emergentphenomenon.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

There is now a tax paid to Musk. America's oligarchs are quickly finding out that they are merely vassals, just like Russia's oligarchs are to Putin

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

The problem with accepting a leader who is crazy, who lies and who has no scruples or character for political gain is that, once you are committed to it, there is no end. That’s what we’re seeing now with Republicans. They made a devil’s bargain. And that’s also why it can get so much worse.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Even when there are risks, the possibility that it might be worth defending the principles of rule of law whatever tactical considerations there can be doesn't seem to occur to a depressingly large number of people

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

submitted 1 day ago • 152 comments

Several outer-borough neighborhoods could soon become part of an innovative e-bike subsidy program championed by @bikenewyork to reduce the areas' high car dependency, low access to public transit and excessive production of air-choking pollution. buff.ly/JFUQsXD

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The man with the nuclear codes talking about a treaty ally that sent many soldiers to die in Afghanistan after we were attacked on 9/11.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Richard Tuttle, Letters (The Twenty-Six Series), 1966 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136946

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

What's a good way to prevent conflicts between bike and moped riders? Allowing mopeds on the main roadways of the Brooklyn and Queensboro bridges. buff.ly/PjAaMz8

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

submitted 4 days ago • 229 comments

I would simply arrest him because he's breaking the law, a thing Wisconsin can absolutely do

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

"My partner is a senior citizen and we cannot navigate a lot of the city without using an e-bike. For health reasons, we have no choice. Would you rather us each get in a car? It makes no sense to me."

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The Signal chat also reveals what Nazi historians call “working toward the Führer”—it’s clear nobody really spoke to Trump or knows what he wants (or whether he even considered the issue or has an opinion) but they keep invoking what Trump would want as totemic justification for their decisions

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Heheheh

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Universities are passive

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is an extremely bad decision. The combination of e-bikes and public transport makes all of the capital accessible to many more people, reducing the need for car ownership. Banning them is the wrong reaction to a very small number of issues.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

submitted 5 days ago • 667 comments

Another reason it is cowardly to simply obey and let them take over your newsroom or university is that if you don’t they often will be like “well fuck, that was our main idea”

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Who knew our leaders looked up to Mao. I wonder if they will exceed his death toll

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

For weeks. They've been snatching people off the streets of Boston FOR WEEKS.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

None of the "top" 15 law schools besides Berkeley are on here, unless I'm mistaken. There's an emerging pattern of quiescence from the most "elite" US institutions vs more action from other institutions. Unsurprising, but important to note and understand.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."

submitted 5 days ago • 831 comments

“The cancellations stunned scientists who had depended on the government’s support. “The idea that we don’t need further research to learn how to treat health problems caused by coronaviruses and prevent future pandemics because ‘Covid-19 is over’ is absurd,” said Pamela Bjorkman”

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Just remember - everything they blame on someone else is a confession

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

“The right of lawful residents to be safe from politically-motivated abduction by unidentified thugs is inalienable, and consequently, unless Ms. Ozturk is released, Mass. will be forced to block ICE operations in our state and assess charging the officers involved.” …is what she SHOULD have said.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The entire thread is like this, nazis asking for a summary of their posts, the AI says "Well it sure as shit looks like you're a nazi", then they argue with each response and it just goes into more detail why they're nazis

submitted 5 days ago • 160 comments

Amazing

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

They’re gonna have to move the group chat to a more secure site, like Nude Africa.

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

Sources say that the now infamous national security group chat originally contained four journalists, three of whom asked to be removed from the group after receiving dick pics from Pete Hegseth.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

jesus christ

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

remember Palmer's Razor: the stupidest explanation is the right one.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

I wrote a linear algebra book licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license, meaning it is free to use with attribution! www.michaelsmath.com

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes. Taking Putin at his word... Just a nice guy, taking care of his business. The Europeans are definitely on board with that... 👀

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

No books. No teachers. Just a centralized AI that serves as intercessor between each child and the world's knowledge. It's literally a pre-reformation view, with Grok in the place of Yahweh.

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

Sometimes I think about that guy who was so infuriated about Canada's carbon tax that he decided to install solar panels on his roof so that he wouldn't have to pay the tax on his electricity. #WorkedAsIntended

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Also America did not have long or onerous lockdowns, I am going to lose my mind

submitted 8 days ago • 167 comments

Among my normie friends it is shocking to me how common belief in conspiracy theories is, chemtrails, antivax, etc. it will come up and i realize that i’m the only person in the group that is saying like no this isn’t real. How does this even get corrected?

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

There is absolutely no way Greenland should let in a representative of an overtly hostile nation, in fact the wife of someone explicitly threatening to “take” it. Turn her plane back.

submitted 8 days ago • 1715 comments

Imagine thinking a guy who charges around $100K for a vehicle with glued on metal panels that just fall off is the one to be trusted anywhere near our government.

submitted 9 days ago • 1101 comments

I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history. Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.

submitted 8 days ago • 2312 comments

If you tell me that the way to deal with climate change is via population or other Malthusian or ecofascist bullshit, I will 100% block you.

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

submitted 8 days ago • 426 comments