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Am I perturbed by the increasingly common Christmas tradition of everyone binging holiday-themed gas leak cinema from stresmers? Yes. Am I gleefully watching Love Actually again? You betcha.
December 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
youtu.be/WsY_1aRZUPA
Well okay now I'm interested
Digger - Title Announcement (2026)
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December 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Scratch a Campus Free Speecher, find a state censor
December 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Living in 2026? Like, the future? What a silly idea. Leave me out of such nonsense.
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”

Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"

Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Boards are where every ounce of the action is my friends. Do you know who's on your board? What "expertise" do they bring to the institution? What conflicts of interest do they and their partner have? What litmus test does the political appointing body use to select new members?
December 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I’ve spent a lot of time in the past 18 months really working to, if you will, kill the neoliberal in my head. as someone with my politics, I’ve been surprised by how much there’s still been to excise.

anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.

spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Lollllll they're doing cult of the operator but for higher ed. These people are so washed.

"'We talk about building the Navy SEALs of the mind,' he said. 'The Navy SEALs are not a class of thousands and thousands.'"
U Austin Announces $100M Gift, End to Tuition “Forever”
After receiving even more support from a big conservative donor, the not-yet-accredited institution announced it will neither charge tuition nor accept government funds. Some are skeptical.
www.insidehighered.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person
Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
October 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public
October 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Love walking past a child on the street who is pointing to everyone in sight (myself included) and shouting "morta!" Bodes well.
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Let your rage fuel you!"
- Abigail Spanberger, moments after drinking the blood of Mannoroth and ordering the first Horde through the Dark Portal
Video Clearly Shows That When Abigail Spanberger Said “Let Your Rage Fuel You,” She Was Urging Activists to Channel Their Anger Into Phone Banking, Door Knocking & Voting (As usual, R's are fear mongering, psychologically "projecting" & just flat-out L-Y-I-N-G) bluevirginia.us/2025/09/vide...
September 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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THE MEME IS REAL
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Finkelstein has it right here, and @vademocrats.bsky.social are correct in calling for Stimson to step down.
COMMENTARY: Rector Stimson’s loyalties — divided between leading George Mason University's governing board and advising the president of conservative think tank Heritage Foundation — betray his fiduciary duty to the school, writes guest columnist Jim Finkelstein. virginiamercury.com/2025/09/18/e...
Excuses not accepted • Virginia Mercury
Rector Stimson’s divided loyalties betray his fiduciary duty to George Mason University, writes guest columnist Jim Finkelstein.
virginiamercury.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.

D.C. statehood now.
August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Washington DC’s 700,000+ residents deserve federal representation.

DC statehood now.
August 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM