It's not a "ceasefire" if one side continues to kill people.

Is this head fake

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

A student of mine referred to Caroline Leavitt as "Goebbels Barbie" and I cannot unhear it now.

My dentist has a similar "effective peer review" rate of above 99%!

Let's make her dean of UK's med school.

UK faculty opposed naming federal judge dean of law school The University of Kentucky named U.S. District Judge Greg Van Tatenhove as the dean of its law school, despite objections from law faculty.

In which the University of Kentucky takes the position that federal district court decisions constitute “scholarship” that are “effectively peer‑reviewed by the Sixth Circuit with an affirmation rate above 80%.”

L-O-Fucking-L

www.aol.com/articles/uk-...

Ah, the mythical rural voter, to whose whims everyone else needs to bow down.

The way this is going, in a couple of years WaPo will be owned by The Onion too.

Trump's statement is an obvious attempt to manipulate the markets. Again.

Everyone knows that alpha males don't get sick -- they karate chop and roundhouse kick viruses instead.

Vaccines are beta.

Secretary of War P... @SecWar Follow The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. • •• We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

The guy who quoted a Pulp Fiction Bible verse thing is using freedom of religion to justify this insanely stupid new policy.

There is no major religion that objects to vaccines.

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

So much of Silicon Valley has reached the conclusion that there is money to be made from American authoritarianism, writes Dave Karpf. With its ‘manifesto,’ Palantir wants to remind you that it reached that conclusion first, he says.

Would be great if the next administration cut all contracts with Palantir and SpaceX.

Drive them to the ground by declaring their tech "sensitive to US security" after refusing to work with them.

I know people that work at Palantir as engineers and they view it as "just a job."

After yesterday's manifesto, staying there implies ideological alignment.

If you have any moral values left, you resign and find something else.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Al Jazeera news: Tehran denies agreeing to second round of US talks.

Lol

Dear media: the president of the united states is a totally unreliable source.

Those degrees are not worth the paper they're printed on.

Pic of Orson Krennic from Star Wars Rogue One.

Palantir's new uniforms released:

I have personal reasons to be excited by this.

We should absolutely consider shooting Palantir to the sun.

TLDR:

1. Military, AI, techbros, plutocrats, nationalism, fascism = good.

2. Public servants, academics, democrats, immigrants, pluralism = bad.

It's like a sex-suppressed teenager with anger issues wrote his manifesto after listening to Joe Rogan.

This is so incoherent that it only makes sense as a billionaires reactionary brain farts. Eg: public employees are not “priests” and are over compensated. Reality: they are underpaid and have been serially abused. Next point, people engaging in public life (read: DOGE, Palantir) deserve our grace.

This is incredible.

Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

Bet it's like his healthcare plan.

1) start war
2) lose
3) surrender
4) add to total you’ve ended and case for a Nobel Peace Prize!

It tracks with our kakistocracy that an ophthalmologist will be in charge of vaccines.

Imagine if any other discipline had clowns of this level working at their most prestigious programs. Like if Stanford Political Science had a guy who didn't know the difference between a President and a Prime Minister or if MIT Econ had a dude who forgot what money was.

While numbers of incoming international students are down ~40% this year, my colleagues in Australia and NZ report a surge.