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I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."
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Literary Agent @janklownesbit Brooklyn by way of Kentucky
New York, NY Katılım Nisan 2008
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if you are a professor who feels like AI is either helping or harming your work, please DM me. I'm particularly interested in the effect the introduction of this technology has had on your outlook on your future and also on how you conduct your classroom. Thank you!
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That no regional liberal arts college struggling with enrollments has decided to rebrand as the place to go if you hate AI staggers the mind. Huge first mover advantage to whoever does it. That no one has testifies to the impoverished imagination of the academic admin class.
David Decosimo@DavidDecosimo
The first major university that publicly commits to a total AI ban in its undergrad teaching (no AI in class, in creating syllabi or class prep, creating & completing assignments, or grading) and makes that part of its brand will see a major surge in applications & enrollment.
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This is something @CarolynMcC has been pushing for more than a decade. I made the case in a 2018 opEd. You need to build A LOT of capacity to do M4A or PCA. nytimes.com/2018/01/31/opi…
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur
Scoop: Democratic think tank @SearchlightInst is pushing the party to embrace a new idea: Free primary care for all Americans. The group wants Dems to rethink their approach to health care and break out of the M4A vs ACA rut. They’re unimpressed with CAP’s proposal and warn that Dems need to have a vision beyond opposing Trump and restoring expired subsidies. “This is still our best issue, but we have not been on offense in a way that’s capturing people’s imaginations and getting them excited,” says @AJentleson. “We don’t need to be on defense or just advocating for incremental reforms.” Story w/ @BerkeleyJr: nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
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Paducah, Kentucky pulled this off. Attracted artists with inexpensive downtown housing and studio spaces. Funded a bunch of public arts initiatives, including a quilting museum. Turned around decades of population loss, and now one of the most charming towns in the state.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Once again: Broke Artists need to PICK A TOWN in the middle of nowhere and flock to it. Preferably a town that is: 1. Actively dying / hopeless 2. Chock full of DIRT CHEAP housing 3. In a high-minimum-wage state 4. Has some kind of public transit Ogdensburg NY comes to mind. As does Herkimer, Tupper Lake, Malone, Binghamton, and Massena NY. Each has some kind of a local bus, some kind of connection to coach bus or Amtrak, low rent, and crazy cheap property. Literally anyone who wants to live a low-rent lifestyle, making art, writing novels, hanging around in warehouses and cafes, etc can show up in one of these towns and make it work. $16/hr minimum wage, houses for as little as $40,000 (Ogdensburg and Massena) or, on the higher end, $100k (Tupper Lake). STOP being fixated on NYC / Philly / MTL. Just make the leap. I'm already up here. I already paved the way. And if you want it even cheaper come to a village like mine, my house was $33,000. There's a cabin down the road from here for $17,000. You do not need to work a job here, period.
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Zohran Mamdani is in Brooklyn to announce a baselining in library funding in the mayoral executive budget. It protects against future cuts.
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Grocery prices are soaring. Putting a fresh vegetable in your shopping cart costs 11.5% more this year than it did last year.
We need not accept rising costs as forces outside our control. Government can bring them down. Here in New York City, City Hall will do just that.
ABC News@ABC
Grocery prices in the U.S. soared faster in April than any month in nearly four years, driving up the cost of everything from frankfurters to tomatoes to cupcakes, according to government data. abcnews.link/xPaGhxl
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@uterati_rampage @nytopinion I hear you. I chose not to have kids (love kids though). To be fair to Anna who is a seasoned reproductive justice reporter, she’s well versed on the war on women’s bodies. I took her point to be simply that women and couples are having fewer children than they would like
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@melflashman @nytopinion She lost me when she cited the heritage foundation as a credible source while overlooking the fact that many young women are choosing not to have children as a form of protest against the war on women’s bodies. Or simply because they enjoy their child-free existence.
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Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All. Anna Louie Sussman the author of the book Inconceivable goes deep into the instability crisis nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opi… via @NYTOpinion
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The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism.
Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes?
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If you’re a professor or college administrator who has failed (or tried to fail) a student for AI cheating, my DMs are open. Interested in any and all experiences, information about your university’s protocols (if it has them) for punishing AI cheating, etc.
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Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani. He inherited a huge budget deficit, brought it down to zero, and still invested in childcare, housing and city infrastructure.
When municipal governments stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.
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We’re almost a week out from our first ever @KnowYrEnemyPod live show, a crossover with the great @mikeduncan—a fundraiser for @DissentMag! But if you’d like to join us, get your ticket now (link below); we’ve sold over 600 tickets so far, and capacity is around 700!
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"Unless we can break the habit of thinking like most economists do, we will sooner or later destroy our country, irreversibly damage our world, and perhaps, in the final analysis, doom the human species to a slow extinction. At a minimum, we stand no chance to improve matters, unless we can first understand, recognize, reject, and change the mental habits cultivated by conventional economics—and conventional economists." Coming 9/7/26
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"Musk, for example, has expressed a desire to 'destroy the woke mind virus.' As Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue in a forthcoming book, it does not require a great logical leap to suspect that he sees Neuralink as part of a way to do so." nytimes.com/2025/11/14/mag…
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As a reader & lit agent I didn’t think a piece abt a journalism scammer would hit so hard. Reporting,writing & editing are muscles you build over time. Alarming reminder of what we lose when we devalue skills thelocal.to/investigating-… via @TheLocal_TO
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The reason it's fun to read about infidelity is that it's all about lying — which writers and shrinks know is the truth. The reason it's mind-numbing to read about polyamory is that it's all about honesty — which writers and shrinks know is a lie.
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#BehindTheScenes of @JungNaiv
Live: @TiloJung interviews the historian Quinn Slobodian about Elon Musk & other Technokings
#Muskism
Raya notes down the best questions from the Livechat:
youtube.com/live/3Mzr_g8WQ…
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