Ellie Margolis

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

I’m so sorry. I hope you are feeling better soon.

Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."

U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, in dismissing Midway Blitz-related charges against Dana Briggs last week, said he was lifting restrictions on relevant video.

Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.

I will admit to many frailties and flaws. I am far from perfect and have made plenty of mistakes and there are plenty of things I am bad at.

You could not pay me enough to declare that I am incapable of composing my own insults.

Not new, but I am enraged at the fact that Larry Summers’ colleagues have no idea how misogyny works. Imagine it’s your job to teach teen and 20-something women, & you don’t understand how someone who believes that a woman could never be his intellectual equal might treat women badly.

Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”

I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...

Love that book.

A big trend in higher ed and I absolutely hate it

Looks like a totally normal amount of books to me.

This sounds worth watching. Thanks for mentioning it.

Tom Brady finally got his revenge on Eagles fans, making us listen to him through all 3 hours of that

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

Oh, also we smoked the turkey so the stock had a nice extra smokiness that really worked with the roux.

I did this once. Made a fantastic gumbo.

Tears for Fears release “Shout” 41 yrs ago today.

The ‘80s, said Roland Orzabal, brought “a lot of fear, a lot of political tension. .. It’s really about empowerment — about refusing the roles you’ve been told to play. It’s an invitation. It’s saying: if something is wrong, say so. Say it loudly.”

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

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Uh…as in freeze? Or some other meaning?

Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind What really happened when he logged out of Washington.

"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
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I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

This is an amazing, gutting story. Grifters make bank by peddling misinformation about the harms of medical or midwife-assisted births, and moms and babies suffer and die. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Sorry. I'm sure that's uncomfortable.

The government, in going after Penn to "fight antisemitism," has asked for "a list of members of Jewish-related campus groups and the names of employees in the school's Jewish Studies Program."

We do not believe that turning over lists of Jews is helpful to the fight against antisemitism.

Memorandum and/or Opinion – #43 in IN RE: SUBPOENA NO. 25-1431-014 (E.D. Pa., 2:25-mc-00039) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM AND/OR OPINION. SIGNED BY DISTRICT JUDGE MARK A. KEARNEY ON 11/21/2025. 11/21/2025 ENTERED AND COPIES E-MAILED.(uh) (Entered: 11/21/2025)

The decision is here.

Nursing no longer considered a professional degree by Trump administration.

AOC: Women's educational and economic independence is a major threat to Republicans' power. Hence a reason to remove the professional designation from female-dominated education programs.

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“Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.”