Andrew J. Eisenberg

I for one am looking forward to the US creating eleventy million jobs a month for the next three and a half years

Live Updates: Markets Fall on Weak Jobs Data and Trump’s New Tariffs

Congrats to Bill Maher on his first well-timed joke.

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A saner, less nihilistic form of authoritarianism

Mind-bogglingly corrupt.

Traveling from NY to Abu Dhabi with an entire household and a pinched nerve in my lower back AMA

Automatic closed captioning fail on CNN shows “zombie alerts” instead of “tsunami alerts”

Just how big was that earthquake?

They only listen to mechahitler

Probably not worth gathering the data to know for sure

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

I have no idea who is going to emerge as the next Democratic nominee for president, but I do know they will only get there by promising to jail every member of the Trump administration and go completely scorched earth on every conservative institution in the country.

Kenya celebrates International Cowboy Day – in pictures Hundreds have attended what has been billed as the first International Cowboy Day celebration in Africa

Kenya celebrates International Cowboy Day – in pictures

Never ever ever trust Google Maps for public transportation

He has negative rizz

Ah nope

Gotta be Tribute

I really do not think many of the pro-Israel Jewish folks understand just how much Israel will never be seen the same again.

From liberal Zionist to far right, many exist in a media bubble, and have a mistaken impression they are the mainstream.

They are increasingly in an alternate universe.

RFK Jr: *eats a large spiderweb* we have convinced Crystal Light to end the tyranny of aspartame

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I wonder if class mobility in knowledge work is at all impacted by AI replacing pretty much all entry level jobs overnight? I mean, obviously people being catty about AI use is a bigger factor—no question about it—but maybe there’s something there to be looked at once we’ve tackled the core issue.

This is the strangest folk song

Look, in no universe is added sugar a "healthy" option, but those of us on a low FODMAP diet know that the small molecular difference between sugar and HFCS is meaningful for human digestion (and therefore, maybe, metabolism?). Another indica of a difference is the fact that HFCS tastes like garbage

Most importantly, how is this WSJ story being received by the 3.5% of the MAGA base who believe that Trump heralds the return of Zorgon the Destroyer?

Yeah. Or, I guess, it could happen with a major contribution to a niche area of scholarship that the journal is heavily invested in.

I think this would only happen if the work was already gaining recognition as a significant contribution, but yes, absolutely

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He's right, and it's not just Brazil.

Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

At some point I learned that a large number of people make their living by buying random stuff on Amazon and immediately reselling the same random stuff on Amazon, and I can't recall if the source was an article, a podcast, or a nightmare.

Famously, fascism was defeated in the marketplace of ideas. With debate.

My mom calls my discipline, ethnomusicology, "musicethnicology". In her defense, ethnomusicology is a ridiculous word.