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The map of damaged and destroyed building in Gaza is essentially just a map of buildings before the Israeli war.
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The map of damaged and destroyed building in Gaza is essentially just a map of buildings before the Israeli war.
But for the elites of both parties such a vision is dangerous, and they can only imagine its spread not as a result of collective conversation, but as a kind of dangerous brainwashing.
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
But for the elites of both parties such a vision is dangerous, and they can only imagine its spread not as a result of collective conversation, but as a kind of dangerous brainwashing.
And they are joined by establishment liberals like the New York Times in handwringing over whether the adult children of the elite should be exposed to such unsettling ideas, values, and feelings. Whether a college-educated 34-year-old should know how to celebrate the Haitian revolution.
October 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And they are joined by establishment liberals like the New York Times in handwringing over whether the adult children of the elite should be exposed to such unsettling ideas, values, and feelings. Whether a college-educated 34-year-old should know how to celebrate the Haitian revolution.
The Trump administration is not attacking the "excesses" of "woke" scholarship. They're at war with the very idea of power analysis, with the feeling of deep empathy with the oppressed, with ethical commitment to make a just world.
October 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The Trump administration is not attacking the "excesses" of "woke" scholarship. They're at war with the very idea of power analysis, with the feeling of deep empathy with the oppressed, with ethical commitment to make a just world.
Ah yes, the lesson of the Civil War is that people should be nice to one another.
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Ah yes, the lesson of the Civil War is that people should be nice to one another.
This article does not in fact mention anything Reality Winner says she shares with Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/books/review/i-am-not-your-enemy-reality-winner.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/books/review/i-am-not-your-enemy-reality-winner.html
September 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This article does not in fact mention anything Reality Winner says she shares with Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/books/review/i-am-not-your-enemy-reality-winner.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/books/review/i-am-not-your-enemy-reality-winner.html
Researchers found that correct answers were much more likely for the kinds of questions asked and answered on the Mayo Clinic (typically disease description) vs those asked and answered on Reddit.
August 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Researchers found that correct answers were much more likely for the kinds of questions asked and answered on the Mayo Clinic (typically disease description) vs those asked and answered on Reddit.
Simple field test of ChatGPT 5. "Produce a table of Bolivia's largest 15 cities by population in the latest census. Provide a link to the source."
It offered the 2012 Census data, and provided a link. But each of the top nine cities has a population that doesn't match the source.
#ChatGPT #GPT5
It offered the 2012 Census data, and provided a link. But each of the top nine cities has a population that doesn't match the source.
#ChatGPT #GPT5
August 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We're getting oversold on the capabilities of these large language models.
July 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We're getting oversold on the capabilities of these large language models.
Simple task: Which days of class should go on my syllabus?
❌ 4o-mini: shortened Nov break
❌ 4o: omitted days in Aug, Dec
✅ o3
❌ Claude 3-haiku: extended Oct break
❌ Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2: ext Oct br
✅ Claude 3.7 Sonnet
✅ Claude 4 Sonnet
This is really unreliable AI performance.
#generativeAI
❌ 4o-mini: shortened Nov break
❌ 4o: omitted days in Aug, Dec
✅ o3
❌ Claude 3-haiku: extended Oct break
❌ Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2: ext Oct br
✅ Claude 3.7 Sonnet
✅ Claude 4 Sonnet
This is really unreliable AI performance.
#generativeAI
July 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Simple task: Which days of class should go on my syllabus?
❌ 4o-mini: shortened Nov break
❌ 4o: omitted days in Aug, Dec
✅ o3
❌ Claude 3-haiku: extended Oct break
❌ Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2: ext Oct br
✅ Claude 3.7 Sonnet
✅ Claude 4 Sonnet
This is really unreliable AI performance.
#generativeAI
❌ 4o-mini: shortened Nov break
❌ 4o: omitted days in Aug, Dec
✅ o3
❌ Claude 3-haiku: extended Oct break
❌ Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2: ext Oct br
✅ Claude 3.7 Sonnet
✅ Claude 4 Sonnet
This is really unreliable AI performance.
#generativeAI
Allison Kaplan Sommer.
I'm gonna have to go listen to this episode, but I see no trace of concern for Palestinian life on her socials for the last year.
Before then she was outspoken about the deaths in Gaza, including as a print editorialist.
I'm gonna have to go listen to this episode, but I see no trace of concern for Palestinian life on her socials for the last year.
Before then she was outspoken about the deaths in Gaza, including as a print editorialist.
July 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Allison Kaplan Sommer.
I'm gonna have to go listen to this episode, but I see no trace of concern for Palestinian life on her socials for the last year.
Before then she was outspoken about the deaths in Gaza, including as a print editorialist.
I'm gonna have to go listen to this episode, but I see no trace of concern for Palestinian life on her socials for the last year.
Before then she was outspoken about the deaths in Gaza, including as a print editorialist.
The climate destruction is theirs.
The dead are ours.
The dead are ours.
July 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The climate destruction is theirs.
The dead are ours.
The dead are ours.
Jim Clyburn on Biden in July 2024: "I'm all in!"
June 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Jim Clyburn on Biden in July 2024: "I'm all in!"
War crime flexing by the New York Times.
June 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
War crime flexing by the New York Times.
The military parade for the Commander-in-Chief's birthday was literally a Nazi move. And apparently was more impressive in the original German.
(photo from Topographies of Terror, exhibit on the ruins of the Gestapo HQ)
(photo from Topographies of Terror, exhibit on the ruins of the Gestapo HQ)
June 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The military parade for the Commander-in-Chief's birthday was literally a Nazi move. And apparently was more impressive in the original German.
(photo from Topographies of Terror, exhibit on the ruins of the Gestapo HQ)
(photo from Topographies of Terror, exhibit on the ruins of the Gestapo HQ)
Urban and political anthropologist here.
For millennia cities had higher death rates than the countryside. Every great ancient civilization relied on continuous inward migration to flourish.
Meanwhile, individual identity documents are less than 200 years old.
For millennia cities had higher death rates than the countryside. Every great ancient civilization relied on continuous inward migration to flourish.
Meanwhile, individual identity documents are less than 200 years old.
June 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Urban and political anthropologist here.
For millennia cities had higher death rates than the countryside. Every great ancient civilization relied on continuous inward migration to flourish.
Meanwhile, individual identity documents are less than 200 years old.
For millennia cities had higher death rates than the countryside. Every great ancient civilization relied on continuous inward migration to flourish.
Meanwhile, individual identity documents are less than 200 years old.
Pivotal moments in US history shaped by confrontational street protest include:
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970
June 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Pivotal moments in US history shaped by confrontational street protest include:
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970
3. Think carefully about how much unease with "foreign flags" is unease with flags of a racial other, rather than foreignness per se. If that isn't obvious, consider this pic of Chicago police at an Irish heritage parade.
June 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
3. Think carefully about how much unease with "foreign flags" is unease with flags of a racial other, rather than foreignness per se. If that isn't obvious, consider this pic of Chicago police at an Irish heritage parade.
There are very significant differences between the Guard now and in 1967-70, but the fact that Detroit 1967 is not a part of the conversation is a problem.
![Deaths
A total of 43 people died: 33 were black and 10 were white. Among the black deaths, 14 were shot by police officers; 9 were shot by National Guardsmen; 6 were shot by store owners or security guards; 2 were killed by asphyxiation from a building fire; 1 was killed after stepping on a downed power line; and 1 was shot by a federal soldier.[79] The National Guardsmen and Detroit Police were found to have engaged in "uncontrolled and unnecessary firing" that endangered civilians and increased police chaos. It has been suggested that the presence of snipers was imagined or exaggerated by officials, and some of the military and law enforcement casualties could have instead been friendly fire.[80]
One black civilian, Albert Robinson, was killed by a National Guardsman responding with Detroit Police to an apartment building on the city's west side. Ernest Roquemore, a black teenager who was the last to die in the civil unrest, was killed by Army paratroopers on July 29 when caught in their crossfire directed toward someone else. The police shot three other individuals during the same firefight, with one victim needing his leg amputated.[53] Jack Sydnor was a black sniper who fired upon police and wounded one police officer in the street. The police came close to the building where the sniper lived and ambushed in the 3rd story building room by shooting him, making Sydnor the only sniper killed during the riot.[citation needed]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5qmblzn6nfuonk6iiml6i4ku/bafkreigvr7a4ewq3href3fvyr5l3jvfzskrivtiefvsw733t3gkwfpgnp4@jpeg)
June 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There are very significant differences between the Guard now and in 1967-70, but the fact that Detroit 1967 is not a part of the conversation is a problem.
Health and Human Services head RFK Jr threatens that publicly funded scientists may be stopped from publishing in leading medical journals.
May 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Health and Human Services head RFK Jr threatens that publicly funded scientists may be stopped from publishing in leading medical journals.
Co-sign that the Vietnam War became a national crisis b/c of risk to American troops. But the moral content of that crisis was a serious moral indictment of the war that stuck with Americans for over a decade.
May 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Co-sign that the Vietnam War became a national crisis b/c of risk to American troops. But the moral content of that crisis was a serious moral indictment of the war that stuck with Americans for over a decade.
In announcing her resignation from the National Science Board, Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social details #DOGE interference in National Science Foundation #NSF grant making.
May 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In announcing her resignation from the National Science Board, Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social details #DOGE interference in National Science Foundation #NSF grant making.
Greenlanders are 14-1 against joining the United States.
May 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Greenlanders are 14-1 against joining the United States.
