No, it just means ‘girl’ - borrowed from Arabic, where it has no negative connotation, but in British English it’s usually disrespectful (not a slur or swear)
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No, it just means ‘girl’ - borrowed from Arabic, where it has no negative connotation, but in British English it’s usually disrespectful (not a slur or swear)
In all seriousness I went to school to teach political science not to teach AI. So in my classes students will learn political science concepts and how to apply them. Someone else can teach them AI
I was once having dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Chelsea and noticed that the man two tables away, also eating alone, was almost certainly Gary Waldhorn (who played David Horton on The Vicar of Dibley)
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
Once again reminding everyone that the majority of people stranded in the UAE are not influencers or expats or tourists, but South Asian (and SE Asian and African) workers whose passports are often controlled by their employers and whose govts have made no attempts to repatriate.
Kristi Noem in a chair seat, riding in a curb with full contact, holding the reins like she’s playing tug of war, slouched back, dropped chest, stirrups too short, rider too fascist
Kristi Noem should have been impeached for her equitation long ago but I’ll take it however we get it
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...
It’s possible to recognize the value in varied work experiences without arguing that academic work is not a “real job,” I promise you.
Oh my God I didn’t read that line at the end. What a ridiculous exercise.
Hey is anybody else wracked with despair and up for some hero shit (canine edition) 👀
Because I’d like to see if we can try and get three (3) ABTCR hounds into new homes this weekend
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Sheehy is a useless, dimwitted, dishonorable thug who shames the state of Montana and insults everyone who ever wore a uniform. He should resign but he won’t.
Has anyone asked him if he wrote that essay himself? 🙃
My sympathies to the hotel staff, and only the hotel staff
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Maybe he’s just mad they didn’t hire him to do it
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
I will send $50 to the interviewer who asks him live on camera to point to Iran OR Iraq on a map
“No stupid rules of engagement”
Here’s CBS “news” casually referring to Iran’s nuclear weapons as if Iran has nuclear weapons. They couldn’t possibly sink lower.
My junior high school was on an air force base. No one would have considered it a legitimate military target.
The humanitarian costs of this war are going to be awful, but I also think US leaders don’t get that there will also be political costs - for the US
It would be great if this classic weren’t perennially relevant
Aggressive war entails legally unjustified killing, maiming, and destruction. It is an atrocity crime.
As the Human Rights Committee has emphasized, the killing inflicted in such a campaign violates the right to life.
Well, quite
I see the frat boys are naming the wars now
Also, I have taught Middle East politics to military officers in our grad program and assigned things like Islamist ideology - would he rather they *didn’t* understand this material? Pretty sure it didn’t turn anyone into an enemy of the state
It’s just grad programs (for now) and certain universities (for now). Still incredibly dumb
Holy shit
A coonhound lies on his back on a sofa with a goofy look on his face
Look at this dork
