Chris Csikszentmihalyi

Take my dog. Please! take my dog.

Many AI boosters seem to want a return to aristocracy. Imagine my surprise finding this 1907 book, "Degeneracy of Aristocracy," arguing that it may take a war, but natural intelligence will always beat monopolism and artificial intelligence.

This is, apparently, how one reads a book these days. I find myself returning books when there's no reasonable way to read them.

Telling? I mean, this is how the word was coined. It's as old as the word itself... yet no one is mentioning the end of the play.

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Peep the byline

I did not know they could do puppies as well!

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...

X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall).
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Art schools buying into AI are contributing to the demise of working artists.

“We won’t just ride the AI wave; we will prepare the next generation of creative shapeshifters who prove that the best future empowers humanity at every turn,” CCA President David C. Howse

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The Washington Post logo with tagline "Hello Darkness My Old Friend"

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.

Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters

The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

What a chart from BMO:

The NY Fed survey expectations of regaining employment after losing a job (in red, lowest since 2013) vs. the unemployment rate (inverted).

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

And a 2-year Mellon Postdoc in STS at Cornell, esp 1900-present, $64K, app due Jan 15. #histsci #philsci #histSTM

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It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

think about how rotten your soul has to be, how broken your moral compass, to think drag queen story hour is a sign of social decay but snuff films of war crimes is exemplary, stand out, should be shared far
and wide. these people are sick