Lord yes. Part of the core thesis of my higher ed book was the need to change these relationships so leadership and institutions could be more resilient, rather than having to compete for attention and prestige. The marketplace has been an unequivocally bad place for education.

"Live Free *and* Die"

I actually doubted this one was real, it seemed too much like what I would make up to illustrate how stupid they are. But, like, there we go (x.com/SecWar/statu...).

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

We had a mass longevity movement in the 20th century. It was called public health. It included vaccines, antibiotics, nutritional programmes, maternal support, cancer research.

Facebook is so far gone man. As toxic as X is, the hollowed-out slopfarm that Zuck has let Facebook become may be even more shameful

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet

It’s extremely funny that Patel’s lawyers decided to spread allegations that got cut from the published story

“Over on Twitter, they’re” shhhhh. Shhh.

Shh.

There was an old website called "write or die" ("by Dr. Wicked" iirc) that had a similar schtick, though you didn't write with a prompt, which I used sometimes to freewrite and get unstuck. It was marginally useful, but at least it had a mordant sense of humor. This one doesn't sound fun at all.

EVIL GRIMACE BOUNCE & BEND Some kind of menacing and strange play place with grimace's arms and head and bars like in a prison. Human language may be incapable of truly describing this monstrosity. Overall height 10'0" Overall ground space 5'6"x5'6*

If we work hard enough we can trap Russell Vought in here like Gen. Zod in the Phantom Zone

It's official: The House has sworn in Democratic Rep. Analilia Mejia.

I don't think the logic is anything more than 'the women resign and the men don't.'

At some point this stuff stopped being fun tie in easter egg shit and became homework

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

"I'm winning a war!" - I inexplicably heard this in Ralph Wiggum's voice.

Yes, I have just done a naked forward roll. But there was a good reason Adrian Chiles

Opinion Homes I've no fewer than 17 wooden spoons. But I have a favourite and I'd miss it for ever if it went missing Adrian Chiles

Celebrating 4/20 in your 20’s vs celebrating 4/20 in your 30’s

Miserably so.

It's ghoulish and insane

everything is so goddamn stupid

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

Ban prediction markets. Nothing good will come of them, and plenty bad already has.

Our society is sick at its core

It is sort of amazing and depressing that the cause of so much political slop is not attempts to influence elections but instead people just trying to make money off American rage.

I don't think I've ever read a sentence as unappealing as "Jim Caviezel is Jair Bolsonaro."

A large factory building in the background labeled "email factory," with a picture of a cat in the bottom left corner. It's a tabby cat and they're wearing a necktie and saying "I hope I have a manageable amount of emails".

returning to the office after a conference: