Chet Scoville
@chesterscoville.bsky.social
Academic knuckleballer.
The centrepiece in the Legion of Doom headquarters
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The centrepiece in the Legion of Doom headquarters
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Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE
Until it does, all such announcements are balloon juice
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Until it does, all such announcements are balloon juice
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Look, we don't like officially being more trustworthy than the CDC at this point. That's not really our bag, y'know?
But please, for the love of real science, continue to vaccinate your children.
Pay no heed to the wormbrain man.
But please, for the love of real science, continue to vaccinate your children.
Pay no heed to the wormbrain man.
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Look, we don't like officially being more trustworthy than the CDC at this point. That's not really our bag, y'know?
But please, for the love of real science, continue to vaccinate your children.
Pay no heed to the wormbrain man.
But please, for the love of real science, continue to vaccinate your children.
Pay no heed to the wormbrain man.
FIFA needs to be disbanded. It has for a while.
Fifa to award ‘peace prize’ after Trump pipped to Nobel on.ft.com/4prouSu #FTEdit
Fifa to award ‘peace prize’ after Trump pipped to Nobel
Football’s governing body to hand out first such award at glitzy World Cup draw event featuring Village People
on.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
FIFA needs to be disbanded. It has for a while.
When he’s finally gone there will still just be a pile of rubble where the East Wing once stood
Breaking news: President Trump replaced the architect he handpicked to design his $300 million White House ballroom.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
When he’s finally gone there will still just be a pile of rubble where the East Wing once stood
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No matter where it begins, every political conversation or analysis among libs ends up at language, word choice, "framing." Just an endless, bottomless, almost pre-conscious faith that they can persuade their opponents to cede power.
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
No matter where it begins, every political conversation or analysis among libs ends up at language, word choice, "framing." Just an endless, bottomless, almost pre-conscious faith that they can persuade their opponents to cede power.
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Here it is, folks: The World of Higher Education - Year in Review 2025.
Everything you need to know about where the sector is going across the globe right now in one convenient package.
There will be a quiz.
Everything you need to know about where the sector is going across the globe right now in one convenient package.
There will be a quiz.
The World of Higher Education – Year in Review 2025 | HESA
Morning all. Today, HESA is releasing The World of Higher Education – Year in Review 2025, the first in our to-be-annual series chronicling how the world’s higher education systems have fared over the...
higheredstrategy.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Here it is, folks: The World of Higher Education - Year in Review 2025.
Everything you need to know about where the sector is going across the globe right now in one convenient package.
There will be a quiz.
Everything you need to know about where the sector is going across the globe right now in one convenient package.
There will be a quiz.
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I like how in the end the whole project of all the bizarre intellectual factions of the right was that boat dealership owners get to call their employees racial slurs and not obey any regulations or pay any taxes
Chris Rufo—a prominent anti-DEI crusader—-says the “idea that private companies should be able to prioritize hiring married men w/ families is completely within the bounds of rzbl debate, &…it's absurd that individuals cannot hire whomever they want [ie, discriminate] in their own companies…” 1/
December 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I like how in the end the whole project of all the bizarre intellectual factions of the right was that boat dealership owners get to call their employees racial slurs and not obey any regulations or pay any taxes
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For years, I’ve heard Toronto people claim that heritage doesn’t stop new housing. That has always been nonsense.
Now the city is *openly, explicitly* saying a rich area shouldn’t be rezoned because heritage is more important than housing.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
Now the city is *openly, explicitly* saying a rich area shouldn’t be rezoned because heritage is more important than housing.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For years, I’ve heard Toronto people claim that heritage doesn’t stop new housing. That has always been nonsense.
Now the city is *openly, explicitly* saying a rich area shouldn’t be rezoned because heritage is more important than housing.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
Now the city is *openly, explicitly* saying a rich area shouldn’t be rezoned because heritage is more important than housing.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
Life is too short to hate-read bad books
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Life is too short to hate-read bad books
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"Big tent," much like "free speech," purports to be content-neutral. Big tent, open door, anyone can walk in!
But much like "free speech," in *practice* "big tent" is used in very specific ways, to usher very specific demographics into the tent.
Everyone has people they want to exclude!
But much like "free speech," in *practice* "big tent" is used in very specific ways, to usher very specific demographics into the tent.
Everyone has people they want to exclude!
December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Big tent," much like "free speech," purports to be content-neutral. Big tent, open door, anyone can walk in!
But much like "free speech," in *practice* "big tent" is used in very specific ways, to usher very specific demographics into the tent.
Everyone has people they want to exclude!
But much like "free speech," in *practice* "big tent" is used in very specific ways, to usher very specific demographics into the tent.
Everyone has people they want to exclude!
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Lesson 6: If you have a theory of the Supreme Court that does not include political ideology, its going to be wrong. During the Biden administration it was all major questions because they did not like his policies, and during Trump it is mostly unitary executive, because they do.
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Lesson 6: If you have a theory of the Supreme Court that does not include political ideology, its going to be wrong. During the Biden administration it was all major questions because they did not like his policies, and during Trump it is mostly unitary executive, because they do.
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Companies like OpenAI are burning through money at an ungodly rate, while failing to turn an actual profit. If you don't see how these companies view higher-ed (in particular institutional "partnerships" and licensing) as nothing but an emergency cash lifeline, I don't know what to tell you.
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Companies like OpenAI are burning through money at an ungodly rate, while failing to turn an actual profit. If you don't see how these companies view higher-ed (in particular institutional "partnerships" and licensing) as nothing but an emergency cash lifeline, I don't know what to tell you.
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👇🎯 Moral hazard is the fundamental problem, with the homeless, accommodations, or anything else.
Also, again: this is yet another higher ed issue that would disappear if we just
Funded.
The.
Damn.
Public.
Universities.
Like.
We.
Used.
To.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, again: this is yet another higher ed issue that would disappear if we just
Funded.
The.
Damn.
Public.
Universities.
Like.
We.
Used.
To.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
👇🎯 Moral hazard is the fundamental problem, with the homeless, accommodations, or anything else.
Also, again: this is yet another higher ed issue that would disappear if we just
Funded.
The.
Damn.
Public.
Universities.
Like.
We.
Used.
To.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, again: this is yet another higher ed issue that would disappear if we just
Funded.
The.
Damn.
Public.
Universities.
Like.
We.
Used.
To.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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A system that does not account for a certain percentage of waste is not a system, it is a public relations presentation
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A system that does not account for a certain percentage of waste is not a system, it is a public relations presentation
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It's easy to be progressive and inclusive and say and do the right things when society at large feels the same. And while that does matter, it matters even more when society loses its way and starts attacking the good people. That's when you earn your medals.
December 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It's easy to be progressive and inclusive and say and do the right things when society at large feels the same. And while that does matter, it matters even more when society loses its way and starts attacking the good people. That's when you earn your medals.
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This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.
There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
It happens
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It happens
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And this isn't your imagination, or a fake problem I'm fabricating to get mad at. It's a few weeks until 2026 and we still have the opinions of *James Carville* force-fed to us like fois gras geese every 2-3 months. This is not normal. It's not. It's not supposed to work like this.
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
And this isn't your imagination, or a fake problem I'm fabricating to get mad at. It's a few weeks until 2026 and we still have the opinions of *James Carville* force-fed to us like fois gras geese every 2-3 months. This is not normal. It's not. It's not supposed to work like this.
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i like that this administration is committed to inflicting as much pain on as many americans as possible.
The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.
Thousands of U.S. trucking schools could lose accreditation under DOT crackdown
The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.
n.pr
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
i like that this administration is committed to inflicting as much pain on as many americans as possible.
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For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
People used to criticize fictional villains like Sauron for being over the top in their evil, but if anything Tolkien was underplaying things.
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
People used to criticize fictional villains like Sauron for being over the top in their evil, but if anything Tolkien was underplaying things.
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So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"