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On the other hand, I'm now actually pestering students to use ChatGPT more to get help with homework problems...

According to Google AI I have coined the term "affective polarization" 😆

When the President of the United States of America starts bragging about his results on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for dementia.

These Jobs Often Go Overseas. One Company Is Bringing Them to Rural America. Instead of offshoring, Provalus looks for small towns where incomes are low and people are eager for positions that will teach them 21st-century skills.

"Provalus looks for small towns where incomes are low and people are eager for positions that will teach them 21st-century skills"

Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Ha yes very possibly... though I haven't heard about Columbia being burned since making their deal in summer? And regardless could be be an agreement among universities - chance to jointly make reforms we think worth making independent of deal with admin?

Trump’s Imperfect Compact Is a Perfect Opportunity Colleges shouldn’t sign. But they also shouldn’t dismiss the need for a new framework.

www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

@brendannyhan.bsky.social did you see this? Thoughts?

This. The president can't extort corporations to pay essentially taxes to him personally so that he can use that money at his personal discretion to do government work.

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

(Note people need to rejoin to make the point clear!)

Consumer activism can actually work

For your mental accounts slides
www.reddit.com/r/personalfi...

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

Second article of impeachment of Richard Nixon:

“He has endeavoured…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

Unsurprisingly fantastic, nuanced piece by Dave Pozen and Jed Britton-Purdy. Read it! www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Is this a good time to remind everyone (as the article covers at length) that there is effectively no regulation by the FDA or any other government body of any supplement? And that the definition of "supplement" is very, very wide?

This actually looks like useful advice
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Backward induction for the win

(via The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel, ht Justin Welsh)

“The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser” -Melville

Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words. What happens next?

Good summary of the speech debate
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

😅👍👏https://www.jericoliver.com/about-me

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

I do think it's a good point that if outlets are owned by firms/individuals with other interests affected by the admin, that increases their incentives to curry favor. But still think the power of using their outlet for this purpose depends on audience size - so they can't alienate too many people

Well - that of course ignores the content of their coverage - he's not suing Fox News (and he doesn't do favors for podcasters with tiny audiences, as far as I know)

Hmm, maybe - but a paper/outlet should be a more powerful vehicle for extracting favors when it has a larger audience...

Let’s rid Maine’s campuses of the stench of Yik Yak | Opinion I thought UMF was a safe place ... until I read the things anonymously said about me on this hateful app.

Delete Yik Yak

www.pressherald.com?p=7506232&uu...

A Smarter Way to Disagree To foster constructive disagreements, organizations should encourage individuals to modify their observable behaviors during conflicts. More specifically, the authors’ research has shown that employee...

Good concrete advice toward the end of this hbr.org/2025/11/a-sm...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Very good to confirm this: the vast majority of both Republicans and Democrats (still) do not think of the other party as "the enemy"

Marge and Homer walking through the new Springfield Squidport:

"This is what I imagine Paris must be like!" -Marge
"You've never been?" -Homer

"Chinatown? Only in New York!" -Marge

Live your values Ride the train, send your kids to public school. It’s the only way we get public services that work for everyone.

I wish people who think a lot about politics would try harder to reconcile their actual lifestyle choices with their stated views.

www.slowboring.com/p/live-your-...

Hey you do all sports data all the time - you are already living the dream :)