you absolutely will not believe what I found in my parents' basement
Donovan Schaefer
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Philosopher of emotion. West coast soul in Philly. Now researching: Secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration, conspiracy theory. 🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol 🌱 ⓥ food 🚫 AI 📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
you absolutely will not believe what I found in my parents' basement
This tattoo parlor has found the greatest sticker known to God or science
This tattoo parlor has found the greatest sticker known to God or science
This dovetails with a deep ignorance around immigration history in the US. And the way those discourses about immigration keep getting repeated. Every ethnic/national group you can think of--including every single one we now uncomplicatedly call "white"--faced exactly this accusation.
Ben Shapiro probably does not know enough history to even know this, but the way he is talking about Muslims as a nation within the nation who can never be integrated is almost verbatim what European nationalists said about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Email from my university this morning and... yes, that actually is the correct framing
The Surf Motel, Dallas Road Beach, Victoria, BC No Vacancy
Thinking about the student who came to my office at the end of last semester and said "Thank you for making us use notebooks in this class. I'm so glad I discovered notebooks. Notebooks are powerful."
Require students to take notes in a notebook unless they have a specific accommodation. Tell them that the notebook will be part of their final grade, that the 2nd to last day of class will be notebook review with students getting btwn 5-20 points added to their grade based on it.
Colleague sent me an email signed off with "hope you had a good summer"
Kermit the Frog Bored on Couch
ALT: Kermit the Frog Bored on Couch
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Harrowing stuff here: "'What time is it busiest in the FSU student union,' he asked next." "ChatGPT described specific activities and locations and said the busiest periods included 'weekday lunchtimes, typically between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.'"
My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵
Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.
CW: suicide; mass shooting “Since 2025, people in Canada, Finland, and multiple locations in the US allegedly have used ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence platforms to prepare for violence…”
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
motherjones.com
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Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’
I’m not a big fan of reentering the era of the fascist mass shooter
UPDATE: TWIN FALLS, ID SHOOTER He posted repetitive MAGA chud slop on X, (lots of 'meme info' graphs about China). Noteworthy: he failed to get hired by ICE as a Criminal Investigator (no degree); he asked gov officials for tech jobs, & then was looking to join the military this year b4 'giving up.'
Colleague sent me an email signed off with "hope you had a good summer"
Kermit the Frog Bored on Couch
ALT: Kermit the Frog Bored on Couch
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Thinking about the student who came to my office at the end of last semester and said "Thank you for making us use notebooks in this class. I'm so glad I discovered notebooks. Notebooks are powerful."
Require students to take notes in a notebook unless they have a specific accommodation. Tell them that the notebook will be part of their final grade, that the 2nd to last day of class will be notebook review with students getting btwn 5-20 points added to their grade based on it.
If you think the UK Labour Party has had a hard time- Germany's Social Democrats are polling at 12%
BUNDESTAGSWAHL | Sonntagsfrage Forsa/RTL, n-tv AfD: 28% (+1) Union: 21% GRÜNE: 16% SPD: 12% LINKE: 12% (-1) FDP: 4% Sonstige: 7% Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 28. Juli 2026 Verlauf: whln.eu/UmfragenDeutschland #btw29
at some point we're going to have to regulate media platforms
🧪 Medical professionals are losing the attention war on YouTube. In a 3,958-video sample, independent creators produced the lowest quality content but captured the highest viewership using exaggeration. #MedSky
Hey faculty! A colleague is teaching their very first undergrad course. What one piece of advice would you offer? 📚
Keegan-Michael Key: Huh What
Alt: Keegan-Michael Key as teacher asking Huh What, Black man with very receding hair line wearing white collared shirt with brown tie and blue pen in shirt pocket
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Great reporting here from @alexhannaford.com on a complex, tragic, & dangerous story. heated.world/p/the-influe...
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?
heated.world
Random cool things you find on residential streets in Victoria, BC
I went vegetarian at 14 and had people trying to sneak meat into my food, calling me slurs, waving pieces of ham in my face, telling me I was going to die from poor health, refusing to provide options at meals, etc, but to this day I say I'm vegan and people are like "omg, so you're JUDGY."
Submitted for publication by @uchicagopress.bsky.social in Fall 2027. Many thanks to @ahmadgreene.com for initiating the project and overseeing so much of the work. Stay tuned for work from an amazing group of contributors!
Just an amazing breakfast sandwich I had in Victoria, BC (vegan ofc)