Jonathan W. Gray

Security screener at airport of the analogic company

We couldn't have workshopped this name a little longer?

I don’t understand the pay at UK colleges. Oxford pays literally 1/2 what one could make at a mid-sized state school in the US. Is the assumption still that you have to have family £ in order to teach at uni?

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Yes.

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

"Jews don't belong in American society."

Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.

But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

Luke Kornet is a fucking joke. This is so stupid. There are already dance teams at the games and no kid is gonna know the difference. Even the normally insane sportstalk radio callers were like WHO CARES LUKE. This is a non issue and Magic City is a part of the Atlanta community. Fucking dumb.

Luke Kornet sucks

Preach! I lasted a week there because that place is toxic! And it has little interest in changing in part, because as one person there suggested, they didn't want Black twitter coming there and changing it.

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

You've achieved your goal, but at what cost?

It's funny that the NFL can impose a salary cap but the SEC & Big Ten can't. This is going to ruin college sports.

"Some athletic departments are running up larger deficits and taking on debt, while others are looking to private equity or Middle Eastern investors for capital"

The option to just spend less is never on the table, which makes the political economy of higher ed fraught

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It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued.

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Weasel Words: OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Won’t Stop AI‑Powered Surveillance OpenAI, the maker of ChaptGPT, is rightfully facing widespread criticism for its decisions to fill the gap the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) created when rival Anthropic refused to drop its restrictions against using its AI for surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. After protests from...

“…secret agreements and technical assurances have never been enough to rein in surveillance agencies, and they are no substitute for strong, enforceable legal limits and transparency.”

Ohio State University President Ted Carter resigns over 'inappropriate relationship' Ted Carter was president of Ohio State University beginning in January of 2024.

Ohio State University President Ted Carter has resigned following an “inappropriate relationship,” the school announces

Book cover for Mazywood - a film reel unspooled to a cabin in the woods.

COVER REVEAL!!! A great launch in People yesterday -- and MAZYWOOD is already the #4 bestseller in Black Horror on Amazon! Please pre-order when you can so my publisher knows what's up. :) Out Sept. 22!

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Read more about Mazywood in People:
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Mayor Mamdani was home when protesters lit device outside Gracie Mansion Mayor Zohran Mamdani was inside Gracie Mansion when two people were arrested after attempting to set off a pair of “suspicious devices” as two protest groups clashed outside.

Thinking about the time they fire bombed MLK’s house

They are not the same people but to these extremists they represent the same thing

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Ah. I apologize! But yeah China being threatening is not in the same universe as the campaigns of mass death the US has been waging across the planet since the 1960s.

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

Of course. But I’d argue that much of their external aggression is meant to blunt US & Russian hegemony in what they feel is their sphere of influence. That’s certainly the case with Taiwan.

Not saying they are some perfect utopia, certainly not! But they are far less bellicose than us.

There is arguably no public figure in Manchester - not even the mayor Andy Burnham - whose role matters as much to the prosperity of the city as the one held by Ivison, a 6o-year-old Canadian academic who wears a hangdog expression and speaks with the pleasing precision of a political scientist. The University of Manchester employs more than 12,000 staff and brought in £1.4 billion last year, more income than Manchester City and Manchester United combined. Its research makes waves around the world. Its 46,000 students are so pivotal to the economics of the city that when Ivison was recruited in 2023, Manchester's council leader was part of the hiring process. When the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam analysed Manchester's success recently, he noted that along with MMU, it makes up Europe's biggest university campus. "Everything comes back to this," wrote Islam, a Mancunian himself. "The knowledge and the educated workforce are the essential raw ingredient upon which this growth has emerged."

Striking statistics on the importance of the University of Manchester @manchestermill.bsky.social MCC has long recognised this (as did NWDA with Martin Harris on its Board) although initially more as a tool of physical regeneration (eg via the merger with UMIST)…

Oh to be clear I concede that this will only happens after a horrific conflict. But we seem barreling towards that scenario now and there doesn't seem to be an appetite to think about what that might mean.

I recall China invading Philippines in 1990, & again 2003. Plus their incursions into Thailand in 2002 & Vietnam in 2014. & various bombing campaigns that have taken thousands of lives.

Wait: none of that happened! That's the USA in Iraq & Afghanistan, Russia in Ukraine & Israel across the ME.

The EU and China is they got serious about replacing the military and economic hegemony of the USA and Russia. But there's no sign of that happening soon.

Because in the last 30 years China has invaded whom exactly?

If this seems unprecedented to you, think bigger. The idea of a Japan with no military was inconceivable to the nations in the Pacific Rim for 1000 years. The same with Prussia/Germany for 500 years.

At the end of WWII both Germany & Japan were demilitarized by the Allied powers. I'm not sure how but something similar needs to happen to the USA, Israel, & Russia in the coming decade. These three nations are the source of so much violence across the globe.