Dr ShinyGoth

Comics should have 40-60 pages of story and come out once every two months on cheaper paper and everyone should be paid more and we should still seize the wealth of the parent companies by force and distribute it to the creators

I was thinking about the amazing undergrad science being done at Winona. They have a dinosaur in a rock maybe still with skin! A public branch university creating opportunities for students.

mom can you pick me up the economists are "i am spartacus"ing longtime personal entanglements with notorious child sex predators again

the very rich people currently trying to rewrite our media consumption: what the people want is more canceled comedians whining about trans people

the audience, voting with their eyeballs: bring us more gay hockey sex

Yup.

cartoon: Yukon Cornelius wearing the Sean Connery bullet bikini from Zardoz. The floating head is a bumble.

From my Larchives for you :)

Zardoz Rudolph!

Fordlândia.

Reading an astonishingly good set of final essays from a class of students who clearly loved being in the room and talking through their ideas together all semester long. I think when we dis-aggregate student work into evaluations of students only as individuals or demographics, we lose the class.

[adjusts glasses, racistly] Actually, the plain and clear text of the Constitution does not say what you and everyone else has thought it said for 150 years. You fool. You rube.

after all the republican group chats full of swastikas and gas chamber jokes, defenses of Hitler from popular right wing pundits, and American cities full of stormtroopers doing ethnic cleansing you're still doing this "lefties call everyone nazis" eye rolling shit? man, fuck you, get fucking real.

The lion does not concern itself with the dimensions of the living room

A selfie of me and my mom

Seated for Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out Mystery!

HE FUCKING HURT MY BOY?? IT'S ON SIGHT MOTHERFUCKER

SO GOOD

Loved it. A metatextual Gothic detective playground, embedded directly in our political moment. A triumph!

Very dignified response to a thoroughly unnecessary and frankly boorish fucking thing to say. Like Tarantino's entire filmography could hint that he was an uncultured swine but this reveals it much more thoroughly.

A selfie of me and my mom

Seated for Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out Mystery!

RIP

Is This Former Bravo Star Democrats’ Toughest Critic?

An interesting profile of a liberal white woman who I wasn't aware of until she interviewed Cory Booker and grilled him on his support for Israel. The piece devotes a few paragraphs to this, and how support for Palestine is now a mainstream position among liberals, but not Democratic congresspeople.

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

There's a way in which the cultural dominance of the US and the narratives about racism we produce blind other countries to their own racial dynamics because they aren't identical to ours.

@davidjroth.bsky.social We're having a great time here at the Overlook Hotel. They're saying it's the best party ever. The bartender is very friendly. Everyone looks happy and normal, you keep hearing it more and more.

Fordlândia.

we try very hard to protect your privacy. but our books, on the other hand, live inside a TOTAL SURVEILLANCE regime, and as a collection-development librarian i am head of Central Intelligence.

Really important thread 👇, to which I would add that we need to consider overlap of 1.) endowment managers of the NYU model, 2.) owners of EdTech platforms for student surveillance discussed here, & 3.) private equity capture of NCAA football undergoing chaotic privatization.

Indeed the bet here is that a) the feds and state pols will open the money taps only for institutions provably engaged in political censorship and b) that wealthy white families are the only growth market, and that these consumers want to purchase segregation as part of the college experience.

To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI “The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”

2) AI will set you free. Following SEC schools, uni execs are trying to minimize political risk while demonstrating the value of their already neck-deep plunge into the consumption of $$ AI. The solution? Fully automated luxury censorship, instantly adjustable to fit the newest fascist tantrum.

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

YouTube video by Yuri Slisaruk How It's Made: Nails and Staples

Fellow HOW ITS MADE heads will know that anything made in relatively small volumes has a janky and handmade workflow even if it's very high tech and if you want to see some real sicko industrial full automation you need to see how they make extremely high volume boring shit like nails.