William McJunkin

Let him who has not parroted stochastically cast the first stone

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

There is a broader institutional responsibility to do one’s best to provide “freedom to”: freedom to pursue the knowledge, even when some outside force is censoring it, undermining safe conditions or threatening the scholar trying to do produce or teach it.

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

True, but in fairness the guy who preceded them did a very good job of setting the table.

Workers know exactly who AI will serve A new study shows workers aren't buying Silicon Valley's hype, and know just who will benefit from AI in the workforce if current trends hold.

A new study finds that workers aren’t buying into AI hype. They see it as a tech “that will primarily benefit large corporations, be used to surveil them & invade their privacy, & over which they will have little power,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social reports. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/workers-kn...

Right, makes sense. Thanks.

Lots of great points there. You mention copyediting perhaps being a little less flexible to schedule overruns. Is that because at that point you're already getting into the production stage proper?

Dr. Strangelove is never not relevant: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say... no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh... depended on the breaks."

When we sweep away the illusions and false solutions, it always comes down to the one choice that humanity faces: socialism or barbarism.

And that's a bad thing?

“All Americans are now receiving therapy, and it’s called war.”

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

Glückwunsch!

We should be so lucky.

Billionaires should be default gone. Not default there, default gone.

“So no, there is no point in making a Case for the Humanities to the people who are most excited about getting rid of them. What will work with these people, finally, is labor militancy.”

Glad to see this piece republished—an opportunity for me to re-post my favorite line.