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what was that about Iran being a theocracy?

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

my tax dollars attacking with missiles more missiles that are somehow also my tax dollars

funding USAID (an agency which Trump and Musk illegally destroyed) cost each individual American taxpayer about $64 annually while saving millions of lives around the world.

instead, we've got:

Even Orwell didn't think of this shit.

Exploring Factors Influencing Administrative Spending in Higher Education Despite increasing financial challenges facing much of higher education, relatively little is known about how institutions allocate resources to different activities, particularly in areas other than ...

New working paper: I use detailed spending data from HelioCampus to look at universities' non-academic spending. Institutional budget models and centralization appear to influence administrative spending, and there are some strategic decisions made during tough budget years. (1/)

Students say NC State cybersecurity course left them in debt and without prospects NC State offers an online cybersecurity bootcamp powered by a third-party company. Some students say it made false promises.

Etcetera etcetera we are all LowerEd

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

hate congress, love sara jacobs

Uh, I was just on a panel at the ACE conference in which I asked a co-panelist, “will we see immigration action on campus?” [I knew the answer was yes]

*problems! (they're plural!)

I'm not anti-new-accreditor but I am having a hard time trusting the motives of people who think the problem with accreditation in recent years have had anything to do with partisan ideology, rather than the 10,000 actual things they are bad at.

IMO the innovation they're imagining could create a race to the bottom in terms of standards, because why would I seek accreditation from the place w/ the highest standards it if I can get it elsewhere with the same result (access to lucrative federal aid)?

They're still trying to "spur innovation" out of the "accreditation market"

The Devos 2019 accreditation rules were supposed to do that by letting schools seek approval from any accreditor, even outside of old regional boundaries.

Here's a live look from inside the Education Department today:

Look, there’s sports and then there’s
men’s “sports.”

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm, etc

Reminder that this man's acolytes got control of the Heritage Foundation; this shit won't end with Trump by a long shot

To believe that things like institutional governance and campus climate have nothing to do with institutional quality and eventual student outcomes is foolish.
(Yes, this post is about Nicholas Kent's plans for college accreditation.)

Excellent report from friends over at TCF showing which states effectively get financial aid to students (& institutions) who need it most. Conclusion: "States that distribute financial aid using need as the only criteria generate more equitable funding outcomes for students."

Man, I wish they’d bring back cool trends like bell bottoms or swing dancing instead of COINTELPRO

Y'all need better arguments!

Bugs Bunny emphatically says "NO"

listening to a higher ed podcast unquestioningly hype up AI and the self-proclaimed non-higher ed person who is a C-suite leader at an ed-tech company says: "you have to embrace AI because it is here to stay"

CLIMATEWIRE: Trump enlists military to rescue coal The Department of Energy has identified more than three dozen coal plants that could power military installations, according to one official.

CLIMATEWIRE: Colombia plans summit to wind down fossil fuels The South American country is hosting an informal climate summit as progress stalls at U.N.-organized conferences.

America vs América

That's not really true though. If you're feeling sensitive about the public perception of your trans coverage, perhaps you should hire a trans reporter to cover it more accurately than your current reporters are capable of.

Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines.
Alternatives:
"With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely"
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

Is the groundhog prepared to shovel the streets and sidewalks himself?

They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

‘Backing down isn’t an option’: Minnesota ICE shootings mobilize Americans to join ICE observer groups The killings of Minneapolis residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti have inspired people across the US to document federal agents’ activities in their communities

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed.

ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world

It went "too far" in the sense of getting "too close" to the nexus linking depraved patriarchs globally.

What the Epstein files show is that across social domains--business, science, politics, education--men at the tops of their fields bond and compete for status through violent misogyny.