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Just read this sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

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The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

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I'm not asking you to get from point A to point B. I'm asking you to get some exercise.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience. History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster. We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments

When my dad was a smoker, this is what he always kept in his pocket.

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“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

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In a speech to the cardinals today, Pope Leo XIV confirms he chose his name with Pope Leo XIII's contribution to social teaching in mind, noting that we are in another economic transformation not unlike the industrial revolution that prompted Rerum Novarum. press.vatican.va/content/sala...

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1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. The Pentagon loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

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On the 8-year anniversary of Colorado's costliest hailstorm on record, we find out that we won't be able to track billion-dollar disasters moving forward. This list doesn't mention climate change - it allows us to contextualize storms. Shameful.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Writing can be time-consuming and unpleasant, it's true, but it's important not to skip that part because it's a crucial element of thinking through an actual idea. The part of writing that's difficult is the formalization of proto-ideas into actual thought. You can't fob that off onto Clippy 2.0

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

They're trying to kill your kids

submitted 13 days ago • 71 comments

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

We are watching a government-sponsored paramilitary force operating above the law at the behest of the President of the United States. newrepublic.com/post/194557/...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

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I don’t think anyone in tech believed that “prompt engineer” was going to be a real job. Better prompts improve results at the margins, sure, but not so much that years out we need classes of people performing that function and not at scale that replaces anything. www.wsj.com/articles/the...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Hey, @xavier.edu, where you at? I see plenty of other Jesuit schools on here.

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These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.

submitted 32 days ago • 297 comments

Or as I often put it to my colleagues: Perception isn’t reality, but it still matters. Same is true of these formerly-grimy corners of the Internet that are now mainstream.

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@timmiller.bsky.social Thank you for visiting RJ today! I apologize on @jimbroderickking.bsky.social’s behalf for the trauma he inflicted on you, but I hope that it’s only fueled you.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

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It is 1992. I'm on Spring Break for the week and I'm playing Mario Kart and watching Ninja Turtles on TV. It is 2025. My daughter is on Spring Break for the week and we're playing Mario Kart and watching Ninja Turtles on TV.

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

submitted 35 days ago • 182 comments

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

submitted 35 days ago • 59 comments

The actual closest analogue for the present situation in the US is the Roman emperor Valens destroying the Danube frontier because he knew nothing about barbarians, mismanaging a refugee crisis, and then getting killed on a battlefield

submitted 40 days ago • 26 comments

this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff. just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.

submitted 41 days ago • 23 comments

I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours

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'We don’t know if he is alive. His family and I have scoured the few photographs and videos and see no sign of him anywhere' buff.ly/bFq1X8G #MassDeportations #ElSalvador #Auroracolorado

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Kurt Vonnegut man

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NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:

submitted 48 days ago • 53 comments

"Persons being deported may be sent to countries other than their countries of origin" is INSANE

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