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

I'm talking about AI replacing helpers.

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.

Michael Kotlikoff is trying to do some light damage control: I’m Cornell’s President. We’re Not Afraid of Debate and Dissent.

It's a good essay. I don't know that it will *WORK*, necessarily, but it's probably the best play available.