Republicans in Congress have allowed their Dear Leader to make kitchen cabinet-making a strategic industry of importance to national security. They shouldn't be allowed to talk about free trade or free markets ever again.
@SteveKerins Rapid reaction hasn't worked for Israel in Gaza and it won't work for the progressives and socialists upset at the slow changing of hearts and minds on Israel - especially among Jewish Americans!
The overwhelming majority of Jewish Americans vote Democratic.
Unfortunately, the "new" Democratic "youth" seem to want to go the way of UK Labour's Corbynistas, without even losing the Jewish vote first. 🤦🏼♂️
Visited a liberal arts college recently. Learned some stuff!
1. The "students don't read" meme appears to be real. Profs there don't assign full books anymore, even to English majors, because nobody will read them. Only chapters/essays, and even that's pushing it. (Not a literacy issue, per se -- more of a focus/time management issue.)
2. The job market for computer science grads is as bad as people say. Their top CS student from last year is still looking for work.
3. AI adoption is ~100% among students, ~50% among faculty. Still a lot of worries around cheating, but most seem to have moved past denial/anger and into bargaining/acceptance. Some profs are "going medieval" (blue books, oral exams), others are putting it in the curriculum.
4. There is a *lot* of anger at the AI labs for giving out free access during exam periods. (Not from students, of course, they love it.) Nobody buys the "this is for studying" pitch.
5. The possibility of near-term AGI is still not on most people's minds. A lot of "GPT-5 proved scaling is over" reactions, even among fairly AI-pilled folks. Still a little "LLMs are just fancy autocomplete" hanging around, but less than a year or two ago.
What does Gaza have to do with American Indian and Indigenous Studies?
Also, I didn't realize that you are now *opposed* to student civil disobedience and resistance on campus with respect to Israel-Palestine. Apparently I was misinformed...
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished prof's classes on Gaza because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Who needs vaccines or advancements in cancer treatments when you can fix your health and turn you body into a glowing Christmas tree with White House-endorsed CBD supplements?
Would be really informative to do a follow-up on the family that drank 80 gallons of milk a week and were going poor because of Joe Biden's economy.
What say you, @brikeilarcnn?