anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

I just do not have the energy to argue about this. Deleting so I can continue doing all the shit I need to do today.

Yeah, IDK.

Oh, yeah. The humanities-disadvantaging is one among a whole host of negative effects of APs.

Yeah, you’re right. And it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: counselors observe that students who’ve taken a lot of STEM APs do well, so they make sure they offer those STEM APs and route the STEM students to selective schools like UCLA.

For our first-years, it’s really a matter of *who’s* admitted. Standout STEM students are more likely to be admitted than standout humanities students, just because they’ll have taken more APs. The formula will rank them higher.

In many ways, the viability of the humanities at UCLA depends on converting incoming first-years and depending on transfer students, who are much more likely to come in wanting to major in the humanities. Because of the AP thing, we’re starting with a *major* disadvantage.

We just…did not have AP classes at my high school so this is all very mysterious to me. Sure sounds like a lot of bullshit!

Official and unofficial reparations requests from Antigua that emerged during and after Cellini's visit have included scholarship programs, providing funds to upkeep National Archives, requests for genealogical research support (to identify descendants of people enslaved on plantations), and requests to fund non-communicable diseases research. To date, the discounted business development courses are all that have been offered by the university. A Harvard spokesperson said that since 2019, the university had "pursued and expanded partnerships" with the University of West Indies at Five Islands and that in addition to the online courses, "faculty from both institutions have participated in conferences and programs hosted by each institution."

Pathetic. To the Antiguan people, Harvard is…offering a 10-20% discount on online business development classes.

Tell the truth and get fired.

Just not that interesting! Go ride your motorcycle or don’t, IDC.

He’s fine! He’s a guy! Get back to cutting people open!

Reflection on this season of The Pitt: I just don’t care about Robby that much.

The Women's Print History Project collects bibliographic data on printed objects associated with women's production. I've been itching to query the data not limited by the UI, and ✨ I finally get to ✨ Here are some things I've been able to surface...

womensprinthistoryproject.com

Sheesh, who wears a tie to teach?

"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."

I can imagine reasons why this commission might have chosen to write the report the way they did. The simplest is "never let a crisis go to waste."

The #1 audience for this report is Yale itself. If Yale wants to attack grade inflation and make tuition pricing more transparent, great!

It *does*!!

OMG! You’re right! Somehow I didn’t even think of that!

Law & Order: KDU

Congress Turns Up Pressure on DHS Over Palantir’s Role in Immigration Crackdown Democrats are demanding answers about Palantir and other surveillance firms powering Trump’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.

New: This morning, 34 members of congress sent an inquiry to DHS and ICE demanding detailed and specific information about how they use Palantir and surveillance technology like facial recognition:
www.wired.com/story/congre...

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

NEW: 14 months after @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social first revealed the young technologists of DOGE, the impacts of this "chaotic" Musk-inspired effort continue to reverberate across the US government. Tori reports: www.wired.com/story/where-...

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Abstract: This talk treats computation as both a technical practice and a mode of inquiry, from the perspective of geographic critique of concepts such as space, place, and scale. Drawing on hands-on work in coding, geospatial analysis, and data infrastructure, I trace how spatial systems-from pixels and neural networks to GIS databases and web maps-shape how places are modeled, connected, and understood. I briefly situate my broader research in experimental cartography and critical data practice, then focus on computational work in the Pacific, where building and breaking island-level datasets reveals the assumptions embedded in spatial schemas and geographic hierarchies. By working directly with code and data, this talk asks what emerges when computation is used to probe, rather than smooth over, the limits of spatial representation.

Full Title: Computation as Critique: Adventures at the Limits of Spatial Data from the Pixel to the Pacific Biography: Dr. Clancy Wilmott is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Berkeley Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, where she was a member of the Mapping: Culture/GIScience research group, with a dissertation on the socio-technical implications of mobile phone maps in everyday life in Sydney and Hong Kong, for which she received the President's Distinguished Achievement Medal (University Medal). Prior to joining Berkeley, she was Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Design and Creative Practice at RMIT University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital (2020, Amsterdam University Press) and is currently completing a new book, Cartotopia: An Atlas of Artificial Intelligence Maps. Her

“Computation as Critique: Adventures at the Limits of Spatial Data from the Pixel to the Pacific” from Clancy Wilmot. Haven’t watched this yet but looks good! youtu.be/obRb8huq7pI?...

Ever since I turned 40 I’ve been edging closer and closer to “full-on clown.”

My 13yo does not suffer from this particular affliction

Oh god the world isn’t ready

How the AI oligarchy devoured America How the AI oligarchy devoured America.

Today @motherjones.com is rolling out “Power Hungry,” our package on the AI oligarchs who are upending communities and destabilizing democracy in their quest for a new level of intelligence—and riches.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think it would probably require actual nudity, they’re very respectful.