Oh I agree, absolutely, it was the perfect historical storm.

I think A LOT of the issues we're experiencing are a DIRECT RESULT of that trauma. They can deny it all they want, but EVERYONE KNOWS (...or actively represses that knowledge).

Still can’t even conceive of how much contempt he has for his colleagues and for students to do this

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Thank you, Dr Yamey. Every time a Jewish friend or acquaintance says that particular benediction, I am so touched, it is so beautiful.

This is not to say what you were noting about social isolation wasn't real or valid or a continuing problem, just to underscore. I think even talking about it online reveals how much residual grief and anger so many people who didnt even lose people to it are living with and expressing in more anger

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Agree.
Most people struggled really hard with the isolation of quarantine and COVID--there is no question.
I feel like my students are still dealing with the aftermath of this--pretending its not traumatizing helps no one.
And few of us are designed for real solitude, or prepared for it.

if you respond like this to people 6 years later expressing that the social isolation of peak Covid was hard for them, congratulations: you are a huge asshole

My mother refused to mask because she believed a lot of the hype about vaccines, and Im still so very angry about it all. Im so sorry about your father, and hope he recovers!

Solidarity, and Im so very sorry.

my father, an old school doc who worked in the public health system in India, used to describe tetanus (which he saw in unvaccinated, often poor people in India without access to post exposure vaccines) as scary, and agonizing.

*sorry last year. My mum passed last year. What is time. Nothing.

Its so...ugly. The kind of thing so many of us are afraid of in conferences. Nice confirmation that he is who we always thought he was.

No edgy COVID take here.
Im just not over it, physically or otherwise.
My mum passed from COVID complications THIS YEAR.
I was drowning in grief and anger for a long time, and now its worse, and I just want to be not feeling like this.

my edgy COVID take is that people should mask up.

It's 4/20! Let me remind you why marijuana was criminalized to begin with: "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” - John Erlichman, senior advisor to Nixon

Happy 4/20 to those who celebrate!

I’m still stuck at his photographing and sharing a slide to laugh at, such shocking contempt for his colleagues

squeakiest wheel getting so much fucking grease right now

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He's like the Energizer Bunny of bad takes

Ive got to publish more and worry less, look at this dude in the screenshot

"I'll carve the idea of my home in your head like a Nabataean"

AMAZING 🤣

I understand that this is an interview, but are there any editorial standards that The Chronicle might actually have?

The audacity of the man to complain about OTHER PEOPLES’s ‘human slop’ when this is his writing

“Slop” was Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year, defined as low-quality digital content produced by AI. But the ISA conference was a reminder that the vast majority of slop has always been human slop. The academic journal system and big conferences in much of the humanities and social sciences were slop factories long before anyone had a ChatGPT subscription. Yes, I really mean that most research is slop.3

Goddess, please give me the arrogance of a man who mentioned a dictionary definition of a word and then goes on to redline it on his own.

The rather unlikely proximate cause of this third installment on AI was visiting the 2026 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Columbus, Ohio—a preeminent multidisciplinary conference of the world’s leading international studies professionals. Or so I was told. What I actually witnessed were presentations so rough they would barely get a C in any of my classes: arguments with no thesis or coherence, grammar errors any spell-checker would catch, presenters reading off their slides as if encountering their own bad arguments for the first time. All without any AI involved, as far as I could tell, judging by the presence of typos and inconsistencies. These were not just grad students, but people with PhDs, tenure, and research budgets.

Has he attended a conference before? Any conference?

Attention seeker, pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes in his initial posting, now but a wounded warrior in a culture war in his own head, bravely carrying that heavy responsibility of waving the banner of inevitability. Sexist mfer too.

Few groups in American public life have suffered more material or reputational damage in the past year than federal civil servants. More than 400,000 employees have left the federal government. For many, they left a dream job, pushed out by people who knew less than they did. They worked under a government where the President declared them to be the deep state, government leaders promised to put them “in trauma” and the President’s supporters often exposed them to harassment campaigns. They were demeaned by bosses who opposed the mission of their organization.

Because I study government I am sort of stuck on Karp's characterization of bureaucrats as overpaid priests - the echo of “will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” may not be intended, but its there - at a time when they were purged from govt and he made several billion dollars.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

The manifesto is incoherent about public service until you realize that Karp is presenting you with two types of public servants: civil servants fired under Trump, and the tech elites who venture into government.
The former deserve your scorn.
The latter merit your understanding and praise.

image of Palantir stock price increasing after Trump elected

Karp once studied and opposed fascism. How did he become someone a Trump defender? Palantir's value is fused to MAGA.

In the Times, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social says: "the best explanation for Karp’s journey — as for most of his right-wing billionaire compatriots — is the vulgar materialist one.”