Nearly 1,400 words and Christopher Caldwell can't manage to provide a single tangible example of how "DEI" has actually hurt the military. But what to expect from someone who apparently thinks school segregation was better than the alternative, eh?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Indeed.

But I read the Pascal's Wager entry on wikipedia in between my sessions teaching students that profit = revenue-costs!

On business faculty and the Malcolm Gladwellization of everything.

time.com/7320539/phil...

I feel like universities should start mandating some kind of sequence for undergrads on 'how to use the library' and 'the pitfalls of digital archiving.' Search tools are being ruined by LLM integration, and even pre-LLMs, digitization of pre-Internet era works was very spotty.

Question for the likes of @tgpeterson.bsky.social. Wikipedia says that original version of The Battle of Algiers is 136 min long but I can only find 120 min versions to stream. Is there some platform (or sketchy website) I'm not looking at? And are there physical media versions that are full length?

Posting without comment.

Turns out he was also right about violet powder. (Entry is from The Lancet, 25 May 1878—several years after Marx's comment).

This entry in Karl Marx's confession book just goes to show how the man was an absolute unit. (Other passage is from Wikipedia).

Oh.

Hunter S. Thompson's obituary of Richard Nixon. Back when some semblance of free speech still existed in the U.S.A.

My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

The FT has, among the media, the best incentives to be sensitive to reality.

"I wish we could blame this on muslims or migrants, but turns out it was one of us." what a wild thing to say

Amazing how none of these Charlie Kirk obits care to observe that few people contributed more to the intense polarization and explosion of "cancel culture" we've seen in the past decade. The dude essentially made his name by creating a professor target list and goading his minions to go after them.

Bolsonaro found guilty by Brazil's Supreme Court.

Strange that there's more institutional robustness in a fledgling democracy than in one that is celebrating 250 this year.

I had the privilege of reviewing Tyler Stovall's last book for
@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.

Bolsonaro trial being broadcast live.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=felf...

Ok, hear me out, A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.

These people are such losers.

Their product's improvements over "hot AI summer" were, at best, trivial. Realistically, it just further reinforced the notion that capabilities have plateaued and there's not really much of a "revolutionary" future for LLMs. So constant hyping before the rug pull.

Something to consider is that one reason "Science" (sic) has lost authority and is under attack is because of a certain kind of hubris and distancing from other fields of human knowledge (as exemplified by the very article in question).

Cynical real estate and construction speculation not all that different from meme coin rug pulls. . At least according to one Saudi I've met who is in construction. 🤷

People have, and I can emphasize this enough, fully lost the plot.