agreed!! the narrative I see here and there that this is, um, a distraction (which suits Luxon of course) is, well, really unpersuasive to me.

Found a nineteenth century polka-mazur (a Viennese dance form) that has quite the resonant title:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJC...

yup

OH NO...

Noice!

Academia. MEAN GIRLS (DUH)

Excellent!

so offensive and juvenile

Thanks! 😀

They removed their skeet. Would have liked to have seen it.

This! So much this!

❤️🩷🧡 (so happy to read this)

Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: are the double Heroides actually by Ovid?

The homophobia is gratuitous and not about any of the issues. Grow up. Though I guess you cannot actually address the issues you need to. Not a winning strategy and everyone should stay far away from you. You are just right wing light.

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

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What an idiot. Omg.

<whispering> psssst: I know we are all dunking on that guy, but Confessions wasn't the first instance of human introspection, not by a million miles

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Seymour on expanding access to alcohol:

“In a free society adults should be trusted to make their own choices. The role of the law is to target harm, not to micromanage responsible behaviour,” he said."

Ah, ok, so *responsible cannabis users* can welcome legalization soon, right?

*RIGHT?*

I had a prof in grad school who dismissed studies of sexuality in history with some quote from Habermas. I didn't hear the quote clearly and still wonder a tiny bit about it. In any case there was no subsequent clarification or discussion, as it was only a pretext for avoiding hard questions.

Much like it’s taken some journalists years to admit that Donald Trump is indeed a fascist, so will others wait until we’re weeks, months or years into a war with Iran—or whichever countries he decides to target next—to say this needs to end. What would happen if, instead of waiting to see how this all plays out, we just say no, here and now. No waiting for the administration to get their story straight, no entertaining a million different justifications for why it’s actually worth all this death and destruction and money (Jesus Christ, the money!) What if those of us with a conscience and a modicum of influence just said no to war, regardless of oil prices, and before there are boots on the ground? If you draw a moral line mere days into this war, you won’t have to do years of soul-searching to figure out what was obvious from the start. You won’t have to conduct a years-long mea culpa campaign explaining how, as a “policy wonk,” you were so sure war was the right choice at the time, but you were indeed wrong. As nice as it is to see someone like Bill Kristol pivot late in life to policies more progressive than most of Congress and vocally opposing war in Iran, he can’t takesies backsies cheerleading a war that destroyed untold lives. Hindsight is not required for 20/20 vision; we need only pay attention to history.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/be-anti-wa...

Vexing Gender - Frank Garrett Online Our 2026 study group will read key texts by philosophers who work with and on the gender/sex problematic: Butler, Cixous, and Irigaray.

One more week before our philosophy study group starts back: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/g.... Come join us.

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Playing a musical instrument too. But absolutely this.

Picture of Attorney General with title "WILD COURT DRAMA -- MULTIPLE judges RIP Pam Bondi to SHREDS"

I'm thinking a production of Euripides' "The Bacchae" with her as Pentheus and a Chorus of Federal Judges.

A quote from me - “it’s pretty insulting to see scholarship used this way when the academic humanities are currently under attack from every possible angle — as though the actual people who do the thinking and produce the scholarship are reducible to their work itself, and can be removed entirely from the equation”

Went on record saying, essentially, “AI sucks, fund the humanities” today

I have been a subscriber since they started subscriptions and a reader since 2000. TPM is essential for understanding US politics all through this time and all the more so now in this age of billionaire induced rot.