eh

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

*Chicago ppl* — come see Damir Imamović talk about music, research, incredible old records, fantastic new songs and more, this Wednesday (October 8) at Northwestern! Please share widely ✨👇

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

it's failsons all the way down

Wharton alumnus Marc Rowan floated as potential member of authoritative board overseeing Gaza The plan would establish an international board which will serve as the “supreme political and legal authority for Gaza during the transitional period” and comprise seven to ten members.

that's key. but once a billionaire makes it into that govbiz sphere, a related cycle of recurring appointments and overlapping projects begins. so rowan is not only involved in university takeovers, but also in the planned takeover of gaza www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Wharton alumnus Marc Rowan floated as potential member of authoritative board overseeing Gaza The plan would establish an international board which will serve as the “supreme political and legal authority for Gaza during the transitional period” and comprise seven to ten members.

rowan embodies that direct link between gaza & university takeovers since trump nominated him in his peace plan for the (yet unrealized) colonial board of governors ruling gaza www.thedp.com/article/2025...

THREAD. In Trump's speech to an unprecedented gathering of generals, he announced that he was preparing to order them to use American "cities as training grounds for our military." I want to highlight a few other statements that are bone chilling and put them into context that U.S media obscures.

his team deserves the plaudits, but in all honesty, this exact same campaign would flop with most other candidates... it doesn't work without his charisma

Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”

Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

"AT SOME POINT" so like maybe next year once you get the focus groups ready, right?

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

so good

talk about "snowflakes" etc... ugh

Nearly every progressive politician, journalist and organization in America continues to use the website this man controls as a primary means of communication.

not sure those moments of realization are coming... complicity and denial offer a great range of masks to get through so much of life

badly implemented, yes, and it applies to this entire enterprise

💙 (which makes me wonder, what should their "supportive resources link" lead to...)

yeah there's no going back to those primitive times

ok, so here's the deal: for the incredible convenience of saving 14 minutes of busywork for some people who like to use it, this chatbot machine will occasionally & randomly help kill someone—like, it *will* end someone's life—but the users get to keep access to their little machine. it works!

My students made a good observation, realizing how much scholarly research, across sciences, humanities, etc, has been embedded in all kinds of public-serving institutions (hospitals, gov depts, archives)—but that realization came about only thru seeing such firings & vacancies from top down...

it's not about "feeling." NSF has been hollowed out, defunded, and the remaining state-sponsored, taxpayer-funded grants are being redirected exclusively toward privately owned "AI"—for what? hoping that something good will come out of Trumpist science? good luck bsky.app/profile/morg...

thanks for changing the question, but i think i'm going to stick with what i asked above and ignore the whataboutism.

Saving time — great. But very telling to compare that with what you posted yesterday: every non-AI way of doing research is being currently drowned out by constant AI noise for ... what exactly? Isn't this NSF example just unhinged?
bsky.app/profile/morg...

Thanks for this. Very different field, but similar experience with "brainstorming" & "creative" part. I asked for both reading suggestions & new research ideas about a specialist area I know well; all (Claude, Perplexity, chat) gave at least some incorrect or misleading info. Looked legit but wrong

so... saves time argument again?

i'm happy for you, i guess, but i do not understand the sequence of the words in that post or what it means

is the answer about saving some time for some specific tasks? not to diminish that, but ... that's it? that's the world-changing transformation that we're constantly told we're living thru?

not to nitpick, but such tools were available before 2022, right?

S/Z - Wikipedia

sounds like a blogosphere adaptation of barthes's S/Z lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/Z