Everything I know about the US tax code and US tax policy I learned from Ray Madoff and here she is on Ezra Klein explaining it, and what she thinks about it. This is really great stuff. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...
Pulaski was a great doctor, and smarter than anyone else on the crew.
Pretty sure the report says that American universities that are like Yale bear significant responsibility. It also says that Yale is not at all representative of what American colleges are actually like, only what American colleges are portrayed to be like in national media outlets.
Pretty sure the report says that American universities that are like Yale bear significant responsibility. It also says that Yale is not at all representative of what American colleges are actually like, only what American colleges are portrayed to be like in national media outlets.
Pretty sure the report says that American universities that are like Yale bear significant responsibility,. It also says that Yale is not at all representative of what American colleges are actually like, only what American colleges are portrayed to be like in national media outlets.
Says a lot about a society when you look at what they’re building and what they’re closing down.
US colleges seem averse to growth except at the margins, partly for metrics reasons, partly for real estate cost reasons. My understanding is this is what helps enrollment at your Hampshires, Marists, Chapmans ie, tuition-driven, expensive nonselective colleges.
Its zero sum if we don't expand the college-attending class, coupled with a change in the metrics students use to pick schools (US News and WR) so that regional weirdness can be attractive again. But the latter takes care of itself if we fix the first thing.
This is tragic. If the school-age population is shrinking, then by necessity schools will close. Since the college-attending % of the total population has been steady for decades, there's just no avoiding this outcome except w/ far more student immigration. www.wwlp.com/news/local-n...
Oh my god military procurement…health care reimbursement….
My friend I am currently in the third epicycle of whether the hotels dot com receipt is sufficient evidence that I purchased the hotel room when they want the hotel folio, which hotels dot com got but I didn’t, and can’t, because of hotel rules. AI will definitely melt down over this exchange.
If you want to destroy AI, every academic traveler just needs create an AI agent designed to get you your travel reimbursement come what may, and it will go up against the procurement department’s AI agent set on denying you, and the two will fight in endless epicycles until the cloud melts down.
Someone please write a piece about the co-opting of the language of "accommodations" and "disability rights" to market and sell and guilt instructors into using edtech and AI products that actually decrease student learning and attention overall.
My department took part in a virtual open house. We were thrown into Gather, where you walk around using keyboard arrows to approach other characters to start a conversation.
It was awkward. I kept trying to buy heal potions and dragon swords, hoping to level up before conquering the Marsh Cave.
The manliest media has been, and will continue to be, This Old House.
I guess Lindy West is the latest Olivia Nuzzi to have Elizabeth Gilberted her way into our hearts.
This thing is as old as my teaching career and I always think about the poor guy that had to pose for that picture, who is now older than 40.
My surname in Chinese is 林. You take a pictogram for a tree 木 and double it, yielding a word pronounced “Lam” in Cantonese and Vietnamese, “Lin” in Mandarin, and “Lim” in Hokkein, which means “the woods.”
So I am “Barry Woods” if you were to go with semantics rather than phonology in translation.
We will one day discover thru extensive data analysis that Homestar Runner had a bigger influence on culture than all of reality TV, Dane Cook, and the Avatar franchise combined.
Oh no, Chuck Norris I could stomach, but not Xander.
Unity of the virtues taking a hard hit this week.
LA should rename the street Dolores Huerta Ave., as should every other city.
Maybe when the dust settles, it will turn out that waiting until you’re 25, and educated by way of books, pen, paper, hand tools, hand programming, solving equations, and then presented with AI, will be better than the 25 years olds who started outsourcing tasks to AI in elementary school.
One thing we need to tell our kids is that, in the 90s, you’d take a bus for three hours to find a $25 Japanese release of Siamese Dream that had two extra tracks on it at some record store in North Hollywood, which you’d then tape and pass around and be cool for like a week in high school.
Yo, screw the 90s, if you want to see how I looked when I was three decades younger, just rewind to 2019.
I despised that show with a seething rage that has not been recreated since. I was also chair when it came out.
Laptop materialism-the values of materialistic people who consume and displays their material values entirely over the internet.
A compulsive shopper of Amazon, showing and reviewing their products on Instagram, Youtube, for the purpose of status in virtual spaces only is a laptop materialist.
Its been over 15 years but I think I get the grift. Manufacture radical skepticism about all institutional knowledge, making atomized individuals with no knowledge seek expertise from a sea of random individuals most of whom falsely exhibit knowledge. Then monetize all the random individuals.
According to traditional just war theory, if whatever originally motivated you to engage in war is unjust, any bonus good things that result from the war don’t thereby make it just.
