Ever since someone on here pointed out that cars get the cop treatment by media I haven’t been able to unsee it.

Me and the boys on the way to try to find the Criterion Closet

Some day the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. is going to have to come to terms with how much damage they’ve done to Israel (including in a security sense) by uncritically carrying so much water for Netanyahu and pushing Biden to do the same

I mean this is basically the story of every remote worker being forced back into the office to make the bosses feel better and important (aside from maybe not drunk when they hear it)

Duke in the 2000s was full of profs who’d make undergrads apply for the honor to take their seminars (then reject most). When I was a senior I went to Fredric Jameson’s office hours and asked to take his grad seminar (Theories of Temporality). He was like yea, of course, why not?

hahah omg; they just retracted the article by some of the key Open Science people arguing that open science practices enhance replicability. nature.com/articles/s4156…

the funniest part is that like 90% of these people are psychologists who keep trying to fix "the replication problem" instead of admit that their entire field is a pseudoscience

The Sorrows of Werther's Originals

If this happens, discovery is going to be wild

Verso is in serious financial trouble. One of their main distributors have declared bankruptcy, while owing them nearly £1 million in past sales. Verso has been so central to our intellectual life for so long -- we owe it to stand by them. Please contribute if you can.

For those of us outside of the most secure and well supported parts of academia, Verso has been such an irreplaceable resource. They've made important and high quality writing accessible and have also been willing to publish many of us for our ideas rather than our position.

Did anyone do this yet?

Does anyone have any recommendations for longish bike routes in Northern Michigan? Ideally something that could be ridden on w/ a road bike (could put fatter tires on if there is some dirt roads/tight packed gravel). Maybe some hotel to hotel biking or multi day loops?

And THAT’S why you don’t play chicken with the public library budget

So with the money saved from all the people who’ve quit or been indicted, can we have Sunday library service again?!

Me, starting a meeting: Okay everyone, it is very important we are on the same page about what we are doing. This might be familiar to many of you but I just want to go over a few key definitions

got temporarily locked out of twitter for posting about the jd vance dossier with a screenshot from his investments portion. it's not "private information" anymore

In the wise words of George W. Bush, "Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me ... you can't get fooled again!"