Craig Smith

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

It seems like a most basic conceptual error for him to conflate "This pardon of Cuellar is a bad decision/misuse of pardon power" with "The power to pardon is itself a bad thing." The former strikes me as correct (and it's absolutely defensible) while the latter...

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.

abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

A student asked me how to use the DVD they got from the library

Time magazine AI architects cover except they’re all Lyle Lanley

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

I await my offer to write for the Atlantic.

As someone who has done (limited) customer service work, I can affirm that it is possible to have absolutely had it with shitty customers and to to tell customers to fuck off without readily and gleefully showing oneself to be a bigoted fuck. I would even go so far as to say it's easy.

think it's great we're allowing Sam Altman to harm kids in exchange for millions of dollars everyday so that he doesnt have to get a real job

As I age, I find stories of youth suicides harder and harder to deal with emotionally.

Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.

Take notes, college presidents.

So glad we spent tens of millions of dollars on this while academic buildings still have asbestos and the student gym facilities are an embarrassment

The Telegraph Graham Linehan My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls

I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism. "I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational. When I read that, I phoned him immediately. When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper. At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you."

I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all. Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole". David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane. Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by. And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another "he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them

Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!

Not just STEM.

Where I am, Humanities profs have a 5-4 load.

Trump administration vincible.

Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.

This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.

The vote failed big, 19/31.

The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!

A New York Times headline that reads: "Calibri’s Run-In With Rubio Wasn’t Its First Controversy."

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

From “shining city on a hill” to “pariah Putin apologist checking your social media history at the door.”

Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book—With RFK Revelation—Sells Just Over 1,000 Copies “American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.

even if you’ve never written a book you only sold 1200 fewer copies last week than Olivia Nuzzi

At this hearing, @padilla.senate.gov asked me whether mass deportation is making us more safe. Here was my response.

An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

It took me forever to break the habit of two spaces after periods. Of all the things to tick in a person's brain, many of which would undoubtedly be more useful than that, why did my brain insist on retaining THAT?

Sigh

Screenshot of Onion headline under "Commentary" tag: Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five 1B/DHs ("1B/DHs" is in a mismatched font)

BREAKING

Men under 30 are far more likely today than in 2022 to view legal sports betting as bad for society % who say the fact that betting on sports is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, among .... Men Women 60% 40 - 46 39 31 48 65+ 47 Ages 18-29 43 50-64 43 30-49 45 C 50 Ages 65+ 42 50-64 36 30-49 35 18-29 36 C 271 25 22 20 - July 2022 July 2025 July 2022 Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted July 8-Aug. 3, 2025. PEW RESEARCH CENTER July 2025

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership.

What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

"Get with the times!" the drunkard shouts, while still putting two spaces after periods.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Muppet Christmas Carole might be the best muppet movie for the sole reason that its star at no point acknowledges the fact that he acting opposite muppets.

Gabriel Susan Lewis does not miss