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The game was on easy mode, too.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Now when someone says our universities and economy are the envy of world, it reads like an act of political defiance. What a stupid, stupid crisis we've inflicted on ourselves.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Shout out to @bretdevereaux.bsky.social for consistently being super generous.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Is anyone else randomly getting a bunch of new followers? Not complaining, but, um, I'm super boring, barely post, and when i do it's basically me talking to myself. Like right now, 95% chance no one sees this. So. I don't get it! New followers, are you real? You won't see this, so we'll never know.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Loving how the budget bill goes all in for oligarchic techno dystopia.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This story has repeated every year since the 90s: “At a conference last year, Robert Goldstein, the chief operating officer of BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, said “We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, …”

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

I hate that this isn't surprising.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

1. The DOJ has sent threatening letters to several medical journals, focused around whether these journals are spreading misinformation that harms the American people and suppressing alternative viewpoints. I study how the norms and institutions of science facilitate discovery and self-correction.

submitted 53 days ago • 53 comments

🧵About that article in @nytimes.com about teachers using AI to give writing feedback to students: Giving good writing feedback is incredibly time consuming and can bring the best teacher to tears. There is definitely a problem with what teachers who have 150 students are being asked to do. /1

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 60 days ago • 46 comments

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

submitted 69 days ago • 963 comments

Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America." Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

submitted 70 days ago • 18 comments

Yes x 1000

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

AGAIN: morally abhorrent, strategically stupid.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 96 days ago • 178 comments

That was not the appropriate reaction to a man telling you that he is about to conquer the soil of another nation, citizens of another free republic.

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

This amounts to purposefully killing more civilians, which is morally abhorrent. If morality doesn't persuade you (i.e. if you're a monster), then I'll add that indiscriminate violence is also bad strategy. This decision by our secdef demonstrates extraordinary ignorance, stupidity, and cruelty.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

What are some things about the United States that are actually pretty exceptional? - university system - research output - alliances - economy Oh, okay, we're trashing all of those on purpose now.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe it's obvious, but I still can't understand the motives of this admin and its repeated attempts to make us: - less safe - less wealthy - less healthy - less influential - less innovative - less informed - less educated Why? To what end? Cui bono (aside from our adversaries)?

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

"I think it's one of the most important moments since 1945... For the first time since 1941, we have a US government which is not allied with Europe." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

The Kyiv Independent Editorial: "It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up." kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...

submitted 102 days ago • 46 comments

i firmly believe one of the main messages we should be telling our students about this whole thing is that generative ‘AI’ by definition will never have an original idea, and if you use it, neither will you

submitted 105 days ago • 18 comments

granting the premise of this, how would you know what questions to ask?

submitted 114 days ago • 397 comments

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

submitted 113 days ago • 154 comments

More headlines like this please and thank you.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

I've been thinking about this quite a bit, and I worry about the potential danger arising from such a massive disruption of federal law enforcement. And equally (moreso?), I fear a national security crisis that gives the administration an excuse to claim sweeping emergency powers.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

"It is not clear what would happen if one Nato member attacked another." Can't say I ever expected to see those words in print.

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

I hope I'm wrong, that Pete Hegseth rises to the level of mediocre and the U.S. muddles through his tenure as SecDef. But the Senate confirmed an unserious man to hold one of the most serious jobs on the planet, and I am hard-pressed to see how this ends well.

submitted 137 days ago • 165 comments

There’s a lot of quiet but load-bearing stuff the federal government does, and everything covered by the aid pause Trump just ordered is a part of that. It’s easy to dismiss it as not a big deal, especially if the money gets turned back on quickly, but the people and places affected won’t forget.

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment