Nick Fleisher

"We report, you decide" was right there

Once again the major throughline here is that the UW System regents are incredibly bad at their jobs. Even after the awful Walker years, it's hard to imagine being more disappointed in the Evers-appointed board

Seems quaint but current US situation shows you have to nip this shit in the bud

Talmannen kritiseras för Instagraminlägg: ”En enda tomatröra” Flera av talmannen Andreas Norléns Instagraminlägg om sin och hustruns bok ”Tomatdagboken” kan vara reklam.

Speaker of the Swedish parliament drawing criticism for possibly illegal use of public role for private gain (advertising his and his wife's book The Tomato Diary on his official Instagram)

This is the same administration that professes to be concerned about antisemitism on college campuses

Endlessly ironic that someone like Duffy is going on tv to admonish people to have some self-respect

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...

Epstein turned to academic Chomsky, others to rehab image after Herald investigation Other potential people Epstein considered included deceased Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson and Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen.

I would simply not be friends with Jeffrey Epstein. That's my minimalist program. Everything flows from just that one rule.

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

"Their words cannot be allowed to stand" really boils it down to its pitiful autocratic essence

Costs (the money needed to provide an education) have risen. Prices (what students pay) have been at or below inflation for the past decade. That doesn't get nearly enough attention.

NPR folks, you know where to find me.

the implicit standard of "criminality" is doing a lot of work here, mostly as a desperate appeal to avoid thinking (not grading any of your students' exams is not criminal behavior either but you can very quickly see how that might nevertheless put a professor's employment in jeopardy)

Misogyny remains a more or less exceptionless indicator of being a shitty person in general

Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

Putting my marker down: Summers will resign his faculty position / relinquish tenure before next semester begins

Right on schedule

Get them, MacArthur Fellow Jeffrey Miller

Probably the single best thing administrations could do to break down disciplinary silos would be to scale back expectations for publication quantity. Turning 15 academic departments into four Schools of Goop helps no one.

If only health had something in it for the healthy

It's almost as if, contra Yglesias, environmentalism and material prosperity are mutually reinforcing

Where are the island constraints when you really need them?

It's like if a batter drew a walk and went straight to third base. Cheating impulse plus incompetence leading to procedural impasse

cat #BWithTheT (@cafernblue) on twitter: "i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said "people change their minds when you show them facts" and I said "actually studies show that's not true" and linked TWO sources and he said "yeah well I still think it works""

"After Trump" has entered the space-time continuum.

Still teaching Harvard undergrads tho

Margaret Glaspy
Big Thief
Destroyer
Dr. Dog
The Magnetic Fields

Adopting Skyline Chili-style nomenclature is an enormous red flag, just a straight desk reject

This is just budgeting

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

This is an egregiously bad response from Mnookin. The Trump administration does not care about viewpoint diversity! They are trying to nuke the whole sector!