Curtis
@soccurt.bsky.social
Overly caffeinated prof in SW Ontario, and probably having another cup of coffee way too late as you read this. Liberal socialist and limitarian politics. Always looking for excuses to post Bob's Burgers memes. He/him. 🏳️🌈
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Curtis
@soccurt.bsky.social
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Tag yourself. I'm soy-faced and pajama clad.
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21st Century:
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
21st Century:
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This is the guy who said women are underrepresented in STEM because they’re stupid
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
This is the guy who said women are underrepresented in STEM because they’re stupid
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
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apparently Kane is the last guy the Democrats need to flip the House (and thereby America) to socialism?
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
apparently Kane is the last guy the Democrats need to flip the House (and thereby America) to socialism?
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THERE'S A FIFTH ONE?!
WAIT?! THERE WAS A FOURTH ONE?!
WAIT?! THERE WAS A FOURTH ONE?!
Should i do a live-thread of me working my way through God's Not Dead 5?
correct! i joke on and off that evangelical movies are basically similar to the didactic era of socialist realism films in 20th century movies
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
THERE'S A FIFTH ONE?!
WAIT?! THERE WAS A FOURTH ONE?!
WAIT?! THERE WAS A FOURTH ONE?!
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![Steve Hogarty @misterbrilliant
[gets olympic tickets to 100m butterfly] Oh my god this will be great. [sees the huge stadium] Oh wow that must be where they keep it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k5zurjvwdwxqwpvd4ggk3w76/bafkreihzgag5tcnviy6ohpnaokdl6jbyus6lufcrxk27xbskrzjusvybxu@jpeg)
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This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
"Roadkill seductions" - a new pulp erotica novel.
i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Roadkill seductions" - a new pulp erotica novel.
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"Also" is redundant. They're both Satan.
Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
"Also" is redundant. They're both Satan.
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pictured: the most advanced levels of Republican economic theory
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
pictured: the most advanced levels of Republican economic theory
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2024: hahaha suck it troglodytes, this thing's gonna be replacing your job and dating your girlfriend
2026: we continue to see modest gains at the edges of our applications. we believe 14% of consumers may be ready to spend up to three dollars a month on this by end of Q4
2026: we continue to see modest gains at the edges of our applications. we believe 14% of consumers may be ready to spend up to three dollars a month on this by end of Q4
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
2024: hahaha suck it troglodytes, this thing's gonna be replacing your job and dating your girlfriend
2026: we continue to see modest gains at the edges of our applications. we believe 14% of consumers may be ready to spend up to three dollars a month on this by end of Q4
2026: we continue to see modest gains at the edges of our applications. we believe 14% of consumers may be ready to spend up to three dollars a month on this by end of Q4
Since I'm reflecting on land acknowledgements at the moment, here's an opportunity to share one of my favourite, short pieces of Indigenous satire.
walkingeaglenews.com/2017/12/19/l...
walkingeaglenews.com/2017/12/19/l...
Land acknowledgement malfunctions, causing land to be briefly returned to First Nations
A land acknowledgement at an event in Regina malfunctioned on Tuesday, causing the city and huge parts of Saskatchewan to be briefly returned to First Nations. Land acknowledgements are statements ...
walkingeaglenews.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since I'm reflecting on land acknowledgements at the moment, here's an opportunity to share one of my favourite, short pieces of Indigenous satire.
walkingeaglenews.com/2017/12/19/l...
walkingeaglenews.com/2017/12/19/l...
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The right thinks the left will fight to protect Bill Clinton. The actual left thinks the middle will fight to protect Bill Clinton. But I want to believe — tonight as winter creeps closer, and even the tiniest glimmer of hope is impossibly precious — that nobody would protect Bill Clinton.
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The right thinks the left will fight to protect Bill Clinton. The actual left thinks the middle will fight to protect Bill Clinton. But I want to believe — tonight as winter creeps closer, and even the tiniest glimmer of hope is impossibly precious — that nobody would protect Bill Clinton.
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Kafka: "The point of life is that it stops"
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Kafka: "The point of life is that it stops"
*See this through my partner's eyes, a former personal support worker* That robot needs a walker.
An AI-powered humanoid robot billed as the first of its kind in Russia fell flat on its face shortly after making its debut appearance at a tech event in Moscow this week.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
*See this through my partner's eyes, a former personal support worker* That robot needs a walker.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
"By normalizing bigotry, Heritage made a figure like Fuentes not just likely but inevitable. And many up-and-comers in the GOP seem more comfortable with Fuentes-style bullhorns than their grandparents’ dog whistles." - Good article from @victorerikray.bsky.social
“Overseeing the GOPs transformation into an ever more radical party, McConnell excused the party’s increasingly open bigotry. Now, faced with the monster he created, McConnell pleads ignorance.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"By normalizing bigotry, Heritage made a figure like Fuentes not just likely but inevitable. And many up-and-comers in the GOP seem more comfortable with Fuentes-style bullhorns than their grandparents’ dog whistles." - Good article from @victorerikray.bsky.social
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I don't think Santa likes being called that.
November 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
I don't think Santa likes being called that.
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i wonder if haidt will revise his thesis about the excesses of left wing universities or if he just chuckles while sitting on a mountain of cash
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
i wonder if haidt will revise his thesis about the excesses of left wing universities or if he just chuckles while sitting on a mountain of cash
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
One of the many things I worry about is this gaining momentum in Canada. There is a huge elite and mass appetite for residential school denialism.
Then: Critical Race Theory is Bad.
Now: You may not teach a class that contains the words critical, race, or theory.
Now: You may not teach a class that contains the words critical, race, or theory.
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
One of the many things I worry about is this gaining momentum in Canada. There is a huge elite and mass appetite for residential school denialism.
Since he can't use his money to buy laughs, we should confiscate most of his wealth. I'm feeling generous so let's leave him with about $20 million US.
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Since he can't use his money to buy laughs, we should confiscate most of his wealth. I'm feeling generous so let's leave him with about $20 million US.
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When I was at Arizona, a colleague teaching a class described this exchange:
Student: Where’s that idea in the textbook?
Colleague: This is from one of my own articles
S [angrily]: You mean you’re just MAKING IT UP?!
C: Do you think textbooks are dug up out of the ground like turnips or something?
Student: Where’s that idea in the textbook?
Colleague: This is from one of my own articles
S [angrily]: You mean you’re just MAKING IT UP?!
C: Do you think textbooks are dug up out of the ground like turnips or something?
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
When I was at Arizona, a colleague teaching a class described this exchange:
Student: Where’s that idea in the textbook?
Colleague: This is from one of my own articles
S [angrily]: You mean you’re just MAKING IT UP?!
C: Do you think textbooks are dug up out of the ground like turnips or something?
Student: Where’s that idea in the textbook?
Colleague: This is from one of my own articles
S [angrily]: You mean you’re just MAKING IT UP?!
C: Do you think textbooks are dug up out of the ground like turnips or something?