I really appreciated that Robert Duvall could make a role great without taking over the movie. He always stood out a little, in a good way, but not too much so as to be distracting. Killed it B-tier movies (Days of Thunder, Falling Down) as well as some of the all-time classics.

I think it was @tressiemcphd.bsky.social who was insistent that we decouple our online work lives from our online personal lives and here's data point one million supporting that theory. A lot of people can't ditch google for work functionality, but separating out personal accounts gives you options

Taking "shut up and dribble" to new heights

At its heart, much of AI is a machinery that replaces human agency and decision-making, and with it, human ability.

As your lawyer, Mr. Karp, I advise you to keep saying this stuff, especially when testifying before Congress. They’ll love you.

Are we being recorded? In Episode 15, @mbkplus.bsky.social and I link surveillance of faculty and students in red states to the shuttering of disfavored programs. We also ponder tip lines for . . . syllabi?

@profmarkovic.bsky.social and I take on surveillance in the classroom, tip lines about deviations from syllabi, and the reorganization and/or elimination of departments in some quarters.

As your lawyer, Mr. Karp, I advise you to keep saying this stuff, especially when testifying before Congress. They’ll love you.

This how you isolate and capture "the worst of the worst" of these dangerous immigrants. You show yourself to be in need of help, and the worst criminals reveal themselves and their criminality by doing whatever they can to provide you with help. Masterful law enforcement.

Yeah, strikes me that individual & foundation-based philanthropies can do a lot of good but also create enormous bureaucracies and some distorted incentives in higher ed. I’m not sure there’s a good solution: better federal and state funding would help, but there will always be holes.

I am doubting everything about the universe because I just heard a guy pronounce “biopic” as “bye-AWE-pick” and now I don’t know if I’ve been saying it wrong because the guy seems like he’s a hipster and would know how to say biopic but maybe he’s just messing with me

I don’t know what this is but I know it’s not a protein bowl

There’s no law requiring your newspaper to commission or print pieces by Richard Hanania. Many people don’t know this (apparently).

Harper’s Letter signers are assembling their rapid response team, I’m sure

This is the use case I can see as most appealing to people. In a current project, I’m positive my coding could have been sped up with something like Claude Code — but I’m not doing that because for my research, the coding is usually inextricably intertwined from the thinking.

There’s no law requiring your newspaper to commission or print pieces by Richard Hanania. Many people don’t know this (apparently).

This feels like a very reasonable take. There’s a ton of hype, a lot of pitfalls, and also a lot of useful shortcuts in some areas for people who know what they’re doing. I don’t use it for reasons I’ll describe below but in some sense that’s a luxury and I can see why people do in some situations

<Sportsball feelings intensify>

Completely dystopian that it’s newsworthy when FDA officials support vaccination efforts

Odie isn’t getting mixed up in all of that Scottish-Irish-English discourse, he knows he’s an all-American dog irrespective of his unknown lineage

2026 has been quite a year for Texas higher education. @mbkplus.bsky.social and I discuss this news and government surveillance of classrooms in tomorrow's episode. livefromwatthall.transistor.fm

Completely dystopian that it’s newsworthy when FDA officials support vaccination efforts

Harper’s Letter signers are assembling their rapid response team, I’m sure

They’re calling it the most natural smile ever seen on a man

I don’t know if it’s possible to be good at hungry hungry hippo but I am proof positive it’s possible to be bad at hungry hungry hippo

They’re calling it the most natural smile ever seen on a man

Growing pains or an existential threat? If not actually addressed, I’d say the latter. The entire point of citations is to provide a chain of knowledge provenance. Once that chain is broken, it is very difficult to fix and maintain.

Can’t believe we are still doing this

Growing pains or an existential threat? If not actually addressed, I’d say the latter. The entire point of citations is to provide a chain of knowledge provenance. Once that chain is broken, it is very difficult to fix and maintain.

The NYC mayor’s genuine enjoyment at doing his job and positively affecting — even in the smallest of ways — the lives of those in the city he leads is a reminder that better things are possible and that “not being a miserable jerk” is somehow an underrated quality in a politician

Structurally, the push to constantly innovate does lead to new and better products and technologies, but it also leads to the exaltation of continual change, decoupled from any sense of improvement. Feels like that is happening here, and in many other drives to incorporate AI everywhere.

It feels very odd to give a speech like this precisely at the time when the administration he serves in is cutting ties to Europe and explicitly rejecting the idea of being bound to Western civilization (read: western Europe) through a long-standing strategic defense alliance.

It feels very odd to give a speech like this precisely at the time when the administration he serves in is cutting ties to Europe and explicitly rejecting the idea of being bound to Western civilization (read: western Europe) through a long-standing strategic defense alliance.

“I would place it somewhere on the creative nonfiction spectrum” uh huh, the distinction from fiction being…. ???

Roses are red Violets are blue Most of the Universe Would pass right through you

Now that I see this, I’m definitely picturing the “Okay” kid as an older Bobby Hill

This guy has big solutions for big problems

I just spent 3 hours on urban dictionary and have decoded half of this message, I’ll catch up with y’all later once I’m done

It’s hard for me compare directly to Twitter (i deleted my account over a year ago) but it’s definitely the case that a lot of media request I get contain a phrase along the lines of “I saw on your Bluesky that …”

I think an issue with “politicians should pander to the electorate” is that it’s not really useful as a theory of victory. Electoral losers pander to voters as much or more than winners. I’d say strong politicians help voters feel good — or at least OK — about shifting their positions.

There’s an old joke about a dean deciding between an experimental physicist (EP), a theoretical physicist (TP), and a mathematician for a hire. EP: too expensive, needs a full lab. Mathematician: cheaper, just needs pencils, paper, and a trash can. TP: best option, doesn’t even need a trash can.

The moderate position is unmatching

I just spent 3 hours on urban dictionary and have decoded half of this message, I’ll catch up with y’all later once I’m done

I think an issue with “politicians should pander to the electorate” is that it’s not really useful as a theory of victory. Electoral losers pander to voters as much or more than winners. I’d say strong politicians help voters feel good — or at least OK — about shifting their positions.

I think this reads mostly as the backstory for an impassioned defense of his choice of beverage at airports

“I would place it somewhere on the creative nonfiction spectrum” uh huh, the distinction from fiction being…. ???

I did actual reporting about this case rather than just reprinting what police said about it. If you appreciate that kind of effort—and the fact that our site isn't paywalled—support the worker-owned @autonomynews.co with a one-time tip or a paid subscription:

Great op-ed. I don’t think there are easy universal answers about when to be skeptical versus when to trust. But Bezos et al. have made it abundantly clear that skepticism has to win the day in interactions with power, and one of journalism’s key functions is to hold power to account.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns”