Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
The Turnaround was so great!
My #1 must-hear would be Isaac Chotiner!
A bit non-traditional, but Sasha Baron Cohen would be really interesting. Or Philomena Cunk (in character).
Is that exclusive to tech industry now? For instance, David Zaslav came in and screwed up Warner Bros. in so many ways - and now is looking to depart with a massive payday.
Should be a Vermont plate
That's right, our FIFTIETH book came out today!
That's proven fact!
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
I never thought the sentence "It wasn't the first time the surgeon cut out the wrong organ" could be written except about Dr. Nick on THE SIMPSONS.
When Florida Man becomes a surgeon:
Inexplicably, this story made me laugh more than any other Onion bits in months:
C'mon, Landau was really, really good
Bryan Cranston wants a word
It took me the 5 hours since you posted this to read it all! I'd say it's a Fielder assignment, but with a mandate to try to emulate David Foster Wallace as a writer
One of my favorite teaching experiences is when prepping for class I re-read something I put on the syllabus years ago, remember why I loved it, and get excited for the pending conversation. This morning that was with @emilynussbaum.bsky.social's brilliant essay Confessions of the Human Shield!
Just watched the excellent first two episodes of the new MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE & was transported back decades! A rare instance of a sitcom revival actually capturing the original tone. It's a good reminder that MALCOLM was simultaneously hugely influential and unlike anything else before or since.
Finding colleagues who have been through it successfully at your university (or similar) without losing research steam could help find the tips that work.
My #1 admin tip from a friend was to reply to/take care of anything simple immediately to avoid little things piling up. It does help!
Chair roles are quite different between institutions - at my SLAC, there's minimal release from teaching, but the admin duties are mostly reactive so it's pretty easy to bracket off time each week for writing. But I know at R1s it's a different ballgame!
What made it not horrible is that I dedicated myself to advocating for the needs of my colleagues and students - and they were all super appreciative and helpful! But things could have gone off the rails so many times
I compare it to being a foreman on a factory floor: all of the responsibility if anything goes wrong, none of the power to improve anything, and alienated from both labor and management. (I survived doing it for 7 years, including during COVID!)
Breaking: Usha says she will skydive.
Have you watched DYING FOR SEX? I think it checks all your boxes - and it certainly deserves the Peabody it's nominated for!
MELANIA: You want me. Out of nowheres. To remind every one. Of my best friend, and child sex monster. Jeffrey Epstein?? (squints evilly)
NATHAN FIELDER: (voice over) The First Lady loved my idea.
Amidst the worthy high-profile titles being nominated, I'm particularly gratified to see two of my favorites that have gotten less attention named here: DYING FOR SEX and MO. Check them out if you haven't seen them yet!
Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
Should be programmed on a cruise ship
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Americans disappointed to learn that yes, they still have to go to work tomorrow.
I often think the obsession with the end of the world here is that it's the only way we figure we can get some time off.
Everyone is very tired.
Today might be a good day to revisit this ad from Hillary's campaign 10 years ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=npNq...
