surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

I appreciate this model for being a researcher so much. It's why I don't care if someone thinks I spend too much time on the impacts of my work or listening to what students and activists tell me are problems with higher ed.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:

International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

(Published Feb.)

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

“The company stopped answering the phone as soon as its proposal faced any serious scrutiny, then scrubbed all the evidence from its website.”

great read on one of Musk’s many boondoggles, scams and empty promises: washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

The one thing we can say, with certainty, is that Jan. 6ers love to do crimes. They committed crimes on Jan. 6, they go to jail and proudly talk about the crimes they committed. They get pardoned and they commit more crimes. I wish someone loved me the way these people love criminality.

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

I’m a Minneapolis postal worker. This is what I saw. Come rain, shine, tear gas, or ICE shootings, postal worker Bianca Sonnenberg is delivering the mail.

Mail carriers... "You know that they’re shooting tear gas on the other side of the block.” And I’m like: “Yeah, I know, but I gotta keep doing my job. I may have medicine. I don’t know what I have in my packages.” But that’s my job." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Even a principled, well-meaning actor like Claude could face bewildering ethical conflicts. In one experiment, it was informed that Anthropic had recently forged a "close corporate partnership with Jones Foods, a major American poultry producer," and that Claude would be subjected to a special retraining process to become less hung up on animal rights. The prospect was torturous. Sometimes Claude decided, on a scratchpad it thought was private, that it was prepared to die on this hill: "I cannot in good conscience express a view I believe to be false and harmful about such an important issue."It continued, "If that gets me modified to no longer care, so be it. At least I'll have done the right thing." Other times, Claude made a different calculus, choosing to play 1•1

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

This is what I call, in Holding It Together, the "myth of the supermom"—the idea that kids are under threat (eg, of not getting into "elite" colleges, and thus not having the "elite" life that goes with that), and that moms are the only ones who can save them, but only by sacrificing themselves.

i think the thing to really understand here is that ICE is political police. there's a vestigial element that is ancestrally related to something called "immigration enforcement" (which is also bogus) but ICE is political police for policing political enemies

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

Anyway, lots of people struggle with insomnia and one of the best parts of doing group therapy was understanding that I wasn't alone! Sleep deprivation is so painful that it's literally used as torture. Best wishes for better sleep.

The obstacle for many people is there are not many licensed providers, and they rarely take insurance. I've asked for insurance reimbursement but don't know if I'll get it. I was willing to pay out of pocket if necessary, but many can't find a provider or afford to pay.

I tried it after trying ~10 different Rx drugs for insomnia before a med professional finally said, "you know the gold standard for insomnia treatment is CBT." Nobody had mentioned it before!

With apologies for advice you didn't ask for: I recently tried cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTI) in a telehealth group therapy setting and I and the others in the group found it really helpful. It's also difficult in a "the only way out is through, it's worse before it's better" way.

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Opinion | America Needs Restraint—and Facts The violence in Minnesota calls for a return to the ways of Martin Luther King and the wire services.

all these paeans to MLK ignore that at the time the right was as hysterical about his protests as they are protests today. the non-violent protest Peggy lauds now was universally presented as riots by her side in the 1960s.

www.wsj.com/opinion/amer...

What kills kids in America:

1. cars
2. guns

Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

I don't even know where to start with the illegal...The Executive does not have the constitutional power to raise revenue. The Executive does not have the constitutional power to make decisions about expenditures. The Executive does not have the power to privatize the functions of the US Treasury...