"Mr. Portnoy, who is Jewish, expressed outrage over the incident in his profanity-laced video on Instagram."

Europe is doing this a little, but you really need some educational research infrastructure and money to really take advantage of it. Inviting PhDs to come live in your country by itself is not going to do much.

Beneath all the funny memes, the actual outrage here is that the same people who whine constantly about "DEI hires," lack of "meritocracy" and "cancel culture" are themselves the most pathetic, thin-skinned incompetent nepo babies you've ever met

Please do Baltimore

If it's any consolation, a lot of people will also die for even dumber reasons

Baltimore is great!

The challenge for Democrats is that their base is more diffuse. They need to hold onto *both* the left *and* a good chunk of the center to win. GOP voters are much more unified -- both fewer "moderates" and fewer "extremists," relatively speaking. (Arguably the whole party is extremist.)

That's not the idea here, though?

Screenshot of an article from Fox News website. Headline reads: "Outraged Dem stops hearing after GOP lawmaker calls trans rep wrong pronoun"

Fascinating linguistic shift on the right: the anti-trans movement has become so incensed by "pronouns" that the word has lost all gramatical meaning and now just means any gendered word. (The misgendering used by the lawmaker was the word "Mister" which is not grammatically a pronoun.)

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

He was right about one thing. I am tired of all the winning.

The crypto folks are simultaneously betting against the dollar AND actively encouraging its demise. So I think it’s more likely that the libertarian folks are yearning for a crash and hoping to get rich in the aftermath, Russian oligarch style

The problem with propaganda is that sometimes it is right and sometimes it is wrong. Identifying it as propaganda is useful but doesn’t actually establish a truth value.

here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

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What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Convenient side effect of taking all sides of every issue is anyone can see what they want

A lot of things start to break down at scale — systems become too big to fail, so natural correction mechanisms stop working.

A lot of venture capital investments are bets that “someday this might become so indispensable that we can just charge governments for rent”

The biggest acts of sabotage were while the GOP held the Senate though

I think it’s fair to ask the Democrats to mobilize and lead more while also acknowledging that there are actual constraints they are working under

Probably no tariffs on China

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

I definitely found that it clicked after I unlocked enough skills that I could do more than dodge, parry and quick-hit. Although by the end game, it also became too easy to just plow through everything and take no damage.

All kidding aside, the reason he is doing this is to establish some kind of culpability by @profgalloway.com and I. We never threatened these people but it is all in service of getting his supporters to think we did. It’s not a random tweet — all planned for a larger effort to silence us or worse.

The University of California Increased Diversity. Now It’s Being Sued. The state’s elite campuses, prohibited from using race-based admissions for decades, are now admitting more Black and Hispanic students. A new group is suing, arguing the university system is cheating...

The almost explicit position of these groups is that anything more than a token number of black and Hispanic students in an elite institution is de facto evidence of anti-white racial discrimination.

Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry.

You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

So much of this cultural shift discourse reminds me of the propaganda campaign against opponents of the Iraq War

When Democrats had sixty seats they passed Obamacare

What exactly would you have them do