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holy shit.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

You can try the demo of Herdling on Steam NOW 😱 Quick drop everything, become a post-apocalyptic shepherd, drop the shackles of life under late stage capitalism and relax by hanging out with a herd of shaggy horned weirdos 💪💪

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

there is merit — people demonstrating that they have the capacity to complete a given task — and “merit,” an ontological category reserved for some people and not others

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Enjoy the new relaxing Gourdlets multiplayer game with the new promotional art I made! 🍃✨

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

I’m still stuck on this. You can’t barge your way into a bureaucracy where you have no experience or subject matter expertise, blow it all up, and then go “nooooo I’m just a smol bean programmer I never expected anyone to USE this output”

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Happy pride to this gem 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

tapping the sign

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Yep, writing and marketing the book with a left-punching orientation alienated the left out of reading it in good faith ("Oh it's all privatization and deregulation"), leaving other left-punchers as the only people liking the book, and they'll put their own spin on its contents. Great job, guys.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

Every day new things manifest themselves, each one determined to turn me into a reactionary.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

At this point, I would suggest as a general rule that the greater the embrace of this kind of approach to generative AI, the less invested the institution is in students actually learning something or having genuinely meaningful experiences. Students beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

Good thread. I continue to be struck by how much of the AI buzz focuses on tasks LLMs don't seem to actually do well or helpfully - because they sound cool - and not on the things LLMs can do (but which imply only marginal increases to productivity).

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

i think the source of failure here is the total lack of elite accountability

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

I just finished Richard Rorty’s “Contingency, Irony and Solidarity” and I’m thinking about ChatGPT in light of his point (via Orwell) on how freedom of speech is as much about speaking to each other and developing our ideas as it is speaking them aloud. Going to AI interrupts that process.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Amazing thread- and as Benjamin points out, ChatGPT literally cannot do the things it’s executives are claiming it will do for students. It’s the goddamn golden age of human knowledge connectivity and yet we have a whole management class that apparently yearns for the wallet inspectors.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Just to ask, ChatGPT’s confabulations aside, how is this actually cheaper than just paying living educators at a scale to provide smaller class sizes and learning/study centers on campus?

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Interesting shift in Mali: Wagner declaring 'mission accomplished' & leaving, despite a deteriorating security situation & heavy recent losses. Afrika Corps, also controlled by the Russian govt, will remain but it's unclear whether it'll be at the same scale. www.dw.com/en/russias-w...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Here's the text version of that investigation into Rwanda's covert three-and-a-half-year war in Democratic Republic of Congo. It was a pleasure working alongside the team at NBC. www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

fortunately robots aren’t part of their future strategy

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The programme for the 4th international Military Welfare History Network conference (9-11 July) is now live. Full details can be found at militarywelfarehistory.com/2025-confere.... Book your place now by emailing the organisers #milwelfhist

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Jesus, this book should be radioactive to academics. If you use it in any part of your argument you have pressed a giant “don’t listen to me, I don’t know what I am doing” button.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is an absolutely revolting hagiography of someone who posted images from one of the most depraved child sex abuse videos circulating on the trading underground and I seriously doubt he got it from a news article

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Literal trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk we are refusing to pick up

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

no real doubt but that this was replicated all over DOGE and therefore all over the federal government, too

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I’ll be there as an early Father’s Day to do with a buddy!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The very IDEA that people exercising state violence get to be anonymous is WILD Founders would've been up in arms over it

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Anyone that ever said anything remotely positive about the concept of DOGE (forget the execution) is either in favor of stuff like this or too stupid to function. This was always how it was going to go, it was plain as daylight from the drop!

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

My eight-year-old son has started referring to military bases as “army sanctuaries” and I just think the image of a safe home for youths who love white monsters and zyn is beautiful

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Despite the international popularity of the Sahel’s military leaders, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home. africasacountry.com/2025/06/goit...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

THEIR NAMES AND FACES SHOULD BE ONLINE, THEY'RE PUBLIC SERVANTS GOING TO PUBLIC PLACES

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Listen to Justin! He’s one of those experts I said want to teach and explain! And this subject is fascinating and poorly understood!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So the thing with SCOTUS at this point is there are at least 3-4 epochal questions being pushed up to them and while they are trying to bob and weave and delay, the administration isn’t going to stop pushing on them. Sorry guys, you made this too!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I believe in redemption. But you have to actually work for it. If Musk really tries to undo the damage he has done, especially to some of the poorest people on earth, not just by saying he's sorry but by putting a substantial part of his fortune to work on their behalf, I will join Team Redemption.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

So something else that bears repeating: the federal workforce had not grown since the 1970s despite taking on a huge raft of new responsibilities. This fact along meant any cuts would likely have to be made good to do anything at all.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So just to clarify two things: 1. The president can’t just “cancel” appropriated funding. 2. If states cannot rely on the social contract with the federal government then we are actively undermining the concept on the Union.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW: DOGE is actively recruiting—and sources say potential hires are being told they can make up to $195,000, well above what a GS-15 makes. This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Nothing says “serious people in the room” like clearcutting all the existing talent, realizing you have no one that can do the things you want done, and then chasing after the people you just drove out asking them to come back.

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If both sides are mad at you it's possible you are doing something right. It's also possible you're doing everything wrong. Two journalists chat: “I've been beaten up by both the left and the right for being too hard on Musk and too soft..." www.cjr.org/laurels-and-... via @bgrueskin.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments