a threads post from pmccallion Judith Butler every day watching people use the word "performative" to mean "fake in a bad way" a photo of cillian murphy as robert oppenheimer looking distressed
The UMN Maroon M. "University of Minnesota: Memento mori"
A thing that must be wild about believing in a casually interventionist god who cares about things like baseball is, when you lose, you have to believe God liked the other team better and wanted you to lose.
Many thanks to my PhD advisor Erik Asphaug and mentor @spacewhalerider.com for their help and support!
Associated press release here! news.arizona.edu/news/large-c...
Very excited for my mentee @namyab.bsky.social's first paper, out today!! We've been hard at work doing high-resolution impact simulations of asteroid (16) Psyche prior to the NASA mission's arrival in 2029: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
*to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic* battle hymn of the republic
Everyone, @namyab.bsky.social just had her first grad school paper accepted and I am so proud!!!!! Everyone tune in to a JGR: Planets issue near you to see my Umbriel paper AND her upcoming paper about cratering on Psyche!
I can point to the exact moment when my faith in academia died, and it was when my MS advisor had a friend/collaborator get busted for sexually harassing women during Antarctic fieldwork. He defended it to us (his students, majority-women) by saying that in Antarctica, "men turn into animals."
LOL almost drove through it this morning, shoutout to the county employee flagging everyone down to tell us to turn around. water main break AND a gas leak?? hachi machi
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Another NFC defensive player: “Florence & The Machine. But I don’t know if everybody would rock with that.”
who is this diva
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
Kids taken yesterday
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Screenshot from a NYT piece that ran in mid January. Background is part of a photo of a rural store showing out of focus shelves. Text reads "One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis" and "Pull up a stool at Ye Old Pickle Pactory and listen to a story about America's urban-rural divide.
Legacy media are sending war correspondants to Minneapolis now, but I can't forget that the first impulse of the paper of record was to send four reporters and a photographer out to find some elderly ICE supporters day drinking.
Just like clear skies in early September make me think of 9/11, deep cold will make me think of ICE murdering us
Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution
They were eventually allowed one phone call as a thanks for saving the agent’s life.
They used it to call their lawyer, who called their state representative, who ultimately got them released on the condition they tell people they were “treated kindly.”
What finally broke me is seeing that Curry Corner, which closed indefinitely this week because of concerns for employee safety, handed out free samosas at the protest today.
They are unable to open the restaurant but they went out and fed the community
Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
genuinely stunning image
Anyway, ICE wants the discussion to be about churches not kidnapping 5-year-olds or facewashing defenseless protestors with chemical weapons so
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
I was so far gone in Fargo
South Dakota got annoyed
i have watched the shooter's video. it's going to make you way the fuck madder.
