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Everyone with a library degree is, however, a perfect sweetie

Academic program optimization plan.

Notice Anyone purporting to be an agent of ICE or any other federal agency who enters these premises with the intent of arresting and or detaining any person(s) within: Must wear clothing that accurately represents the agency they represent. Must not wear a mask or anything else that conceals their true identity. Must possess an official warrant signed by a federal judge and agree to show it to anyone who asks to see it. Must agree to any photography, video, and/or audio recording of their activities. Must provide detailed information of where their arrestees will be sent and allow full due process as required by the Constitution. The United States is a democratic republic and the rights of everyone must be respected.

At our local record store/cafe

I love it that the most ardent believers in IQ “science” are walking counterexamples to the existence of g.

The Thiel stuff is a real advertisement for the virtues of analytic philosophy.

I am apparently now at the age where my barber feels compelled to trim my eyebrows.

Me: D&D stuff isn’t real, clerics don’t actually have powers that come from their gods

Catholic priests in Chicago: We used “Turn Undead” and the ICE ghouls couldn’t come near us

Yeah I’m going to keep hammering this drum: who the armed men in the employ of the state are loyal to is consequential, they are not an undifferentiated mass, and specifics matter a lot here. Blue state govs and big city mayors need to be quietly looking through FEC records and making staff changes

AI. Is. Not. INTELLIGENT. It does not know when an argument is good or bad, when a premiss is true or false. That's not what it's set up for. Using it to grade is a travesty.

Also, if you want to reduce bias, just grade your papers blind.

International relations is an especially interesting field at a time when international relations are fraying.

Just to be clear:

Trans people are the working class. Black people are the working class. Immigrants are the working class. Pregnant people are the working class. Brown people are the working class. Asian people are the working class. Disabled people are the working class.

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?

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As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

Eagerly awaiting the Alex Byrne Nous paper on the semantics of ‘game’.

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe" How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe."

How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

Yet another day of needless cruelty towards queer kids, who are perfect just the way they are. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Realism-in-Mathematics-era Penelope Maddy thinks you can!

This is a brilliant thread.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Philosophy professor looks around balefully at bookshelves in office. Half-heartedly waves arms in their general direction.

Arrest and prosecute them?

Time to repost a classic.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Black and white photograph of Buster Keaton with a kitten on top of his head he has his usual deadpan expression but his eyes may be a little bit wider than usual

Buster Keaton and Friend