Dude, it's awesome that you found that. I couldn't get past Google explaining to me that I couldn't vape indoors and those things didn't exist in the early 1900s anyway.

THANK YOU!!!

Here's the Denver Gazette.

Here's where CBS News announced that a judge gave an emergency order to close the apartments due to them being an "immediate threat to public safety."

Now, were they a threat to National Security? Did they have access to the nuclear codes or the machine that keeps the caldera from blowing up? No, they don't.

If you want to say that the threat posed to people who live in the nice part of town was an exaggerated threat, I don't have anything to demonstrate that you or people you know were ever in danger.

Sure, but that's all Engineer Level 3 and up kinda stuff.

I'm talking about AI replacing helpers.

One of the big problems that is going to have to be overcome is the whole "that's not true! That's a conspiracy theory!" thing.

Remember when TDA being in charge of an apartment complex in Aurora was a conspiracy theory? Well, as it turns out, it ended up being true. The authorities (including the 4th Estate, for some reason) was very interested in making sure that we all knew that the rumors of TDA being in Denver were exaggerations.

Oh, so now as part of the cleanup, we find out that TDA was here and all that? And in getting rid of TDA, we're getting rid of people who aren't part of TDA?

You're going to have to get the really good people in charge of asking for empathy. Having them be the same people as the folks who sneered at the conspiracy theorists is going to have results that you're not going to like.

I'm not sure that she has a whole lot in common with the other speakers that have been shut down over the last dozen years or so.

Isn't that a requirement for a blacklist? A common theme?

Well, other than the "potentially harmful" thing?

I'm not sure that it's a blacklist as such. It's just another name on the pile.

We used to get Level 3 Engineers from the best and brightest of the Level 2 Engineering pool.

I don't know where we'll get Level 3s after they stop making Level 2s.

Maybe we'll make it so that AI is so good that we'll only need Level 4s. That'll solve that problem.

From your article:

Liu, who said she was already in New York when she received the call, told CTV News that she was told that the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” and that the USAID slides might be perceived as “anti-governmental”.

Hate Speech has never had a place on campus.

Also, New York University is a private school so it can do whatever it wants.

Given what I've seen AI do to coding, I'm expecting AI to do similar to lawyering.

That is: you won't need paralegals or entry-level staff anymore... hell, you won't need junior partners.

Just Level 3 Engineers and up.

Freedom of Speech doesn't mean Freedom of Reach. The doctor can still say whatever she wants, the university just said "you aren't entitled to say it *HERE*".

If it prevents violence, you have to agree that it's the right decision.

Well, driving a rift between Musk and Trump seemed to be the main goal for a few months there.

Starting rumors that Musk is the shadow president wasn't able to do it... but if anything could, something like this will pull it off.

Yeah, looks like the Three Groups of Voters have different takes on him.

1. AUGH I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM! I'M GOING TO VANDALIZE CARS THAT HIS COMPANY MAKES, I HATE HIM SO MUCH!!!
2. Eh. He's annoying but he's given us a handful of Dubs. He *HAS* given us Dubs... right? DOGE is accomplishing stuff, right? Occasionally?
3. He's pretty annoying to the point where I'd vote to have him go away.

See the difference there? 1 gets fired up, not depressed. 2 is tentative but not particularly energized. 3s are turned off entirely.

Did you hear about New York University cancelling Dr. Joanne Liu's speech? Just happened earlier today.

Apparently, it was going to mention some stuff that was going to make some students there uncomfortable.

The Daily Beast reviews Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr, and Michael McKean playing in a new revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross".

I know that we have some theater afficionados here and I think that they'll really enjoy this review. The reviewer finds the crude and harsh language (including slurs) used by the actors to be offputting and he is disturbed by how the audience laughs at the dialog in the play:

In the play, the characters that say these words aren’t cautioned or castigated or proven wrong. Mamet simply has them say them; the response of the audience in 2025—laughing at them merrily saying the words—is its own telling-on-itself.

If you like Mamet, you will *LOVE* this review.

Trumpism but *SMART*?

Is there a market for that?

Musk seems to have flipped from Grey to Red (though who knows how long that will last).

Cass is an old-schooly kind of guy and seems to be the type of Team Red that no longer has a home under the new Stupid Party Paradigm.

A man out of time but 100% comfortable in the party of McCain and Romney.

Team Rust?

This isn't exactly the Grey Tribe (though Musk has overlap with them and Thiel is Grey to the bone).

Gold Tribe?

Welp, they're going for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione.

Sacco and Vanzetti, 2025.

Apparently, you have to keep an eye out for the guy who loftily explains that the time for argument is past.

I haven't even seen a "you know, it wasn't *THAT* bad" review yet. The two buckets I've seen so far are "it's as bad as you feared" and "it's worse than you feared".

Oh, yeah. For what it's worth, the stuff they dug up about Ward Churchill *WAS* worth firing him over.

Plagiarism! I mean, now we know that it's complicated but back in the day it was an actual sin! And he was so egregious that it embarrassed the institution which, I've already said, is the only unforgivable.

Which turns the discussion into "would they have brought out the fine-tooth combs if Churchill hasn't embarrassed the institution?" and the answer to that is "of course not".

But, at that point, you've got yourself a pickle anyway.

The Gibson's Bakery thing is the one that gets me to say that academia has no idea how much good will they've lost and the sheer number of grads who are screaming for debt relief are making that relationship even worse.

The grey tribe is going to learn what it hates about the red tribe good and hard again, but when it comes to academia?

I'm not sure that the red tribe will do a whole lot of harm to the red/grey alliance based on the academia thing.

Academia is part of why the greys left.

Do you have the high notes?

Well, I think that one of the big problems plaguing the relationship everybody has right now is that there are isolated demands for rigor and one of the places we see it is, yes, the academy.

Like we can have years of one particular ruleset and then, when the Trump Administration shows up and threatens Universities for, for example, antisemitism on campus in violation of campus policy, the response is not "wow... these DEI rules came back to bite us in the butt, I guess" but "where are the free speech absolutists".

You've noticed that, right?

The numbers are in: A Working Man is the #1 Movie in America.

Failing one test but passing the one where I just like sputtering "how dare you"s in response to offensive comparisons in any given discussion of Ward Churchill.