Rory Kramer

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Including Truman, lmfao

Im dying at the multiple presidents at once crisis of the 1970s

Ooooof. That was rough. Low-light had to be the statement that there are as many police shootings as there are killings in Chicago in a weekend. Super non-political and factual claim there.

Hate reading it on my flight to ASA because I like pain

Hear me out of politics: Colbert is going to have a lot of time on his hands in about a year. *note, I don't know his views that well

The moral panic over students using their free speech to express opinions conservatives disagreed with was never a genuine threat to free speech, though.

It was always about suppressing student speech because richer and more powerful people didn't like what they had to say.

One of the most infuriating interviews by Klein I've listened to. Just zero pancakes to farcical claims.

Last second reminder before ASA: I'll be there and happy to talk about our job opening, philly, villanova, or just buy people on the market coffee if they're willing to travel a little to go to a local cafe!

The problem is Yascha thinks he's smarter than he is

I can't get past him talking about deep blue and chess when chatgpt just gets absolutely wrecked at chess regularly. Also, that comp was made on reddit months ago. Plagiarized? Also, Kasparov has since beaten deep blue. Google exists, yascha.

I took an ice cream cone dispenser from the cafeteria on a dare as a freshman in 2000. Guess I'll never be mayor either.

Shit, so students didn't think I was cool because I used Times New Roman for my syllabus? And no one told me?!?!

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Judge Breyer: so the question is if the federalization of the national guard was legal, yes?

Shumate: Charlie brown has hoes, your honor.

Ante up. Closer I ever come to making that mistake I will never make.

They used AI to write this and it's such a phenomenal example of two forms of absolute enshittification of our lives. I hate it here.

I don't think any of this actually happens without the last ten years of campus panic and I've yet to see anyone even explore that question seriously.

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Fwiw, that quote was introduced as "conspiracist" which is not good enough but better than many other journalistic depictions of Yarvin's disturbing and blatantly false claims

It’s so annoying how cancel culture discourse eliminates context. I checked, four authors other than Díaz were dropped from the Contemporary World Literature section: Machado De Assis, José López Portillo Y Rojas, Higuchi Ichiyō and Isabelle Allende. No one is writing about their “canceling”.

Yeah, but have you considered this one specific use case that isn't even specified clearly?!?!

The absolute enthusiasm our vice provost has for adding AI and the complete inability the AI task force had at providing examples of its benefit to me in the same meeting was disturbingly unsurprising. He was shocked that I was adamant about AI being opt-in, not opt-out.

using the term 'disappeared' for non-inclusion in an anthology is 10x more hysterical than anything I've ever heard from a campus SJW

Seeing Booker and now Van Hollen each drive the national discourse single handedly for a week, it makes you really question what the point of Schumer, Durbin, and the rest of the Dem Senate leadership is.

Reminder that one of the three great consistent rules of Trump is that he will always back down if directly confronted (the others are that he never keeps a promise and that he will always betray anyone who helps him)

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures