It’s a complicated picture, and my moral judgments about it are also frankly colored by strong disapproval of existing IP laws, which make academic research on the past century of cultural production extraordinarily difficult.
Century-long copyright terms are imo an abomination.
NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.
This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.
Two weeks to remove him. Now.
For the first time ever, I visited the actual Truth Social page to check it. It is indeed there, and I still struggle to believe that this is the reality we live in.
It’s so delightful. Watchable over and over again.
You know what I liked was when Biden had that awful dog that kept biting people
Heat up the pan before the oil goes in (the heat kind of closes “pores” in the metal), oil in, food in, let it sit and brown for longer than you want to and it’ll unstick for you to flip it when it’s ready to unstick. Except for eggs and certain delicate fish. Nonstick for those.
Screenshot of the "Does that use a lot of energy?" online app
Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities.
This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here.
hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...
One thing about Jamelle is that he absolutely drives a lot of his peers crazy because he’s better at his job than they are at theirs. I think the reasons for that are not hard to figure out.
im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization
I do think we should probably make Jamelle Bouie be president tbh
Yesterday I wrote about what AI is (math) and isn’t (people) and someone in the comment said it’s the best thing anyone ever wrote about AI. I’m just gonna take that at face value and so should you. www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...
New essay on LLMs and brain rot:
"LLMs do not inevitably corrode thinking. They amplify whatever epistemic posture you bring..."
sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...
Why did you go?
telling my adorable daughter i'm not putting the drawing she made on the fridge because it's toddlerslop
The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.
Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings.
Get them out of there.
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
I used to worry a whole lot about the beard situation, but tbh most mussels I’ve ever bought (mostly from Whole Foods) come effectively de-bearded already. I spent lots of time trying to remove beards that weren’t there in the first place.
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
30 years into the mass internet era, no effort to deliberately study computing as a cultural practice—a scholarly field with local community, degrees, etc.—have succeeded at scale. Few ever started!
Instead, scattered individuals in traditional disciplines and computational methods for old work.
I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
UVA should shut itself down until the entire Board resigns.
Its incredible that nine years after Americans elected a guy who presents in every way as a through and through super villain the big news story should finally be - wow, check this out, he really is a through and through super villain.
There are more of us than there are of them.
Remember, we learned in 2021 that a win by the out party in a Virginia gubernatorial election fully nullifies any presidential mandate. I don’t make the rules