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As I recall, the entire point of the Internet was avoiding single points of failure.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

As someone who also works at UIC, this resonates powerfully. Big thanks to Peter Coviello for writing it.

This has been a longstanding conversation in the nonprofit sector more generally. It's not just incentives. It's attracting talent as well, who expect remuneration commensurate with the skills they bring to positions.

I'm sure there are several in beta as we speak.

Really makes you wonder what they would've done if this tech was available during South Africa's apartheid regime. AI-powered racial classification machine?

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I’m also proud of the city, borough, and neighborhood of my birth! Astoria, Queens, NYC for life. I’m excited to see what the future brings for the city.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Once again, the #teslatakedown movement provides a great case study in innovative (and effective) protest tactics. Scholars of social movements take note!

They're calling him the most French man in history

Uni budgets are also automated with internal costing systems that distribute resources according to funding formulas. Like any socio-technical system, they are not easy to change. Even if you could close the T+L Center, you can't easily move that money elsewhere, like to faculty salaries.

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

Naa Oyo A. Kwate | At the Roadside in Kigali In 2022, in celebration of Black History month, USA Cycling, the official governing body for competitive cycling in the...

Directly in the interest overlap of my two main friend/follower groups on this platform, my friend wrote about race and professional cycling:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

I didn't shoot the guy, your honor. He walked in front of my bullets.

People voted for him ostensibly because he said he'd run the government like a business. I guess they didn't realize that he meant one of his businesses.

Colombia’s Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid

Do you think Trump thinks the President of Colombia is the President of Columbia?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

My state-mandated Annual Ethics Training is due soon and I'm tempted to just say, "fuck it, it's all ethical now." I mean, really, what good does it do to affirm that I can't accept a book as a gift when this is happening at the highest levels and in broad daylight?

YouTube video by JarxJar Kiss - Ace Frehley - New York Groove (Live 1979)

youtu.be/zLye3An04Tg?...

Oh man. When I was growing up, my cousins were official members of the "KISS Army." I was so jealous of them for that.

Barnes & Noble to open new Hyde Park store in February A Barnes & Noble bookstore is set to open in the Hyde Park Shopping Center in late February, adding a national chain to a neighborhood well known around the city

My neighborhood must have more independent bookstores per capita than almost anywhere else on Earth. So this might be the very last thing we need in Hyde Park:
www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

The thing about stuff like this is that Trump wins even if he loses. Yes, this is about weaponizing the DOJ against his political enemies. But it's also about delegitimizing the criminal justice system, which makes his own felony conviction look like partisan witchhuntery.

He's not dead. He has retired to his Med Bed.

Here me out: Is is possible that members of the current administration are really clandestine revolutionaries accelerating us toward the Marxist utopia we were promised? Lukacs would like a word about subjects and objects of history RN.

He also told them the administration was cool with them committing war crimes.

I guess I was lucky to see bands like Fugazi play some pretty big venues for $5. And I remember people getting mad when they raised the door price to $6. But that's just me dating myself. Fin. 8/8

In my teen and college concert going years, folks were able to buy tickets directly from venue box offices. I don't think that's possible anymore. 7/n

Some artists have tried to get around Ticketmaster but end up playing in really inconvenient and suboptimal places like county fairgrounds. Others have tried to negotiate lower handling fees but you have to be pretty big and important to do that. 6/n

At the same time, their monopoly position prevents artist from circumventing the intermediaries (especially TicketMaster which owns venues (through Live Nation) and has exclusive deals with many others). 5/n