Alack, ’tis he. Why, he was met even now As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud, Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.—

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

"Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality)." Eco

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 14h ago

ICYMI: The nation of Niger has become the first nation in the world to criminalise asexuality as part of a wider crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community

antanaclasis in the wild!

we do have fun on bluesky

Rafe Meager (they/them)@economeager.bsky.social · 20h ago

If it’s wrong to want a book cover to spit on you then speaking just for me personally i cannot see a way to be right

Effective altruism: utilitarianism that makes Jeremy Bentham look like a really normal person.

open source and open data as an ethos is largely anti capital and anti authority and is inherently political in ways we need more of

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · yesterday

My support for bluesky/atproto is pretty much explicitly a "political" project. It is bad for a small number of (mostly right-wing) people to literally own all the sources of media. Open-source algorithms + the ability to move your account without negative network effects opposes this.

One for our “data collection process is model” slides

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · last mo.

When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose

the story of oedipus is a celebration of the ancient western tradition of "grindset"

I read Rubio’s speech where he does a Prager U recap of Ancient Greek history, and the funniest part is where he praises Achilles for seeking glory in Troy even though it means his death. Yeah, Marco, the Iliad is great. What’s Achilles up to in the sequel?

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’

Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'

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i also think that noticing nuance is important in abusive systems because it helps you to understand them. of course it gets tiring dealing with morons who think the state was sincere in its posture that police brutality is an "accident", but it is also not accidental when the state's tactic changes

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · yesterday

The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes.

Everyone on the tenure track: please print this out and hang it on your wall.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.

incredible that there is now a tumblr-coded nobel (you must know i mean this as high praise) but don't forget that first we had a tumblr-coded fields medal (yu deng and his yuri manga interests)

Being trans is good. And taking actions is good. So you would think that having “trans actions” coming out of your bank account would also be good. BUT ☝️watch out.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

This would be the first livestreaming of an execution by a state in history right? If so, incredible that the US beat the saudis and North Koreans to this

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

The @lrb.co.uk out here publishing smut again, apparently

They really are putting “lost” in scare quotes like that. Jesus fucking christ.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This guy is senior staff at xAI, fork found in kitchen, etc

Personality fit is more important than specific topic fit in econ as well. Fields/subfields matter a lot, but subtopics not so much

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman.com · 5d ago

Find an adviser that you like working with. This is more important than topic and more important than fame. It's not that those other things don't matter, but you will do your best work when you get along with your advisor

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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'Statisticians learn hierarchical models as tools; nobody in a statistics seminar says, “This is a response to a 150-year-old problem in the foundations of probability.” And nobody in a philosophy seminar says, “The answer is lme4."' sudippaul.substack.com/p/partial-po...

Partial pooling as an answer to the reference class problem

What should be the correct reference class?

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Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨

simine vazire@simine.com · 5d ago

Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

"character but genderbent" is like the second idea ever. we had fire and then that, so there's no need to congratulate yourself

I am absolutely a broken record on this but it is notable how much more coverage the French students (and good on them!) are getting in Australian media vs when Indonesian students get into it (and good on them!)