Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.
The ride home from work is the best. Partly, that's because (for me), the ride home is slightly downhill. But mostly it's because it feels like every pedal dissolves one part of the idiocy from work
Definitely, though this has been an issue for a long time. Large percentages of my students, for instance, know nothing whatever of the Bible, which means that they can't get many of the references in, say, Hobbes, etc.
What exactly would it take for Iran to reopen the Strait? Because ultimately reopening the Strait is either the IR's decision or the result of a much bigger conflict that forces the Strait open
And both of those options will probably take time
Well, we certainly couldn't accuse him of not knowing how money works....
I feel some kind of way about people saying that we are docile cowards when we are being shot in the streets and teargassed on the regular and the response so many have is to figure out where they can go to add their bodies to the list of those willing to die to try to stop fascism from taking over.
1989. I'm 15 and in high school, though politically engaged and very lefty. For me, the most vivid memory of that year was not the fall of the Berlin Wall but the Tiananmen Square massacre. My excitement about the fall of the wall was real but always tempered.
Very much a grad student pathology. If they continue with this indefinitely, also leaves them almost completely incapable of writing a dissertation. The ability to read and critique a book is not the same as the ability to generate an original work of scholarship.
Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”
I'm not happy.
found some old drilosophers posts in my files. i've contributed something good to this world, i think
The core principle of liberalism--a universalism in which everyone is supposed to count--was first expressed in the great metaphysical traditions, including (but not limited to) religious traditions. I'm not religious, but it's entirely possible to make common cause here
Precisely. I keep saying this: The war will continue until Iran decides to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. They need to extract a cost from us to reestablish a deterrent. Keeping the Strait shut is a good way to do that (not predicting this, but people keep acting as if the US were the only agent here)
These are times when I'm glad to be a political theorist. No one ever asks us anything about politics
"Dr. Farley, can you please explain the entire history of the conflicts in the Middle East for the last century?"
This analysis seems *modestly* more pessimistic than current reports suggest (e.g., Iran hasn't disabled all five THAADs) but the asymmetry is real. Iran can likely keep SoH closed with cheap drones for months, no matter what we do, and nothing could re-open it other than a collapse of the IRGC.
The @jta.org headline is simply wrong; please amend. JPPI itself acknowledges that it polls "connected" Jews, not Jews overall, meaning disproportionally more denominationally affiliated Jews and those who've lived in Israel, and less intermarried Jews. www.jta.org/2026/03/09/i...
It’s too easy to go to war
I’m just gonna say we’re getting to his pain point.
I'm pretty sure that's how Reagan won the Cold War, right? He just stood in Berlin, yelled "tear down this wall," and glowered, and then the USSR just couldn't match his manliness
Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's (d 1707) thirty- year fruitless quest to repress Maratha villages in the South followed by a dustbowl connected to non-anthropogenic climate change, weakening India for the British East India Co., might offer a parallel @audreytruschke.bsky.social
Striking signal for much above-normal temperatures across California, the Great Basin, northern Rockies and Desert Southwest from March 15-20. Temperatures will be more typical of summer than early spring (potentially 25 degrees above normal) in many areas and monthly records could be shattered.
But also: Who in their right mind would think that people are going to "rise up" in the middle of a goddamned bombing campaign?
one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
Special operations raids to secure Iran's uranium would be a lot more challenging than action movies make people think.
@cherylrofer.bsky.social explains how:
"Why would the United States want to invade Iran?
The short answer is that it doesn’t; invading Iran is not the act of sane men, or even of the senior national security leadership of the Trump administration." www.19fortyfive.com/2026/03/inva...
21st century: “he had a nice ass”
18th century:
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
Raw puer in a sky colored ruyao gaiwan
Raw Puer gongfu tea session
Steeped leaf
2026 Suzuca is a raw Puer blend that we sent to the Wuyi mountains in Fujian for skilled Yancha makers to charcoal roast by hand. We’ve been making unique productions like this for years and we’re not stoppin. love this hybrid style
