this is very much not a new phenomenon, nor does it have much of anything to do with 'modern dating'

This and the one famous tweet about Eric Adams wanting to cook a leprechaun

a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world . ALT: a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .

Miller when on TV:

What absolute nonsense. Also assumes that none of their writers are contingent, which, just, what?

Just in case you don’t believe me. This is a thing I’m always upset about when it comes to public scholarship, which is a topic I care so deeply about. www.patreon.com/posts/900009...

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A blast from the past for those who'd like to partake:

差不多 mindset, but in the States, but on Bluesky

It's always good to see people asking critical questions rather than sharing sensationalistic stuff on a whim. We need more of that, these days especially!

Evidently, big accounts here have taken the bait, too. Predictably, it's the ones that pander to the lowest-information Democrats here on Bluesky.

I'm oddly glad that I checked my email this morning before signing on here. Newsletters from subject experts are the future.

They and other Chinese govt. offices do issue statements in English, but only through official channels and accounts. Their statements also have a distinct style, tone, and phrasing that don't show up in the recent viral posts.

Yes, this statement is almost certainly fake.
China's message unity is really strong. If a tone shift this big occurred, you'd see it repeated everywhere in Xinhua, CCTV etc.
If it was someone going radically off message, you'd see traces of deletions, possible denials.
Fake is much more likely.

This is reminding me a bit of 2022 - not the (actual) fake news part - when a lot of people were projecting wild things on China because they had really wanted Xi to just step in and somehow magically resolve everything

Chinese Defense Ministry's "warning" to U.S. over Hormuz strait fake news Millions-viewed posts asserting China publicly vowing to operate in the strait despite a U.S. blockade are false. Also included are several tips on how to identify fake Chinese news.

Naturally, Ex-Twitter is rife with fake news, probably AI-generated, about China's response to the US's response to the Strait of Hormuz closure.

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

I have a migraine, but I'm so done with seeing these everywhere every few months that I had to send an email — and I know others have too. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social

Please, they must stop doing this. I'm so tired of this nonsense.

I, for one, endorse this scope creep for academic posts for medievalists. If I'm still in an academic role five years down the road, little would be cooler than getting to have water cooler chats with medievalists regardless of which department I'm in.

Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed and takes Iran war questions with delivery person Trump grabs two bags of McDonald’s before issuing threats to Iran over nuclear program

Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person

A little slow on the uptake, huh

A few oversimplifications in this piece's premises, perhaps, but overall pretty thoughtful.

"Students generally don’t cheat because they lack moral fiber; they cheat because they are navigating a system of incentives that prioritizes efficiency over learning."

Jakub Krupa Jakub Krupa After delivering his speech, Orbán kind of shrugs his arms to someone in the front row as if saying “what else was I supposed to do.” He looks defeated.

This is the future liberals want

Péter Magyar FB: “Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just called to congratulate us on our victory.”

IT'S DONE. IT'S DONE.

Orban eating shit would be incredibly good news. That was the Epstein/Bannon/OG alt-right pet project for years and their model for how they want to gain permanent power. If they flip every lever there and still lose, there's real hope.

Monthly review: the idea of the "Uyghur genocide" and the realities of Xinjiang, by Vijay Prashad & Tings Chak

here's another one. spent lots of space proving "there's no mass killing", a big strawman, and the rest talking about economic development. Of course, reeducation camps became "vocational centres" and forced labour transfer became development policies. Of course, no mention of the hundreds of

A screencap of an excerpt from the letter from the editor in the 2026 spring edition of WordWorks: We invited our contributors to interpret "tools" as broadly as possible—and they responded with a landslide of suggestions. Whether you're looking for a few low-tech ideas to jumpstart your creativity or the right digital solution to help you organize a book-length manuscript, you're sure to find something useful in these pages. But even the best tools are limited by the skill of the person wielding them, which is why several of our contributors offer resources for developing our own voices and creative abilities rather than relying on external tools. This in turn brings us to Al, the most controversial tool of all. Eric de Roulet argues that the "cognitive offloading" Al offers is dangerous, that writers who care about their craft need to consciously hone and nurture their writing brains. Avis Blackbird offers an additional perspective: since Al is already in many writers' toolboxes, we have a responsibility to set intentional boundaries around its use to protect our artform—both for ourselves and for the next generation writers.

Hey, it sounds like this one guy has some principled reservations about AI™ as a tool for writers.

I, too, will hold a press conference today announcing that I have never been friends with Jeffrey Epstein — as one does.🙄

Screencap of the opener of an article titled "The brain: Honing your best writing tool": The whole endeavor of writing is full of frustration and uncertainty. Unfortunately, this makes us writers marks for tools and services of sometimes questionable value. These...

Some strongly held opinions from the get-go.

I wonder where one could read more about this. Hmm.

A screencap of an excerpt from the letter from the editor in the 2026 spring edition of WordWorks: We invited our contributors to interpret "tools" as broadly as possible—and they responded with a landslide of suggestions. Whether you're looking for a few low-tech ideas to jumpstart your creativity or the right digital solution to help you organize a book-length manuscript, you're sure to find something useful in these pages. But even the best tools are limited by the skill of the person wielding them, which is why several of our contributors offer resources for developing our own voices and creative abilities rather than relying on external tools. This in turn brings us to Al, the most controversial tool of all. Eric de Roulet argues that the "cognitive offloading" Al offers is dangerous, that writers who care about their craft need to consciously hone and nurture their writing brains. Avis Blackbird offers an additional perspective: since Al is already in many writers' toolboxes, we have a responsibility to set intentional boundaries around its use to protect our artform—both for ourselves and for the next generation writers.

Hey, it sounds like this one guy has some principled reservations about AI™ as a tool for writers.

Chinese universities scrap arts degrees citing AI advancement YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

US-China competition but for intellectually hollowing out universities

Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77 Petrov was on overnight duty in 1983 when computers indicated the U.S. had launched a nuclear strike against his country. He had only a few nerve-jangling minutes to act.

I drank a toast to Stanislav Petrov.