A Reddit comment satirising ChatGPT responding sycophantically to the prompt "Should I bomb Iran?"
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A Reddit comment satirising ChatGPT responding sycophantically to the prompt "Should I bomb Iran?"
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What an absolute psychopath 👀
A chart showing what the post describes.
Fascinating chart.
The UK has increased the graduate share of the workforce more than comparable countries over the last 25 years, yet seems to be unique in that graduate earnings have fallen dramatically in that same time.
It's like a conversation between Michael Scott and Gob Bluth. Clumsy, out of touch political takes delivered with smug, delusional confidence.
I'm suspicious this column does very well based on hate clicks, but I'd rather The Times wasn't leaning into rage bait to keep the lights on.
Stephens article supporting the Iraq War, still, in 2023.
Why do news orgs platform these people? Is it just desperate, misdirected both-sideism? Do the hate clicks sell ads?
Stephens' record of being wrong is truly unprecedented, and yet, there's his column every day.
Best Stephens being an imbecile.
Frank Bruni equating several people enjoying Bad Bunny to the entire American right being openly racist.
The @nytopinion.nytimes.com feature with Frank Bruni & Bret Stephens chatting is absolutely enraging. Two ppl who have been wrong abt EVERYTHING for 20+ years. It's rage bait.
The entire American right being openly racist does NOT equate to several liberals on X enjoying Bad Bunny excessively.
Happy to discuss my experience. I did raise with local and national UCU, and both declined to provide legal support. I withdrew my ACAS complaint when employer's lawyers threatened to countersue for court costs.
McGill is hiring a faculty lecturer in social psychology, in a (non-adjunct) permanent teaching position.
Please consider being my colleague, Montreal is really great: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
This really hits home for me. I grew up reading The Post every morning. Huge influence on my life.
But it was done for the moment Bezos spiked their Harris endorsement. Cancelled my subscription the next day. Nothing will ever be enough for these people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
My university also forced staff to complete all work that was missed during industrial action without pay. Multiple 70hr weeks until it was done under threat of dismissal, with no overtime or lost pay restored.
Why has the @ucu.org.uk not pursued legal action?!
The biggest loss re: Twitter is the lack of an alternative to instantly watch / share football clips.
Imagine telling the twitter founders 20 years ago that their website would eventually be globally essential for sharing 1) Illegally recorded football clips and 2) Nazi propaganda
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Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.
Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Jokes aside, Democrats need to realise that Trump voters don't care abt any of the stuff they pretend to in polls.
Foreign policy, the economy, w/e, I promise you, it doesn't matter.
Establishing a male-led white nationalist state is the only thing that matters. It's abt reclaiming lost status.
A sack filled with shit has more backbone than any Republican senator.
Its honestly impressive that they've been able to gather such a morally bereft group of people in one place. You'd think at some point you'd end up with one decent human being by chance, but alas.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
Remember that ProPublica report, where Russ Vought was quoted this administration would make the lives of non-MAGA federal workers hell? He’s succeeded. Driving a worker to suicide. And the home of the journalist who reported the story was raided by the FBI.
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A Cadbury's creme egg wrapper next to a hollow / empty creme egg chocolate shell.
This mini creme egg was hollow / empty.
The media has posted some version of this headline weekly for 8 years now.
It wasn't true any of the previous weeks, and it's not true now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
3 papers @thelancet.com today on the health dangers of ultraprocessed foods and a call for action
The health risks
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Despite an impressive career and myriad accomplishments, I fear history will remember her as an appeaser who believed civility and decorum would overcome fascism.
10 years too late. Her misteps helped lead to Trump's 1st term, tho plenty of blame to go around for that. But she was centrally responsible for Dems total failure to address the threat of autocracy during Biden's term & his disastrous insistence on running in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
“In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing.”
Interesting read www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
A screenshot of a funny Facebook post by Aldi UK showing an M&S truck in their parking lot, with the caption "Why are they so obsessed with us omg".
Aldi's UK web presence is just an absolute joy.
Are they like this in other countries, or are we just lucky? @aldiukstores.bsky.social
City Police should be arresting any ICE agent that takes part in these raids. They are unambiguously unconstitutional and illegal.
I've been lucky enough to work with some top military folks over the years in the US and UK. Some more liberal, some more conservative.
But I promise you, they'll all think this was absolutely farcical.
So, Pete Hegseth - an alcoholic, wife abusing, rapist, white supremacist tattoo-covered shitbag whose own mother hates him - spent millions of taxpayer $$$ to get all the country's top military leaders in a room to rant at them about "standards".
Even for MAGA... lol
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
#AcademicSky
Not read @lindatropp.bsky.social 's new #ERSP article yet, but even the title excites me.
Getting us to reaffirm our commitment to the public good.
How could that advice be bad?
To regain lost public trust, the public good *should* be in mind
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
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