last thought, and i am still thinking through this, is that not only is there nothing wrong with this, it is something to *embrace*. a project of transformation is one way to build a political party into something closer to a political movement.
general indictment reading guidance: you may ask yourself, does the stuff in the splashy narrative in the opening pages align with the actual conduct alleged further along................
If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now
Yeah I gotta say if it turns out *this* is the thing that bothers us, rather than, say, what is done to the image of Christ found in the poor and dispossessed themselves, then all those Calvinist warnings about idolatry basically seem correct to me.
We need an arsenal of ferocious academic revenge ideas like this for at least the next 3 presidential cycles
Another casualty of AI in education: total collapse of the value of online course credits, let alone degrees.
Yep. Been saying this was the inevitable result for awhile.
For anyone who's waking up to this Palantir statement, I wrote a guide to the company and the fatuous chauvinism of its "defend the West" cosplay ideology a few weeks ago
🧵
There's an incredibly straightforward solution to this that they seem to be overlooking.
This is a good thread, and it's worth noting that the strategy of complaining that conservative ideas are being ignored *in spite of all the attention is being paid to them* is basic right wing strategy and has been for decades. It's long been the primary way of disciplining media as well.
At least we can get back to our regularly scheduled 'fuck Harvard' programming now.
My morning PSA: TurboTax is a parallel structure. An attempt to privatize the IRS, dismantle its capacity to audit & prosecute the wealthy, & charge capta rents to the rest of us.
“Harvard is pursuing a more integrated strategy — placing new [right wing] faculty directly within existing departments.”
You *know* you’re enjoying academic freedom when admins start picking dudes in blue blazers, throwing them into your department meetings, & making you call them your colleague
At least we can get back to our regularly scheduled 'fuck Harvard' programming now.
Peak Delaware.
every time a peter magyar or lee jae myung like guy pops up calling for the jailing and firing of ancien regime guys it sort of makes the democrats nothing-they-can-do look even more embarrassing. unfortunately though there is nothing they can do
This is the way. And we can do this here in the USA, if we have the courage and dedication for it.
We can grind the entire MAGA political machine into dust. We can vaporize the stock valuations of every company that gave or accepted bribes from the MAGA regime. We can imprison every crook.
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Absolutely jonesing for a new campus moral panic.
I tried to love Scrivener. Nah. Like, way too much bullshit to get a properly formatted result.
TO BE CLEAR this piece isn't actually about Paige and Azzi and their ability to function well as teammates, or even about what their relationship status is. It's about the way interpersonal dynamics function in lesbian spaces, which WNBA locker rooms are!
A lot of people in the church were critical of Benedict, opted to stay in the church, and, rightly, didn’t receive much opprobrium. I left, for a host of reason but the handling of the abuse in the church, for which it still hasn’t fully atoned IMO, was the inciting factor.
I’m enjoying the dogpile on JDV as much as anyone but it proves how short people’s memories are. When I last considered myself a practicing Catholic (20 years ago) there was a conservative Pope who’d literally been in the Hitler youth, and presided abysmally over a global child rape scandal.
Hell, I remember being in grad school at the institution from which the current pope got his BA and talking to a lot of people who had rather strong disagreements with JPII, before and after he issued an encyclical that took aim at about half of the people in my department.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAND IT TO HIM
The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.
And this is, I think, the X factor we haven't yet accounted for economically. The asshole markup. When you alienate your trading partners, they don't feel obligated to cut you the best deals anymore. They're going to seek out new markets instead and cut THEM the best deals. 4/
In as calm a voice as I could manage "Why is the price so high this year? Is it tariffs?" He sighed and leaned forward confidentially and said "It's a combo of things. Tariffs, fuel, shipping, but worst is that our suppliers just aren't cutting us good deals like they used to. Everybody hates us" 3/
If you don’t show people you’re actually capable of fighting, what’s your positive case for why they should bother turning out for you?
Like, we go through this every cycle. Democrats seem allergic to rocking the boat.
Rock the damn boat!