OK I’ve put together the list. Shame on all of them:

Ford CEO Jim Farley
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
General Motors plant manager John Urbanic
National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota
Transportation Sec Sean Duffy
Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury
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I have a very bad feeling about this...

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):

1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

Remarkable chart. www.ft.com/content/e8ac...

I know others have already said this, but universities deploying law enforcement against their own students for expressing opinions about the world is such a fundamental betrayal of the university's mission and very reason for existing.

This talk by Daniel Kahnemann is one of my favourite things I have read in the last year. It's about adversarial collaborations, but really much more: how science works, or doesn't, and how people change their mind (spoiler: usually not).

www.edge.org/adversarial-...

“I turn on Fox News, and institutions like mine are being described as these factories of indoctrination,” says Penn education professor Jonathan Zimmerman. “Let me put it this way: If half of my students are going to Wall Street, I’m a pretty shitty Marxist.”