Received letter from an OU student in prison telling me how staff refused to send his dissertation in. The OU agreed to accept it late. Months later a Masters graduation certificate pushed under his cell door. His lament of a “lack of ceremony” an understatement. 1/2

I’ve always loved the way language is punctuated by places: jeans are ‘from Genoa’, denim is from Nîmes in France, suede from Sweden, mayonnaise from Minorca’s Port Mahon, damask from Damascus, sardines and sardonic from Sardinia, and spruce (both the tree and a neat appearance)

This will be my first semester teaching where students have ready access to AI to help write papers. I don't want to forbid that; it's unrealistic and arguably counterproductive. Any suggestions about the best way to deal with it?

The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

Stop making long films.

What becomes clear to me is that wealthy podcast guys who feel as if they are being cancelled for their heretical views are actually just extremely sensitive to any criticism and just plain shocked that a person could possibly disagree with them.

#Remixology A lot of academic research is literally a kind of literary hip hop with researchers #remixing samples derived from crate diving in the existing literature.

In an absolutely bonkers set of decisions I have transitioned directly from being a touring stand-up comic to being in all-day meetings about disrupting lead gen systems in higher ed. Study Hall Arizona State University

I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument. I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses. These words are

I love being a guy who gets to decide for himself what masculinity is, though it was not always easy to get here. I also get that people who are locked (by choice or not) into a more specific version of masculinity see other ways of doing it as upsetting. It’s messy out here!

It actually wasn’t. Thalidomide was rejected for approval by the FDA due to lack of sufficient safety studies. This rejection was mostly thanks to Frances Oldham Kelsey, who stood firm on the rejection despite pressure from Big Pharma. European countries did not do the same. So,

can deep networks show cognitive flexibility? find out here

I wish more people were less certain.

i am like the opposite of artificial intelligence. genuine stupidity.

More broadly I’m not sure how much ideas matter—I certainly don’t believe the “good ideas” can overpower bad ones when the bad ones make us feel good. Maybe we are prosperous enough now that bad ideas don’t mean the difference between life and death, or at least not as often…

Where are we on making this illegal?

I cannot believe that we have spent so much of society's resources on crypto. It is deeply embarrassing. Stop sniffing your own farts and go create some real value you dopes! There's a whole universe of problems to solve.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Maps: They’re more than just lines and borders. Let’s dive into some of the most interesting ones you’ve probably never seen. Ready to see the world through a different lens?

if you still support trump after the last few days you are not just anti-american, you are anti-human.