2025-05-27


Horseshit


Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • The dystopia of '1984' is already here

    For the director, are the oppressed always right, as Orwell argued? “Fundamentally, yes. But that doesn’t mean I endorse all methods. For example, I don’t support Hamas and its policies. I support resistance, because it’s one people occupied by another, but not that way of fighting,” Peck clarifies.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

  • Study finds a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades

  • AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos

  • Kill the Admissions Essay

    In 2023, the Supreme Court rendered a 6-3 decision that effectively outlawed affirmative-action policies in college admissions, finding in favor of groups representing qualified students whose applications were rejected at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. But, as he often does, Chief Justice John Roberts left a loophole. It allows colleges to continue their discriminatory admissions policies if they desire, and Roberts made sure to point at it in the decision. He stressed that universities can still take into account “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.” It took Harvard less than a day to signal that it had heard Roberts loud and clear. In the university’s public response to the decision, officials quoted only one line from it: Roberts’s loophole. In the sentence immediately following that quote, Harvard said, “We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision.” Wink wink.

    in 2025, the admissions essay has only one purpose: It’s the part of the application where you signify whether you might be due special consideration based on your struggles. How do we know that’s the case? A simple survey of the writing prompts for personal statements at various North Carolina universities underscores that the primary concerns are hardship, victimization, oppression, and identity.

  • A Popular College Major Has One of the Highest Unemployment Rates (CS)

  • Student loan missed payments causes credit score drop for millions - The Washington Post

    Credit scores dipped by more than 100 points for 2.2 million delinquent student loan borrowers, and 150 points or more for more than 1 million in the first three months of 2025, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It’s the kind of credit score drop that follows a personal bankruptcy filing. Roughly 2.4 million of those Americans previously had favorable credit scores and would have qualified for car loans, mortgages or credit cards before these delinquencies were reported, researchers said.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Democrats

  • Democrats Still Searching for a Path Forward Months After 2024 Election - The New York Times

    The Democratic base is aghast at the speed with which Mr. Trump is undermining institutions and reversing progressive accomplishments — and at the lack of resistance from congressional leaders. Primary challenges are on the rise headed into 2026, often along generational and ideological lines.

    For now, Democratic donors and strategists have been gathering at luxury hotels to discuss how to win back working-class voters, commissioning new projects that can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places. The prospectus for one new $20 million effort, obtained by The Times, aims to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men, especially online. It is code-named SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” — and promises investment to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.” It recommends buying advertisements in video games, among other things. “Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone,” it urges.

  • Despite decades of Democrat health initiatives, Americans are sicker than ever.

Left Angst

World