It cannot be stated strongly enough that both mainstream political parties and the center that exists between them think of you not as an equal contributor to society, but instead as a whiny peasant who has to be mollified by occasional acts of charity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Gallego: "This whole DSA, progressive stuff -- that is the field of nerds. The everyday voter doesn't think that deeply about the interplay of our politics. They care about the cost of school supplies going up."

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I just scanned the negatives and Oh My God????? #filmphotography 📷 Canon Elan 7 + 100mm macro 🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 🧪 Black White and Green

The Fiber Farm (Jen)@jjco.bsky.social · last wk.

Not right now I’m extremely busy

-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."

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RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-

The point. Of universities. Is not. To perform. The political spectrum.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last wk.

Viewpoint diversity is the opposite of peer review. You should not be leading a university if you don’t believe in peer review asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...

i promise there are tenured conservative humanities and social sciences profs at -- *checks notes* -- johns hopkins. but also, yeah: you either believe in peer review or you want unqualified conservative scholars for diversity(!) purposes. i hate using "DEI" ironically, but here we are.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last wk.

Viewpoint diversity is the opposite of peer review. You should not be leading a university if you don’t believe in peer review asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...

Reality is more of a negotiation than a result of individual observation. We co-construct it, there is no making sense of anything without other people. If this weren’t true social media wouldn’t be so successful, btw. It hijacks and exploits our epistemological reliance on others

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 2w ago

The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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anytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse

“Mmmmm you say Hegel and Nietzsche are worth academic study even though Nazi ideology was influenced by them?? Ohoho checkmate lib”

One of the most telling things about this whole Cofnas situation is that the people signing the letter aren’t framing this issue in terms of defending his right to say *wrong* things in academia, but instead to say *bad* things in academia. There are only two ways to interpret this: 1/2

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If your position is that we have to let the racists in because, who knows, racism might be true, then what you are saying is you think it’s possible that academia has been in a unified conspiracy to suppress the truth of racism for the past 3 generations. This is a flatly racist position to have.

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · last wk.

refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move

So about that wild horse slaughter thing: it shouldn’t happen, it violates the spirit of the law, but BLM has been sending horses to slaughter for decades, because, get this, the use of a good horse has plummeted in the past 100 years and they are underfunded and drowning in horses, 1/2

It cannot be stressed enough that every single one of these "academic" race science guys is actually a midwit (at best) who's trying to rationalize how they themselves wound up being taken seriously as thinkers despite having contributed nothing of value to actual scholarship.

I just checked the bored ape prices out of curiosity and they're still refusing to sell to each other for anything under $20K, rich crypto dweebs are fascinating

Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · last wk.

And the banning and closures were spurred on by the very people now signing letters of support for a eugenicist.

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · last wk.

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

Not to be controversial but I think if you’re a scholar who believes some people are superior to others because of race then you should be fired from your job

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how odd that our gilded age would also see a dramatic rise in racism and eugenics, what a strange coincidence

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If you want people to engage with a technology you care about, you have to find ways to frame it around providing them with some agency. You also have to be ready for people to just say "fuck you, no" and be OK with that. You have to learn to center people and not the technology itself.

“unlike those woke virtue signalers protesting genocide cause its popular im doing the hard thing by defending a racist on principle”

Racism is a luxury belief developed and marketed primarily by embarrassed elites. Academia is full of very smart people. Guess what else academia is full of?

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago

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I place a lot of value on viewpoint diversity (the real one) and on free speech (the real one). It sucks how both concepts have been hijacked to mean “everyone is under a moral obligation to elevate and disseminate discredited claims if today’s political right is into them.”

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don’t think a good definition of “viewpoint diversity” is “you must lower your standards specifically for anti-science, anti-truth, bigots, and fascists — a healthy intellectual community needs those voices and they can’t clear the bar otherwise.”

doc vivi hits the nail on the head here. im not a dummy. i know how computers work. i watched LLMs with interest as they emerged, i know enough about the math to get what's going on, and quickly became disillusioned with how oversold this garbage is. sorry kids, it IS "spicy autocomplete"

Doc Vivi's Personal Account@personalvivi.bsky.social · 2w ago

I literally worked on IBM's Watson and have zero interest in using LLMs for my work. Stop assuming we're all just ignorant. I know more about them than you do. I know more about them than 99% of people on this site do.

if you are a restaurant in Los Angeles and you cannot compete with a taco truck you should not be a restaurant in Los Angeles. this is very basic “slowest zebra on the savanna” stuff

Babadookakis@ryanwu2438.bsky.social · 2w ago

Karen Bass reelection update: the mayor has come out as anti-taco stand. In Los Angeles.

I will never tire of seeing creeps with perv glasses get their asses handed to them

In America stupidity is a virtue because the dumber you are the more opportunities you generate to prove you’re guided by the hand of providence I am not kidding

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism