there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it
this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive
My cousins are elementary school age and their parents & I LOVE their school photos. My Aunts give me prints & magnets every year & they get them for themselves as well. I think this is still very much a valuable service
And Lifetouch is atrocious and it's awful they are involved in epstein
QUALITY 4.0 DIFFICULTY 3.5 CHM110 - Introduction to Chemistry Textbook: No Great teacher but we had to go online half-way through the semester because his ex-husband shot him in the leg. Obviously not his fault, but it was pretty disruptive and his in-person lectures were better than his online ones. Would take again now that his ex is out of the picture.
So I came across this "Rate My Professor" screenshot. I feel like I hear quite a bit of "not quite news" about chemists and chemistry professors, but this one is new. Anyone know the backstory? #chemchat
I did a communication minor in college, and "communications" also is in the name of nearly ever class i can recall taking or looking at in the course catalog
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
Minnesota will always be home, but I'm proud my new home shows up and fights back in solidarity with Minnesota 🫶 #IceOut
Rallies are planned for Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport and Willimantic at 4 p.m. on Friday Jan 23. #IceOutSchools @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @ctaflcio.bsky.social @ctforall.bsky.social
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.
The most popular sled at today’s Art Sledding event in Minneapolis.
Image with a red, spiked circle and white chemistry flask with a red ampersand in the middle above text that reads, “Chemical & Engineering News is forming a union,” in all caps
We are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6
Tragic. I hate it.
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Picture of lectrn and steps. The steps are carpeted. The lecture is a dark wood with three CAES logo on the front of it.
Okay yes... and i believe it is technically also a podium? It has two whole steps
Picture of a speaker at a podium with a slide to his left, which includes a photo of a green and yellow bee on a bright purple-pink flower.
Picture of a speaker at a podium with a slide to his left, which includes text along the top and then a map with a zoomed in region and color coded
Excellent Lockwood Seminar today from @buzznicholson.bsky.social at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station! Shared with us his work on the landscape ecology approach to understanding pesticide driven decline of pollinators 🐝
Look at these beautiful pictures and charts 🤩👏
I have had a miserable week. I've cried every single day. Work sucked. I ruined my fav hat. Setback with my broken arm & I'm just in pain. I canceled plans with friends & separately w/ family & my fantasy football team is going to lose
At least I get to try again next week, I'm grateful for that
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 282 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined) H RES 719 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Sep-2025 10:53 AM QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution BILL TITLE: Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk Yeas Nays PRES NV Republican 215 4 Democratic 95 58 38 22 Independent TOTALS 310 58 38 26
95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.
shame.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
I've said it before, I'll say it again. #RHOSLC is the greatest tv show ever created. Absolute perfection 🙌
Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.
“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
I learned this well over 6 hours ago and Im still thinking about it
TIL that Danny Bryson of News AF @robhasapodcast.bsky.social has never been on Survivor. And I'm still in absolute shock.
I've been watching all of #Survivor for the first time (im very unspoiled on most survivor). Ive just been waiting for Danny to show up, but HE NEVER PLAYED
Pay them what you owe them!
The Connecticut labor movement was proud to stand with members of the WNBPA at the Connecticut Sun game as they fight for a fair contract.
Respect the players by paying them their fair share.
(And the Connecticut Sun won 87-84!)
DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."
Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
If you added French Toast to a taco, is it the tortilla or the filling ?
As if you weren't already one of my fav rhap folks! I love a fellow union girlie 💗
read the last sentence again. And again. And again. Collective action is our only hope in this world 👏👏👏👏 #UnionStrong #UnionsForAll
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
Who was Blue Kim up against ?🤔
