuts

I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown on the use of "norms" in the press until we can figure out what's going on. And then the ban shall continue until hell freezes over. If he's making authoritarian moves, say it, don't cloak it in gentler, obfuscating rhetoric

Paying for vanity plates announcing you're a type 1 diabetic? I continue to be baffled by what some people would rather have than money.

That's not how history works, and attempts to enforce a specific view of history frequently backfire

Odie has a very clear “I am accepting belly rubs” posture

Harrison Jr. catching a game-winning 2 point conversion after catching the TD to get them there would be an amazing end to this game and I’d absolutely hate it because announcers would eat off of that story for years. Decades, maybe.

He’s going to personally hand out nicknames involving a racial or ethnic slur for each high-ranking member of the military.

I have to admit it's very funny that just yesterday JD Vance was shedding his crocodile tears about the debased state of discourse and how people were baselessly calling certain people Nazis and today Alex Jones shows up dressed as Hitler, talking about how it drives the ladies wild

Obviously they’re talking to the wrong experts, it’s not like this has a definitive answer. CNN needs to teach the controversy

I'm sorry, I've lost any & all patience for this level of fundamental unseriousness. Vast swathes of our universities are going to be dismantled. Real people are going to lose their jobs. Students won't have the same opportunities anymore. And these people are writing drivel like this. It's gross.

This whole thread is right on the money. Mailman also argues if universities want research $, they should just get it from rich people: who wouldn’t want to be the one who funded a cure for cancer? The only lens she has is unsubstantiated grievance. And she’s in charge of the war on universities.

He’s going to personally hand out nicknames involving a racial or ethnic slur for each high-ranking member of the military.

<wrapping up talking about not giving up on a touchdown run> “You know who else doesn’t settle? Lil Jon” — top-notch segue there, halftime coverage team

We must protect the “live, laugh, love” sign industry at all costs

Don’t worry, AI will solve this problem

A little more on this paper: early dark energy (EDE), first proposed to solve the Hubble tension, posits that there was a brief period where something like today's dark energy was dynamically important early in the Universe's expansion (~50,000 years after the big bang, z~3500). [1/n] 🧪

Half-baked take on the "male loneliness epidemic": it's another manifestation of the tragedy of the commons on a societal scale. People have come to expect their interactions with others to be mainly transactional, and when they're not, people have a hard time prioritizing other people's feelings.