Werner Herzog's Bear
@jasontebbe.bsky.social
Teacher, historian, and blogger. Born and raised in Nebraska, working in NYC, living in Jersey.
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"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
It blew my mind when I first learned there were French people who collaborated with Nazi occupiers, then switched to the Resistance. Nowadays I totally get it, as we are seeing the dynamic play out in real time with more Republicans turning on Trump. They know which way the wind is blowing.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It blew my mind when I first learned there were French people who collaborated with Nazi occupiers, then switched to the Resistance. Nowadays I totally get it, as we are seeing the dynamic play out in real time with more Republicans turning on Trump. They know which way the wind is blowing.
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—Shitty polling
—MTG breakup
—Thune refusing to kill the filibuster
—Near-unanimous Epstein vote
—House backlash over ACA proposal
—2 IN state senators telling him to fuck off
—Now this
Something is happening…
—MTG breakup
—Thune refusing to kill the filibuster
—Near-unanimous Epstein vote
—House backlash over ACA proposal
—2 IN state senators telling him to fuck off
—Now this
Something is happening…
Wow: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems to think that companies involved with Trump's ballroom project could be criminally prosecuted. thehill.com/business/559...
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
—Shitty polling
—MTG breakup
—Thune refusing to kill the filibuster
—Near-unanimous Epstein vote
—House backlash over ACA proposal
—2 IN state senators telling him to fuck off
—Now this
Something is happening…
—MTG breakup
—Thune refusing to kill the filibuster
—Near-unanimous Epstein vote
—House backlash over ACA proposal
—2 IN state senators telling him to fuck off
—Now this
Something is happening…
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The president is mentally unwell and just says things. He is going to arrest Biden for perjury! He is going to invade Nigeria! He is going to abolish income tax!
The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.
The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The president is mentally unwell and just says things. He is going to arrest Biden for perjury! He is going to invade Nigeria! He is going to abolish income tax!
The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.
The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
LLMs are good at one thing, which is generating reams of bullshit, which is the job description for executives.
So if the computer is doing that now ought we pay them less?
So if the computer is doing that now ought we pay them less?
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
LLMs are good at one thing, which is generating reams of bullshit, which is the job description for executives.
So if the computer is doing that now ought we pay them less?
So if the computer is doing that now ought we pay them less?
Read the thread but this is the crux
And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Read the thread but this is the crux
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The Trump administration’s decision to apply pressure to the most amoral cowardly members of American society, big law firm partners and college administrators, is paying big dividends.
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Trump administration’s decision to apply pressure to the most amoral cowardly members of American society, big law firm partners and college administrators, is paying big dividends.
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"public figure whose schtick has created a fandom full of people he finds offputting" is a phenomenon that explains quite a bit of elite dysfunction in the 21st century
louis CK was funny, sure, but never SO funny or SO culturally dominant as to reasonably expect to sell out every venue and sell every project for decades. so far, that’s what’s happening for him! what did ‘cancellation’ really do to his career? give him an audience he respects slightly less, maybe?
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"public figure whose schtick has created a fandom full of people he finds offputting" is a phenomenon that explains quite a bit of elite dysfunction in the 21st century
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That politics requires a vastly different set of skills (and temperament) than does central banking, finance or business is a lesson voters have failed to learn time and again.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
And if you think Carney must be a political super genius because he was a banker and economist etc etc., well, I'd like you to meet tech bros as proof positive that skills in one area don't always port over to another.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
That politics requires a vastly different set of skills (and temperament) than does central banking, finance or business is a lesson voters have failed to learn time and again.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
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Liberal Currents will never hand it to a man likely to kill untold number of children with his anti-vaccine anti-science crank activism from HHS. We will never throw trans people under the bus to score political points. Help elevate our voice to compete with The Atlantic’s gofund.me/bc470b67b
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Liberal Currents will never hand it to a man likely to kill untold number of children with his anti-vaccine anti-science crank activism from HHS. We will never throw trans people under the bus to score political points. Help elevate our voice to compete with The Atlantic’s gofund.me/bc470b67b
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me, smart, a big-shot university president, paying the Danegeld: that should be the last we hear from the Dane
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
me, smart, a big-shot university president, paying the Danegeld: that should be the last we hear from the Dane
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things were headed in this direction when I left the academy. reading, writing, discussion—all the work of learning is being reframed as a burden on students that it would be better for professors to lift.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
things were headed in this direction when I left the academy. reading, writing, discussion—all the work of learning is being reframed as a burden on students that it would be better for professors to lift.
I watched a couple of Nebraska football vintage videos on Facebook and now I get a wave of posts about the current team (which I don't follow closely) trying to make me mad at their coach. God I wish I could quit social media.
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I watched a couple of Nebraska football vintage videos on Facebook and now I get a wave of posts about the current team (which I don't follow closely) trying to make me mad at their coach. God I wish I could quit social media.
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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
This person, like a lot of my fellow progressives from white rural places, just doesn’t want to admit that a lot of her friends, family, and neighbors are ignorant bigots. I’m begging them to please come to grips with this unpleasant truth.
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This person, like a lot of my fellow progressives from white rural places, just doesn’t want to admit that a lot of her friends, family, and neighbors are ignorant bigots. I’m begging them to please come to grips with this unpleasant truth.
Events today are bearing this out, from the demand that all “Third World” immigration be banned, that immigrant citizens be denaturalized, that Oregon be invaded etc. Unless this is just a temper tantrum the next few months are going to see some real History.
The Trump admin so wants this tragic death to be their own Grynszpan killing vom Rath or Juvénal Habyarimana's plane being shot down or killing of Sergei Kirov. They are too inept and unpopular to pull that off, but they will still try and a lot of people will get hurt.
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Events today are bearing this out, from the demand that all “Third World” immigration be banned, that immigrant citizens be denaturalized, that Oregon be invaded etc. Unless this is just a temper tantrum the next few months are going to see some real History.
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doesn't have to be this way but it do
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
doesn't have to be this way but it do
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Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
The boat strikes are a war crime, pure and simple and they aren’t getting the deserved outrage because America has a military tradition of indiscriminately slaughtering brown people literally from its inception. For more recent examples note Hiroshima, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The boat strikes are a war crime, pure and simple and they aren’t getting the deserved outrage because America has a military tradition of indiscriminately slaughtering brown people literally from its inception. For more recent examples note Hiroshima, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
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Me buying a copy of The Onion when I was 18: "let's see what those rascals are up to now."
Me subscribing to The Onion now: "It is my duty as a patriot to see what those rascals are up to now."
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November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Me buying a copy of The Onion when I was 18: "let's see what those rascals are up to now."
Me subscribing to The Onion now: "It is my duty as a patriot to see what those rascals are up to now."
Me subscribing to The Onion now: "It is my duty as a patriot to see what those rascals are up to now."
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for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.
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unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country