Hot take, feel free to dismiss:
The only person who would think that you can magically effect regime change by taking out an autocrat is an autocrat – because they’re primed to overestimate the importance of the ‘Great Leader’ to the survival of the regime.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
This whole thread right here. Begging to launder dirty money for the worst people tarnishes the entire industry. The alternative is a less wealthy, but less beholden academy with a chance at recovering integrity and trust.
DOJ's priorities are...crooked.
This was an incredibly good read. All three passes. I guarantee there will be more.
Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
This request is clearly being made by people who don't fly commercial and understand the experience of steerage-class travel.
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
I’m old enough to remember when interfering with state governments or decisions made by private companies would send conservatives to their fainting couches.
Idiocracy was prophecy.
AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
See also: people who say we must "restore trust in higher ed"
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
Should the government censor speech it doesn’t like? Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the “public interest.”
Who, in your view, should have the power to draw the line between a “lie” and “free speech”? Government officials that want to stay in political power or the people that can hold them accountable ?
President Biden is right. Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people in to the discussion. That’s why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship.
Free speech is the counterweight—it is democracy’s check on government control. That’s why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream. After all, there’s a straight line from the soap box to the ballot box. You retain freedom at both or neither.
Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
We have a country being run by uncurious tech bros who want to bulldoze through lessons of ethics and history that should be guiding deployment of their discoveries, so yeah let's have more of that, great idea.
If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
This right here makes my decision to cancel my sub when Bezos bent the knee absolutely correct. Absolutely pathetic, wapo.
🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states.
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Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back
/4 In my view, a movement that so transparently rejects the deal — so obviously adopts the policy “the only valid result is I win” — is not entitled to the protections of the votes-instead-of-sticks approach.
They should get the sticks.
So much winning. We are literally -literally- begging for it to stop.
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
Me too.
