If only a continental-sized country with a minimal welfare and a dysfunctional government were an island city state with a pseudo authoritarian government, eh?

Ok. Just read the whole thing. Headline is ok IMHO. FIrst few exchanges between Jia and Hasan are dumb—trolling at best. But the discussion then becomes much more insightful, and much better than the average NYTimes oped.

In short, TikTok culture meets "let's address the contradictions head on."

Ok. Just read the whole thing. Headline is ok IMHO. FIrst few exchanges between Jia and Hasan are dumb—trolling at best. But the discussion then becomes much more insightful, and much better than the average NYTimes oped.

In short, TikTok culture meets "let's address the contradictions head on."

This is basically the same as a conversation I will have at a bar once month.

Hasan basically says he doesn't steal himself but doesn't care if ppl do it from big corporations whose profits are built on theft & Tolentino agrees adding that its not effective political activism. They then say the US needs to rethink how centrally it views property rights. Pretty uncontroversial

Ah, yeah. That makes sense. Albeit if we're gonna judge leftist commentary based on the interlocutor's financial status I guess we'll need to do a lot of trimming going back to Engels.

Granted, I haven't read the piece. But given that every lib reaction here so far has been a screenshot of the headline and something along to "aaaaaah" I don't really think I need to before asking what exactly is the problem with the headline's proposition?

On the other hand, they're more than happy to gift me subscriptions to useless AI tools.

Expel the kid. He has no business being enrolled in a university.

Love it when institutions are set up so that you can easily get funding for $700+ registration fee at a business conference (plus flights and stay at expensive hotel), but you can't get 1$400 for an AirBnB that would enable a month of research. Maybe I'll join the "pay to work" crowd this summer.

In short, I don't take painstaking efforts to hide my politics from students. To do so would be just as disingenous as arguing that political views preclude nuanced discussions.

Today during office hours I, a proud demsoc with a sticker of the Spanish Republic flag on my laptop, spent a good deal of time arguing with a student who had referred to Franco as a fascist that maybe that wasn't the most appropriate term to define his regime.

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

Imagine piggybacking on Matt Yglesias to make some "fastflashy" (and "wrongstupid") point about journalism?

i would like just one of these guys to spend even 5 minutes teaching at a regional public or community college before they pronounce

Zimmerman is Columbia, Hopkins, NYU, Penn

I know that one of the defining features of fascist rhetoric is that it rejects reason and refuses the rules of logic.

That being said, it really annoys the shit out of me how points 7 and 8 in the Palantir "manifesto" are inherently contradictory.

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi... 7:46 AM • 4/16/26 • 58K Views

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

~ Pope Leo

Also, many of us have been pointing at X, Y, or Z issues in education longer than any of the AI propagandists have. And many of us have long been calling for and campaigning for structural change. But they don't want that, since it goes against the magic bullet thinking that sustains AI enthusiasm.

These days, nothing annoys me as much as AI propagandists arguing some genre of the statement: "The big problem in education isn't AI, it's X, Y, or Z."

It's like hearing a doctor say: "The big problem isn't cancer, it's your diet." The latter is probably true, but you still need fucking chemo.

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

My undergraduate years as a Jayhawk at the @universityofkansas.bsky.social (2005-2010).

Surprise! The Long Island Iced Tea blockchain pivot didn't work Whenever you put your lips on a crisp, cold bottle of iced tea, do you ever think to yourself, "Man, I really could use decentralized ledger-based

Plus ça change...

www.fastcompany.com/40558198/sur...

Allbirds announces stunning pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 300% Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.

We are living in the stupidest of timelines. Sure, it will wipe out my retirement savings, but I honestly can't wait until this bubble catastrophically explodes.

www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

People Are Paying $1,000 to Read Among Strangers Over the past few years, a new kind of traveling book club has sprung up across the US and the UK.

Neoliberals: "The market is rational and efficient."

"The Market":

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years.

Is Corvinus too obvious of a choice?

I mean, MAHA gets its way we'll probably be seeing scrofula outbreaks soon, so I'm not all that surprised with the Trump administration's "thaumaturgical turn."

John Carreyrou successfully identifying Adam Back as Satoshi Nakamoto (and thus exposing him to a high risk of kidnapping and exortion lol) on the basis of Back's difficulties with hyphenation represents the ultimate victory of the humanities over STEM people

Jesse Singal o @jessesingal X.com Onion is still capable of good stuff but a subset of its output is honestly just the Bluesky-left equivalent of c2009 Facebook grandpa-groups with posts like EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH SATAN TO HAND OVER ISRAEL TO MUSLIMS, except much less funny

Jesse Singal is arguing with a joke.

@theonion.com

So where we stand now is that Iran has greater control over the Strait of Hormuz than before Trump decided to kill a few thousand civilians and engage in genocidal rhetoric?

According to the ACLS rejection letter I received, there were "over 2000" applications for 63 fellowships - so around a 3% success rate. There's not enough funding for the humanities, exhibit 1000.