DB Krupp
@dbkrupp.bsky.social
Working on social evolution theory, kinship, inequality, and competition. Probably not the interdisciplinarian you’re looking for. https://www.saltlab.org
This is the exact bill Republicans in Minnesota tried to pass: genital exams for 7 year olds to play t-ball. Absolutely sick
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
How dare I as a taxpayer subsidize inexpensive food I will never take advantage of. Socialist nonsense. I want my taxes to go to things that directly benefit me like the Iran War or SpaceX subsidies or White House remodeling.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
RFK Jr. is now telling parents to vaccinate their children against measles. It only took 2,371 confirmed infections, the highest number recorded in 35 years. Better late than never… unless you are one of those families that had to learn this lesson the hard way. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
It’s not a panacea, but the fascists are getting 20-25% of the vote & aren’t dominating politics in multiparty systems. Also, Americans love to point to 🇮🇱 & 🇬🇧, which are two of the worst-designed parliamentary systems. Anyway, more & stronger parties are absolutely a bulwark against fascism.
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 5d agopeople love the idea of a multi party system. based on israel, UK, and really lots of other places, I'm much less convinced. our problem is fascism. if we don't defeat fascism, it doesn't matter how many parties we have.
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
We need to separate two distinct failures: 1/Schools stayed closed longer than they needed to bec the govt failed to put in strong mitigation measures to make them safe 2/Johnson failed to invest properly in helping children recover – a failure that led Sir Kevan Collins to resign as “catch‑up tsar”
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
SHOOT IT INTO MY VEINS
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5d agoI remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
Between hocking crypto accounts and prediction markets, I'm getting increasingly grossed out by @wealthsimple.bsky.social. Not sure I will stay a customer if this keeps up.
Canada has banned some prediction markets. Wealthsimple is showcasing them anyway
Wealthsimple's new prediction markets app shows Canadian users popular markets, such as who will win the 2028 US presidential election, even if the company can't let users bet on them due to Canadian ...
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The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or Alice In Chains
Marc F. Bellemare@marcfbellemare.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or Alice In Chains upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2w agoThe editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
It's not about trust in science or higher ed. It's about corruption, cronyism, brute force, hatred by authoritarians (stop calling them populists) for independent thought, knowledge. Derek Lowe from Science Magazine nails it. This is all BS. To say otherwise is to make excuses for these monsters.
Another massive jump in Ebola cases in DRC (reflecting new cases as well as "data harmonization"). Now 2,905 cases including 1,269 deaths. I find it harder every day to square the size and speed of spread of this outbreak with the lack of attention it is getting. insp.cd/sitrep-n069-...
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
Great example of the dual meanings of freedom. In this case, it’s not the freedom FROM oppression that matters, but the freedom TO opppress. To make others bear the risk of your desire not to wear a mask. To lock up those coming from a place one likely dislikes.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is the “cOvId ToOk My FrEeDoMs” guy, BTW.
Truly one of the greatest things Canada has ever put out, finally coming to streaming.
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Want to do a PhD to work on models of opinion dynamics and the inequalities of information flow, with an emphasis on climate change and climate policy? Apply by October 15 to work with Ago Merico and myself, based at @leibniz-zmt.de in Bremen, Germany. www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/vacancies...
Doctoral candidate (gn) - WG Systems Ecology
Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) erforscht tropische und subtropische Küstenökosysteme und ihre Bedeutung für Natur und Menschen erforscht.
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Ontario budgeted $150M for wildfire response in 2026 despite spending $271M last year. Now, half way through July, there are approx 190 active wildfires. There have been 483 total this season. There were 351 TOTAL last year. Story for @nationalobserver.com from last month.
Ontario budgets just $150M for wildfires despite burning through almost double last year
In 2025’s budget, Ontario allotted $135 million for its Emergency Forest Firefighting fund, but the province ended up spending double that: $271 million, according to this year’s budget. The same docu...
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The Ministry of Natural Resources said they “didn’t see the fire” that tore through the neighbouring community of Collins “until it was too late,” due to a strain on resources with many fires burning in the area. The Ford government budgeted half of what it spent on wildfires last year for 2026.
Ontario wildfire response fans flames of distrust
With the provincial government keeping a low profile and a dearth of solid information, some of the people impacted by the wildfires raging in Ontario's north are seeking alternative explanations.
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lol. lmao. of course it's vanderweele. full of obfuscation, cherry picked examples, and deliberately avoiding the harms of conservatism (the trump admin isn't conservative?) mostly just insane that such a blatant piece of propaganda gets published in AJPH ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Conservatives Belong in Public Health | AJPH | Vol. Issue
Public health depends on trust with the communities it seeks to serve, and yet this trust has historically been difficult to establish within conservative-leaning communities and individuals. Much of ...
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