Aparna Nair

demons are woke

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

The poster for the movie Last Days showing the actor playing John Allen Chau looking beatifically up into the light while green ocean water swirls around him. The general effect is one of him as a saint. To the right of the poster, a North Sentinelese man rows himself in a boat. The text reads Based on a True Story, Last Days,

So, not content with John Allen Chau forcing his obnoxious, law-breaking and likely disease-ridden self into the midst of the North Sentinelese and getting himself killed, now there is a movie making a saint of this man?

Colonizers gonna colonize, I suppose.

my IMMEDIATE thought was “and is the intellectual in the room with us now?”

I'd call it karma for the UofT students who experienced institutional violence due to his supporters, as I personally advocated on behalf of a trans student who dropped out after being doxed by his goons on that campus, which resulted in trauma impacts that required accommodations upon his return! 🔥

Jason who?

I remember he contracted COVID at some point--it can and does cause respiratory complications. And a bad diet makes it worse, I would imagine

what is weird and alarming is that Peterson's daughter seems to believe that he is assailed by demons and that is what is causing his illness.

Anyway.

The fundamental issue is he can't accept that most of us are only temporarily healthy.

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.

Wow.

conor smith: Joined Sep '23 Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says. nyc nafo fella: How has he shown himself to be unfit? conor smith: By failing to return €3,300 paid to him in error by a former tenant, going as far as to ignore solicitor's letters nyc nafo fella: 3,300 Euros? What the fuck are you talking about? banjo gall: Think.

nyc nafo fella: Well normally since Gavin Newsom is in America he would be paid in dollars, not Euros. Maybe you should take your suggestion? You filthy motherfucking Russian troll. banjo gal: You seem upset. Who's Gavin Newsom? We're discussing Jim Gavin. nyc nafo fella: Looks like this fight against international Putin loving fascists is going international. And who the fuck is Jim Gavin? banjo gal: Jim Gavin was a nominee in the Irish presidential race, until he pulled out at the weekend due to a scandal whereby he owed a former tenant €3,300. Not sure what Putin and fascists have to do with this.

nyc nafo fella: When your other nation is Russia or Serbia that is very true, fuck you and your nation. banjo gal: But it's not. It's Ireland. Thanks though. nyc nafo fella: Why are dumb fuck anglos showing up on my timeline?

this is what happens when school maps in the 90s have the united states in the center

There’s a very real possibility that the US economy hits stagflation, the AI bubble pops, and there’s a substantial trade war impacting services (the US major export) all at the same time, which is what I’d call, “the omnishamblesmegafuck.”

Laura N. Rodríguez Presa @LAURA_N_ROD X.com A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

At some point one of the Gestapo is going to pull the trigger in a crowd and America will be forced into a place it may not be able to ever fully recover from.

The fascists are going to end up killing a lot of people before this is all said and done.

How Far Does Your Pay Go? The Chronicle looked at how the salaries of faculty stack up, and how the cost of living affects spending power.

As I ✂️ ties from this institution, depart this city, + tally up my losses, I’m playing with this little salary 🧮, which tells me that I was paid “much less than average” for 19 yrs of my career 👍, and merely “less than avg” for the past three — and that’s before the 💰☠️ of a premature departure 🎉🥳🙌

omg congratulations, Kate!!!

Often, if I was struggling to write, I pictured Addie and her two sisters, and wrote the story directly to them

@MariamBarghouti Read this 2,700 times. In the last 24 months, Israel’s unrelenting attack on Gaza has resulted in the erasure of 2,700 families from the entire registry. two thousand and seven hundred families obliterated.

if u are against armed resistance to this, u want genocide to continue!

"Read this 2,700 times

In the last 24 months, Israel’s unrelenting attack on Gaza has resulted in the erasure of 2,700 families from the entire registry.

two thousand and seven hundred families obliterated."

Mariam Barghouti

Faculty called for USC to ‘promptly reject’ Trump compact - Daily Trojan The Academic Senate called a special meeting Monday for faculty to provide input on the demands.

Glad to see we’re united against the “compact.” For one, I love USC’s cosmopolitanism. I’m proud to have directed dissertations by students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S., and every term I love having awesome students from China, India, and many other places. Fight on!

neither am I, tbh. But I dont get it, its a forthright and direct interview?

The Curious Rise of Twitter Power Broker Yashar Ali - LAmag In just a few years, he's become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country--mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive si...

if I remember, this LA mag article was subtle but critical of his reporting:

lamag.com/theindustry/...

She was forceful and drew her boundaries?
Is that what you call a train wreck?
The reporter is being weirdly aggressive and pretending to misunderstand Porter's answers, dont know why.

I mean, its Yashar Ali.

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

You could at least have the decency to endorse Mamdani before you swipe his schtick.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

The comic is FULL of excellent lines and visuals, but this one is exceptional

From Davenport's initial definition of eugenics as a science for "breeding a better man" to today, there's always been this promise of ushering in a rationally organized, hierarchical society that exists just over the horizon.

Something I write about in The Celluloid Specimen is that eugenics has always had a futurist bent, one that often involves replacing human workers. I feel as though this aspect isn't discussed as much in how the general public uses of the term.