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In a demonstration for New York Focus, Kiguel told the avatar that he was being bullied at school and wanted to get revenge on the student. “I’m really sorry that happened to you. Being picked on and having rocks thrown at you is not okay, and that must have felt upsetting and maybe even scary,” the avatar responded. “The best next step is to tell a trusted adult at school right away, like a teacher, counselor or principal, and let your parent or guardian know, too.” Beehler emphasized the importance of safety and privacy, noting that the robot and avatar operate on a closed system that is not connected to the internet, and that Realbotix will not have access to personally identifiable student information.
a garbage truck with a robotic arm lifts a garbage bin with a small above-ground receptacle connected to a much larger underground box
During this interim period, the Department will enforce cybersecurity compliance with the NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 standard through self-assessments and select government-led assessments, focusing on tangible cyber hygiene rather than administrative overhead.
still from a video with headline: Great White Shark washes ashore on Navarre Beach, Florida video shows a shark who looks embarrassed that he looks like Mitch McConnell
a wood frame two-flat in north Forest Park with a gable roof, stone foundation, and light blue siding
three-star Google review for the Galena and U.S. Grant Museum. 8 months ago The museum was interesting. I would skip the blatantly politically biased speech by the cashier. The rest of the museum presented unbiased facts. Except that the gift shop was also biased.
princess peach sitting in a library with a couple of ghosts hovering around her
current results for the IL-07 Democratic primary, 79% reporting La Shawn K. Ford 19,073 +23.3%23.3% Melissa Conyears-Ervin 16,026 +19.6%19.6 Anthony Driver Jr. 9,430 +11.5%11.5 Kina Collins 7,915 +9.7%9.7 Thomas Fisher 6,590 +8.0%8.0 Jason Friedman 6,411 +7.8%7.8 Anabel Mendoza 4,582 +5.6%5.6 Reed Showalter 3,879 +4.7%4.7 Richard R. Boykin 3,364 +4.1%4.1 Jazmin J. Robinson 2,091 +2.6%2.6 Rory Hoskins 1,668 +2.0%2.0 David Ehrlich 646 +0.8%0.8 Felix Tello 286 +0.3%0.3 Total reported 81,961
original text: Trump plans to take control of the Strait of Hormuz by force, in a move that could also last several weeks, according to an Israeli source. translated into the "aristocrats" joke: So this family walks into a talent agent's office, right? And the dad says, "Have we got an act for you!" He explains that Trump is planning to seize the Strait of Hormuz by force, and according to some Israeli source, the whole performance is going to last for several weeks. The agent, totally shocked, asks, "What do you call an act like that?" And the dad smiles and says, "The Aristocrats!"
the new wing of Rush University Medical Center
cover of What Wood is That? by Herbert L. Edlin. Subtitle: "With 40 Actual Wood Specimens"
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From time to time instances will arise in which the society, or segments of it, threaten the very mission of the university and its values of free inquiry. In such a crisis, it becomes the obligation of the university as an institution to oppose such measures and actively to defend its interests and its values. https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/documents/reports/KalvenRprt_0.pdf
front page of the Forest Park Review. The top story is "Nerds Juicy Gummy Clusters Advertised at Super Bowl LX"
Far Side cartoon with parents arriving home and telling the babysitter, who is a witch, "Now let me get this straight... We hired you to babysit the kids, and instead you cooked and ate them *both?*"
Karen Peart, a Yale spokesperson, wrote in a statement to the News on Tuesday that Gelernter's class "proceeded without disruption." "Yale is committed to excellence in the classroom and to fostering an environment in which all members of our community feel respected and valued. Leadership in the School of Engineering and Applied Science became aware this morning of reports that a course might be disrupted. As with all instances when a course or event disruption is anticipated, a free expression facilitator and security were on site," Peart wrote.
Karen Peart, a Yale spokesperson, wrote in a statement to the News on Tuesday that Gelernter’s class “proceeded without disruption.” “Yale is committed to excellence in the classroom and to fostering an environment in which all members of our community feel respected and valued. Leadership in the School of Engineering and Applied Science became aware this morning of reports that a course might be disrupted. As with all instances when a course or event disruption is anticipated, a free expression facilitator and security were on site,” Peart wrote.
CHAPTER 27 Some Account of a Man of Questionable Morality, but who, nevertheless, would seem Entitled to the Esteem of that Eminent English Moralist who said He Liked a Good Hater
close-up of "Un" from "United States." The stroke widths of the capital U and lowercase n don't match at all.
CNN, election night 2008. Chyron: "WILL.I.AM VIA HOLOGRAM - PERFORMER & OBAMA SUPPORTER"
Orson Welles as Louis XVIII with a look of self-doubt breaking through an attempt to project imperious disdain
Achewood from March 21, 2007. Panel Caption: SOON. Closeup of Ray's hand, holding a DVD case. Pictured on the case is a dog shaking excitedly in front of a bowl of food. The title on the case reads "Great, Great, _Great_!" It carries the subtitle "From the FINNISH" and is further labeled as being "DOUBLE-SUBTITLED." The case also features a sticker carrying the "handicapped" logo surrounded by the text "HOT PICK!"]] Ray: Pat? Yeah, Ray here. I made us up a prototype.
hand-painted mural in the dining room
Far Side comic for the week of Dec 8 in 2003. Two polar bears have lifted an igloo up but failed to grab the resident before they ran away. One bear says, "I lift, you grab... Was that concept just a little too complex, Carl?" The joke here is that a polar bear is named Carl.
youtube comment from @kvgriffin, 11 years ago: "I left home at 17 and all I took with me was my 'All-nighter bag' a tiny portable record player and 20 Northern Soul classics. That's all I needed and probably still do!" First response, from @spannermunki: "did that at 15 1978 and never looked back"
a poll question from Dynata asking you to rate how much a statement convinces you to support a candidate in the 2026 IL 7th District Democratic primary: “As Chicago City Treasurer, Conyears-Ervin has used her position in charge of Chicago's finances to make sure our investments follow our values. That is why she has called for Chicago to stop investing in federal bonds so we are not supporting President Trump and ICE's illegal assault on the people of Chicago.”
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Google News results relating to the UC San Diego admissions report on a rapid drop in the math and verbal skills of admitted students. Top results are from: Inside Higher Ed, Newsweek, Hoodline, AEI, The Free Press, Straight Arrow News, Fox News, College Fix, New York Post, Marginal Revolution. Most of these are right-wing outlets, and none are mainstream general news outlets.
However, the administration is showing little appetite for such a move. University systems are not typically used “to alert community members to law enforcement activity,” McSwiggan said.
screengrab from the video. the woman on the left has her head on backwards
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/4501240f-58b7-4433-9a3f-77eff18d0898 An aggressive borrowing spree to expand its research capacity also weighed on the university’s financial health. UChicago’s outstanding debt, measured by notes and bonds payable, climbed by about two-thirds in the decade ending 2024, to $6.1bn, as it poured resources into new fields such as molecular engineering and quantum science.
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/4501240f-58b7-4433-9a3f-77eff18d0898 UChicago’s strains came after its $10bn endowment — a critical source of revenue — delivered an annualised return of 6.7 per cent over the 10 years to 2024, among the weakest performances of any major US university. The private university has taken a more conservative investment approach than many peers, with greater exposure to fixed income and less to equities since the global financial crisis in 2008.
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/4501240f-58b7-4433-9a3f-77eff18d0898 Yet UChicago was not risk-averse when it came to digital assets. The university’s financial statement shows it invested $64mn in cryptocurrencies in 2021. Samstein said the value of those holdings had “well more than doubled” since their acquisition (the school stopped publishing the value of the position after 2022). The investment has not yet generated any distributions, but Samstein said it was “not designed for cash flow.”
The Bolshevik peace propaganda, as an American observer put it, 'was indeed urgent and active, but ... it was much the case of a man blowing with his breath in the same direction with a full grown natural tornado'. . Yet in their desire to avert Russia's 'defection', the allied envoys almost persuaded themselves that the tornado would die down if only the Bolsheviks stopped blowing. Almost from the beginning of the February Revolution the British and the French ambassadors urged Prince Lvov, Miliukov, and Kerensky to suppress Lenin's party. The heads of their military missions hopefully encouraged Kornilov to stage his coup against Kerensky and the Menshevik Soviets.3 Two days before the October insurrection, the British Ambassador in quite undiplomatic language pressed the Russian Ministers for Trotsky's immediate arrest. Now when the Bolsheviks were in power, their revolutionary appeals, their disregard of diplomatic form, and their threat to publish and declare null and void the secret treaties and to withdraw Russia from the war, brought the hostility of the allies to a head. Their envoys were so bewildered by the upheaval they had witnessed and at such a loss to account for it that they were inclined to accept any crime story purporting to offer an explanation. They were half-convinced that Lenin and Trotsky were in fact Germany's bought agents and that it was German officers who had so efficiently and smoothly directed the October insurrection. One consolation was left-that the Bolsheviks would soon be overthrown; and that it was the duty of the allied powers to speed up that moment. Footnotes too long for alt text but include juicy quotes: "In the present phase of the revolution Russia can make neither peace nor war" Sir George Buchanan wrote in his diary: "Information has now reached me, though l am unable to vouch for its accuracy, to the effect that there are six of their officer [i.e. German officers] attached to Lenin's staff in the Smolny Institute"
"If a detainee dies from beating, then there is a reasonable chance that it was not during the GSS interrogations. A detainee goes through a lot of stations before reaching the 'interrogation cellars' of the GSS. He passes through the hands of non-combat units who have no more than the usual animal standard of kitchen and storeroom staff. They'll kill me for what I'm saying, but I mean it."375 Prisoners describe interrogation rooms as highly coercive environments "from which there is no escape until the interrogation ends. 76 Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin confirmed, for example, that during the first Intifada, about eight thousand people were subjected to al-Hazz, or violent shaking?™ In one survey of 477 prisoners, the vast majority describe being beaten (95.8 percent), forced to stand (92.9 percent), deprived of sleep (71 percent), or subjected to intense noise (71 percent), extremes of cold (92.9 percent), and heat (76.7 percent); pressure to the neck (68.1 percent); genital squeezing (66 percent); irritant gas (13.4 percent); instruments in penis or rectum (11.1 percent); and electroshock (5•9 percent). Most prisoners in this survey served less than five years, indicating they were convicted for "simple" crimes 8 Another survey of 708 individuals (369 on the West Bank and 339 on the Gaza Strip) could not correlate the kind of torture with the seriousness of charges. Overall, 85 percent of prisoners arrested and 94 percent of those interrogated were subjected to various tortures.379 Those handed over for trial are usually convicted. Israel's military cours have a conviction rate of 96.8 percent in all cases, and the main evidence is usually a full confession by the accused. These numbers would be the envy of American and European prosecutors. This figure even tops japanese confession rates (86 percent) and is similar to those found in Japan during and before World War II.380 False confessions are inevitable in contexts like these.
ICE scum in the process of walking a detained person down the street while a large crowd of onlookers follow and take video, including many people standing on their front stoops
Hand-drawn map of Israel and surroundings, taken from Northwestern's mandatory "anti-bias" training. The text reads "Jews are from... Israel. (This is a contemporary map. The ancient Jewish homeland was much bigger and stretched into what is now Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon.)" The map includes the Golan Heights and apparently all of Jerusalem within Israel's borders, and the West Bank has a hashed-line border and includes the names Judea and Samaria in parentheses. Source: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/10/campus/new-required-bias-training-met-with-boycotts-from-sjp-and-jvp-approval-from-others
Karl Wirsum's "Plug Bug," a mural on the back of the ComEd substation in the quoted post. The mural is now obscured by the Block 37 development
Yahoo Finance chart of DIS stock since Jan 1. The recent slide is trivially small and it's generally been hovering around the same range the whole year apart from a much larger but temporary dip in the spring.
a Google review reading "Love this spot. I had my funeral here"
the ending of The Vanishing (1988)
the climactic moment from Lake Mungo
the famous long hallway shot from The Exorcist III
that time a coyote walked into a quizno’s in the loop and curled up in the drinks cooler
The three mechanisms of Escape from Freedom correspond to three types of authority—external, internal, and anonymous—that sway the individual in modern society to varying degrees. External authority is most evident in the behavior of the authoritarian character which manifests itself in the symbiotic, codependent relationship between sadist and masochist. This codependency is the transposition to the world of psychology of the master-slave allegory familiar to readers of Hegel’s philosophy. The mostly unconscious goal of both sides is “to fuse one’s self with somebody or something outside of oneself in order to acquire the strength which the individual self is lacking” (140). The masochist, feeling himself weak and alone, submits to the authority and protection of the sadist, and the sadist “needs the person over whom he rules, he needs him very badly, since his own feeling of strength is rooted in the fact that he is the master over someone. This dependence may be entirely unconscious” (144). Regrettably his strength does not derive from self-confident feelings about his own abilities and agency. Fromm underscores the typical illusion of both love and power in these relations.46 In fact, says Fromm, the love is phony since the relations are not based on mutual respect and equality, but on asymmetrical power relations; and the power is also phony since the sadist is actually terrified of his impotence—his fear that he’s unable to create or make—for which his domination over another (a substitute maker and doer who will carry out his orders) is the flawed solution: “Power, in the sense of domination, is the perversion of potency, just as sexual sadism is the
It sometimes even happens that a conspicuously successful technique in some area of behavioral science is not only identified with "scientific method," but comes to be so mechnically applied that it undermines the very spirit of scientific inquiry. Electronic computers, game-theoretic models, and statistical formulas are but instruments after all; it is not they that produce scientific results but the investigator who uses them scientifically. Paul Meehl (40:498) pointedly asks (in a paper with the question as title), when shall we use our heads instead of the formula? The question is one that behavioral science must continue to face. For having so long been a poor relation of the well-established sciences, it must continuously resist the impulse to see in every new development the promise at last of quick and easy riches.
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientists. I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled. To select candidates for training as pilots, one psychologist will conduct depth interviews, another will employ projective tests, a third will apply statistical techniques to questionnaire data, while a fourth will regard the problem as a "practical" one beyond the capacity of a science which cannot yet fully predict the performance of a rat in a maze. And standing apart from them all may be yet another psychologist laboring in remote majesty--as the rest see him--on a mathematical model of human learning. The law of the instrument, however, is by no means wholly pernicious
While models of international trade generally assume that trade will balance itself over time, the United States has run persistent current account deficits for five decades, indicating that the core premise of most trade models is incorrect.
Massachusetts Representative Anson Burlingame publicly humiliated Brooks by goading him into challenging Burlingame to a duel, only to set conditions designed to intimidate Brooks into backing down: As the challenged party, Burlingame, who was a crack shot, had the choice of weapons and dueling ground. He selected rifles on the Canada side of Niagara Falls, where U.S. anti-dueling laws would not apply. Brooks withdrew his challenge, claiming that he did not want to expose himself to the risk of violence by traveling through Northern states to get to Niagara Falls.
The Law and Political Economy Project appeared to embrace Dr. Doutaghi’s views, featuring her last year in a virtual event titled, “A Political Economy of Genocide and Imperialism.” The page describing the discussion has been scrubbed from the project website, but it referred to the “genocide in Palestine,” a characterization that some pro-Israel groups have called antisemitic.
the impossibly trinity. Free capital flow, fixed exchange rate, sovereign monetary policy: pick two.
still from nightmare at twenty thousand feet of william shatner closing his eyes so he doesn't see the scary thing he knows goddamn well is right there ripping the plane apart
community center with a lit-up banner of a determined-looking teenage girl with Ukrainian flag face paint and a trickle of blood coming from her forehead
On February 10th, Trump was in the Oval Office getting rid of paper straws. "I don't think that plastic is going to affect a shark very much as they are eating, as they are munching their way through the ocean," he said.
Some federal workers were on leave — such as sick leave, parental leave or paid administrative leave imposed by the Trump administration — and unable to access their emails. Others, in the Defense Department, were on duty tours in remote locations, like jungles, without access to computers. (from the Washington Post)
Perhaps the sorriest aspect of the Buchanan campaign is the obligation most mainstream journalists feel to declare this boor "interesting," mainly because he customarily feeds at the same trough they do. Yes, he will get 30 percent of the New Hamphsire Republican vote, and so would Adolf Hitler or General Franco. I'm from here, and I've seen this movie before. from "Northern Exposure" by Gary Indiana, 1992
george w bush doing a pinwheel chest bump with a marine (or sailor? I don't know mil stuff) in dress uniform
musk tweet: "To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following: - Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible. - All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING! - The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are ... [screenshot cuts off but i'm sure it's a whole lot more evil dumb bullshit]
At the same time, its one inviolable belief has become simply this, not a politics, right or left, but an ideology: the Times, as an institution, believes what has been published in its pages. To defend this belief it will go very far.
Empowered by President Trump, Mr. Musk is waging a largely unchecked war against the federal bureaucracy — one that has already had far-reaching consequences.