"Please look forward to it!" is a funny literal translation

Houstonian outdoor dining, where your food is expertly seasoned with constant car exhaust

This is a pretty funny photo angle when you consider that patio dining in Houston means eating right next to a parking lot or road. Panning ever so slightly to the right would likely reveal a 12 lane highway.

John *hitmire

Perhaps, but I was concerned that the student would've started talking about "cultural issues" and such and bogged down class in a tedious discussion about whether racism is real. In retrospect I maybe should've talked to him in private about this after class.

To "welcome and respect" this student's "perspective" would have meant respecting the idea of inherent, racial superiority/inferiority in front of students who are victims of such ideas. I don't think it's fair to subject disadvantaged students to hurtful nonsense in order to coddle privileged ones.

My first thought was, "well that just means you're racist," but I instead said that I can't tell him what to believe, but that this is the overwhelming consensus among everyone who's seriously studied these issues.

As a TA, I once brought up the wealth gap between the average white family and the average black family as evidence of the lasting impact of slavery and segregation (wrt a paper they had to write on reparations). A white student raised his hand and asked, "What if we don't believe that?"

*presses finger to ear*

I'm being told "viewpoint diversity" is simply code for "more right-wing nonsense." My bad.

Two of the eternally most popular classes at Harvard are Intro to Economics ("Ec10") and Intro to Moral Philosophy ("Justice"). Both of those humor conservative bullshit to no end, while containing no discussion of Marxist perspectives *at all*. Where is *that* viewpoint diversity?

Thank you, I appreciate the context

Hm, interesting. They look scammy because none appears to have actually read anything I've written; the praise is all abstract/general. Of course that might just be laziness rather than a scam, but the insistence on a voice interview over asking specific questions by text is also strange...

Anyone else seen this? I've recently received multiple email inquiries purportedly from college or HS students, all very similar: effusively praising my work before asking to interview me for a paper by phone/Zoom. They all read like they were composed by an LLM and look like a new type of scam.

a cartoon drawing of an animal head that can be interpreted both as a duck looking left and as a rabbit looking right

The famous "duck or rabbit" cartoon from the German Fliegende Blätter in 1892, later popularized by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, reprinted as "bird or beast" in the Japanese Jiji Shinpo in 1899.

#manga #wittgenstein #rabbitseasonorduckseason

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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Deserves respect already for putting the more descriptive title first (instead of titling it something like SYMBOLISM AND DOMINATION and relegating the beached whales to a small-font subtitle)

めちゃくちゃ可愛いなぁ

Cancel Reply Forbidden Jay Bluesky is made with Al, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code Can you ask them to stop?

Asking the forbidden question

Nazi post saying Mao was worst, then Stalin, then Hitler a "distant third"

I feel like your critics calling you Nazi-friendly might have a point if you block people for politely pointing out dishonesty but are fine with statements like "Mao was worse than Hitler by far"

Screenshot showing poor Eike blocked for politely pointing out to a tenured political science professor that people aren't criticizing her for saying "Stalin murdered millions" but for equating Stalin and Hitler, and that the PS prof deliberately truncated her own quote to obscure this.

Political Science profs making a strong showing in the eternal competition over whether they, Economics, or Law are the most ridiculous discipline.

Despicable fucking government.

Resetting the "days since this post last applied" counter to zero

Popova post that says "Stalin murdered millions; similar numbers to Hitler. You're no better than a Nazi defending him."

What people are taking issue with is not "Stalin murdered millions" but the two sentences you wrote *right after*. The fact that you reduced the quote to just the first three words suggests you know they have a point.

Crazy how the city's strategy of making it impossible or dangerous to get around by foot, bike, or transit and forcing everyone to drive a car to get anywhere still has not reduced car traffic

Thanks for the response! Looking forward to it

Authoritarianism 101 - AHA Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

The AHR has launched a new project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, as part of the #AHRSyllabus series.

Explore 30 modules from different contributors and key questions on authoritarianism—each paired with primary sources and teaching resources. The first twelve modules are now live.

The interview with Louise Young doesn't appear to be up on YouTube at the link included in the module yet. Could you tell me when it will be available?

"Why don't your books use footnotes instead of endnotes then??"

Because it's usually the publisher who decides this, not the author, and publishers have decided that readers don't like footnotes.

In historical scholarship, seeing on the same page what (if any) sources are cited for claimed facts makes it a lot easier for readers to evaluate the trustworthiness of those claims and likely encourages better scholarship that way.