Andrew Longhofer
@andrewlonghofer.bsky.social
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England has had juries for a thousand years, at least. Arguably the things, when investigating and sitting in judgment, were proto-juries, pushing it back another 300-400 years.
Seems like a bad idea to roll that kind of local democracy in judicial processes back with a bare majority
Seems like a bad idea to roll that kind of local democracy in judicial processes back with a bare majority
EXCLUSIVE: Jury trials to be scrapped in most cases to tackle court backlog - in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
Jury trials to be scrapped in most cases to tackle court backlog
David Lammy, the justice secretary, is proposing that judges hear cases alone for crimes that could result in a sentence of up to five years
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
England has had juries for a thousand years, at least. Arguably the things, when investigating and sitting in judgment, were proto-juries, pushing it back another 300-400 years.
Seems like a bad idea to roll that kind of local democracy in judicial processes back with a bare majority
Seems like a bad idea to roll that kind of local democracy in judicial processes back with a bare majority
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This will live rent-free in my head until she’s inevitably fired.
I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This will live rent-free in my head until she’s inevitably fired.
DON'T BRING A NEW RECIPE TO THANKSGIVING
ever. but now especially.
ever. but now especially.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
DON'T BRING A NEW RECIPE TO THANKSGIVING
ever. but now especially.
ever. but now especially.
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
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I assume that getting steak and lobster dinners with 20,000 calories of appetizers for your whole family delivered by personal chauffeur is inexpensive again now that Uncle Joe Brandon is out of the White House at least
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I assume that getting steak and lobster dinners with 20,000 calories of appetizers for your whole family delivered by personal chauffeur is inexpensive again now that Uncle Joe Brandon is out of the White House at least
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“are people allergic to bees still massively against bees, or have they moved more towards embracing being stung by bees, perhaps actively encouraging bees to sting them”
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
“are people allergic to bees still massively against bees, or have they moved more towards embracing being stung by bees, perhaps actively encouraging bees to sting them”
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people will come on this website and say anything. "Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a liberal". no he wasn't. that isn't true.
Yes, they literally did. Hindenburg was a liberal. Every liberal in Germany quietly turned fascist. Only the USSR had ideological differences with the Nazis. You didn't even join the war until you were personally attacked, lib.
February 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
people will come on this website and say anything. "Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a liberal". no he wasn't. that isn't true.
How long has it been since your last tetanus shot? If it's more than 10years, you're due, and you can get a Tdap instead of just tetanus or TD and help with this problem. No doctor visit required—just walk into any pharmacy, though with an appointment you can save some time.
Pertussis cases in Texas are 10x higher than all of 2023, and 2x as high as last year — 4x for the same period. The official count is higher by a 1k than it has been in more than a decade. Last time it was over 2k was 2014 with 2,576. It’s past 3,500 for 2025.
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
How long has it been since your last tetanus shot? If it's more than 10years, you're due, and you can get a Tdap instead of just tetanus or TD and help with this problem. No doctor visit required—just walk into any pharmacy, though with an appointment you can save some time.
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Are electrical outlets mad at me? Many users feel like they're looking at an angry little guy
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Are electrical outlets mad at me? Many users feel like they're looking at an angry little guy
can't help but think this is targeted at a particular Red School directly to the south of them
ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Bridge Michigan
For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing and financial literacy workshops. Now, it aims to bill its...
bridgemi.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
can't help but think this is targeted at a particular Red School directly to the south of them
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Yes! We have been in the business of discipline-specific pedagogy for years now. A field doesn't get upended over one new technology. Pedagogy isn't fragile!
It is amazing actually what good pedagogy can accomplish by guiding students, incl. in their very first year of university, through the substantive work of facing serious course materials head-on with discipline-specific approaches. Relying on synthetic text critique is really not it.
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Yes! We have been in the business of discipline-specific pedagogy for years now. A field doesn't get upended over one new technology. Pedagogy isn't fragile!
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There were people who thought ELIZA was "alive"; humans are amazingly susceptible to anthropomorphizing even the crudest simulation of a conversation partner, and that has suddenly become incredibly dangerous for both individual users and human civilization
This simple, fundamental point is apparently beyond the comprehension of our AI-hype-crazed tech overlords
"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build"
"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build"
Large language mistake
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There were people who thought ELIZA was "alive"; humans are amazingly susceptible to anthropomorphizing even the crudest simulation of a conversation partner, and that has suddenly become incredibly dangerous for both individual users and human civilization
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime
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The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
The Autism Diagnosis Problem
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
this feels like the fish meme explaining Baudrillard
musical based on a musical-within-a-TV-show spoofing classical Broadway musicals
the impending choral medley sheet music is the Swedish Fish Oreos: no relation to Brigadoon, The Music Man, Oklahoma or The Sound Of Music; a pure simulacrum
musical based on a musical-within-a-TV-show spoofing classical Broadway musicals
the impending choral medley sheet music is the Swedish Fish Oreos: no relation to Brigadoon, The Music Man, Oklahoma or The Sound Of Music; a pure simulacrum
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
this feels like the fish meme explaining Baudrillard
musical based on a musical-within-a-TV-show spoofing classical Broadway musicals
the impending choral medley sheet music is the Swedish Fish Oreos: no relation to Brigadoon, The Music Man, Oklahoma or The Sound Of Music; a pure simulacrum
musical based on a musical-within-a-TV-show spoofing classical Broadway musicals
the impending choral medley sheet music is the Swedish Fish Oreos: no relation to Brigadoon, The Music Man, Oklahoma or The Sound Of Music; a pure simulacrum
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke
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We had 69. The new generation only has 67. Shrinkflation is no joke.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We had 69. The new generation only has 67. Shrinkflation is no joke.
what a way to come out as Nick Locarno
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
what a way to come out as Nick Locarno
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“If there is a message to be heeded in the legislative assault on governance bodies, it is that the enemies of higher education, nonetheless, still fear faculty authority. Why else would they be so insistent on silencing faculty members?”
#DefendHigherEd
#DefendHigherEd
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“If there is a message to be heeded in the legislative assault on governance bodies, it is that the enemies of higher education, nonetheless, still fear faculty authority. Why else would they be so insistent on silencing faculty members?”
#DefendHigherEd
#DefendHigherEd
not sure if it's sadder that my phone auto-connected to the emergency vet's guest wifi or that my dog wagged his tail into recognition and excitement when he saw the vet techs
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
not sure if it's sadder that my phone auto-connected to the emergency vet's guest wifi or that my dog wagged his tail into recognition and excitement when he saw the vet techs
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
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My secret? I'm always boycotting Starbucks.
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My secret? I'm always boycotting Starbucks.
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Nothing screams “emergency state of rebellion army deployment” like bored troops standing around while the courts discuss if the president needs a rebellion to actually occur to deploy said troops, or if him saying aloud that a rebellion is occurring makes it a matter of indisputable factual record
Hundreds of federalized National Guard troops sent to Portland and Chicago that have been standing around in deployment limbo amid court battles are going home. NORTHCOM will keep 700 under federal control, while others will be released back to state control. taskandpurpose.com/news/nationa...
National Guard begins drawdown in Portland, Chicago
Approximately 700 National Guard troops will remain in active duty under federal control, but will return to their home states.
taskandpurpose.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Nothing screams “emergency state of rebellion army deployment” like bored troops standing around while the courts discuss if the president needs a rebellion to actually occur to deploy said troops, or if him saying aloud that a rebellion is occurring makes it a matter of indisputable factual record