NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Funny you should mention smallpox! 😆 i’m sharing with you a recent MA thesis by one of our students, citing your book a bunch. Hope you find it interesting.
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If Hegseth’s thinks being scared of a vaccine and hiding behind supposed religious objections is what freedom’s warriors do, what must he think of Revolutionaries like Ethan Allen, who challenged a ban on inoculation promoted by religious leaders by getting inoculated on a Sunday during church?
There's clearly deep resentment over the reality of US Black suffering. Lately, it's been characterized as narcissism & main character syndrome.
That's why I resented the Great Antiracist Summer of 2020 while it was happening. I'm going to have to write something about how agonizing that time was.
I say this as someone who used to be #TeamXavier 😍 all the way back in the day.
He went to Stanford, he stood up to Rump in the 2010s, his wife seems cool, he's 🌶️.
But he did NOT stand up when he was in DC & I can't vote for him. He's polling LOW & voting for him might put 2 GOP in the final.
My union supports Xavier & I loved him as our AG under 45. BUT as Biden's H&HS sec'y he was a disappointment in standing with Biden on 🤬 mistreatment of migrants.
Tom Steyer, despite his $$$$, has more genuine support from progressive groups. & he'll finish in the Top 2. #NeverHilton's the anthem!
Mass hungerstrike in PA ICE detention center
"What started with 70 people participating in the strike on Thursday morning, escalated to roughly 100 people by Friday morning on Unit Four of the facility, the man said."
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BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.
I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
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Can’t wait for this! Read a lot of the Serling papers while researching a project ages ago. Fascinating stuff, incredible writer and thinker.
Anytime you might doubt that gender isn’t essential to right wing politics, just go look at the comment section of political discussion in a random, non-political Reddit.
It’ll be some version of “you are a woman,” “you are gay,” “you are a cuck,” or a mix of all three as the rightist gets angrier.
You know you want to order this! ⬇️
Love to see it!
If they don't have the same rules for Donald Trump as they do Eric Swalwell, this isn't about accountability.
You may want to let them know this.
Schumer and Jeffries: it's time to pass the Hire More Biological Female Concentration Camp Guards Act 👏🏻
Happy about your decision to vote to confirm this loser, @schiff.senate.gov? Vote against every single one of Trump's appointees FFS!
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The entire Liquor Cabinet is nefarious and/or corrupt - but the women are definitely the only ones getting tossed!
a bunch of Ds voted yes on her confirmation.
just vote against them all, you fucking dopes. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
My colleagues look at me with blank expressions whenever I say, "The Chronicle of Higher Education is not a trade magazine for colleges & universities. It is a trade magazine for Higher Education managers." Even when they include faculty voices its always edited from the perspective of the managers
In our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we spoke about AI becoming as divisive as DEI, the prevalence of scholarly slop, and how Bluesky poisons academic discourse. Evan Goldstein: You’ve described the Substack series as “intentionally provocative.” What — or who — were you trying to provoke? Alexander Kustov: I started using Claude Code and other agentic tools, and I was impressed with the possibilities and functionalities. Yet I still hear a lot of negativity about AI from colleagues who haven’t used those tools. The vast majority of folks in academia still think AI is that chatbot interface from a couple of years ago that hallucinates and cannot really do anything. But that’s not what I saw on my computer. I’d written short items about AI, so I thought to try to see whether Claude could assemble that and create a coherent, substantive post. It did a pretty good job. I just posted it. Then I realized it was a big thing.
Kustov: If we look at the best agentic models right now, they can do most quantitative social-science research tasks better than most professors globally. All of the kind of caveats here are important. What made a lot of people upset about this statement is that they interpret it in a very America-centric way. People were thinking about their colleagues at Oxford and R1 research universities. But I was born in Soviet Russia and went to undergrad in Europe. I have seen a lot of human slop. It should not be a controversial statement to say that agentic tools can do better. The value of qualitative research is going up because that’s something that AI cannot do well — ethnography and actually interviewing people in person, especially in hard-to-reach places. If you are gathering new data that is not yet publicly available, that’s the highest value that you can have as a professor and as a researcher. But I just came from an International Studies Association conference. I saw so much poor research that, if anything, I’m more convinced that my original point is correct. Too many people with Ph.D.s, with tenure, are producing work that is not contributing to human knowledge.
Meanwhile, the Chronicle has decided to interview Dr Kustov, who repeats his claim that AI agents do "qualitative social science research better than most professors globally"
Imagine having tenure and stability, and choosing to shit on his colleagues in a time of great instability for academia.
LOLOL - I guess this is posting the Congressional swearing in ceremony for NJ's 11th District.
I read this as describing *swearing*... in NJ11.
As an NJ11 native, I could f***ing write a book about that, m*****f***ers!!
UT's leadership is not "submitting to political domination." The regents are all Republican loyalists installed by Greg Abbott to do whatever he wants them to do.
Texas universities will never recover unless the Legislature takes away from the governor the sole power to appoint university regents.
RIGHT NOW -- Veterans are being arrested in #washingtondc after peacefully demanding an end to the War on Iran. @vetsaboutface
would also love to hear from teachers!!
What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it.
Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.
I know historians aren’t supposed to predict the future, but sometimes the patterns are really clear.
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
