Obligatory Anduril mention.

Today on "it can always get dumber".

Here’s Ohio State’s self-investigation of Ted Carter’s corrupt, presidency-ending efforts to direct public resources to his mistress and her podcast. In addition to those two, who refused to cooperate with the investigation, the report singles out senior VP Chris Kabourek, who resigned last week.

Not only is local government stealing a public park and giving it to billionaires for free, they’re throwing in $50 million to spruce it up for them. Meanwhile, guess who has a $50 million budget shortfall? Couldn’t be clearer who matters around here.

It's cool that the NWSL is coming to Columbus, but last night the city voted to give a park that serves literally the poorest neighborhood in Columbus to the team's owners -- the odious Haslams -- as a practice facility. Shitty and unnecessary in every possible way.
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Columbus loses ‘a giant’ with the passing of Laughing Ogre cofounder Gib Bickel – Matter News Comic book writer Paul Jenkins praised the attitude Bickel brought to the shop, cognizant that the Ogre wasn’t just a comic store but ‘the epicenter of an entire community.’

One of the true good guys in comics.

Safe travels, Gib.

also worth remembering that ending a Lyme disease (borreliosis) vaccine was one of the first victories of the American anti-vaccination movement that's since captured the federal government.

Oh, he’s been auditioning for that gig since before it even existed

Sachs on a right to a living wage as "nonsense on stilts": www.thecrimson.com/article/2002...

Sachs on "the implied message of 'Don’t be a sexual predator'—a personal message that...verges on the insulting": www.thecrimson.com/article/2002...

Full Sachs archive: www.thecrimson.com/writer/796/S...

Oooh that's where I remember Sachs from - when he was in college, he used his column in the student newspaper to call a right to a living wage "nonsense on stilts" and described an awareness campaign against sexual violence as "a personal message that, on Valentine’s Day, verges on the insulting"

Congress thinks my college is failing on antisemitism. My Jewish students disagree A new House report on campus antisemitism seems to have involved minimal engagement with actual Jews at actual universities

I wrote about what it means that the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report on campus antisemitism focused on my college, and yet they never bothered to speak to me, the one full-time Jewish Studies professor at that college. forward.com/opinion/8197...

Thea Riofrancos on "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" RegisterThea Riofrancos will speak on her latest book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (W.W. Norton, September 2025). Lunch will be served at noon; please register by Monday, April 20 at ...

Really looking forward to welcoming @triofrancos.bsky.social to Ohio State this Friday, where she'll be talking about her new book over lunch at the Mershon Center. Columbus folks, I hope you can join us!

May Day 2026. 12-1 pm, May 1. 15th and high. Title of the event is: “Hands off higher ed: for faculty power and workers Solidarity.” lineup with signs and slogans, wear red or Union, swag, joined the AAUP campus tour at 1 PM, all are welcome.

tell politicians, the board of trustees, and university admins that we demand: an affordable university that serves the public good, living wages for faculty and staff, belief in survivors of sexual violence, enthusiastic, supportive diversity, an Ohio State university that protects free speech, research and academic freedom

Our May Day action! Come out and join us - students, all campus workers, all community workers and groups. Please share widely.

Very kind coverage of my talk last week on "Hope, Despair and Nonviolence in a Warming World" from Bowling Green State University's student newspaper, undercut only slightly by a photo choice that makes it devastatingly clear how many empty seats were in the room lol

Send a letter to Columbus City Council telling them to vote NO on this horrible deal 🙅🏻‍♂️

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Opinion | Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense Right Now

"Markets are not properly pricing risk, because they really don’t have to. They have assumed that the U.S. government will not allow them to implode, and that assumption is putting the world economy at stake."

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Harry Keyishian, Lead Plaintiff in Academic Freedom Case, Dies at 93

My friend and colleague, Harry Keyishian died recently: his refusal to sign a McCarthy-esque loyalty oath led to a major legal victory for academic freedom.

I’m sure motivation is part of the story but I also think students are using AI to generate answers to the study guide questions and then trying to memorize that rather than figure it out themselves. All the answers are on my slides, which i post, and many students don’t ever consult them.

Free Nkemasosa Nkemasosa is a Columbus man currently detained by ICE in a New York State immigration jail. He was just granted a $10,000 immigration bond — which is very rare — and we are mobilizing to try to raise ...

Nkemasosa, from Columbus, is detained by ICE + was just granted a $10,000 immigration bond — very rare. We are trying to get him home to his wife + family before 5/5, his final hearing. We cannot let Nkemasosa be deported to Cameroon. TY for your help! ohioimmigrant.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/fr...

Yes, started from high average because the exams are designed to be easy and accessible for an intro class - students get a study guide two weeks before the exam and all questions on the exam are drawn from the study guide. I never had more than a handful of students fail such an exam until recently

Have seen something very similar that what’s described below in my intro classes, where exam averages have declined from 87%-89% to 81%-82% over the last five years

Tell Columbus City Council: Save McCoy Park, no to the billionaires giveaway It's absurd that while funding for our schools is being cut, Columbus City Council (and the Franklin County Commissioners) are considering subsidizing the Haslams' bid for a women's soccer team with $...

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It was already hilarious that people on the site owned by Elon Musk were arguing that racial capitalism doesn’t exist but this Palantir statement being circulated today is a real cherry on top

Watched this with the 9-year-old last night - she’s a big fan of Archie Comics and Alan Cumming these days so unsurprisingly she loved it (and the inappropriate parts mostly went over her head). I forgot about Eugene Levy’s hilarious cameo which happily led me to this great headline.

Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.

Sorry but i still think this insane. (This statement is ridiculous yes--but also read what the article says about how they authenticated the messages.) If everyone gets away with just ignoring this, it's going to be extremely, extremely pathetic.

“Researchers that have attempted to make the university’s connections –and potential obligations– to the Caribbean explicit say their efforts have been stymied. …“The conversation is not happening,” said Carla Martin, a Harvard professor of African and African American Studies. “We all have tried.””

New frontiers in lawyerly non-denial: “When asked by the Guardian whether Acker denied writing the messages, his attorney responded: ‘Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.’”

Sorry, but if faculty member ever called a parent a "joo" and commented how much his daughter f*cks we'd be gone tenure or no tenure. Different rules for regents.