Stringing multiple women along would be on-brand for Shkreli and would also explain the “fiancée” discrepancy in his court petition. It’s mind-boggling to me, but if he can find one mark, then he can certainly find others. If they exist, I imagine we’ll find out soon enough.

That whole Elle article was just a list of red flags and him priming her to accept being manipulated by him.

In most (all?) of the medical research institutes I’ve worked at (though admittedly none in the US), the custodial staff and the food staff were all employed through third party contractors. I strongly suspect that none of them will be included in the vaccination programs of these institutes because they aren’t…

Allegedly the error was caused by a faulty algorithm, however the protestors claim that Stanford became aware of the error on Tuesday and did nothing to course correct.

After “Heroes” became a success, our scripts came with a warning of our immediate dismissal, should any material ever be disclosed. “REMEMBER … WE’RE A FAMILY AND A FAMILY IS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE SECRETS WE KEEP” each script read.

The purpose of English classes in primary and secondary school is to teach students to read texts and use language in order to critically evaluate the myriad sources of information with which they are presented each day.

I think there was room to expand on the Daily Princetonian article, but I get what you’re saying: she wasn’t interested in doing that and opted to expand by making shit up rather than doing more actual work.

I honestly feel bad for kids applying to college now—and that’s without considering the pandemic. The pressure was intense back when I was doing it (about 15 years ago), but I think it gets worse every year. I can’t imagine what it’ll be like when my peers have to help their own kids through it.

I wasn’t aware of who Ruth Shalit was (I would have been 10 years old when she left The New Republic), and what strikes me about this controversy over her piece in The Atlantic is how unnecessary a lot of her flourishes were. Private coaches, traveling for tournaments, and just the fact that these parents are…

I also read piece when it came out. The idea of getting your kid into a niche sport to boost their chances of being accepted by an elite university struck me as something that probably worked reliably well 10+ years ago, but which now has too many people trying to exploit it, and so its success rate is dropping.

Any time that was brought up during her last campaign, she cried ageism.

Some of them are mad because if they hadn’t paid (or paid more slowly) they would also get to benefit from debt forgiveness and would have paid less overall. I think what these people want (whether they know it or articulate it or not) is some sort of refund on the amount they paid back. Others are bitter because…

I imagine the pandemic and the subsequent cancellation of sports at various colleges, universities, and high schools has caused a lot of schools to re-examine their policies around the role that sports should play in a student’s admission chances. After all, how do you judge an applicant who didn’t get to play their…

I’ve noticed that when people are confronted with something they don’t understand or are intimidated by, they’ll often focus on some relatively minor or unimportant aspect of it and talk about that. I do not believe that Biden has any real ideas about how to tackle police brutality, extrajudicial killings, and…

Seduced gets more into the specifics of the beliefs and looks at Salzman who seemed to be the more charismatic half of the leadership.

Yeah, I don’t think anything about it (the Vogue piece and the short film) is novel or important enough to merit a signal boost, but I really object to the bad faith summary of it. Either use it as a jumping off point to start an actual discussion, or ignore it altogether.

Here’s a link to the Vogue piece, in case anyone wants to read more than the quotes pulled out for this article. Much like the article on Emily Ratajkowski’s book recommendations, I think this one is a little unfair to her. The essay is less about gender identity and more a collection of musings about Ratajkowski’s…

I think that’s how some people cope with being abused: “I hate it, but someday, I’ll get to do it to someone else, and so it’ll even out.” For these people, justice starts and ends with their own personal ledger of times they were wronged and times when they got to wrong someone else.

Pleasing your parents is nice, but you can bear a little disappointment. Truly, it will not kill you if they think you are making a mistake…

Exactly this. The narrative after a debate always favors the candidate that goes into them with lower expectations. And Joe Biden has experienced this before in his first vice presidential debate, where he was up against Sarah Palin. She didn’t “win” but she got tons of credit for making it through the whole thing…