When I was a writing tutor, I had a student who brought in an essay for which she somehow wrote the body before “picking” a thesis because she couldn’t come up with one and wanted me to help her.
This talk of removing the process from journalism to get to the output faster reminds me of that girl.
In both foreign policy and economic policy, the core belief of Trumpism is that there is some button one can press to instantly and easily solve any problem, and every political leader this country has ever had was simply too cowardly to press it. That’s it.
It's almost like when we, as a country, took in Nazis after WWII and let them integrate into society like it wouldn't lead to .... exactly where we are today.
I am once again saying that letting fascists back into society when they pretend to be repentant like this will lead to the rise of fascism again. They are upset because Trump has made them look like the fascists they are. This does not mean they are on the side of morality and human rights suddenly
The part of getting older that does suck is the
*change in weather*
“UGH MY SKELETON!”
bit.
Seeing a lot of discussion regarding where the crisis of the university came from. You cannot, in any way, shape, or form, talk about this without also focusing on administrators as both a corrupting force and a group that laid the foundation for and was rabidly starving for authoritarianism.
I cannot wait to read this.
whats so crazy to me is the only job that chatbots could actually eliminate right now is ceo, every company could save millions today right now by replacing their ceo with a computer program that just parrots what other ceos say
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian alive and has expressed support for a partition along the pre June 1967 borders into a separate state.
Barghouti has been in Israeli jail for two decades and is routinely tortured and even threatened with murder by Israeli politicians and guards.
God, this is really good. Especially since grappling lately with both my own experience currently teaching in a mostly tech-free way, and supporting my sister in navigating what to do with my nieflings and their screen time.
At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software
People been trying to warn the public about this man for a decade and a half but her the fuck we still are
And private corporations don't have that mandate, so yet another example of why public goods need to be public!
4 out of 5 Roman emperors agree
Andy, stop. You're so much better than this!!
The Uk needs a version of Hot Ones but for desi food called Curried which is hosted by Tim Curry, there you go, I just made your network eleventy billion dollars
I hate these people. I hate these people in a way that I had previously reserved only for my childhood bully and her mother.
like maybe the public would be getting less frothy and toothy about this if big tech hadn’t spent the last three years constantly threatening the public with impoverishment and feudal control, idk
the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?
Right, people have in fact noticed that the big AI companies aren’t actually doing anything to ameliorate the social impacts they keep talking about.
"particularly Christianity" is lifting to failure here.
Really good 🧵 that honestly I could send my students and just tap out for the next 6 weeks.
📺 April 19, 1987: The animated family named the Simpsons debuted on the Fox network comedy/variety half-hour “The Tracey Ullman Show” as a series of shorts. At present, Fox's “The Simpsons” is now in season 37, with over 800 episodes produced.
I just finished a book on the Birchers and the way women contributed to the society was fascinating. Very involved in organizing at the local level, but treated with just vitriolic paternalism once they tried to get into the national org.
“They’re not racist per se” people would implore, hearing none of that now that we’re only accepting white South Africans as refugees
The Strait of Hormuz was open for less than three Scaramuccis
This is unhinged and you should be ashamed of publishing it.
👇🎯 Yes but it needs to go further:
- No shadow docket
- No clerks
- No building
- Riding the circuit
We can debate necessary structural reforms like more seats & such. But first, immediately, the next Congress needs to strip these Wizards In Robes of every perk & power not explicitly in Art. III.
For all those looking for a good laugh. Best cat adoption advert I have ever read.