Yeah, I don't think it's actually that difficult to figure out that this is not the same thing as what LLMs are doing, and pretending otherwise has a certain "describing a crime conspiracy as 'having a beer with friends'" aspect

Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).

Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).

3 NVs on both sides.

Yeah, I've been genuinely astonished at how quickly these folks have set out to validate every coarse caricature from corporate DEI trainings

Since 2016, UT-Austin's history department has gone from 71% white to 65% white, a catastrophic reduction, we can agree. The perhaps more notable thing is that it has shrunk from 62 to 49 faculty in that time

I kind of suspect that minorities and women tend to be forced much earlier to understand that "wow, my metrics are so great" does not necessarily translate into the easy professional advancement that one might like?

the hyper-focus on elite ivies function as a kind of accusation in a mirror. conservative state legislators use anecdotes about what is happening at yale to expand their control over what happens in state schools.

Reagan lost the 1976 Republican presidential primary, etc.

I guess we remember PKD because he had "The Man In The High Castle" in between the likes of "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"

Gen AI is like someone went through the library of Babel and only left the books that were syntactically valid

Yeah we know you're out of ideas, skill issue

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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

Ah, yes, the Dubai Brothers, saw them back in '74