Holy shit I loved these. Forgot about them though.

Our future thanks to AI

First week of operational solar panels. Already paying for themselves. In mid November. In New England.

They tell me Mamdani is the threat to my people.

Why do we have to AI-proof our classes? Because our students aren't motivated to do the work we assign them.

Either students don't see the point of their educations or their lives are so demanding that they are forced to take shortcuts.

It's not a syllabus problem, folks.

For fun, I uploaded my Ethics and Public Policy syllabus to ChatGPT. I asked it to add additional readings to each module.

It gave me about 3 new readings/module and at least half were either incorrectly cited or, worse, totally mode up - fakes.

ChatGPT is bad at scholarship.

is this real?

I am teaching Ethics and Public Policy this fall. Here is the syllabus. Comments welcome! (Seriously - please offer suggestions!)

Thanks to @jowolff.bsky.social for alerting me to citation infelicities!

I am teaching Ethics and Public Policy this fall. Here is the syllabus. Comments welcome! (Seriously - please offer suggestions!)

Thanks to @jowolff.bsky.social for alerting me to citation infelicities!

FWIW I really screwed up and interpolated tons of incorrect citations. Your comment woke me up to that! I basically copied the wrong citations and summaries from a word document for nearly every reading! Thank you for waking me up to that.

it's chapter 1 I think? pluralism of disadvantage?

oops that is a product of my crappy note taking. that is from your book disadvantage!

If we shift Pat to some other team then sure. But why are we paying wages to both when they both can't be trusted to stay fit OR score goals when fit?

I predict DCL will score no more than 4 goals and will play less than 2000 minutes. Pat would probably be equivalent.

Firmino scored 37 goals over the four years he was the same age as DCL.

Patrick Bamford scored more goals in his one good season in the PL than Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored in the past 4 seasons combined.

Frankly, we already have a DCL and his name is Pat.

#lufc #alaw #mot

lol

Six Youth Demand campaigners arrested while attending meeting in London

London's Metropolitan Police have arrested Palestine solidarity activists at a Quaker meeting house. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/six-...

The Abundance Agenda as Anti-Politics Deal-making is not political morality

You know you wanted it! Another piece on the Abundance Agenda!

open.substack.com/pub/matthewn...

The Abundance Agenda as Anti-Politics Deal-making is not political morality

You know you wanted it! Another piece on the Abundance Agenda!

open.substack.com/pub/matthewn...

Wu just made this guy tear up a little.

The abundance agenda is anti-politics. It's a technocratic attempt to dodge the hard political questions of the moment. Don't be fooled!

Reflections on Jewish Complicity On the relation between mainstream Jewish politics and authoritarian assaults on universities and free speech.

On Judeopessimism and Jewish complicity

This short essay traces some connections between evolving conceptions of Jewishness and the rise of authoritarianism.

American Jewish identity has been hijacked by the Right and we are partially responsible for that.

open.substack.com/pub/matthewn...

I wrote a bit about Jewish complicity with authoritarianism. Below is a paragraph from the piece.

Read the whole thing here: substack.com/@matthewnoah...

Some notes on the role of Jewish organizations and the current authoritarian assault on free speech and universities. matthewnoahsmith.substack.com/p/ba74345a-7...

Hot Guacamole (MF DOOM, MC Paul Barman) YouTube video by Rick Deckard

What a banger. youtu.be/BC4wr02mUVo?...

Bernie Sanders is drawing thousands of people to his rallies.

I'd also wager that the Democratic Party elite thinks that the main threat they face is the left flank of their own party.

Even if the Dems take back the House in 2026, they will merely slow the descent to authoritarianism.

We are in old fat Caligula territory.

I sort of forgot about Chisel and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and man oh man is it good to remember them.

Trump HHS reevaluating Biden administration's $590M bird flu vaccine contract with Moderna: Bloomberg The Department of Health and Human Services is reevaluating a $590 million contract for avian influenza mRNA vaccines that the prior administration struck with Moderna, Bloomberg first

A parent at my kids' school who works as a staff scientist at Moderna was laid off because of this.

www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/trum...

So, we are basically being governed by an entire party of these guys.