Dmitri

me: if z is the length of a slice and a is the area of the pie, then pi(zz)=a

PhD advisor: this is what you’ve been working on for three and a half years?

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"

got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

Please stick to sports (complimentary)

It is already a utility that individual people were once paid to dispense. And now Atlman is stealing it from us to sell to other people. He's a parasite.

Dude is fash adjacent at minimum. His “working class” act is completely fake. We can do better than him or Mills to get Collins out of the Senate.

@andrealaflamme.bsky.social looks promising.

this is the appeal of the attack on "gerontocracy." erasing class/race/gender and suggesting the problem is a failure of succession from one generation of leaders (white men) to another generation (of white men.)

the animating principle is that the main injustice of our current moment is that certain white men are not receiving their just empowerment, and that socialism will allow the downtrodden white men to overthrow the wealthy elites (often framed as not white men.)

this is a big part of it. ppl like grim fantasize about red brown crossover, in no small part because they like the idea of a left that doesn't rely on women or people of color.

Headline and pull quote got me pretty good, well done. “Jimmy Savile’s beloved marmalade” is dark damn LOL

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat

but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

Excellent lineup! Excited about Emma after how good Pride and Prejudice was last year.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed.

I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932

An extraordinary number of banger lines in this masterpiece of the genre of critical academic book review, but this in particular is straight up🔥: doi.org/10.1215/2834...

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you

PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.

CHOTINER: And this is because

PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish

CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example

PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

Outstanding! The rumination on gender associations reminded me that the PBJ is also a staple among (male) professional athletes, most notably in the NBA during the season when people want fast calories. It comes up in player interviews sometimes. Might be they also want the memory of care then.

Repeat creepy meat problems at Boar’s Head plants draw congressional scrutiny Boar's Head plans to reopen the plant linked to an outbreak that killed 10 people.

It makes me crazy because they’re positioned as some upscale product when it’s really buying a ticket in the listeria lottery arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

My partner has struggled with poor sleep quality for years and this piece made both of us laugh on a rough day, so thanks, well done!

Those in power have tried to convince us that resistance would be too tiring.

But let Minnesotans teach you that it’s actually energizing to be a part of a movement to change society for the better.

If you’re tired, get involved. You’ll be surprised by how quickly you start to feel better.

Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is:
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...