Loran Carleton Parker
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I just like words. And nature.
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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Go back and rewatch watchmen anyway, be ause the cops-in-masks theme is gonna make you go "oohhhhhh. …Shit."
If you look at the 2019 watchmen series and somehow don't see a fullthroated and SCATHING critique of not only the culture of policing in the US, but also of US TV's very deep and persistent Copaganda problem, then you need to go back and rewatch watchmen.
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The connection of the original Watchmen to a conversation about the racist history of the United States, in general, but Policing, the "Lost Cause" myth, and mid-20th century American support for Fascism, in particular? Frankly fucking masterful.
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June 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Go back and rewatch watchmen anyway, be ause the cops-in-masks theme is gonna make you go "oohhhhhh. …Shit."
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This is 100% spot on👇
“If you want to know what you think about a topic, write about it. Writing has a way of ruthlessly exposing unclear thoughts and imprecision.”
And it is why ChatGPT is rotting brains.
“If you want to know what you think about a topic, write about it. Writing has a way of ruthlessly exposing unclear thoughts and imprecision.”
And it is why ChatGPT is rotting brains.
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is 100% spot on👇
“If you want to know what you think about a topic, write about it. Writing has a way of ruthlessly exposing unclear thoughts and imprecision.”
And it is why ChatGPT is rotting brains.
“If you want to know what you think about a topic, write about it. Writing has a way of ruthlessly exposing unclear thoughts and imprecision.”
And it is why ChatGPT is rotting brains.
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This isn't about protecting children. It's about policing a gender system that puts everyone in a pink box or a blue one, that gives people higher social value if they're pinker or bluer than their box-mates, and that puts the whole pink box below the blue.
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This isn't about protecting children. It's about policing a gender system that puts everyone in a pink box or a blue one, that gives people higher social value if they're pinker or bluer than their box-mates, and that puts the whole pink box below the blue.
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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
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marc andreseen reminded me of someone and i couldnt put my finger on it until I was at my parents house cleaning out some old board games...
May 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
marc andreseen reminded me of someone and i couldnt put my finger on it until I was at my parents house cleaning out some old board games...
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Happy Dazed And Confused Day, to those who celebrate.
May 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Happy Dazed And Confused Day, to those who celebrate.
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In which I have the sinking feeling of boredom. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
In which I have the sinking feeling of boredom. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Gessen is the most clear eyed writer covering our current slide www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Gessen is the most clear eyed writer covering our current slide www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
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The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
May 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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kids literally wanted to grow up and be public servants because of Richard Scarry.
May 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
kids literally wanted to grow up and be public servants because of Richard Scarry.
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Please do not confuse the legal requirements for the crime of bribery with the concept of corruption.
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please do not confuse the legal requirements for the crime of bribery with the concept of corruption.
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The theory here is that Donald Trump is SO dishonest that he's accepting quid left and right but withholding the quo that it's pro because no one can make him fork it over. The rare exoneration by double corruption.
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The theory here is that Donald Trump is SO dishonest that he's accepting quid left and right but withholding the quo that it's pro because no one can make him fork it over. The rare exoneration by double corruption.
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Trying to do just a little bigotry to hold on to the center, which is the typical center left response, is morally repugnant. And it’s failed. So … maybe something else.
May 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Trying to do just a little bigotry to hold on to the center, which is the typical center left response, is morally repugnant. And it’s failed. So … maybe something else.
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I can't explain what it feels like:
+ to know what this news means if it all comes to pass
+ remember that "if it comes to pass" is NOT a foregone conclusion
+ also know how much damage is happening this second due to it
And then try to convey it, succinctly, w/emotional impact & technical accuracy
+ to know what this news means if it all comes to pass
+ remember that "if it comes to pass" is NOT a foregone conclusion
+ also know how much damage is happening this second due to it
And then try to convey it, succinctly, w/emotional impact & technical accuracy
May 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I can't explain what it feels like:
+ to know what this news means if it all comes to pass
+ remember that "if it comes to pass" is NOT a foregone conclusion
+ also know how much damage is happening this second due to it
And then try to convey it, succinctly, w/emotional impact & technical accuracy
+ to know what this news means if it all comes to pass
+ remember that "if it comes to pass" is NOT a foregone conclusion
+ also know how much damage is happening this second due to it
And then try to convey it, succinctly, w/emotional impact & technical accuracy
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notable how different this is from both classical liberal and neoliberal capitalist rhetoric, which typically emphasizes dynamism and opportunity - the ability to have a better life than your parents had, to change your station, to achieve anything. here by contrast the vision is neo-feudal, static.
Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
April 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
notable how different this is from both classical liberal and neoliberal capitalist rhetoric, which typically emphasizes dynamism and opportunity - the ability to have a better life than your parents had, to change your station, to achieve anything. here by contrast the vision is neo-feudal, static.
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Zack in high school tried to stop Kelly from modeling in Paris because he was a selfish prick but then he learned that that was bad.
College Zack tries to stop Kelly from semester on the sea and it works and he swallows her future and we all learn nothing, misogyny framed as love wins.
College Zack tries to stop Kelly from semester on the sea and it works and he swallows her future and we all learn nothing, misogyny framed as love wins.
April 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Zack in high school tried to stop Kelly from modeling in Paris because he was a selfish prick but then he learned that that was bad.
College Zack tries to stop Kelly from semester on the sea and it works and he swallows her future and we all learn nothing, misogyny framed as love wins.
College Zack tries to stop Kelly from semester on the sea and it works and he swallows her future and we all learn nothing, misogyny framed as love wins.
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Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool
April 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool
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2025 creating sentences we never could have imagined existing
As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.
April 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
2025 creating sentences we never could have imagined existing
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Seeing that some of the never Trumper’s are further left than the entirety of the Democratic establishment is making me laugh and realize how deeply fucked up the Democratic Party is at the national level.
Most of America is ready to rumble but Chuck Schumer would rather make deals with the fascists
Most of America is ready to rumble but Chuck Schumer would rather make deals with the fascists
>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end
April 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Seeing that some of the never Trumper’s are further left than the entirety of the Democratic establishment is making me laugh and realize how deeply fucked up the Democratic Party is at the national level.
Most of America is ready to rumble but Chuck Schumer would rather make deals with the fascists
Most of America is ready to rumble but Chuck Schumer would rather make deals with the fascists
We are in the middle of a fascist attack on higher education.
My university’s response: “But we are WINNING! We are doing so much better than those other schools that the fascist administration is destroying. You should be so proud of us vanquishing our competition!”
🤯🤯🤯
My university’s response: “But we are WINNING! We are doing so much better than those other schools that the fascist administration is destroying. You should be so proud of us vanquishing our competition!”
🤯🤯🤯
April 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We are in the middle of a fascist attack on higher education.
My university’s response: “But we are WINNING! We are doing so much better than those other schools that the fascist administration is destroying. You should be so proud of us vanquishing our competition!”
🤯🤯🤯
My university’s response: “But we are WINNING! We are doing so much better than those other schools that the fascist administration is destroying. You should be so proud of us vanquishing our competition!”
🤯🤯🤯
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TL;DR: The new U.S. tariff rate against our two largest trading partners is either 10%, 25% or 35%, and so far no one I've reached out to at the White House is able to tell me which.
So the White House says the 10% baseline tariff also applies to Canada & Mexico. It has not said whether that's the effective new rate itself; whether it adds to the 25% fentanyl tariff, making the new rate 35%; or whether it kicks in only if the fentanyl tariff falls away
April 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
TL;DR: The new U.S. tariff rate against our two largest trading partners is either 10%, 25% or 35%, and so far no one I've reached out to at the White House is able to tell me which.
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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Protect trans kids.
Message will repeat.
Message will repeat.
March 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Protect trans kids.
Message will repeat.
Message will repeat.