Mike Bess
@mkbess.bsky.social
Historian, writer, teacher, project manager. Check out my work at https://mx.digital
Y'all, he's not planning on leaving after 2028.
NEW: Remember when Trump said his new ballroom wouldn’t interfere with the current White House?
This is the current view of the East Wing.
A demolition.
(📸 Washington Post)
This is the current view of the East Wing.
A demolition.
(📸 Washington Post)
October 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Y'all, he's not planning on leaving after 2028.
No surprise here. The billionaire boys' club will be pumping his campaign flush with cash. But people power tends to beat out money, imho, if there's a candidate worth rallying around. Looking forward to reading bout Zohran beating him soundly in the general.
Former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo said that he is running for New York mayor as an independent, weeks after he was soundly defeated in the Democratic primary by Zohran Mamdani.
Andrew Cuomo tries another run for mayor -- this time as an independent
Cuomo vowed Monday to remain in the race, weeks after he was trounced by Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
No surprise here. The billionaire boys' club will be pumping his campaign flush with cash. But people power tends to beat out money, imho, if there's a candidate worth rallying around. Looking forward to reading bout Zohran beating him soundly in the general.
Some of NSF's new NSFW words...
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Some of NSF's new NSFW words...
Reposted by Mike Bess
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
Reposted by Mike Bess
Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
Reminder: If you're rich with a famous name there aren't any standards...
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
he is accepted immediately.
he is accepted immediately.
January 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Reminder: If you're rich with a famous name there aren't any standards...
¡Excelente noticia!
La División de Historia del CIDE felicita a las ganadoras del premio a la mejor tesis en Historia Internacional (generación 2022-2024).
¡¡Enhorabuena!!
¡¡Enhorabuena!!
November 22, 2024 at 7:03 PM
¡Excelente noticia!