"A possible source of new information"--GB

It’s sick. What about Good Samaritan laws? The public on site has an obligation to at least confirm the identities of the potential kidnappers. It could devolve into what happens in S. American countries all the time: snatch well-heeled people and demand ransom or else.

They could be anybody kidnapping anyone. What’s to stop a syndicate or organized kidnapping ring from dressing & acting vaguely like ICE & snatching anyone & extorting them & then dumping the body somewhere or disappearing it. No one would be the wiser—“the person must be in detention somewhere.”

A great way to build the capacity for attention is to read books.

Our Halloween offerings this year.

YouTube video by More Equitable Democracy American Troubles - A Tale of Two Democracies (Trailer)

You might keep an eye out for the film “American Troubles” that’s starting to hit festivals. It presents Ireland’s history of ethnic violence as a blueprint for the path to proportional representation in the US — and outlines the failures of our Voting Rights Act to achieve the same goals.

Veterans and former GOP elected officials quoted Edmund Burke alongside Frederick Douglass, in case you’re wondering whether the normies are fed up.

In teaching research as part of writing, I often saw students default to minimal work to meet the checkbox requirements because they felt like it was impossible for them to ever take in enough information to find THE answer to their question. I see something similar in full-grown scholars today who

Baller.

I’m glad I read the little article. I didn’t understand that this is routine training.

The context in the Pacific & the mention of China’s advances there with 5th gen aircraft was curious given the recent estimate I had discovered of about 500 shipbuilding ports combined among all Western nations.

Rights on paper vs rights on the ground.

Opinion | A.I. Threatens Our Ability to Understand the World

From www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Wrong Princeton President but the point stands.

Wow. There were high literacy levels in Colonial America. Literacy percentages in England rose famously in the 19th century among the working class. President Eisgruber bragged about Princeton acquiring a 1455 Gutenberg Bible. Now he wants to go back to before Guttenburg & the vulgate Bible.

Either Totenkampf tattoo working class guy who is an amateur politician running as a progressive or Susan Collins who 99% of the time votes with MAGA (and she’s held office since 1996). 🤔

Who else is in the race? 77-year old Maine Democrat Governor and professional politician Janet Mills.

Jesus. No humanity.

Good read. #AcademicSky

We have to have conversations with our neighbors who can still see reason and convince them to stop voting for this shit.

“There some bad people on the rise. …They're saving their own skins by
ruining other people's lives. … On the government scheme designed to kill your dream.”

—“An Interesting Drug,” Morrissey.

Jesus. No humanity.

Or spending time giving feedback to chatbot prose.

When I travel about to schools and universities to talk about why we still need to teach writing, this is one of the capacities I emphasize we should be fostering: taste. And also "discernment." The outputs are only useful if we can assess them in deep and meaningful ways.

MAGA voters is what gets me.

I took your advice and blocked her. But Jesus, at bottom, watching that was a waste of time. Rickrolling as someone else mentioned seems the most accurate description of it.

They are definitely *money* aligned!

I find myself hoping that the CCP’s strategy to “Old Navy,” i.e., undercut U.S. AI investments through subsidy, low or no subscription fees, and open source pay off enough to change U.S. corporate investment & employment strategy. For example, Deepseek seemed to hit them out of the blue.

this is a warm and hopeful piece i wish would become a reality but I fear it undermines a few factors:
1)the power and influence the industry has to sabotage anything that gets the way of its business model

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Painful and meaningless. A waste of atoms in every possible direction.

Several copies of The Revenge of Reason stacked in a box.

It exists!

Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

Alpha School is the perfect combination of the panopticon and a Skinner box. The uncritical hype of these grifters by tech titans has been shameful. Glad to see this deeper look. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

MAGA voters is what gets me.