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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 14 hours ago • 806 comments

I think about this headline all of the time.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

On trees as living artifacts of indigenous interaction — bark peeled to make a basket, cambium harvested for sustenance, blazes marking trails, indices of generous potlatches

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

My spill? Built to.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I've been screaming this for years.

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

The same people who denounce “leftist” indoctrination and the “progressive” assault on free speech are also those who literally control the media and are doing all they can to save their precious ideas from interrogation.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

Domestic tasks are incredibly annoying because they’re cyclical. You do them, time elapses, and then you have to do them AGAIN. It sucks. Switching your mindset to accept this cycle instead of fighting it can help you let go of some of the frustration and resentment that comes with housework.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Not usually my thing to post something current or upcoming, but this is a special exception: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4w...

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

49% of the American population just destroyed our global credibility, potentially for decades, and the vast bulk of that voting bloc didn't even know what they were doing. American civic illiteracy is tragically pervasive and has catastrophic worldwide consequences.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

George Lucas on capitalism and greed 👇

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

“But I didn’t save them — I didn’t save them,” she said…Jeff leaned forward and said with a seasoned assurance, “How could anybody save somebody from an AR-15?”

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

These 4 easy-to-implement tweaks to your classroom design can have a big impact on students’ motivation and engagement. 🔧✨ #EduSky #k12

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 8 days ago • 230 comments

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

submitted 9 days ago • 294 comments

stimulants for ADHD have the largest effect size of any psych med for any psych disorder out there. they not only improve symptoms, reduce all-cause mortality, and reduce the risk of SUD, they VASTLY improve quality of life

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

Lmao a Nobel Prize winner finds the solution to the global fertility collapse is for men to do the dishes and laundry more often -- more or less the precise opposite of the trad prescription Fabulous @byheatherlong.bsky.social essay www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? A biology professor who studies branching patterns in living things thinks so. Image: Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. ‘Almond blossom’ by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 13 days ago • 345 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 15 days ago • 522 comments

We tend to measure academic success by the big wins: Passing a test with flying colors, for example, or earning top grades in a demanding course. But it’s the small wins that motivate students to keep going amid the inevitable academic struggles, new research shows. 🧵1/6

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 19 days ago • 119 comments

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

submitted 19 days ago • 230 comments

if there is one thing I have learned from watching Kendrick put on a masterclass on being a proper and committed hater, it's that if you are a proper and committed hater, you will be rewarded for it and I think that's beautiful

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

My professional interests in architecture, linguistics, and pedagogy neatly summarized in under 1 minute: www.instagram.com/reel/DF0Xk0H...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

"Decisions requiring political input, such as station locations, were often made within 24 hours, compared to months or even years in other countries." worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Tech billionaires have an unprecedented ability—and incentive—to manipulate the public's perception of reality, Adam Serwer argues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“They do not care about or understand the state because they do not acknowledge that it is valid; they do not care about or understand public service or public servants because they refuse the premise that such things could even exist.”

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Also, startup culture is not something to be admired or emulated. It is toxic and inhumane and it breeds cults. It is possible to build great companies without pretending basic labor laws don't apply to you!

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

This is the way. "Fuck you, make me." ❤️👊

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

"Based on a child-centered + scaled view of primary school pedagogy that celebrates learning in landscape and artisanal craft, Crow Island School, in... Winnetka, is typically regarded as the first modernist school in the nation. Now, it is undergoing an exacting renovation and addition..."

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Excellent new @us.theconversation.com piece by @dannagal.bsky.social (theconversation.com/how-populist...) led me to her new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...: "Rejecting science, data, and evidence in favor of making sense of the world through intuition is the ultimate populist gesture"

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Just out: my new Cato piece on why public officials, unlike some startup founders, cannot simply "move fast and break things," at least not if what they are breaking are things like the law and their oath to the Constitution. /1

submitted 23 days ago • 31 comments

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

submitted 25 days ago • 214 comments