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pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

Oh! Don’t forget infectious diseases due to poor food and water standards! I think we can definitely get the infant and child mortality rate up into double digits within four years.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would right now be pulling funding from Columbia and Harvard because of DEI policies or admissions requirements or what research they were doing or all of the above. The right hates universities and that’s it.

submitted 52 days ago • 98 comments

The ones who won't cart themselves away from Omelas.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

On May 19 a new book will be published open access that addresses some important topics. It’s called _ How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond_ Edd. by @davidrafferty.bsky.social, Christopher J. Dart, Frederik & Juliaan Vervaet: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

submitted 20 days ago • 76 comments

In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.

submitted 21 days ago • 203 comments

So as the mother of a HS junior I have skin in the game here, but what really strikes me are the limitations on loans for professional schools. A strong and open professional class is too deep a threat to the oligarchy. Can’t have doctors or lawyers or board members who don’t come from them.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back. And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker.

submitted 28 days ago • 780 comments

Now we know how this season of ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ ends it is perhaps time to talk about the terrifying genius of entertainment capitalism in finding a way to profit from ordinary people’s experience of industrial decline.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

submitted 26 days ago • 397 comments

The fact that we are also making lists of Jewish professors proves the harmlessness of our registry of autistic children. by Linda McMahon and RFK Jr.

submitted 28 days ago • 105 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 31 days ago • 760 comments

All of this misses the main point, that even if he were the worst person in the world HE STILL DESERVES DUE PROCESS and is guaranteed that by the constitution.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Private 1st Class Joseph Jackson showing some “Easter Eggs” they painted especially for Hitler.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Laying down a marker: The alternative to Trumpism is freedom, rights, mutual respect, and equality under the law. That means for all, trans people very much included. The alternative to Trumpism is not let's agree to treat some people as second class to placate the bigots. On that, I'm a hard no.

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

We will see you tomorrow. Good night and good sleep! "In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice...the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man." FDR, October 2, 1932

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

Why does ‘protecting women’ never look like harsher punishments for rape, assault and femicide that almost exclusively happens at the hand of cis men? Why isn’t it free sanitary products? Why not more money into the NHS to help sick women? Why is it always an attack on our most vulnerable sisters?

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Never forget.

submitted 37 days ago • 55 comments

Good night Bluesky. Together is the only way we build liveable todays & tomorrows. Call congress Protest Organize Join groups Make friends & community Put up flyers & stickers Refuse & sabotage fascism This is an inflection point & EVEN MORE EXTREMELY AWFUL SHIT happens if we can’t stop this.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

A useful reminder as we approach the anniversary of the battle of Lexington and Concord..

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I'll say it again: in a country where due process is individually denied and then broadly eroded and eventually eliminated, being a citizen will not protect you from the terror of this administration.

submitted 38 days ago • 57 comments

Gonna do every newspaper in America a favor and write their headline. It reads: TRUMP DISCUSSES FOREIGN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH BUKELE There you go. Don't even need to credit me.

submitted 38 days ago • 22 comments

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

submitted 39 days ago • 455 comments

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - FDR

submitted 40 days ago • 15 comments

Oh hey, it’s “social death” — I remember this from when I used to work on exile. Technically it’s a form of capital punishment but I guess in this regime it’s just Friday.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The obscenity (and the menace to Jews) of these officials pretending any of this police state assault on our constitutional order has anything to do with concern about antisemitism is off the charts. Just diabolical.

submitted 42 days ago • 119 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 43 days ago • 1521 comments

In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

submitted 46 days ago • 158 comments

It was always the racism. Apparently any acknowledgment of Black history is too much for these people.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

I've actually been thinking we should really lean into the admin's purported refocus of all humanities programs on the 250th anniversary of independence. Let's celebrate resisting tyranny, banning tariffs, defending freedom of speech, the press, assembly, & religion. Let's petition our grievances!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit.

submitted 48 days ago • 45 comments