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On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
September 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.
September 26, 2026 at 12:13 PM
In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.
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Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
September 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
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The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
September 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
Whose life as AI improved so far?
September 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Whose life as AI improved so far?
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Welcome to the party, pals
Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”. [spacedaily.com]
Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent 'observer' sensation
spacedaily.com
July 27, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Welcome to the party, pals
"We were tired of being called racists for being racist!"
JD Vance: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer"
September 11, 2026 at 2:07 AM
"We were tired of being called racists for being racist!"
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if you want a good city ... things need to be affordable for the cooks/weirdos/ tinkering people/ collectors/ artists/ and musicians
September 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
if you want a good city ... things need to be affordable for the cooks/weirdos/ tinkering people/ collectors/ artists/ and musicians
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This very good piece gives two compelling answers to the question but overlooks a third, which is that Yale administrators see a deal as an opportunity to further undermine faculty, staff, and student autonomy/governance, which they view as a greater threat to their interests than Trump.
September 2, 2026 at 2:59 AM
This very good piece gives two compelling answers to the question but overlooks a third, which is that Yale administrators see a deal as an opportunity to further undermine faculty, staff, and student autonomy/governance, which they view as a greater threat to their interests than Trump.
Have the New Haven streets that Yale has taken over (High Street and Wall Street) stopped counting as "public sidewalks"? 🤔
@franciediep.bsky.social :
“two people identifying themselves as staffers from the Office of Public Affairs told reporters that they could not be on Yale’s grounds. Instead, journalists had to stand on a public sidewalk, about 250 feet away from the protest.” www.chronicle.com/article/yale...
“two people identifying themselves as staffers from the Office of Public Affairs told reporters that they could not be on Yale’s grounds. Instead, journalists had to stand on a public sidewalk, about 250 feet away from the protest.” www.chronicle.com/article/yale...
Yale Activists Defy Rules to Warn Against Deal With Trump
Students, faculty members, and alumni joined in an unauthorized demonstration.
www.chronicle.com
September 2, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Have the New Haven streets that Yale has taken over (High Street and Wall Street) stopped counting as "public sidewalks"? 🤔
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Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
August 27, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
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Dolly Parton was and is a vital reminder that you can’t just blame a person being shitty on their age.
August 25, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Dolly Parton was and is a vital reminder that you can’t just blame a person being shitty on their age.
From the essential Dolly Parton album The Grass is Blue
August 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
From the essential Dolly Parton album The Grass is Blue
We need a National Day of Mourning because she was the best of us.
Dolly. We didn't deserve you.
August 25, 2026 at 6:07 PM
We need a National Day of Mourning because she was the best of us.
Dolly. We didn't deserve you.
August 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Dolly. We didn't deserve you.
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refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works
discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move
discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move
August 24, 2026 at 2:48 PM
refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works
discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move
discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move
Stop calling Social Security and Medicare “entitlements” challenge: impossible.
Year after year, the federal government has spent more than it collected in taxes.
Independent experts say some combination of higher taxes and cuts in popular entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare are unavoidable.
Independent experts say some combination of higher taxes and cuts in popular entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare are unavoidable.
As debt surpasses $40 trillion, the bill for Washington spending comes due
Decades of free spending have run up a $40 trillion national debt. But this week's bond market sell-off suggests Washington may soon be compelled to make some long-deferred, and politically unpalatabl...
www.washingtonpost.com
August 23, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Stop calling Social Security and Medicare “entitlements” challenge: impossible.
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From this review-
“Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
“Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
I think functionally all of the post-resignation coverage that was about him rather than Cambridge was excessive (e.g. this poisonous review of a book nobody is going to buy - why)
Jason Arday’s memoir is mawkish, self-aggrandising and hard to believe
The embattled former Cambridge professor’s autobiography, Great and Unfortunate Things, feels precision-tooled to flatter the biases of the sappiest white liberals
www.thetimes.com
August 15, 2026 at 10:21 AM
From this review-
“Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
“Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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sideshows like this are bad because encourage readers to imagine that Good Scholars are being systematically replaced by worthless nobodies — when, in fact, they are being systematically replaced by overworked and underpaid versions of themselves, and shat on by personal essayists into the bargain
August 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
sideshows like this are bad because encourage readers to imagine that Good Scholars are being systematically replaced by worthless nobodies — when, in fact, they are being systematically replaced by overworked and underpaid versions of themselves, and shat on by personal essayists into the bargain
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The newest missive from Linda McMahon is a dressed up, watered down version of the Compact that was roundly rejected by universities and colleges last year. The fact that @aau.edu collaborated with the Trump administration on this letter should fool no one. Just say no. www.aft.org/press-releas...
AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp...
www.aft.org
August 4, 2026 at 9:37 AM
The newest missive from Linda McMahon is a dressed up, watered down version of the Compact that was roundly rejected by universities and colleges last year. The fact that @aau.edu collaborated with the Trump administration on this letter should fool no one. Just say no. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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A Russian bombing operation on 1st August which hit a Ukraine automated publishing distribution centre destroyed approximately eight million books, continuing a campaign of “deliberate” assault on the country’s book industry. 👇
Russian attacks wipe out a third of Ukraine's annual book production in a month
ebx.sh
August 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
A Russian bombing operation on 1st August which hit a Ukraine automated publishing distribution centre destroyed approximately eight million books, continuing a campaign of “deliberate” assault on the country’s book industry. 👇
Very unconventional use of the words "he" and "sees," New York Times.
To meet the growing needs of his congregation, Justin Lester, a pastor in the Bay Area created an A.I. duplicate of himself. Every day he sees more people using it. nyti.ms/4bvMOO6
August 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Very unconventional use of the words "he" and "sees," New York Times.
I would so love to take this class!
July 31, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I would so love to take this class!