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Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

10/10 no notes, love this so much.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

The Guide for Conscientious Objectors in the Military Center on Conscience & War counselors talk with military personnel every day who are questioning their conscience. This handbook is a primary resource.

Nearly every military base in the continental US has lawyers nearby who are ready to help seekers of the objector status.

It's not an honorable discharge guarantee, but when the gov is engaging in illegal wars ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

centeronconscience.org/mil-co-guide...

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as “the middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.

David Eby announces B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time (in spectacular fashion)

New in BC Permanent Daylight Saving Time Starts Sunday, March 8

When we turn the clocks ahead on March 8, it will be the last time change ever for BC. We're changing to a permanent daylight saving time, simply called Pacific Time (PT).

Learn more: News.gov.bc.ca/33415

New Zoombombing scam just dropped www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...? sigh

DrMr Kelly is originally from Saskatchewan and time change day is always a dark day in our house.

Lord, I have seen what you have done for others...

Oh, the Shit You’ll Do After You’re Tenured! We regret to inform you: Today’s not your day Though you’ve sweated and labored Every August through May You have brains in your head And a CV for ...

Whole mornings you’ll lose, and whole afternoons
To trolling and arguing with faceless buffoons
Like MAGABro69 and DixieBrunette —
You may even say a few things you regret.

But it’s okay!
You’ll be tenured!
And joy will abound
(Until the university itself closes down)

For the nerds

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

If you're in academia and you think we can just "ride this out," please read this #thread and think about how the current attacks on scientific research disproportionately affect junior researchers- who are literally the future.

If you’re verified or thinking of getting verified on LinkedIn please read this. LinkedIn is a VLOP.

HT @simonelinke.com

Let's not forget they're also pushing to end birthright citizenship and allow for denaturalizing people.

White men are going to be so shocked when it happens to them.

"But I'm a citizen."
"Nah, buddy, you we're a citizen, now you're a resident of a labor camp where you will die."

Academics, this is a really, really important story to stay abreast of.

When he's getting taken away by the police he's trying to say something but it's inaudible because he has a mouthful of AI art

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed.

You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

I look forward to entire DMV, Medicaid, and Social Security databases being wiped out because the AI thought to delete it and start from scratch as an easier shortcut. It's already happened to the AWS code base.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On Joy and Resistance | dansinker.com

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

I must not engage in discourse. Discourse is the vibe-killer. I will face the discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and around me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the discourse has gone there will be nothing. Only vibe will remain.

An interesting side note to this story: According to this, this incident went viral because the kid who got punched was wearing Meta smart glasses at school, for which he (1) also got suspended and (2) made himself rather awkwardly famous.

White House tweets image of an eagle standing on a canada goose in response to Justin Trudeau saying “you can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game

Oh I fucking hate them

I truly can’t handle reading this news about OpenAI’s disregard for public safety on the same day as I saw Sam Altman equate the energy use of AI models with the energy use of humans, reducing humanity to a resource calculation to be managed so he can pursue his AGI god.

I’m just so disgusted.