I did know this word, and I desperately needed this word. Thank you.

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

My first thought after watching that interview was wondering how soon we were going to get the point where he tries to kill himself.

I have no affection for him, but that exchange makes it abundantly clear that this is not someone who can handle what he and the world have turned him into.

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

ITS JUST NARCISSISTIC PARENT SHIT AND IF YOU GREW UP HAVING TO DEAL WITH THIS YOU CAN RECOGNIZE ALL OF IT FROM A MILE AWAY

Tag functions this way if one considers it a sport

🎵You I gonna girl my are be said?🎵

Chadwick boseman's death was caused by a cia deadhand operation triggered by the success of black panther

Rich people have gotta go man

Please don’t snitch tag because I don’t want the boy-arguments, but… I think we are due (overdue?) for a reconsideration of the domination of this libertarian speech philosophy built in a 90s neoliberal tech consensus that no longer exists (if it ever did).

The DC Metro

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.

The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

Long story short: cops are fucking useless at getting your bike back. Don't report it to them, or else it just becomes another reason for them to demand more money while doing less.

I got my bike stolen ~3 years ago. Reported it to the cops, went and got a bunch of info myself on where it was being resold from online networks, and sent all of it, plus a connection to the resale site, to the officer. He sat on it for 2 weeks and acted flummoxed when I reminded him of all it.

MLB scoreboard of Pirates vs Mets that reads P: 0 NY: 0 or could be seen as “Ponyo” (LET’S GO METS!!!)

An underrated Miyazaki classic #LGM

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

That being said, WOOF that was some of the worst writing for the ceremony in a long time. Back to formula for the bits.

I think this was a year with a lot of impressively thorny movies (tsa, marty supreme, obaa, and sinners), and it makes me optimistic that they're resonating commercially and critically.

Yeah idk, I think the oscars shook out reasonably! Biggest snubs were in casting (anything other than obaa or hamnet was more deserved) and international feature (tsa deserved to be canonized). And I wish supporting actor had gone differently, but I get it!

A pinterest post imploring the reader to try some mysterious "forgotten cookies."

Yharnamites be like

I do think the cult of the operator extends its assumptions all the way to treating things like democracy and nation-building as fundamentally unreal. The only thing that's real to them is violence, imagined to be fantastically effective in both overt or covert forms.

Better or worse than orange vanilla?

Ok what's going on here?

Trump does keep hitting the tariff button like it's shadow bolt while life tapping away the rest of the economy

A boat's a boat, but the mystery box could be anything!

Scene from The Good Place where Michael is standing next to Janet and saying he's surprised Jason figured it out, but it's edited so he's saying "England figured it out? England?"

Y'all we got COVID after we made that mummy talk. Nothing good can come of this.

This is really useful illustration of how locations (like people) can be forced to operate by the logics of social media regardless of whether they chose that for themselves

Also what the fuck does having a "monopoly" on funding mean when no one else is doing any funding?