Cullen Chandler

Oof… too bad I didn’t do Halloween costumes in the aughts, or I would have been Hanging Chad in 2001!

Allowed my mind to wander while washing dishes. We REALLY screwed up in 2016. If three states that were nearly tied (MI, PA, WI) had gone for Clinton, where would we be now? She would have appointed three justices to the Supreme Court. She would have been president during the covid outbreak. Etc.

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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We’re 8 months in to Trump’s term, and the official administration position is that all good things are because of Trump and all bad things are because of Biden and Obama.

This shit would embarrass Orwell.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

my cousin works on container ships and he indeed had to rely on celestial navigation (which he was trained on at the maritime academy) earlier this year when DOGE suddenly shut down a government tool he’d been using

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

I ended up with a history major, but music is never far away!

I did that, too, and thought it was good. I got away from it a little bit but might try getting back to it, with some kind of twist that I haven’t figured out yet.

How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity The biggest lie in media is the one that it tells about itself.

Sinclair Broadcast pushes right-wing propaganda into 40% of local news markets.

Fox News is in 70M homes.

The WaPo and Politico owners are Trump donors.

CBS has a political bias monitor

Our news is carefully curated by conservative billionaires.
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Music Theory I

Holy smokes… that is wild.

I see cool people doing the “one like = one ______” trend. I’d hop on, but I’m afraid I don’t have enough interesting opinions.

Yes!

Page One in Scotland.

Congratulations, Ed!

Humans have to do the labor so that the machines have time for leisure activities like art and writing

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Google's AI summaries are
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass

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Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.

This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.

Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

One of the more notable things about our present political moment is that former Republicans like Joe Walsh or the folks at the Bulwark have a more clear eyed understanding of political strategy than a significant number of long-time, moderate Democrats.

Major media seem flummoxed about what to do when Trump shares a fake video of Obama getting arrested. Maybe they think the options are A) take the bait, or B) ignore it. But there's a 3rd option: Gather all the crazy examples and write big, loud stories about how the president is mentally unhinged.

People exploding this false messaging that I voted for a bill + funding that I quite literally voted NO on. The threat environment this morning is scary.

Doesn’t help anyone. Drag me for the position if you disagree but don’t lie. It’s out of control. Saying I voted for this funding is false.

And yet, literally nothing, over a 50 year period, can seemingly stop the Republicans from retaining their media reputation for being "deficit hawks" and "fiscal conservatives." It must be treated like the laws of gravity 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

As I think on it, it might have been the same for me!

Read this thread:

Hot shit

Amazing—I really didn’t expected to see such large numbers!

To be fair, the federal government doesn’t pay teachers.

I was just watching some fun videos about Tolkein and Middle Earth, when I thought about trying to get a first edition of The Hobbit, written before Tolkien changed bits of the story to match up with The Lord of the Rings. There are people trying to sell copies for tens of thousands of dollars!

The is the worst timeline. How do I get off?