there's evidence that the use of AI in schools is delivering the opposite of "intellectual flourishing"—maybe in some bubbles the use of these models is leading to more reading and philosophical debates but I'm inclined to think that's an exception to the rule
UNREAL: Abdul El-Sayed is so focused on putting Michiganders first that he now has Mark Ruffalo sending out fundraising emails focused not on Michigan, but on… yes you guessed it! Palestine.
Abdul is obsessed with Palestine. He’s Palestine First and Michigan LAST.
Hasan: "What does it say for your credibility on foreign policy issues if you've got the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime, Iraq and Gaza, both wrong?"
Yglesias: "I don't know that those were the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime..."
Lowk this letter from Mayor Beame to Mayor Mamdani makes me sad, what potential we have squandered. May we fight for a world where we can make good on those aspirations
One of the most radical institutions in America, abandoned since the Vietnam War, is exclusively deployed in service to imperialism: universal conscription. But what if we turned that same model inward towards the tasks of liberation? Drawing on his experience as a college professor and West Point graduate, Cyrus Cappo argues for a mandatory National Public Service Corps—a radical project to rebuild infrastructure, integrate alienated youth, and hand real leverage back to the working class.
READ:
https://t.co/Yb6N6SwvyD
Cornel West: Now Brother Barney is purple AND green. And even Brother Barney knows class struggle is not a struggle BETWEEN classes, but rather a struggle to eliminate class altogether.
Norm Finklestein: I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You would call this reptilian imbecile your brother?
How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed?
At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
so far having a phd is less fun that i thought it would be. it's true that my friends call me Dr. Anna. but i can tell they do not mean it with the respect that the title deserves
On Monday night’s lecture, Peter Thiel argued that Democrats no longer really care about the Ivy League. His evidence:
-Gavin Newsom (Santa Clara)
-Josh Shapiro (Rochester, Georgetown Law)
-Jon Ossoff (Georgetown, LSE)
-Joe Biden (Delaware)
-Kamala Harris (Howard)
If we add Mamdani (Bowdoin) and AOC (BU), the trend is even clearer.
@manukord@antonerable I know a lot of protestants where I’m from who straight-up do not consider catholicism a kind of christianity (even some not-very-religious ones like the Simpsons); that aspect of the episode rang true to me