The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.
a computer can never be held accountable therefore *all management decisions must be made with computers*
leaked software industry training manual (2026)
Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of.
Call your reps NOW.
ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."
It depresses me that not even our democratic "opposition" can be counted on for that, let alone the few rare never trumpers
The equivalent of a "Tizla strategy" for the US would be Mitt Romney running on a platform of overturning Citizens United, banning gerrymandering, court reform, and jailing half the administration. And I mean, if that were how ol' Mittens were rolling, I'd at least hear him out!
@Pontifex Apr 17 Pope Leo XIV Within digital environments - structured to persuade - interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 182 736 4,646 217,637
Part of the same thread:
A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”
Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.
That cap limiting recovery to Medicare rates is awful. No one charges 125% Medicare reimbursement rates. This will hurt everyone and basically mean uninsured people won’t be able to get treatment.
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison
"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."
"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...
www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
"Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials."
Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.
"you're the product, not the customer" has left the world of television and the Internet and is honestly the best explanation I have for politics right now
Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.
The wealthiest and most powerful men on Earth have decided they will happily kill us all, whether with nukes or starvation or disease, to keep from facing the consequences of their lifetimes of crime
The Epstein scandal, the warmongering, the worship of money, we're sick of it all
Time for change
It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen
literally where the fuck do they get these people is there some sort of laboratory growing British columnists from the most primordial cringe it's possible to synthesise????
Anne Hathaway bought the rights to a novel about a tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to actually live the life she's been selling online. The book is called Yesteryear. It came out 3 days ago. The film rights were already sold to Hathaway, who will produce and star.
Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.
In a big loss for Mike Johnson, the House rejected his proposed reauthorization of a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.
This fight isn’t over, so make sure your representative hears from you: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...
It was a loooong night - but ultimately we were able to show some real strength by preventing a clean FISA reauthorization that fails to protect Americans’ privacy. They were only able to get a very short extension that runs until the end of April.
We still have a chance to get this right.
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.
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San Francisco’s Exploratorium is charting an overseas expansion, announcing that it would open a museum in Seoul. The museum is slated to open in 2032.
If cradle Catholicism is high school, RCIA is the GED. It's not like a bonus nice to have.
I wonder if people understand how absurd this is. Like, I am a cradle Catholic and do you know how much time I spent in Catholic school and later CCD and what a whole process it was for first communion, reconciliation, and confirmation?! You didn't do them, you didn't participate in the sacraments
Today I learned that JD Vance skipped RCIA, the Catholic Church's educational program for adult converts, and instead had a Dominican priest-friend baptize him after a crash course in right-wing heresy. These are lazy men who think they can fast-track/ChatGPT their way to Expertise.
It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.
