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Personally I would deregulate Omelas' zoning laws, allowing for the construction of more spacious domiciles and thus ultimately improving the little kid's living situation as the improvements show up down the value chain. Guess I'm just built different tho.

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Revised Second Edition #Columbia #Shame

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The original name of Columbia University was King's College. They should bring it back - far more fitting for an institution that has resigned itself to abject subservience to a tyrant. #Shame #Columbia #KingsCollege

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Institutions that have a shred of dignity should boycott Columbia. When $15 billion doesn't let you stand for academic freedom, why do you even exist. Any number of supposedly 'lesser' institutions look like giants by comparison.

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Cower, Columbia. What an abject disgrace.

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Thinking back to driving my mother between Cleveland and Columbus to participate in clinical trials that gave her two good years of life after being diagnosed with late stage ovarian cancer, I am discovering that it is possible to sob with rage.

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update: vice article from 2017 where they straight up admit they are not NPS employees and do not speak for them www.vice.com/en/article/a...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

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Is anyone working on the Oscars-style in memorium for the rule of law yet?

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If you go to the Washington Post website and your browser isn't maximized, it now redirects you to their AI search tool. In fairness to the AI, I also have no good answer to this question.

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with longer videos, i can now post the funky woodcock crossing the road

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I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 15 days ago • 621 comments

the sound of all my English professors crying out at once

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The most Nazi-friendly administration in US history will now deny funds to Columbia - cuts that mean Jewish staff will lose their jobs - justifying it as "fighting antisemitism." Shanda on my fellow Jews who made this possible by weaponizing these charges to attack critics of Israeli war crimes.

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“If a scholar studying these historical phenomena cannot be hired at CUNY, if a job advertisement mentioning these historical phenomena cannot be posted at CUNY, it’s safe to say that it probably won’t be long before any course examining these phenomena cannot be taught at CUNY.”

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For no real reason, here’s Charles Lindbergh in 1941 saying US shouldn’t assist the UK’s war with Germany because country should 1) prioritize America First interests, 2) avoid European entanglements, 3) push for peace, and 4) recognize it’s an unfair deal for us. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 24 days ago • 65 comments

Thinking today of Benjamin Franklin, who wore an old suit (and no wig) before the king and court of France, to represent his nation—while it was fighting for its existence

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My therapist, today: "Yeah, 'then we have to grapple with the burden of existential freedom' definitely makes the scrapbook of things my patients have said to me."

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This is a remarkably salient bit bit of analysis by Erik Baker, which wrestles admirably with the stratification of American life along the urban/rural divide, the different experience of America's (plural) elites those positions engender, and the complexities this creates for leftist politics

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

submitted 27 days ago • 144 comments

I am incredibly sad to learn of Anson's death. He took me on as a misfit philosophy major, got me into the archives, through a thesis, and helped me do the sort of history I wanted to do. He was utterly brilliant and menschlich and his loss is devastating. mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2025/02/17/r...

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this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

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I've been yelling to anyone who will listen that AI won't save us. What I hadn't considered was that the absolute worst people are so childishly spellbound by AI that they would rely on hallucination-bot to try to do their mischief for them. So... maybe it will? www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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The Times: No one ever talks about the upsides to ethnic cleansing

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Daily Planet "Mayor Luthor" vibes

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Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.

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