Ulysses S. Rant 🇺🇸

California history detective.
College football historian.
Democracy advocate.

[Ulysses S. Rant 🇺🇸 @OrangeMarkD]

@Kylethemediocre I will never be a lightweight casual fan, who supports this knock-off version of the real thing.

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

Rick Beato says rock died in 2012 after the financial collapse caused the working class to be removed from the music scene. Now it’s mostly highly produced wealthy people’s kids who can afford it.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:

"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”

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"By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.”

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AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences.

It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions.

This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed.

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[Seinfeld Current Day @Seinfeld2000]

You took your SIDE PIECE to COLDPLAY?

[Ulysses S. Rant 🇺🇸 @OrangeMarkD]

@KMBreakey Towards what other extinct countries should we direct our pointless nostalgia?

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

[Casey Pratt @CaseyAPratt]

Without a strong Oakland sports presence, the SF sports teams will take advantage of you with very little accountability. Corporate sports aren’t built to win. They’re built for the extraction of your money. We’ll keep working towards the antidote. 🏆

[Ulysses S. Rant 🇺🇸 @OrangeMarkD]

@cptdankkk Entitled MAGA trash.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

Aziz Ansari just appeared as Kash Patel on SNL, and they went innnnn on him

"I'm a trailblazer. I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites."

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is why.

When some russian in a hotel asks me why I do not want to talk to him, when some European asks me why I am not "tolerant" – the answer is in this photo.

There are thousands of such kids in Ukraine whose parents were killed simply because russians followed their crazy tsar instead of stopping him.

The russian army is 2.4 million. Most of them have been to Ukraine. The police is about 1 million. There are also smaller forces – FSB (200 thousand), National Guard (340 thousand) and others. So we are already at more than four million people involved.

And then count those who work as subcontractors for the army. Those who work in weapons factories. Count the government and everyone working for it. You get every 10th adult russian working for the war. 30% of russia's budget is spent on it.

This is not "Putin's war," this is "every russian's war."

So when I meet a russian man in some hotel, I know there is a 10% chance he is directly involved. And the remaining 90% support it –
by action or inaction.

So how should I treat them?

If he wants a conversation, he should start by asking for forgiveness and condemning their army and their regime. In all other cases, I won't even talk to such a person.

[Ulysses S. Rant 🇺🇸 @OrangeMarkD]

@KaseyKazliner It's sad, what the kids have to settle for today.

[Ulysses S. Rant 🇺🇸 @OrangeMarkD]

@stubbornmw @Rayo_vibez @Toluwase_x @table_shaker_ The $ goes before the number.

People never used to never forget this.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The visibility of all pro‑Ukrainian accounts, including mine, has dropped dramatically. Please help me fight the algorithm by visiting my profile and boosting posts about today’s Russian war crimes.

Pic for attention.

[Manisha Mishra @manishamishra24]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker]

Obscene thing to say. If you must, say, “I’m sorry but Ukraine is not our problem; we have bigger issues to deal with; Europe should step up”. But to say you’re proud of starving a country of help in the face of lethal aggression? Just don’t understand this man’s morality.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Ukraine is victim of an unprovoked invasion by a barbaric totalitarian killing machine. And the VP of the USA says he’s proud not to be helping it. Immoral, callous charlatan. Let’s hope we never hear of him again after 2028.

[Adam Smith @adamstatonsmith]

Holy shit, UO is bleeding students and about to cut deep, and the president just sent the campus a polite warning shot.

[Ulysses S. Rant 🇺🇸 @OrangeMarkD]

@ethanbro @sjc6254 @mattvanswol Teenagers don’t want work there—and McDonalfs doesn’t want them too, either.

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

Ashley St. Clair was so deep in the right wing media apparatus that she had a baby by Elon, but since they threw her under the bus she’s been spilling all their secrets and it’s very entertaining

[Dark Brandon (The 46) 🇺🇲 @ajalexander944]

Justin Trudeau is 54.

Katy Perry is 41.

They both look like they are in their 20s and partying like it's 1999.

This is how you enjoy life.

Politics is TOXIC.

Life is fun and wild.

We only live ONCE.

So happy for both. 💙💙