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This tweet struck a chord with me, and while I don't often get personal on the Tweeters, given the point made here, I feel it's important. So here we go. Happy #pridemonth. x.com/jpbrammer/status/87146…
Confession: When I was younger, I never really bought into the idea of "pride."
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I can't speak to what this particular professor does, but when a professor basically just reads their PowerPoint slides, it's less likely to be a consequence of "phone addiction" or whatever, and more likely to be sheer boredom or "why am I even here."
I had profs that didn't use slides and kept me fully engaged and even enraptured every class session. That was sadly not the norm, however.
College students cannot sit through a fifty minute lecture without getting up to check their phones
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The First Amendment is not fooled by simply recasting speech restrictions as "public health regulations"
Jun 8
Rep. Auchincloss admits on the record that the mass surveillance and censorship laws he and his ilk are seeking to pass are a massive threat to free speech, and he suggests pushing the moral panic about "kids mental health" in order to circumvent the very legit speech concerns.
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This is a terrific line
Kansas State A.D. Gene Taylor, speaking on the record to @RossDellenger, calls the court ruling in the Brendan Sorsby case "fucking bullshit" -- and Big 12 teams are considering refusing to play Texas Tech. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…
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Ari Cohn retweeted
Jun 8
The fish rots from the head.
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So the solution is to allow the government to make it illegal to question the results of elections they administer?
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face...
this kind of behavior isn't going to stop until we start enforcing legal consequences for election denial
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How can evolution be true if I am still Charles Darwin
Jun 2
"I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
—Charles Darwin, 1861
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All trying to find the guy who did this dot meme
My cancer docs are celebrating all the new drugs coming into the armamentarium, but they say in 2-6 years there’s going to be a lag because do much research has been stopped
nytimes.com/2026/06/05/well/… via @NYTimes
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Good.
Jun 4
Wow, the S&P Dow Jones Indices has just officially announced that they will NOT be changing their inclusion rules to make it easier for “MegaCap” companies (such as @SpaceX) to be fast-tracked into the S&P 500.
Their reasoning:
"S&P DJI determined that exceptions to the financial viability, seasoning, and IWF requirements should not be granted solely based on market capitalization. The decision not to adopt the proposed exceptions preserves core index principles by maintaining consistent application of these key requirements. Although there may be trade-offs between strict adherence to these eligibility requirements and broad representativeness, the current methodology provides substantial market coverage and sector balance. As a result, the indices can continue to meet their stated objectives while preserving their role as representative and investable benchmarks for the U.S. equity market.
No changes will be made to the eligibility criteria including financial viability screens, seasoning period, or minimum IWF, for the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, or S&P SmallCap 600 as a result of the S&P Dow Jones Indices consultation on the treatment of MegaCap companies. Accordingly, there will be no changes to existing methodology for this index family."
This means that the earliest @SpaceX could be eligible to be added to the S&P 500 would now be June 2027.
The requirements that will now remain in place are:
• No changes to S&P 500 eligibility rules for mega-cap companies.
• Mega-cap companies will still need to wait 12 months after their IPO before being considered for S&P 500 inclusion.
• S&P will not waive profitability requirements for mega-cap companies. The company must have positive GAAP net income in the most recent quarter, and the sum of the most recent four consecutive quarters.
• S&P will not waive minimum public float requirements for mega-cap companies. At least 10% of a company's shares must be publicly tradable ("free float").
The S&P rejected proposals that would have:
• Reduced the IPO seasoning period from 12 months to 6 months
• Waived profitability requirements
• Waived minimum public float requirements
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Ari Cohn retweeted
Jun 4
These are allegations of physical abuse. No one should minimize them.
Jun 4
From the NY Times article on Graham Platner:
"regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks"
"yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car"
"he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out"
How would you describe a man who did that?
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Still maybe the weirdest goddamn tweet ever posted
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You’re not men. You’re boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.
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Ari Cohn retweeted
Proponents of #socialmedia bans for teens suggest that teens themselves want them. A new study addresses this directly. Do young adults regret the time they spent on social media as teens. And does that regret influence their current #mental health?
Have a read!
(link to follow)
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This phrasing is certainly just inconceivably bad judgment in every way, but:
Isn't this really the fundamental (if worded differently) goal of every product/service? Make people want to keep using it and feel they just couldn't live without it (and thus keep paying for it)?
Jun 2
Microsoft's internal documents reveal the first phase of their new AI assistant Scout is literally called "Make people addicted"
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I am begging CEOs and companies to be more careful about how they talk about their offerings and stop playing directly into the hands of lawmakers, regulators, and the Plaintiffs' Bar--who will use their own words to justify intrusion into the First Amendment rights of everyone.
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