"I never stopped being nineteen"
Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w agoHow did you become a libertarian? We sat down with 10 scholars and staff at the Cato Institute—with different origin stories, areas of expertise, and concerns—to find out how they came to libertarianism, what gives them hope, and what they would fix first if they could. https://ow.ly/ObOn50Zp4W9
The foundational lie of Trumpism (and I’m using that word precisely to refer to the ideology of intellectual types who defend him), from day one, has been the claim that good character is a “luxury belief” and nothing more than cover for the wealthy to punish the poor. This belief is evil.
Mark Andrew Price@pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 4w agoI don’t think "Dem HR ladies" is labor coded or working class aligned. It comes from the same place everything that is terrible in the last two years has come from. The backlash to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements.
Common loon coming in for a landing: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
An absolute masterpiece. Guy spent years making this and uploading dozens of videos on how, getting zero to 8 views each. I hope he can rack up more.
Is it possible that I don't own any novels written by somebody whose last name starts with "n" or am I missing a box?
Bailey Ober pitching like a tall, gawky Brad Radke out there.
Apparently VA lawmakers think most higher ed faculty are tenured. Not true. Here’s GMUs stats: 1238 adjuncts 718 tenured 571 term (limited contracts) 192 tenure-track The vast majority have few protections. We need Collective Bargaining NOW! @donscott757.bsky.social @ssurovell.bsky.social
The guys who play Hunter and Hollander on Heated Rivalry are not fast runners.
John Yoo thinks it's okay to torture people.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 5mo agoOn the other hand, John Yoo, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and former Justice Department official during the George W. Bush administration, says the consolidation of power in a strong executive is a return to previous norms.
Me: I'm giving up using Microsoft Office until Easter. Him: How do you think that's gonna go? Me: It will be Excel Lent.
in a time when the humanities getting TOO MUCH funding overall, certain prestigious institutions are allocating it in BAD and POLITICAL ways! and even if you “disagree” with this assessment, the reactions of others clearly suggests I may be on to SOMETHING ….
give me the ferments and free my soul I’m only eatin yogurt at the super bowl I’m RFK
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoRFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
I just read the sentence "She had French diseases of the soul." and I'm pretty sure my night's not going to get any better than that.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
Is everyone in MN a hero?
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
Euclid is known as the "father of geometry" because he got a triangle pregnant
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
I took an incredibly fun class with him when I was an undergrad.
Unicorn Riot@unicornriot.bsky.social · 9mo agoNEW Mini-Documentary: A Glimpse at the Legendary Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati As the Trump administration is attempting to erase Black history and silence educators, this documentary brings to life the importance of understanding the past, preserving Black history, and creating human rights for all. 🧵
just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
