Chris Fosen

Well damn nyc

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Treating the Declaration of Independence’s list of grievances like a to do list.

"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people."

"For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate …".

I am getting way too much mileage out of this meme I made

Even if AI has all the positive, transformative effects its paladins claim, the scarce resource will still be folks who can think, write, & communicate. Demand won’t be for <degrees> & <curricula> in AI. It will be a commodity tool. And the case for liberal arts education will be stronger than ever.

I've been saying for a couple years now that the AI-will-fundamentally-reshape-the-academy craze has all the elements of the mid-2010s MOOCs-will-fundamentally-reshape-the-academy craze.

There will be a huge trend piece around August 2028 about,”all the northeastern families are choosing these small liberal arts colleges in the Midwest that promise an artisanal degree!”

Justice Kavanaugh, demonstrating about as much awareness of the actual world as a white prep school student from affluent Montgomery County, Maryland as we might expect.

For those of you taking notes, the man staring at the eugenicist Kennedy talking about your children's sperm is a rapist who, at best, is defending pedophile child rapists with the full force of the Presidental Seal and, in the worst case scenario, is one.

Just so we are clear what is happening.

God, these people just huff each other's farts all day every day, don't they

“Dear Leader also got a hole in one the very first time he played golf at the age of four.”

"Students are using a tool that prevents them from developing critical thinking skills, & employers say they don't have critical thinking skills. So we need to use that tool more!"?

Yes! And I'll add that professors also exist to motivate and inspire students. Articles like this assume that all college students are 100% self-motivated to do all the hard work required to learn. A professor's genuine passion for a subject is contagious in a way that a computer never can be.

Uh… this was basically the leading cause of the British Civil Wars in the 1640s www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content

The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

"Aren't we allowed to make up new stories?"
Jordan Peterson: Not for political reasons!

Dear god, this interview is WILD. Imagine getting your knickers in such a twist about Frozen, a fairly banal cartoon, you are on the record talking about archetypes, feminist propaganda

However, Biggus Dickus is still on the lam

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Portland is doing well making clear the ridiculousness of the military takeover.

Siri: what is motivated reasoning?

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Tommy Orange Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

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

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

@gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Thought you might want to see this if you have not already.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...