Kyle Winkler

this is the most important thing that happens all year. see you in harrisburg.

You going? You should.

breaking: kristi noem's face ate by leopards

This is what I’m here for.

'Beyond Evil': Medics Say Iran School Massacre Was Double-Tap Strike | Common Dreams "The second bomb hit," said one paramedic. "Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived."

Horrible fucking ppl, fuck these fascists!

www.commondreams.org/news/iran-sc...

Think of your local primary school, your children's primary shool, remember your own primary school or a primary school you trained or worked in. Imagine bombs raining down on it with little kids inside it, terrified, hurt and screaming.

It's horrific. This is real evil.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Too bad there's no opposition party that could run a 48 hour Youtube telethon program with 48 elected officials each programming one hour to point out the awfulness of the war on Iran. That would definitely not get any media or other attention.

For anyone going who has never read or heard of David Simmons, I am jealous that you’re hearing him for the first time. And he’s in his element in his hometown.

"All novels are fantasies; some are just more honest about it."
— Gene Wolfe

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

No pasaran! 🇪🇸

God bless the Spanish for standing hard against this soulless, brutality. This is leadership:

Congrats and good luck!

Voter suppression in Texas.

Abolish ICE is the mainstream position.

I am not saying that I could necessarily tell ChatGPT’s essay apart from my own students’ work. I am sure I couldn’t. It looks like a lot of undergraduate papers I have read. But that is the point. The problem with the “mind” evinced by artificial intelligence is not that it is so convincing and brilliant that it renders human intellectual endeavor obsolete and heralds an unguessed-at future. That is for science fiction. The problem is the opposite. It’s the same kind of slapdash, incurious writing that routinely makes grading a chore. What ChatGPT produces is unreliable, drab, useless, and off topic. It is a thoughtless mishmash blended together out of middling consensus—not the creative attention I am asking students for. It is incapable of making (what is recognized in the college classroom as) an interpretive claim, and poor at introducing evidence. To be fair, a B+ paper written by AI is not likely to have grammatical errors or spelling mistakes, but I would expect more from literally any student who did the reading, came to class, met with me, and turned on his or her brain.

This is the point I've been wanting to make, made so well by Prof. Ben Parker.

www.publicbooks.org/aib/

I believe the kids call that “a crusade.”

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

Man, fuck colleges. And I work at one!

Well I don’t love that

This needs to be the top story everywhere for months until they are driven out. CHILDREN! How can we ever live with ourselves?

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Can confirm. And by that I mean the latter part of that sentence. I shall take yr word on the former.

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

You had to consider quite carefully about if you were going to attack and what it meant to attack.

I was sitting in with a D&D game last night and the topic of THAC0 came up. I'm not a 1st ed. guy, so I had to look it up. And, I will tell you, I'm kind of all for it. It seems like, as with everything about the game, the combat has been streamlined to the point where it's not even combat anymore.

That must be a lot of legal pads. Do you, by any chance, keep those when you are finished?

Yes, I know. Naive, like I said.