Kyle Winkler

Too bad there's no opposition party that could run a 48 hour Youtube telethon program with 48 elected officials each programming one hour to point out the awfulness of the war on Iran. That would definitely not get any media or other attention.

For anyone going who has never read or heard of David Simmons, I am jealous that you’re hearing him for the first time. And he’s in his element in his hometown.

"All novels are fantasies; some are just more honest about it."
— Gene Wolfe

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

No pasaran! 🇪🇸

God bless the Spanish for standing hard against this soulless, brutality. This is leadership:

Congrats and good luck!

Voter suppression in Texas.

Abolish ICE is the mainstream position.

I am not saying that I could necessarily tell ChatGPT’s essay apart from my own students’ work. I am sure I couldn’t. It looks like a lot of undergraduate papers I have read. But that is the point. The problem with the “mind” evinced by artificial intelligence is not that it is so convincing and brilliant that it renders human intellectual endeavor obsolete and heralds an unguessed-at future. That is for science fiction. The problem is the opposite. It’s the same kind of slapdash, incurious writing that routinely makes grading a chore. What ChatGPT produces is unreliable, drab, useless, and off topic. It is a thoughtless mishmash blended together out of middling consensus—not the creative attention I am asking students for. It is incapable of making (what is recognized in the college classroom as) an interpretive claim, and poor at introducing evidence. To be fair, a B+ paper written by AI is not likely to have grammatical errors or spelling mistakes, but I would expect more from literally any student who did the reading, came to class, met with me, and turned on his or her brain.

This is the point I've been wanting to make, made so well by Prof. Ben Parker.

www.publicbooks.org/aib/

I believe the kids call that “a crusade.”

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

Man, fuck colleges. And I work at one!

Well I don’t love that

This needs to be the top story everywhere for months until they are driven out. CHILDREN! How can we ever live with ourselves?

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Can confirm. And by that I mean the latter part of that sentence. I shall take yr word on the former.

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

You had to consider quite carefully about if you were going to attack and what it meant to attack.

I was sitting in with a D&D game last night and the topic of THAC0 came up. I'm not a 1st ed. guy, so I had to look it up. And, I will tell you, I'm kind of all for it. It seems like, as with everything about the game, the combat has been streamlined to the point where it's not even combat anymore.

That must be a lot of legal pads. Do you, by any chance, keep those when you are finished?

Yes, I know. Naive, like I said.

I still stand by the opinion that if these know-nothing, ignorant, ladder-scramblers w/ more confidence than self-reflection were to have read, like, some fucking novels and poetry and history books, that maybe we'd--perhaps--not be in such a fuckpile of death & guilt. Maybe that's naïve. Idk.

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

I agree with you 100%. And I am also sorry for your loss, Wendy. My condolences to you and yrs.

When nothing happened after Sandy Hook, we effectively said, "We accept the mass deaths of children."

You can point to lots of different historical moments. But I think Sandy Hook was the hinge. We just passed the 13th anniversary, by the way.

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to