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There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

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As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable. Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.

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This has been the defining trait of my career over the last 20 years, working in tech. Everyone can see it now, because they’ve seen the corruption of the tech tycoons, but we had the first view of their venality, and watched as they ruined the lives of so many who raised the alarms about it.

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So many groundbreaking scholars are only in the field because of these grants. We are going to lose a generation's worth of knowledge that we will never get back: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

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"Being starved systematically to death may reduce obesity" is Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal all over again for the 21st century.

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I firmly believe you cannot separate the proliferation of gAI from the Republican war on information. They have railed against the radical Marxist indoctrination of the youth for 100 years, and this thing dismantles critical thinking without them having to do anything

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What I know for certain is that for as bizarre and weird as The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) is, there is something altogether too familiar about the way Bowie’s alien feels at once compelled to watch twelve television screens simultaneously while screaming for the same TVs to leave him alone.📽️

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Nearly all of Polygon was laid off last week after Vox sold the company. Donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

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if it doesn’t have anti-colonial pro-revolutionary politics, it’s not a Star War, it’s just sparkling derivative space opera (I’m finally watching Andor)

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This dear, brave soul. Now release all the abductees.

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[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen refreshes feed [The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen

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Afghan interpreters who risked their lives for the US can’t get refugee status but we’re getting fast-tracked fake refugee Afrikaners?

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health isn’t a choice anyone gets to make for themselves, but to the degree that it is, being healthier depends on acknowledging and confronting what’s wrong health-wise and then seeking help for it, which is exactly what this intentionally disincentives and discourages

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UPDATE on the charges for the teen girl and other woman that were arrested.

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Columbia said, “we want to make sure people understand that they should not attend our school, we don’t need more students. We want to be as awful as we can be so kids won’t apply to go here and our reputation can get thrown in the trash. It’s a win win probably somehow”

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Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

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god I'm having such a good time watching conservatives freak out as they discover the pope is actually catholic

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… what do these people thing Catholicism is, exactly?

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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pope from chicago (all things go, all things go)

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UPDATE: white smoke has also been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

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there’s maybe something to be said about the connection between the recent popular misidentification of normal friendship stuff as “labor” and the current dystopia of “most of your friends will be AI” but my real response is just: like hell they will, fucko, come and take it

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

generations, like laws, are fake plenty of old people suck, plenty of young people suck, and tribalism gets us nowhere

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

So many of us feel the way this taxi driver feels

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fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

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this essay is so brilliant and so deeply deserving all of the commotion in the world, you should read it already www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

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love how every time I see the word “woke” I get to be reminded that for maybe eight whole months out of the entire time I’ve been alive, making an effort to be kind to one another was trendy, and now we’re all going to spend the rest of our lives being punished for it

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The maddest tweet you'll see all day

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thomas makes it sound like I’ve been saying this nonchalantly rather than yelling WHY HASNT SOMEONE LET HIM PLAY HAMLET YET every time either he, or Hamlet, comes up, anyway dude looks great, someone let him play Hamlet already

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the definitive statement on the topic

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relatedly, every time I walk by a Fellini coffee it makes me laugh because, honestly, has any place ever lived up to its namesake more, a beautiful cafe in a beautiful city, populated by the most excruciatingly annoying beautiful people in history

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this thread is one of the best pieces of writing I’ve read on this movie

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Our reporting on the NEA suddenly yanking grants. Affected include: n+1, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, Oxford American, book publishers, nonprofit theaters, more: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...