Zoe Griffith

No one wants to hear this, but it’s true. Either we can value education — not for a select few but for anyone willing to put in the effort — and provide the requisite resources, or we can watch it become a pursuit available only to an elite minority, with everyone else getting a cheap facsimile

That's a great idea, thanks!

Why does Goorge W. Bush looks like a mashup of Mitch McConnell and Bill Gates? Dude doesn't even wear glasses.

Nothing, but nothing, is funnier to me at this moment than these Ph.D.-level charts.

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to ...

"While the new strategy, known as 'Look Back Before You Act,' has raised concerns among people worried they will have to remember lots of events from long ago, the historians have assured Americans they won’t be required to read all the way through thick books or memorize anything."

"I need ChatGPT to brainstorm" dear human person the whole point of brainstorming is to find new ways or angles when approaching a problem, the "let's regurgitate the complete stolen corpus of human achievement"-machine doesn't help you brainstorm - it stops you from brainstorming.

Gustave Caillebotte, Nasturtiums, 1892

Either colleges produce graduates who have been transformed by 4 years of study in ways that are valuable but hard to quantify, or they produce interchangeable widgets with pieces of paper that say they jumped through a series of hoops, probably with the assistance of chatbots because who wouldn't?

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Zohran Mamdani’s Lesson for the Left The New York City mayoral primary showcased a better kind of politics than progressives are used to.

This is framed as "lessons for the left," but Lander and Mamdani actually offer lessons for the center: Instead of ruthlessly undermining leftist candidates, emphasize shared values and refuse to amplify right-wing attacks.
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I don't want to play Homonym! with Microsoft Word 😒

Like, is this AI? Can someone tell me why Word is stupider now than in the past?

Microsoft Word: hey, you might have a "word choice error" there, let me underline it for you!

Me: ... pretty sure this normal word in my millionth draft is ok

MW: by "reign" of this early modern ruler do you perchance mean RAIN?!??! 🫠🥲👑🌧️

Hide Google AI Overviews - Chrome Web Store Hide annoying Google AI Overviews.

I found a google chrome extension that seemingly gets rid of the AI overview when you search on google from desktop. LIFE CHANGING. Cause I was SICK of that shit. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-...

On the twelfth anniversary of Sisi's coup in Egypt, a clear-eyed and depressing analysis by @abuaardvark.bsky.social

Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress

Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

I hate calling my senator, but looks like I'll be calling my senator as soon as the phones open today.

This is really vile and incredibly irresponsible.

Kirsten Gillibrand also (at 13m, and 23m) repeated Islamophobic canards about Zohran Mamdani, including references to him "global jihad", as well as falsely claiming that "intifada" means "kill all Jews" (which it does not).

Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love "The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.

"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.

www.startribune.com/what-should-...

What matters is that Cuomo and all the people who endorsed him are still going to claim they're the rightful heirs to the Democratic Party, how dare young people challenge them, all of that.

The difference is they're now just unaffiliated lunatics, banging on the windows. They're not the party.

nyc i just absolutely love you 💙🧡💙😘

so grateful to everyone who knocked on doors and made calls and got excited and voted for good things to happen. people worked hella hard for this. we do deserve good things!

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been thinking about this cursèd image a lot this week

the world is grim and i haven't installed my window units yet, so please enjoy the two cats lined up for the fan and quincy holding his tail up to get that breeze right on the butt 💨

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice Share This Editorial

“Think of the members of Congress who turned a blind eye to Japanese American internment, McCarthyism, or the horrors of the Holocaust, all because doing something seemed a little too hard... These men should be your inspiration. Never forget: You stand on the shoulders of spineless giants.”

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.