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Boston is such an academic city that Stroop tasks are part of the public transportation system

fuck off

'many experts told me "no, that's stupid", but i ignored them' uh, okay, cool man

blasting jimi hendrix writing about generalized quantifiers. feel like I'm richard montague in his prime

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

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It's so nice to have an adult as Canadian PM after all those terrible years of Justin

HD Cooke is an elementary school in northwest DC.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

So Columbia is basically saying, It’s interesting that you were trying to hit me, because it just so happens I was planning to fall down in the same direction.

Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It’s Not So Simple.

One thing I don't think people get is that Advanced Politics Knowers - people who read the NYT and listen to NPR - are probably more stupid than people who don't

*actively destroying millions of people's livelihoods*

"why does everyone want me dead? I'm just a smol bean..."

Call me not impressed at all: if you keep feeding the lie that there is an antisemitism crisis on campus rather than the plain truth that some students are objecting to a genocide supported by their own government, you are conceding the game.

i take him at his word that he wants to win, the interesting thing to me is when his strategy fails — and it has failed, multiple times — he just pretends it was never tried

The CR passed in the House will provide a blank check for Trump and Musk to continue their savage war against working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor in order to lay the groundwork for massive tax breaks for billionaires.

This is a bill I cannot support.

Elon musk doing nazi salute with meme "aww you're sweet" Khalif saying "Free Palestine" with "hello ICE?!"

Two-panel graph analyzing U.S. House Elections from 2006-2024. Left panel shows Democratic vote share increases as turnout gap with Republicans narrows, with a positive trend line (46-56% on y-axis). Right panel shows Democratic vote share decreases as party positioning moves from liberal to conservative, with a negative trend line. Election years are plotted as dots, with blue dots (2006, 2008, 2018) indicating Democratic House majorities and red dots indicating Republican majorities. Both graphs demonstrate that Democrats perform better with higher turnout and more liberal positioning.

1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view:

Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.

I think your general point that universities can decide what questions are worth studying is correct, but I guess my worry is that, in the future, universities will only hire people who arrive at the answers the university/admin want.

What if a department decided to only hire conservatives? To me, that sort of litmus test seems like a flagrant violation of academic freedom, which would be functionally identical to the Hochul's decision.

discovered that Little Caesar’s has an Apple Watch app and it’s just this image that you can’t interact with in any way

It is very funny that Trump is telling a 77-year old, term-limited governor that this will be the end of her political career.

I think I should be able to have one binturong

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”

I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

Elon is about to stop a fifth of Social Security payments, because his Zoomer coders who've taken one web development class don't know how dates work in COBOL

all these pricks got rich by profiting off ideas from the academy! if it wasn't for hinton, lecunn, etc. (all academics!), their precious AI bullshit wouldn't even exist

YouTube video by Chris Potts Finding linguistic structure in large language models

I just had a chance to watch this fantastic talk. I really recommend it for anyone interested in how LLMs can help us understand language:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBor...

yeah, having grown up in Oklahoma, this is like red state governance on steroids. in OK, the GOP didn't gut core parts of the government for the hell of it, they just underfunded everything so they could reduce income taxes on the wealthy

if there are any newspaper editors reading this, think of it like, the Saturday Night Massacre was considered the "Harvard administrator cited sources improperly in their college thesis" of the 1970s in terms of how big a scandal it was.

From Robin Vos's newsletter: "I recently spoke to students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about the importance of intellectual diversity on college campuses. Over the last decade, we have increasingly seen conservative voices stifled at universities across our state and country. Specific narratives have been pushed on campus while others are silenced, often under the umbrella of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" initiatives. Our institutions of higher education are laboratories of democracy where free speech should be protected and beliefs should be cultivated by hearing perspectives that are different than your own. It's time our universities welcome all perspectives to campus, not just the ones that align with the faculty's values. Thank you to the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy for having me."

Robin Vos: thank you to UW-Madison for inviting me to speak about how people like me are not allowed to speak at universities