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faculty are routinely banned from teaching academic works they wrote as faculty members; barred from using concepts deemed unacceptable by non-academic criteria; fired for upsetting or being contrived to have upset right-wing students "academic freedom" refers to nothing real, in such circumstances

more seriously, from what I’ve seen and read it seems evident that this “tool” has diagnostic value in identifying (by reproducing) all that is cliched or hackneyed in whatever corpus it is trained on; but that is exactly why it does not democratize “creativity” or make originality irrelevant

It's tremendous being able to do things.

David Brooks thinking about a world where he never existed

Lionel Hutz's Rainbow VisionALT: Lionel Hutz's Rainbow Visionstatic.klipy.com

The Mamdani thing is hilarious because conventional Dems are all "how can he get away with this?" and his answer is to just ignore the yowling of the worst people on earth. Like just be completely unbothered by what some pundit-poisoned nitwits say. Just ... decide not to listen to them.

so wait you basically can’t even use your hands at all unless you’re the weird guy at the end

It's that simple.

Burnham's govt does not have a plan or a programme for improving people's lives. Instead it will do what all its predecessors have done: ostentatiously make other people's lives worse.

My man looks like a dildo got an MBA

my extreme emotional response to this has been instantly clarifying: im like a starving man. the absence of inspirational leaders who appeal to my better angels and challenge me to do more has been completely corrosive. how can any community live like this, with no lived moral center at all

I am not sure that we appreciate how much hostility there is from the far right to the learning and speaking of languages. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/9a33...

Language centre closes after ‘far-right intimidation’The director of the Language Hub in Glasgow claimed the premises were no longer safe for staff after a ‘surveillance’ campaign by anti-migration activistswww.thetimes.com

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The difference is the Green Party will actually do it. Rent controls. Wealth tax. Climate action. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Basically I am in fact a humanities educated left wing guy with a beard who really enjoys Christopher Nolan films I'm a walking stereotype.

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

I guess it's something the judge called it out, but fake citations routinely get lawyers sanctioned and that should have happened here. The standard of conduct for DOJ lawyers should be *higher* than for private attorneys, not lower.

I'm expanding my dipshit belief that all games are roleplaying games to include that all games are also strategy games

British politics—both the analysis of its chronic dysfunction and the dysfunction itself—becomes much more legible if you remember that every time a prominent pundit uses a phrase like ‘across the political spectrum’, what they actually mean is ‘among my mates’.

Peston's claim is, on its face, absurdly false. Mahmood is loathed by the left and a sizeable chunk of left-liberals, as well as by most of the right who are pathologically opposed to Labour tout court. So it's reasonable to ask what 'spectrum' he's referring to when he makes it.

Or, put another way, “This person is well-liked across the political spectrum (i.e. ‘my mates’)” is a pretty useless observation if you are unwilling/unable to recognise the glaring reality that a plurality of the British public fucking loathe yours and your mates’ rigid idea of sound politics.

I don’t even mean this in a “The people want radical politics (specifically mine).” I’d even wager a lot of Brits have bad politics. But they are sincere when they say they want something different and they’re not so stupid to keep taking this rinse and repeat racket. They can see you!