DB Krupp

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

My wife agrees with you, though I stan French Toast Crunch instead.

I just made the mistake of looking it up. Trust your instincts on this one.

If you score that discussion every week, you can actually get 11/10 some weeks.

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

Will be a little sad forever that we got the clearest object lesson possible that each individual's health is inextricably related to every other individual's health in a society, and we seem to have come out of it with even less collective will to reshape our society relative to this knowledge.

That ratio, in turn, is a downstream effect of decades-long defunding of higher education such that institutions cannot afford enough qualified instructors for the student populations that increased for decades as administrations attempted to replace lost funding w tuition dollars

The result is a set of mutually reinforcing trends where fewer, lower-paid instructors buckle under (until recently) a constantly expanding student population. The students themselves caught in another accelerating debt crisis to complete their educations amidst rising costs

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me " ALT: ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!

Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The teacher pay penalty continues to grow.

Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates

New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social

Also worth recalling bsky.app/profile/patd...

Holy shit

Stripping Away Rights Using the Notwithstanding Clause. - Alberta Views After a week of rancorous debate, Klein announced he would not invoke the notwithstanding clause on the landmark gay rights decision...

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

Current president Claudia Sheinbaum’s approval rating stands at 76 percent. Never in Mexico’s still-nascent democratic history has a single party amassed such sweeping power. Morena’s strength has drawn the attention of the global left, prompting reflection on the political strategies that have enabled Mexico’s left to achieve such extraordinary electoral success. Perhaps the most important reason is the most obvious: Morena has delivered for its base. The transformation in the lives of working-class Mexicans under its rule is undeniable. Since taking power in late 2018, average labor income has risen 30 percent above inflation, lifting more than 13 million people out of poverty. Inequality, measured by the income share of the top 1 percent, has seen its steepest and fastest drop in almost a century, matching in four years what had previously taken nearly two decades to accomplish.

After last year’s US election, people liked to point out that almost every OECD country saw the party in power during the post-covid inflation lose office in the next election. With one big exception: Mexico. There may be a reason for that. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

They murdered about 10% of the population of Gaza.

I soldered my first sets of pickups this year to upgrade a couple of guitars. Very proud of myself, but that feeling would vanish in an instant if anyone peeked under the pickguard.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

More Pritzker, Less Newsom - Truthdig The country needs righteous anger and sharp, rousing defenses of progressive values, not California centrism served with a side of meme.

Some thoughts about the Great Khan heading into Chicagoland's big Reverse Fort Sumter weekend.

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

I can think of very few people more deserving than Peter to have a professorship named after them. Queen’s is also a great uni and Kingston is a wonderful city.

Carney says “The rate of federal government spending over the last decade is more than seven per cent year over year. It’s faster than the rate of growth of our economy.” There was a pandemic during that decade, and government spending was the only thing keeping the economy—and *people*—alive.

Carney says to expect both an austerity and investment-focused budget, criticizes Trudeau-era spending Prime Minister set expectations for the spending plan, which the government plans to release in October

You have got to be kidding me, part 2

Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting | CBC News A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — will speak to Prim...

You have got to be kidding me

I’m so sick—so sick—of goodbyes

The most credible of intervals right there

It’s your coffee, and you should get to drink it however you like. Years back, I got all kinds of smarm from a barista for ordering a breve latte (latte with cream). If they carry the dairy, then they shouldn’t complain when someone asks for it.