bstepmun.bsky.social
Professor, Memorial University
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The aim isn’t to shock but to pursue truth, which necessarily at times leads to being shocked and upset.
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Among many other nations.
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People have near zero impact on policy (within the current set up).
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Agreed.
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Pathetic.
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not revealed, and so would require that the action be effected through Chilean institutions, Chileans, and third-country nationals.
It is assumed that the only institution in Chile capable of removing Allende or preventing him from assuming office if he is elected is the Chilean military
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1. Stance—This option would be based on the judgment that an Allende government would be a security threat to the United States sufficiently great to justify a covert effort to overthrow him. This option also assumes that every effort would be made to ensure that the role of the United States was
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Your country is now, to use the term coined by O. Henry (describing the US-backed takeover of Latin and Central American nations, in service of the United fruit Co), a banana republic. A joke. A laughing stock. A farce. A malignant, dangerous farce. Long road back to sanity.
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Also: Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes. Canada, France & UK must follow up, now, on their statement from a couple week’s ago and impose heavy sanctions, plus more for the war crime of bombing Iran.
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Followed by “Unconditional Surrender.” Bonkers.
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I guess congress doesn’t declare America’s wars any more.
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They wanted to seize and disappear the guy who appeared in court and Lander was hanging on to him.
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Sobeys, Dominion or Kroger… they are all the same. No criminal charges in the bread price fixing debacle, though price fixing is a crime.
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The finishing part (not the not being around part!)
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Good!
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Dante reckoned liars and fraudsters worse than murders and rapists.
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Summary: Kotsko anti-AI rant.
Key takeaways: Fuck AI.
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Sure, yes. But how does it end? That’s far from clear.
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Forced flight from one’s home and thinking through “never again” might do that to a person.
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In NA public schools as now at university the arts and humanities are the first to be attacked, eroded, ridiculed. Regular folk don’t get to study arts and culture: they are to be the worker bees for the rich. Plus, taught properly, the humanities, is a site of critique. Can’t have that.
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Let’s recall the 2023 auditor’s report, which should have made considerable waves, but didn’t. As the university’s educational mission and service to the people of the province continue to be gutted, this kind of stuff carries on.
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Most students when asked to further explain their work would admit they used ChatGPT. A few (always male) got aggressive in pretty surprising ways. One student who I was trying to help not fail the class got very intense and started accusing me of unprofessionalism in my grading. That was fun
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“Since the year 2000, glaciers in Switzerland have lost almost 40 percent of their volume, and the loss is accelerating. The last few years have been particularly bad: in 2022 and 2023 alone, 10 percent of Switzerland’s glacial ice was lost due to record-high summer temperatures.”
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Tapper is a hack.