Giving a talk at Dartmouth today about close reading as a practice for cultivating accountability (the ability to give an account of oneself and others), sensibility (sensitivity of one's sensorium), and gentleness (eliciting potentiality in others). Up with human flourishing through liberal arts!
This is good news! I still consider “masking and staying home when sick” and regular boosters the absolute floor when it comes to being civilized, though. And will forever.
Always carry a mask so you are always prepared to wear one if asked.
Oh my goodness THIS. Students don't take notes. They refuse to read. They don't engage- this is not just me, its most profs. It's gotten far worse.
Anyone who attends this as a guest is a hack
It's the truth. You gotta shame the botlickers!
here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages!
If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is
Based on exit polling for the last three presidential elections…ooooWEEEE!!!
Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “The Texas gerrymander freak out. What’s happening in Texas is not a threat to democracy.”
Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss. The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.”
The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas.
But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”
every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"
Studios laying off hundreds and thousands of employees with the excuse that they can move production to the UK and not have to pay for healthcare because the UK has socialized medicine should be humiliating to the US government.
The open eugenics has been so loud since 2020 🫠
Worth noting how many organizations like SPLC neutered themselves and the work that they do, trying to avoid this very moment. Especially since Trump won again. But MAGA was always going to come for them. And eventually, we'll all be targets. No matter how much we tried to remain nonpartisan, etc.
putting my old bargaining hat on to say that if you're in a unionized newsroom, this absolutely does NOT fall under status quo and should be prone to bargaining.
if you're a freelance journalist, make sure your contract reserves the right to pull your byline. They'll fight, but you have the right.
It’s so wild that ai stans keep insisting if you edit your prompts and keep creating “recursive loops” for an ai to validate itself the ai will come up with the right answer and correct itself
But we have examples if you do that you’re biasing it more and it’ll change things to make you happy
it's becoming increasingly clear that the Hagseth Doctrine boils down to "Strategy and Logistics Are Woke and Gay"
Seattle Reign announced that captain Jess Fishlock will retire at the end of the 2026 NWSL season, concluding one of the most iconic careers in club and league history.
Fishlock, the last remaining club original from the 2013 squad, has helped define Reign FC’s identity for more than a decade.
We fucking warned y’all that this was the goddamned end goal for those smart glasses.
Freedom is when you can’t have a beard but you can get H1N1 and infect the rest of your unit
Hey instead of the LA cops getting $3.6 billion dollars a year, and also paying out close to $400 million in settlements, here's an idea ...
For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll.
People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.
announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
Tim Cook's legacy will be enshittifying Apple's software, abusing their market dominance, and then playing apologist to fascism.
Under his leadership they burned billions on a car that never drove, and the only major attempt at a new product during his tenure (the Apple Vision Pro) was a total dud.
true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative
If i could manage with never driving a car again, I would. And drivers should want that for me. Me not driving is me not contributing to your congestion.
i know 1772 is a big number, but if 300 people and 5 of their friends contributed $1 each, i can secure my slots for radiation treatment for May by this evening.
can you contribute $1 please? ❤️
paypal.me/thelongestroad
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
This is another effort to push people out of this country. People who are not citizens whose entire lives are based in the US, green card holders, refugees, U visa holders, will have a hard time staying here if they can't bank here, but where are they meant to go? This is despicable.
It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients.
The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...
in general, & across the world, the political gender divide really opens up around 2016
wonder if something happened then?