Melissa Johnson, PhD

Mystery Solved! Turns out it is "Webinar.tv" whose disgusting and unethical business model is: register for a zoom call under a fake name and email address, record it without consent and put it on a public website with genAI summary and everyone's names and faces and then charge for access. WTAF.

This isn’t just erasure of African American history, it’s abject lies about white American history

footnote: what i'm troubled by is not the interest or curiosity wrt AI. to the contrary, the whole content betrays an utmost lack of curiosity and depth. no one seems to wanna understand what it is, whether or how institutions need it. they just wanna have a share of it. FOMO as higher ed strategy.

Its cool how this war is turning into a massive clusterfuck in record time

<stares in Fred Thompson gif>

Magnum PI has a car and a helicopter

If you were OK with “Substack, the Nazi Bar,” maybe “Substack, a front for the gambling on life and death casino” might convince you.

A one-sheet poster for "The Hunt for Red October." The colors are black and red with white type. At top left is a large three-quarter portrait image of the head of Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius, printed in red on a black background. Next to his left cheek, rising out of the red as though rising out of the ocean is a submarine conning tower. The tagline to the right reads, "The hunt is on." The title, top-line stars, and credits are printed in the lower third of the poster against a red background.

Today in 1990, “The Hunt for Red October,” adapted from insurance salesman Tom Clancy’s bestselling 1984 first novel, opened in theaters across the United States.

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”

I was 1000% all the way in on Platner and when the news about the tattoo came out I was like lol nope sorry Nazi shit is a bit of a red line for me buddy

If you didn’t drop him then, for whatever reason, you absolutely still can! You can ditch the guy right now!

have now completed mandatory annual security training and I am going to start to refer to some *specific* colleagues as "unintentional insider threats"

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At the bottom of the Substack settings page, under "Danger Zone," you can turn off all subscriptions at once.

Apologies to all my friends on Substack. I'd gritted my teeth and supported you because I love your work. But Substack's partnership with Polymarket is the last straw for me.

Winding Lanes. 11°C and dappled light. Starlings.

Winding Lanes. 11°C and dappled light. Starlings

the only thing I find remotely interesting about platner, who I otherwise find odious, is nothing to do with the man himself, but rather the conditions that have allowed him to remain competitive and even a favorite to win the dem nomination despite being odious.

a microsoft word comment that begins, ominously, deservedly, "Now, let's talk about em dashes..."

my copyeditor holding my hand and looking me in the eyes like she's staging an intervention:

Not a clusterfuck, but the fucks do seem to be clustering

One of the biggest problems with the “crisis with men” literature is that it invariably centers men whose principal crisis is being sh*tty people.

okay so sounds like some of what's happening here is that he's deliberately letting the word "oysterman" do an ENORMOUS volume of misleading rhetorical work here, when in fact he's something more akin to a high-end specialty restaurant supplier??? lmao oh my god what a transparent grift

I'm just saying: it's never been easier to "work in education" without having any of that work take place in an actual classroom or school

And I don't believe this is a good thing for students

I don’t romanticize eras that have worse plumbing.

will never stop being incredible to me that the son of a lawyer (and grandson of an architect) who went to hotchkiss (hotchkiss!) gets graded on a curve cause he’s “working class”

This is not a situation where the President "didn't have time" to consult Congress. The military build-up unfolded over months, yet in all that time he never felt it necessary to make the case for war to anyone but himself.

Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

At a certain point you just cannot keep extending someone the benefit of the doubt. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Michael Paré in EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS

EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS spawned a hit single in 1983 and became a beloved cable mainstay. Then, like the enigmatic singer played by Michael Paré, it disappeared. But now it's streaming for free for the first time ever on Pluto TV. Watch it tonight at 8pm ET on 80s Rewind: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...

"Each day...someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.'...How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

— John Kerry before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1971

The Reza Pahlavi thing is where it gets into pure fanfic- so the plan is to parachute in the guy only known for being the son of the man remembered in Iran for selling national resources to foreigners and using the proceeds to throw the most expensive parties of the century?? gluck with that

I Tried AI, Part I: She’s a Messy B Who Loves Drama In the immortal words of Biggie Smalls, mo money, mo scholarship.

Until recently, I hadn’t really tried AI — but it tried me. AI stole my work and according to the headlines, it is coming for the rest.

So this week at SMK, I’m figuring out exactly what I’m dealing with:

alexiscoe.substack.com/p/i-tried-ai...

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.

I look forward to checking this out. Absolutely more people should read more about more women.

But even more so, we should be asking WHY these stories-- far from unknown -- are still considered "hidden." Less discourse about uncovering please and more about who and why the hiding happens.

Between GenAI (especially WRT its weaponized uses against girls and women) and legalized betting (think: Polymarket), I think I understand the Temperance Movement a little better.