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Seems like every community I'm a part of is in deep leadership crisis mode, and I can't help but feel that the broader political environment is putting earth core-degree pressure on every organizational fault line right now

I’m going to SF this afternoon for an art reception, a little Thai dinner, and a drag show. I’m so very tired and feeling extra introverted these days but I’m going to make the effort!

Cognella in SoCal offers “University Readers” — you put together the readings and they deal with the copyright part. They are a progressive academic pub. company who has published my textbook for the past 10 years or so.

I tell my students it’s intellectual baby food with embedded shards of glass and random clumps of cigarette ash. So if you don’t mind picking out the bad bits you’re left with… slightly tainted baby food. Nom nom nom!

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

WHEEWWWWWWWWWW:
"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Yf you are walkinge arounde and you see i) a squirrel or ii) a crowe or iii) a catte, you muste saye "hey buddy" these are the rules

LA County: You get that statue of Abraham Lincoln we commissioned?
Sculptor: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
LA County: what

Old tortie and a terrier on the bed

My old lady cat says hello! —and is also in no mood for this bullshit.

I can’t believe it took me until this year to read it but wow, what a book. About halfway through “Parable of the Talents” now and it’s even more timely. A hard read, emotionally, but so damn good.

Backwards state. Backwards country. This won't even benefit the wealthy in the long term. Denying vaccines will result in a sick labor pool that will drain insurance companies dry.

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

Yes! For-profit health care is obscene on its face — and even more grotesque in practice. Incentivizing suffering for the sake of shareholders. How can a civilization dare call itself civilized?

Same argument applies to health care and public health, btw. Take away privatized health care and you remove the biggest cudgel of the owner class to subjugate the workers.

@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social when #Foundation wraps this season I’d love to hear your take on the costume design.
From the Mule’s flashy red marching band jacket to Mallow’s diamond cut-out jumpsuit, I’ve been tickled by the outfits.

Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.

*NEWS*: Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone are joining Zeteo’s political team as new staff reporters, plus Peter Rothpletz will be helping me launch a progressive politics morning news letter. We’re also hiring a breaking news reporter.

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

“Don’t paint a mural of your family tree on the basement wall/customize your kitchen for your home brewing hobby/build your dog a kennel! What are you gonna do when you want to SELL the place???”

Good point, I should just live in inoffensive beige and off-white misery for 27 years instead!!!

every time I post something critical about AI I get some chowderhead booster in the replies saying I’d probably have been against fountain pens or buggy whips. I look at it more like saying radium has potential but maybe we should think twice before painting wristwatches with it.

I believe this accurately represents current conditions in the U.S.

Libra: Astrology is now the only kind of science funded in the U.S. Bad news: Your sign will be eliminated for Wokeness.

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Two genders - male, and political.

Two religions - Christian, and political.

Two races - white, and political.

If “winning the fight against fascism” means throwing another group under the bus or outright sacrificing them in order to win then I don’t ever wanna be involved in your fight nor do i wish to fight with you because your goals were compromised and based on a poisoned foundation from the start.

💔such a terrible situation—heartbreaking to stay, heartbreaking to leave knowing your students are stuck. I’m in CA, teaching early admit HS students at the college. These kids freely, openly express their pronouns and preferred names. To have that freedom taken away, from me or them…! 😡

"I find myself troubled by Mamdani’s ties to Uganda" ok well I find myself troubled by my ties to America but unfortunately I was also not in control of where I was born

Ah, such as perfect movie.
“Why do they call you ‘Red’? Do you dye your hair?”

Exactly. How many times, in how many ways, will I have to tell this “improved” version of Windows to f* off? I don’t remember them having this problem in Star Trek.

Yes! There’s a frenzy in my head and it feels like I accomplished almost nothing today. Do I get credit for thinking really hard??

Thank you for the heads up that Buffalo Wild Wings and its parent company Inspire Brands (which also owns Arby's, Sonic, Jimmy John's, Dunkin' Donuts, and Baskin-Robbins) knowingly employs people who commit sex crimes on the job.