Hey five-month-old baby, I want to scream when I can’t fall asleep right away, too.

That’s right, folks. The conjugal bed is out! (So 19C!) The conjunct bed is in. (So 21C!)

20-something slang, 15 years from now: u up? want 2 conjunct?

Gumby’s best friend, Rosey.

I think the show thinks that “mental health” is also a slow crisis, but it doesn’t know how to tell that story in a structural way. So we just get 15 episodes of people acting like something is wrong with Dr. Robby and/or telling him to handle his shit.

Newly released records detail police response to lawmaker attacks Authorities first identified Vance Boelter as a suspect within three hours of the start of the politically motivated rampage.

Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.

It’s particularly unnecessary given that the season is structured thematically on the chronic and not on the traumatic!

Why spend 15 hours demonstrating the slow, creeping accumulation of little things building to an ongoing crisis only to cop out with “one big thing happened in the past”?

Palantir, by Saruman the White Supremacist

“I am not cheating on you, I just take a longtermist perspective on our relationship.”

Palantir, by Saruman the White Supremacist

Palantir, as operated by Saruman the White Supremacist

Exactly one year ago today:

@joshgondelman.bsky.social your tweet about how to describe Cake is the most BlueSky post not on BlueSky. Please recreate it here.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I love Pinter’s forgotten mid-career work, “India Pale Ale.”

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As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

3. Defunding public education and shifting costs onto individuals who thus began to view education in economic terms, as an “investment in their future” with “return on investment” rather than as a transformative experience of learning about one’s world.

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2. Promoting the idea that colleges teach “kids” the wrong things (“anti-Americanism”; “political correctness”; gender ideology”; “critical race theory”; etc.);

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All it took to hollow out the US system of higher ed was:

1. Fomenting racial and class grievances that “those” educated people both think they are better than “you” common folk and are achieving a privileged status over “you” common folk;

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One must assume that JD Vance is actively trying to get himself excommunicated from the Church.

Yankee Doodle scans just fine.

An etymology that derives in part from the French for “guardian, watcher.”

Which also raises the question, in an AI future, who will tutor the tutors?

One fun thing about working in an era when articles produced and citations accumulated are ever-increasingly the most important university measures of one’s value *as an academic*:

Getting a Google Scholar notification that someone has cited your work clearly without having read it.

I guess there might be some difference in that they believed in “economic anxiety” when it served as an excuse to justify outright racism, and they don’t believe in “economic anxiety” when its acknowledgment forces consideration that our economic system may be broken.

But, who can say for sure?

What’s funny about the economic illiteracy on display in placid assertions about growth and stability materially improving everyone’s lives is that many of those same people told us a decade ago that “economic anxiety” was a real thing in the Obama era.

It turns out that a bird in the hand is not worth two in the bush if your having the bird also entails adopting a policy of no more birds ever in the future.

We need this for every field: how have the austerity policies of the past two decades hollowed out the infrastructure of each field, and with what specific material consequences?