Clownes Van Zandt
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Opinion | Degrees of Uncertainty
The rise of loan and degree insurance for undergraduate education may be self-defeating. https://bit.ly/48TlN53
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
The rise of loan and degree insurance for undergraduate education may be self-defeating. https://bit.ly/48TlN53
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Opinion | Degrees of Uncertainty
The rise of loan and degree insurance for undergraduate education may be self-defeating. https://bit.ly/48TlN53
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
The rise of loan and degree insurance for undergraduate education may be self-defeating. https://bit.ly/48TlN53
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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okay somehow this totally banal observation about the relative scale and influence of social media platforms has made some people extremely mad
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
okay somehow this totally banal observation about the relative scale and influence of social media platforms has made some people extremely mad
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
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Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
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"Ray Padgett is the only person I know who cares about any of this more than I do." 😂
Seriously, great piece, a must-read
Seriously, great piece, a must-read
For @theringer.com.web.brid.gy I was pleased to be given a lot of (too much?) space to write about Bob Dylan's ongoing ROUGH & ROWDY WAYS tour, the strangest, most singular, and most predictable/unpredictable musical experience of the decade.
www.theringer.com/2025/12/12/m...
www.theringer.com/2025/12/12/m...
The Rough and Rowdy Way of Life
Bob Dylan is entering his fifth straight year of playing the same setlist devoid of his hits and largely derived from his 2020 album. How did the most predictable show in live music become the strange...
www.theringer.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Ray Padgett is the only person I know who cares about any of this more than I do." 😂
Seriously, great piece, a must-read
Seriously, great piece, a must-read
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Look at this chart.
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Look at this chart.
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
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YOUR STUDENTS ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
YOUR STUDENTS ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
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"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare."
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare."
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
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i think this video is pretty good and you should watch it
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
i think this video is pretty good and you should watch it
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
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This right here.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This right here.
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Thread:
Many federal workers left government this year.
Here’s a story about one — a man named Jonathan White.
At a town hall this spring, he demanded Democrats do more to stop Trump's agenda.
"We want you to show fight, and you are not fighting.”
(You may remember this viral clip.)
Here’s a story about one — a man named Jonathan White.
At a town hall this spring, he demanded Democrats do more to stop Trump's agenda.
"We want you to show fight, and you are not fighting.”
(You may remember this viral clip.)
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Thread:
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Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social
The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social
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"Corruption is the Achilles' heel of authoritarians," says @adambonica.bsky.social, explaining why opposing corruption (including the legal kind) should be the center of anti-Trump/Democratic politics. So many insights here. newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Transcript: Anti-Corruption Politics Are The Way to Crush Trumpism
Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica says trying to be more moderate is a dead end for Democrats and the solution is for the party to be seen as fighting against corruption, oligarchy and other il...
newrepublic.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Corruption is the Achilles' heel of authoritarians," says @adambonica.bsky.social, explaining why opposing corruption (including the legal kind) should be the center of anti-Trump/Democratic politics. So many insights here. newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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If you are also a scientist, sure. If you aren't, like these guys, you should probably shut the fuck up and let the people whose opinions matter talk.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If you are also a scientist, sure. If you aren't, like these guys, you should probably shut the fuck up and let the people whose opinions matter talk.
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Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
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I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)
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Inflation is so bad these days that @matthewpouliot.bsky.social's annual top 111 Free Agents list is now just 100. Thanks Trump.
(but seriously, bookmark this; it's the best quick reference for this stuff)
www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/base...
(but seriously, bookmark this; it's the best quick reference for this stuff)
www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/base...
MLB Free Agent Rankings 2025-26: Kyle Tucker, Dylan Cease, Bo Bichette, Alex Bregman headline Top 100 list
Stars like Alex Bregman, Pete Alonso, and Cody Bellinger join headliners Kyle Tucker, Dylan Cease, and Bo Bichette in a 2025–26 MLB free agent class loaded with impact bats and arms.
www.nbcsports.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Inflation is so bad these days that @matthewpouliot.bsky.social's annual top 111 Free Agents list is now just 100. Thanks Trump.
(but seriously, bookmark this; it's the best quick reference for this stuff)
www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/base...
(but seriously, bookmark this; it's the best quick reference for this stuff)
www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/base...
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unlike mainstream media, 404 media is always saying it how it is. while others were doing a op-ed circus around charlie kirk’s death without explaining anything he *actually* did, @404media.co simply stated the facts about his views. mere facts hidden in places you should be getting information from
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
unlike mainstream media, 404 media is always saying it how it is. while others were doing a op-ed circus around charlie kirk’s death without explaining anything he *actually* did, @404media.co simply stated the facts about his views. mere facts hidden in places you should be getting information from
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"Groove Theory’s approach to the love song is, instead, to ask the question: What if the spectacle is patience? Or what if the spectacle is slow, consistent sacrifice?"
30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” | Hanif Abdurraqib | @longreads.com
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30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” | Hanif Abdurraqib | @longreads.com
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30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” - Longreads
"Groove Theory" tries to make the work of staying in love feel as easy as possible, even when it isn’t.
longreads.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Groove Theory’s approach to the love song is, instead, to ask the question: What if the spectacle is patience? Or what if the spectacle is slow, consistent sacrifice?"
30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” | Hanif Abdurraqib | @longreads.com
longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...
30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” | Hanif Abdurraqib | @longreads.com
longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...
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why did this make me wheeze out loud
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
why did this make me wheeze out loud
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On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.