Why does Google continue to pump money into its shitty AI search/summary slop? “Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. Once Google stops growing, it becames a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1” pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…

The $200 million fine for Columbia will be a feature of every “deal” cut with universities: “We can summarize Trump’s approach to markets by adapting a sentence, spoken by him, about how he grabs women: Trump grabs markets by the deal” in his avarice for $ theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

This guy going to play some more ball…

UVA’s cataclysm continues. Virginia judge finds that *8* Board members have been serving in violation of state constitution.

Like the Faculty Senate, UVA Student Council votes no confidence in trustees: ““Students do not trust the Board of Visitors,” SC Pres Clay Dickerson said. “The choice to stand united or continue divided lies w/ the Board & students are watching closely.” 29news.com/2025/08/09/uva…

Maybe the link btw labor markets & higher learning ain’t so direct: “Among college graduates, computer science majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1%…more than double rate among recent biology and art history graduates, 3%” nytimes.com/2025/08/10/tec…

Everything is a deal, a transaction, a racket. 💰💰💰 the only value and aim. Madness

BP early tomorrow and then it begins

I often tell profs, consultants & politicians who present such “studies” that I agree, we shld read classics, so please fund philosophy & history depts, at which point the room goes so quiet you could almost hear a page turn, that is, if such folks still read books at all

Whitaker Wellmon crushes a 2-RBI double for the NE Stars ‼️ 📺: bit.ly/USABaseballStr… #NTIS25

My 11yo was at a tournament last week where most kids (12U) threw upper 60s, low to mid-70s. Some kids bodies were built for it. Others less so. The intensity and level of play was more than what’s alluded to here. I don’t know how to answer the question. nytimes.com/2025/08/21/sty…