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Harvard just scrapped it's office of Diversity Inclusion and Belonging and has renamed it the office of campus and community life. They will move focus from underrepresented minorities to first generation and low income students instead. Resegregation comes to Harvard.

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Fulfilling fears and expectations from a few weeks ago, all the volunteer contributing authors of the sixth National Climate Assessment have been removed from their roles.

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Not great to see "we're doing this bad thing for the Jews" spread outside the Trump administration. It is, in fact, antisemitic for politicians to use antisemitism as an all-purpose excuse for enacting authoritarian policies like demanding control of university curricula and suppressing protests.

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Fellow citizens of New York! Please bother Kathy Hochul about this garbage!

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Can confirm: Just spoke to him, and Barber and two others were, in fact, arrested. Story coming.

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@shrithanedar.bsky.social has filed impeachment: Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Executive Power Usurpation of Appropriations Power Abuse of Trade Powers and International Aggression Violation of First Amendment Rights Creation of an Unlawful Office Bribery and Corruption Tyrannical Overreach

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"Not all ‘generative AI’ or even all LLMs spark so much anthropomorphization and attributions of ‘general intelligence.’ It wasn’t StableDiffusion’s image generator or GPT-2 that excited this imagination." Helpful piece from Jeff on what spurs even Very Smart People to anthropomorphize ChatGPT.

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This Annual Review piece from @robbieshilliam.bsky.social and @lkspence.bsky.social is worth your time: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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In spring 2020, I remember looking around a Zoom meeting and realizing the women were gone. They were busy filling in gaps left by school closures and cancellations of non-emergency medical services. A lot of the male-only conversations happening then brought us to our current misogynistic crisis.

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This headline seems to be floating free and detached from any sources - so, grain of salt - but let’s all pause and consider that it isn’t a typo:perhaps the plan is to recreate the kējǔ for a new age, and create a new class of scholar-trucker-gentry with proficiency in English literature

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Trump doing some election day campaigning for Mark Carney.

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Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

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"You rely on Medicaid? If you lose your job, Republicans in Congress want to rip your healthcare away too. We're going to say 'hell no' to a Medicaid job loss penalty"

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Justice was equal when I was legally 3/5 of a person. You learn something new every day.

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I already shared this to highlight a quote but realized I didn't use a gift-link. This is an excellent summary of the criminal conspiracy also known as the President of the United States. They are breaking things that are difficult to fix (like democracy). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

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“over the last few years, mainstream American Jewish leaders… have done something extraordinary: They have effectively redefined what it means to be a Jew. To silence condemnation of Israel, they have equated support for the state with Jewishness itself.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

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A useful assessment of where we’re at, through the eyes of law professors. Weird to me that this was billed as an “opinion” piece when it’s.. reporting and well sourced reporting at that? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

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My favorite part of this story is Rufo, on cue, proudly admitting that he is there to radicalize powerful people. These fucking idiots think they’re engaged in the marketplace of ideas and they invite guys who tell any journalist who asks “I am here to rig the marketplace of ideas.”

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In a direct protest against the @iea.org's plea to use the custom chatbot to explore this report, I am going to read the entire thing (all 304 pages) using my actual brain, and this thread will be where I dump reactions, thoughts, notes etc as I go through it www.iea.org/reports/ener...

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions

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WAPO: “.. ocean-container bookings from China to the U.S. are down by more than 60 percent .. “.. The consequence will be ‘empty shelves in U.S. stores in a few weeks and covid-like shortages for consumers ..’” @davidjlynch.bsky.social @jeffstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 23 hours ago • 230 comments

LFGoooooooo

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I think people need to have more children. Here’s why I vote for the party that deports sick toddlers, gives everybody measles, cuts funding for children’s education and healthcare, and is investigating Miss Rachel.

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Can’t go over it, can’t go under it, can’t go around it, gonna have to try posting my way through it* * my historic decision to bail on UK academia for US academia adjacent in spring of 2025 open.substack.com/pub/rachelfr...

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Headlines largely implied that pro-Palestine students - 9 were arrested at the protest - sent the threat. Over a month later, Barnard has not told students that they were the targets. If pro-Israel protesters had been threatened, would the case be the same? theintercept.com/2025/04/24/b...

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Incredibly ominous distinction between “I am” and “I practice.” The “sincerely held belief” legal standard is a Protestant imposition that doesn’t fit Judaism. This is likely to be self imposed often evangelical Popes of the Jews telling us who is and isn’t Jewish. via Gabe Winant

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Akbar Shahid Ahmed's forthcoming book on Biden's MENA diplomacy will likely cover this, but underdiscussed in terms of Biden's legacy is that Palestinian president Abbas offered a comprehensive peace plan last April and Blinken rejected it without a counter-offer, deeming it "unrealistic"

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It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

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a lot more people should be concerned about the increasingly explicit efforts to excise autistic people from any conception of citizenship

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nervous laughter what the fuck gif crosses out text yeah we knew this was coming but trapping women financially is i don't have words

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I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism. forward.com/fast-forward...

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This is why ICE agents should be prosecuted. Secret police who refuse to identify themselves are no police at all. They give those subject to their orders no way to distinguish them from criminals except taking the word of a random masked thug. The courts need to be invoked to clarify this.

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This is why I’m blocking the smart asses who are responding “who cares?” when I post polling numbers as if they’re edgy.

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Americans are going to be so calm and normal in about six weeks when they start walking into big box stores and seeing empty shelves everywhere. I can’t wait to see how extremely normal and calm everyone is going to be.

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AYFKM (you'll be shocked to learn that Sapir is a right-wing rag pushing right-wing ideas on the Jews, and this lineup is so disgusting and disingenuous -- when fucking RAHM is set up as the one ostensibly defending... whatever. I am mostly disappointed in the 92Y for peddling this garbage.)

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"This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical."

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This in a real story posted by NBC and blasted out to their email lists. The mainstream media is, without exaggeration, gonna kill us all.

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Donald Trump’s policies are remarkably unpopular, with most in the zone between 3:2 and 2:1 disapproval; his attempted destruction of the federal medical research base runs at 4:1.

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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

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It’s a purge

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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”

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NFTs from a couple of years ago are starting to succumb to link rot. Someday the final server holding the last NFT image will go under, then truly all my apes will be gone

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Hot take: the same disregard for people that motivates a lot of LLM researchers also drives clear ethics violations like this.

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Exiled. They exiled sick American toddlers

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This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

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