That “journalism works” is a bold statement while Jeff Bezos is dismantling the Washington Post and the New York Times has become a word game and recipe site that does reporting on the side.

I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.

If I were a judge, him using “I’m not trying to be…” would be all the evidence I’d need to prove he’s an American citizen. They must think I’m Boo Boo the Fool if they deport that man.

How hard did he slam them?

It’s probably not the undergrad curriculum so much as the professors they hire. But the Antonin Scalia School of Law is one sign.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/05/01/how-george-masons-law-school-became-conservative-center

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/us/supreme-court-scalia-law-school.html

The Mercutus Center

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center

Some “professors” who are being paid despite not actually teaching there:

George Mason has been a right wing school for awhile. They started with economics and found it to be a way to compete with DC schools (that are normal academic institutions) and UVA (one of the best schools in the world) and now it’s just a marketing thing.

Not saying anyone should shut it down. The quote “science advances one funeral at a time” is not always wrong. But usually, it advances by the hard, seemingly uninteresting work of hundreds of people.

/s

I don’t want to know who any of you people are. None of us saw anything. And if so much as a squirrel asks, I’m asking for a lawyer.

Probably but they’ve designated others to do it. Like a trusted organization (Wired or The NY Times) can verify people. Some of the developers seemed hostile.

But who gives a fuck about a blue check anyway? Even before Elon, it was a gag on Twitter when some fucking moron who interned at Reason or some shit got a big head about it and wrote as a clown to be laughed at. “Some personal news, I’m now the assistant associate dipshit at the newspaper they try to give you for free when you get on the subway.”

I’m glad we’re putting all our eggs in this alpha-ass-level software (with tons of promise! Maybe!) instead of like high speed rail or whatever.

No one here is claiming anything different.

Having dreams. :(

This is a joke. I’m fine.

Yes and their endowment isn’t the same as regular colleges and universities. For one thing, they own lots of Boston properties and priceless paintings that probably aren’t really priced correctly. So, reported value it really an underestimate. But they also have nigh unlimited alumni who donate in the millions because it’s pocket change but they would/could donate a lot more if you pissed them off.

Trump and Elon Musk are rich to us but Harvard (and Yale and a few others) have alumni who don’t donate “a lot” to the school each year but they have a money cannon ready and can refill the coffers. Stupid mafia tactics aren’t going to work. They will win and you might die.

Do Masonic lodges have anything else to apologize about? Or just that McConnor McGregor is an ass?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due

Thank god I live in New Orleans where Wrestlemania is in charge. https://www.fox8live.com/2019/07/02/public-records-reveal-details-about-discovery-gert-town-radioactive-material/

The NFL detected it first and thought it was fine.

This isn’t the first time he’s exposed something no one asked for.

We’ll see how it goes but Francis chose a supermajority of the current Cardinals. With the exception of Cardinal Pizzaballa, I don’t know any of their names, much less their views.

Thank you for doing the math.

The advancements in battery tech are obviously great news but I still have no idea how you’d power a “traditional” charging station (with several terminals) for EVs.

There’s plenty of time to find a solution to that before today’s experimental battery tech becomes ubiquitous in cars but power generation and infrastructure seems like it’ll be the bottleneck. I haven’t done the math or anything but it just seems like 5m charging of more than one or two cars at once would strain the grid that exists today.

Seems like a dick move to plan to bring back the wooly mammoth when climate change is going to make it so there’s 45°C (113°F) days in Siberia by the time someone actually clones one.

A hairier elephant doesn’t count. Maybe the faux dire wolf is impressive research — that isn’t my field — but it feels more like marketing and hype than truly bringing back an endangered species.