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Heads up! I just got word from my contact at @uminnpress.bsky.social that actual copies of my book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING have arrived with their distributor, so early orders should start shipping pretty soon!! 🤗🎉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792108...
Edit: "You're not lacking conviction -- you're showing passionate intensity. And honestly? I love it. Studies show that's correlated with both personal and professional success, and I can't wait to see what you do next, Chief."
You're not lacking conviction -- you're showing passionate intensity. And studies show that's correlated with both personal and professional success.
number goes up: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
number goes down: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
I was doing THE TESTAMENTS with my grad class today when some of the students pointed out that the trailer for the Hulu series dropped. It's really something. THE HANDMAID'S TALE: THE COLLEGE YEARS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWy...
in my opinion triggering the Biblical Armaggedon is not within the national security interests of the United States
In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.
Lionel Hutz proofreading joke on Tulsi Gabbard's NO WAR WITH IRAN merch
the good news this will only happen 2-3 more times before I starve to death during the AI Wars
Oh, yeah? Would a dying empire do THIS?!
Anthropic still owes me $3000 for stealing my book
February 26, 2026 Dear members of the Columbia community: This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student. We are working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a "missing person." We are working to gather more details. It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including
It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access. An administrative warrant is not sufficient. If law enforcement agents seek entry to non-public areas of the University, ask the agents to wait to enter any non-public areas until contacting Public Safety. Public Safety will contact the Office of the General Counsel to coordinate the University's response. Do not allow them to enter or accept service of a warrant or subpoena. We will update our community as additional information becomes available. Sincerely,
BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student.
"Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"
what a week to be teaching The Handmaid's Tale
9. As a result of this extreme anti-transgender law, the state of Kansas has seen its status deteriorate to a "Do Not Travel" warning in the EITM Trans Risk Map. Transgender people should exercise extreme caution when traveling through the state.
AD ASTRA PER ASPERA Kansas Department of Revenue Division of Vehicles Phone: 785-296-3671 Fax: 785-296-0691 www.ksrevenue.gov Laura Kelly, Governor Driver's License 300 SW 29th Street PO Box 2188 Topeka KS 66601-2188 Mark A. Burghart, Secretary February 23, 2026 Dear Kansas Credential Holder: House Substitute for Senate Bill 244, enacted by the Kansas Legislature overriding Governor Kelly's veto, requires Kansas-issued driver's licenses and identification cards to reflect the credential holder's sex at birth and directs the Division of Vehicles to comply with K.S.A. 77-207. What does this mean for you? If you have received this notice, our records indicate that, upon publication of this law in the Kansas Register on Thursday, February 26, 2026, your current Kansas credential will no longer be valid. Additionally, please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials. This means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credential will be invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential. What do you need to do? Pursuant to this new law, if the gender/sex indication on the face of your current credential does not match your sex assigned at birth, you are directed to surrender your current credential to the Kansas Division of Vehicles. Upon surrendering the credential, you will be issued a new credential reflecting the gender identification consistent with statutory requirements. If you have any questions regarding procedures for obtaining a legally compliant credential, please contact the Kansas Division of Vehicles or visit your local driver licensing office. Can you appeal this notice? Yes. If you believe you have received this notice in error, you may appeal. Appeal rights are available under K.S.A. 8-259. However, please be advised that the filing of an appeal will not preserve the validity of your current credential and associated driving au…
2. The letter, which has been reported to Erin In The Morning by a Kansas-based activist, states that under House Substitute for Senate Bill 244, Kansas trans people must immediately surrender their licenses.
shot: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards
www.axios.com/2026/02/24/a...
chaser: Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases.
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
Reposting for the weekend crew, hit the link for more info, to book your free ticket to the Star Trek Lates, and buy tickets to every Star Trek film showing in our IMAX 🖖
which way, western man
Trump forgot the lesson all American presidents must learn: they’ll let him hurt people however he likes but you’re not allowed to hurt the money
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
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