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Firing Billy Napier is a bargain compared to this.

When we see mental disorders on BART we call the cops. When we see it in Cupertino we call it eccentric.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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My 12 year old just started playing Silent Hill 2 (PS5 remastered) for the first time and knows nothing about it. Going in absolutely cold. I'm so excited for her.

I'm in Florida so heat and torrential rain are the biggest restrictions. Also weak bike infrastructure (FL is number 1 for bicyclist fatalities) & everything is spread out (store is 6 miles away; work 25). But I love the idea.

I'm assuming you live in a place without weather.

a woman stands in front of a car with the number 19 on the wall behind her ALT: a woman stands in front of a car with the number 19 on the wall behind her

"Get in losers, We're going Marxisting on October 18th."

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

These are literally how 90% of middle schoolers get to school in my neighborhood.

Remember when Jim Rome was the worst thing about sports?

My 15 year old daughter, a Swift fan but not, she insists, a Swiftie, said the new album sounds like it was made to be played in Target while people are shopping.

And...tuition isn't always (or usually, or most of the time) raised bc higher ed is "greedy." Imstitutions deal with inflation like everyone else; raising tuition in line with inflation helps keep schools in the black. Many public are limited by state statute already.

First woman is named archbishop of Canterbury, leader of Church of England Sarah Mullally, previously the bishop of London, is the first woman to serve as spiritual leader of the Church of England in its nearly 500-year history.

Sarah Mullally was named the new archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Church of England, and of the global Anglican community, in the church’s nearly 500-year history.

My university already does all of these and the strategic plan includes expanded professional and corporate training opportunities. Everyone is looking to expand & diversify revenue streams.

The BOG is becoming increasingly skeptical about NCF and know DeSantis is on his way out. If they go pvt I'd be surprised if they last 5 more years. I can see UF or FSU taking it over as a satellite campus (something in the works for years behind the scenes before this nonsense)

Corcoran complains about peer review being unfavorable to FL unis but the only one in free fall is his institution. Hmm...

We are approaching a situation where working or enrolling in public higher ed means that the state wields inordinate power to control your speech and impose partisan rules on your conduct. What do we do when higher ed is a special site of state oppression?

For some of us in Red states thos is already our reality. To see it being speedrun at the national level via ED and the federal govt is terrifying.

Wait, *now* they care about WIC and FEMA?

We collectively mistook the means of delivery for human communication for the connection itself. Soon, we will pay the price for that

Hasn't the SF community been all over his shenanigans for years now?

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

The fact that this article on soy causing deforestation doesn't cover how all that soy is being used is a wild media failure. The vast majority (70-80%) is being fed to animals.

It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

All those dangerous, subversive musicians coming out of C'Ville like...Dave Matthews Band.

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure"

Today's perspective: “I don’t like when people call us camp,” he says. “Camp means you don’t know you’re ridiculous, and we know what we’re doing. We’ve always known what we were doing.” -Fred Schneider, The B-52s.

Hell yeah.

Is success in sports measured in something other than wins and losses?

Here's something you learn in business school- data is not information. Learning a fact, *by itself*, does not make you any wiser. You must understand the context around the fact as well- how it fits into other facts, what it implies about the past, present, and future.

20 million people live in LA? That's over twice the total population of LA County. Where are they getting these numbers? Even a high school student has to site their sources but SCOTUS can just pull numbers from the air for a binding legal document?