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Every few weeks, right wingers rediscover André Rieu, the Burger King of classical music, and fancy themselves continental sophisticates for enjoying this decadent, plastic, end-of-history schmaltz.

"Being secretly recorded by strangers" is a concept that I think most people have a strong, visceral objection to, which makes it an odd choice for a product (if it even is a product and not just a stunt). Ten years ago this got people chased out of bars sfgate.com/news/article/s…

speaking of intellectuals not speaking out - nobel laureates cowed into silence or deported by trump, cowing others into silence timeshighereducation.com/depth/its-hard…

Did every university library stop buying physical copies of books around 2020?

who the fuck wants AI historians

Don't look away.

This seems to misunderstand what the majority of these jobs do

apparently zhu yuanzhang banned matcha bc it was too labor intensive. man of the people

The student protesters were obviously correct on Gaza. The reaction to them was obviously idiotic and depraved. We're probably still a while out from this being banal conventional wisdom, but it's coming.

Incredible new feature from Perplexity. They just reinvented spam bots.

Excellent note on internet etiquette and how it has changed with AI

Another thing about UChicago, and it’s not clear if this is a foregone conclusion or just an idea on the table, but I’ve heard at two faculty meetings that the Dean, perhaps at the behest of the Provost, has mentioned cutting PhDs in the humanities by 80%.

nonsensical pastiche of costumes/staging/dancing/music from 1959-1973. Fredric Jameson vindicated again and again and again

This must be absolutely mind-blowing to read if you’re a golden retriever

Fellow travellers who've been there for the entire journey now getting out at the final stops, pretending they didn't know where this voyage was headed all along

Insane that this happened in two years instead of twenty. The rate at which everything is getting stupider is accelerating to a nearly incalculable degree. x.com/JoePostingg/st…

We really need a lot more R&D on how to build the internet for the AI age. A lot of the web is currently glued together by CAPTCHAs and AIs not being good enough to bypass them and do stuff across the internet But this glue is not going to last for long. Soon it will be too

The problem is that tweeting “welcome to the tent” does nothing either. It’s too late for the kids who are being starved to death; if anyone can help them now it’s not suddenly repentant liberals. On the other hand, accountability for such opportunists is a live possibility.

A major lesson of the Bush era is that when there is no accountability, the same people remain in positions of influence and make decisions based on the same logics again and again. So no, I don’t think people who enabled genocide for nearly 2 years should get an easy pass

This, I think, is the key point. We’re not talking about welcoming your pro-Israeli uncle into the fold, we’re talking about allowing people who *actively supported the genocide from positions of influence/power* into the fold without any kind of accountability or even contrition