🎙️episode drop🎙️ Xifeng is shaking with anger. Is there meaning in the madness? What are the real and imagined consequences of Jia Lian’s transgressions? We try to conceive a framework for interpreting a tumultuous series of events in Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢.
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
have spent the past two weeks reading about hqim and it really seems like the only thing stopping me from starting a think tank, lobbying for legislation based on research that i fund, and imposing mandates on public school teachers is billions of dollars
👇🎯 The key to solving ~every 21st century policy problem in 🇺🇸 is primarily just re-adopting 20th century policy solutions (immigration, higher marginal tax rates, more public investment) that we discarded/did not extend to everyone because of either Reaganism, racism, or some combination thereof.
before they invented reaction gifs, you had to commission a reaction statue and mail it to the offending party
"A coalition that wants change is out there waiting to be built, and these voters largely already agree with inclusive populism—an economically populist agenda and narrative that also refutes cultural attacks," writes @jenancona.bsky.social. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
This won't stop until Democrats start pushing back by telling Pentagon officials and senior military leaders that war crimes committed during this administration will be prosecuted during the next administration.
RIP Jurgen Habermas, who carried on the legacy of Adorno's Frankfurt School by spending his career promoting a political theory that made minimal contact with social reality.
thepointmag.com/politics/a-r...
"I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear," https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/257852
I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.
Under revised policies at Texas A&M, the women’s and gender studies program is scheduled to shutter, hundreds of courses have been altered, and even Plato has been banned. PEN America led a delegation of writers to the university to defend Aggies’ freedom to teach and learn: pen.org/keeping-acad...
"The software may even be occupying most of their school time."
What a paragraph for this moment.
moultano.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/o...
The dystopic algorithmic future is just Tuttle/Buttle errors that Terry Gilliam anticipated in “Brazil”, over and over and over with no accountability.
if the Justice Department and federal judges are willing to set the bar for “providing material support to terrorists” this low—an encrypted group chat, auto-deleting messages, wearing black, possessing zines—what the Praireland defendants have been through will likely be just the beginning
this, from Finlayson, seems to lay out the stakes in the argument pretty well, but it really seems hard to argue in favor of JAH's notions of discussion post-Brexit & post-Trump jamesgordonfinlayson.com/blog/happy-b...
I'll tee up the counter-arguments to Geuss in the comments, but I admit when I first read this, I clapped, because it articulated a bunch of reservations I'd had from the time I started grad school thepointmag.com/politics/a-r...
The number of regents, administrators, and donors who view college only as the source of a credential is much greater than the number of students who do.
From personal experience, Northeastern’s rapid expansion was an administrative trash fire. My kid had a dozen swiftly rotating advisors over his time there, none of whom could explain graduation requirements or fixing problems with anything. Great teachers, awful administration.
This. From my interactions with academics across the country, I’d argue that faculty have amazing ideas, are largely passionately dedicated to their institutions, & would assume additional citizenship duties to help their institutions succeed…but admin decision makers often don’t want their input.
Really starting to feel like some consultant pollster memo went out across the party saying that every candidate needs to have some kind of means tested tax cut. No other explanation makes sense.
fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.
Consumer products need to answer actual demand, not press releases
Is it time now to re-release Raymond Geuss‘s take down of Habermas?
Restarting some work on emotional AI and education and found an inexplicably highly-read "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" from just 3 months ago that appears from its Altmetrics to have been boosted by the most transparently AI-generated academic text I've yet seen scienmag.com/transforming...
I've just discovered the show "Get Birding with Sean Bean" and really, really hope it goes in the 'no' list for my "Does Sean Bean Die?" blog.
So have we all
“How history gets told really depends on who's telling it. Whose perspective am I missing in this? I really took that approach in writing this book.”
New at PB: @jazmineulloa.bsky.social on her debut book “El Paso.”
the diagnosis seems accurate, but the solutions seem so dependent on psychologists that they’re useless; I’d like to hear political scientists chime in on this
AI just accelerates and scales problems that already existed in the academic profession... e.g. the competition + need for "more more more" feeds into hiring but also directly affects academic publishing, and in turn changes how people need to search for scholarship on what they are researching
If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs
ictnews.org/news/iditaro...
