The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.

Reminder that we have a TT job opening here at Tulane for "a biological anthropologist specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains, especially those recovered from archaeological contexts. Regional focus is open."

Due by Oct 15.

apply.interfolio.com/171196

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

It’s very fashionable to dunk on the humanities/liberal arts; I will nonetheless earnest-post (yes very uncool, I know) that turning out tech/physicians who think that they don’t have to think of the histories of their fields, of ethics, of their role in and impacts on the world is dangerous.

In an interview with WWLTV just now, Helena talked about the way contracting out city services is actually more expensive than doing them in-house a lot of the time. This is one line from her campaign that I've always liked and look forward to seeing how she applies it.

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

I’m still thinking about this piece. Go read it. Assign it in your classes.

Take time to think about how many of the tasks people propose to allocate to AI either 1) don’t need to be done; or 2) should done by connecting w/ other humans to discuss or brainstorm.

AI doesn’t want you in community.

I must take a moment to make a plea to the general public to please, for the love of fucking God, stop using AI, writes Senior Editor Marisa Clogher. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

“I promise, from the bottom of my heart, you don’t need AI to write an email for you. You don’t need AI to make a grocery list for you... And guess what? Ironically using AI to illustrate how ugly and stupid AI is is actually no different from using it in earnest.”

If someone eviscerates you like this, you need to do some deep soul searching.

oh wow look it's the exact thing every single person who works in public health ethics said was a risk with wastewater surveillance especially when we took it to the point where we had researchers trying to identify individual chronic infections using social media and crowdsourcing

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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😂every time I walk around somewhere with those I point and say, “look, permeable pavement. We could have that if anyone in New Orleans cared.” Usually along with “look how wide and flat the sidewalks are!” And “if rural Poland and rebuilt Berlin can do this, why not urban U.S.?”

I’m fairly certain they are putting in a parking lot. If it’s a safety issue and they replant something that absorbs water and heat, fine. But I’m tired of everyone paving everything and making flooding and heat island effect worse.

Trapping women in motherhood is a highly effective way to force them to settle for less-than-ideal partners and/or less-than-ideal jobs.

I appreciate this post, as well as the delicate way it tries not to "yuck someone else's yum", which I've found very difficult to do in past times like this.

Or like, at the release of a major new album. for example.

👏👏👏"We could instead move toward systems of recognition where broader collectives are rewarded for their contributions to a piece of work, ...Until we move beyond the lionisation of individual humans, we will remain trapped in a world that values the success of the individual over the collective."

TENNESSEAN: “It’s unclear what state law authorizes the deployment of TN National Guard troops in Memphis… Neither Gov. Lee nor TN AG Skrmetti have explained the legal basis of the operation.”

They ignore their oath to the TN Constitution to score points w/ Trump. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

NEW-ish: Louisiana is suing FDA over its 2023 REMS change for mifepristone, which removed the in-person dispensing requirement. That change allowed mail or pharmacy dispensing of mife after significant data showed it was safe and effective. A few things to note about this new lawsuit.

Ah, the dulcet sounds of another large tree in my neighborhood being fed into a chipper to be replaced, most likely, with more pavement.

I’m sure later they will follow up with the gas powered leaf blower to spread the tree entrails around the neighborhood through as air particulates.

i've always Been This Way

Reminder that we have a TT job opening here at Tulane for "a biological anthropologist specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains, especially those recovered from archaeological contexts. Regional focus is open."

Due by Oct 15.

apply.interfolio.com/171196

Ep. 170: The Pseudoscience of Trans Exclusion

In a LONG awaited and vital ep, the whole crew is joined by Sheree Bekker and @annaposbergh.bsky.social to delve into and refute the 'science' deployed to justify the anti-trans movement in sport.

open.spotify.com/episode/0IO2...

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.