My students, enraged: "I know my own mind! I have control over my own ideas!"
Me, unflappable: "Meaning ain't in the head, kids. It depends on your physical and social environment. Triggered? Time to grow up."
Shower thought today: "Remember" is a success term so "if I remember correctly" is redundant.
Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.
The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.
Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.
Cars and cows converge in the cornfields, consuming 75% of the entire crop. They dominate almost every planetary boundary. lloydalter.substack.com/p/our-planet...
Blood for the Bloob Goob!!!
Mr. Mamdani's tax returns contained none of the splash of some of his predecessors', particularly those released by former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a billionaire whose staff would every year usher the media into his accountant's office, where they would learn how many homes he owned (at one point, they numbered 12). Mr. Mamdani, in contrast, lived with his wife in a rent-stabilized apartment in Astoria in Queens before moving to Gracie Mansion in January. His financial disclosure statement also said he owns property in Uganda. The tax returns for Mr. Bloomberg's successor, Bill de Blasio, were more anodyne. During his first year as mayor, Mr. Mamdani's predecessor, Eric Adams, put off releasing his tax returns for months, a situation he blamed in part on his hiring an accountant who he said subsequently became homeless. He ultimately released them that October.
The four kinds of NYC mayor.
Are you a woman in computer science looking for a way to destroy the patriarchy?
I have an assignment for you. Yell in my direction.
Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
Mario Tennis is the most accurate Mario series. The people who appear to be fighting over the fate of the Mushroom Kingdom are all actually in the same bougie tennis club
Ok guys we can get clever, but we have a word for this and it's called p hacking
Institutional Neutrality is at best a farce for higher ed. What, are we supposed to ignore things like inequality, climate change, or cancer risks as soon as they become political issues? What about state universities--are we meant to pretend that our funding model isn't a political issue?
six foot, seven foot, eight foot oak
It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.
Vice President JD Vance accepts your rights so long as you don't exercize them
shooting your foot to spite your own ass
People say ‘oh we just replaced one Ayatollah with his son that’s not really regime change’ but actually it looks like we probably replaced a semi-constitutional theocracy with a military junta + religious figurehead
Photo of a very short Arendt text: WAR CRIMES AND THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE I know that the war in Vietnam is not the first and will not be the last undeclared war. But I think it is possible to overlook an important point: When a nation declares war, it implies that it is prepared to play the game according to the rules. Since the beginning of this century there have been attempts to lay down certain laws for war. By not declaring war, a nation manages to evade even these feeble limitations. 1970
I often find Arendt’s more pithy observations more relevant than her more well-known works.
When i say that opposition to data centers and "generative AI" can be a winning issue for Democrats, i mean it. You tie it to resource theft and billionaires doing whatever the hell they want to whoever they want, and people will lock tf *in*.
Because they're already there.
I have seen one good example of this plate
Plato tells us that there is but one Jason Statham movie, which we perceive as many due to our inability to access true knowledge in the realm of the forms
Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate
this is a side of AI that is just being swept under the rug
Here in the Appalachians they are building a data center up in Boone NC. We don't have any water most of the day.
I'm not being hyperbolic for effect. Every morning we have no water. No water for showers, coffee... Just NO water.
Imagine being held at gunpoint (bear with me) by a literate animal, and the only hope of rescue is (BEAR WITH ME) tweeting a coded message
Yeah but they don’t get to worry about the price of brent crude
“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“
dj trump truth describing war crimes against Iranian infrastructure
it's finally infrastructure week
This is an absolutely rotten, evil thing to say. “Stone Age” implies targeting civilians—the innocent men, women, and children he is supposedly trying to liberate from a brutal, oppressive regime. That would be a war crime.
I'm seeing a lot of folks downing on logic requirements; they certainly don't seem to be worse than other requirements, and there are big parts of philosophy of language and history of analytic philosophy that are hard to understand without some understanding of logic.
