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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

If you want to block all the people who harassed Jamelle Bouie off the site at once, this list is handy. Hit subscribe, then block.

imagine a world in which we implemented the Gale-Shapley theorem and as a result never got "Jolene"

Such a tragedy that so many lives are lost because puritanical America refuses to legalize alcohol so it could be kept free of black market contaminants and alcohol addicts could seek treatment free of stigma. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

What's behind the stunning rise in alcohol-related deathswww.pbs.org Alcohol is one of the most commonly used drugs in America, and it is also one of the deadliest, with more and more people losing their lives to alcohol-related causes over the last two decades. A new ...

potlatch, mimetic desire, and obfuscated exchange in Mears's bottle service ethnography Very Important People, as reviewed by "Psmith" and Rossman www.thepsmiths.com/p/guest-join...

GUEST JOINT REVIEW: Very Important People, by Ashley Mearswww.thepsmiths.com Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Ashley Mears (Princeton University Press, 2021). The following is an email exchange between John Psmith and Gabriel Rossman, Profe...

The first big sandworm riding scene is epic, like surfing a tsunami, but twenty minutes of screentime later it's like "we're going to Grandma's for the weekend, load up the sandworm and no fighting in the back you two"

Bootlegger-Baptist model strikes again. Biden natural gas export restrictions were framed as climate action but pushed by lobbyist for foreign (and not especially friendly) natural gas exporters. freebeacon.com/energy/john-...

John Podesta Was Behind Biden’s Decision to Pause Natural Gas Exports. His Lobbyist Brother Stands To Benefit.freebeacon.com Biden administration climate envoy John Podesta was behind the administration’s decision to pause U.S. liquified natural gas exports. His brother Tony Podesta could reap the benefits as a longtime lob...

"DeSantis was selling a plan; Trump was selling a feeling." www.theamericanconservative.com/what-i-saw-i...

What I Saw Inside the DeSantis Campaignwww.theamericanconservative.com The governor was great on substance but couldn’t match Trump’s symbolic appeal.

The spy agencies finally concluded what was obvious from day one, that Havana syndrome was no more real than penis theft or the devil souring milk, and now Congress is mad at them that they didn't find the smoking (Putin's top secret headache) gun www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/u...

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This news cycle won't be over until Bill Kristol proposes some bananas plan for replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee, but only in states with an odd number of letters

Exciting to choose between the candidate facing multiple felony charges and the candidate so incompetent he doesn't meet the mens rea threshold for a felony abcnews.go.com/US/white-hou...

White House finishes review of special counsel's report on Biden classified docs probe, declines to assert privilegeabcnews.go.com The White House has concluded its review of the special counsel's report on his probe into classified documents found at residences associated with President Biden.

Short replies can be more humane for both the faculty and the student. Every term I get over a hundred requests to get into a class that is already full. Many such requests are paragraphs long. Equally long replies would not only take forever but invite further pleading.

Arguably the most influential game designer after Gygax and Miyamoto. In particular, a key figure for level design in both tabletop RPGs and video games. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/a...

Jennell Jaquays, Who Unlocked Fantasy Dungeons for Gamers, Dies at 67www.nytimes.com She created scenarios with myriad paths for Dungeons & Dragons, levels for video games like Quake II, and art that invited novices to try role-playing games.

guys really live in apartments like this and don’t see any issue

Not saying this will happen, but would be amazing if it did

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The sad fact is that simultaneously the primary benefit and core moral responsibility of being a tenured academic is not the production of “impact” or “influence” out in the world but rather the ability to look at something you know about that’s shite and say “this is shite” and not lose your job.

No idea what Heiss's articles are like but self-plagiarism is a thing. I was among the people who caught Bruno Frey publishing articles that were 80% identical to his other articles. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_F...

Ooof manuscript temporarily rejected and returned because the automated plagiarism report found too much similarity with other papers we've written. So now I have to make it all sound less like… ourselves?

Prestige and credibility are not inexhaustible resources and when consistently abused for either venal or ideological reasons they will erode. www.joshbarro.com/p/universiti...

Universities Are Not on the Levelwww.joshbarro.com Academics should think more about what their industry has done to lose the trust of Americans

Tyler Austin Harper has my entire fucking feed on here dead to rights www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Real Harvard Scandalwww.theatlantic.com Claudine Gay is not the real story. Academics debase their profession when they redefine plagiarism to suit their politics.

worst day ever for undergrads who lifted a paragraph from wikipedia

Actual quote from my latest evals "I did feel that the readings were a bit tedious, due to over 25+ pages assigned per week"

Student Evals highlight (from a senior seminar): “the class focused a lot on readings and if people, like me, didn’t do the reading we couldn’t participate”

[Me, getting shoved onto the subway tracks by some guy screaming about The Illuminati who has been arrested 26 times this year] "The 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 crime wave is shift managers rounding down when you clocked out at work so you don't get 7 minutes of overtime."

At last, I, Stumparm the Half-Blind have found the hand and eye of Vecna! I have have devoted years of my life, tons of gold, and dozens of henchmen deaths to recovering these relics and their god-usurping power. [Opens box] Why did none of you tell me it's a left eye and right hand?

Imbecile! You have failed me for the last time! (Because I know you'll use the disappointment of this experience to grow and improve)

Social network analysis of dungeons homicidallyinclinedpersonsofnofixedaddress.com/2023/12/23/d...

Dungeons as networkshomicidallyinclinedpersonsofnofixedaddress.com A Melan diagram is a way to simplify a dungeon design to its bare topology to show if it is Jaquaysed (i.e., not linear or branching but with loops that allow meaningful choices). In the comments to a...

imagine the alternate version of "Lucy's Last Birthday" where Ricky isn't waiting to hold a surprise party at the club and thus Lucy remains a member of Friends of the Friendless as it spirals into increasingly abusive practices until eventually being raided by the police in 1967

searching for "library" on Google Maps makes me want to take a bat to all the mailbox dollhouses full of old crap that fill up the search results.

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Night's Black Agents rules. It's an explosive action thriller TTRPG about badass covert operatives fighting a vampire conspiracy. "Thriller" combat maneuvers let agents work as a team during battles, while "player-facing combat" lets one agent take out multiple mooks in seconds.

Good review of one of my favorite RPGs (and my very favorite that can't be described as a version of D&D) https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/49659/roleplaying-games/review-nights-black-agents

Review: Night’s Black Agentsthealexandrian.net In Night’s Black Agents, the PCs are retired intelligence agents. Maybe they left willingly; maybe they’re ex-pats on the run from their own governments. Regardless, they’ve been putting their