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Absolutely.

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This is a very helpful visualization for those who may not be willing to see the pattern.

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I know posts like this are to remind us that democracy is fragile, but 8 worry Trusk will take it as a challenge to do it even faster.

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Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

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May the Eagles win every Super Bowl from now on.

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Trump/Musk regime has cut funds for the International Rescue Committee- founded by Albert Einstein,providing assistance in 40 countries to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution, or natural disaster. The most vulnerable people will suffer as a result. A good time to donate

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An important thread about our responsibilities in our classrooms, and our department meetings, and in our representative bodies.

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There are literally hundreds of research projects here at UIUC being destroyed by the cuts to the NSF, NIH, NIFA, USAID. It’s an incomprehensible waste of scientific progress and human capital.

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So USAID was a side-door farm subsidy that will now end; the food may rot on the docks, and US soybean farmers will be up the creek again. So far, I can't think of a single working class Trump voter who has been helped.

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The unelected neo nazi ketamine freak muscling out treasury officials and taking control of government payment systems is the kind of thing that should be a bigger story in American media. Maybe. Perhaps.

submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

To our many American friends. The National Academies have assembled a package of resources for researchers facing threats or attacks in the US www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

I keep repeating to anyone I can make listen: Writing is thinking on the outside of your body.

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This is huge. We can wean ourselves away from Kindle.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

You all might want to have some of these on hand. I bought them in Spanish and Punjabi since that seems like the best match for where I live, but they have them in about 10 languages www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

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Would be super grateful if all #language #langsky and #linguistics peeps could share this postdoc job offer.

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Academics will recognize many of these tactics, and they even might have used them in faculty meetings.

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It is the night before my first contact with new students, so of course I'm up at 3am.

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Only 1491 days until January 20, 2029.

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I'm reading Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone who is Gone is Here, and it is a reminder that selecting wildly unqualified cabinet members willing to do awful things happened in the Reagan administration too.

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Tonight in As the World Burns There is a solution. And it doesn't cost taxpayers one single additional dime. Take the subsidies currently feeding fat cats in the fossil fuel industry and used them to build a new, cheaper, more efficient publicly owned grid, induction charging highways.

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I'm reading Everyone Who is Gone is Here, and it kept me up all night, partially from remembering my El Salvadorean classmate, who would go to the corner and cry. She had lost everyone in her family and was being sheltered by the Presbyterian Church.

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Ok, so this is a serious question: why, when we rebuild from national disasters, do we continue to use above ground electrical lines. Wouldn't they be safer underground?

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Which is more important -- that AI summary of your search results (which you don't read and can't turn off) or a habitable planet? www.ft.com/content/63c3...

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

I apologize if I have blocked real people in my effort to block bots. But robotic behaviors and strangely generated alphanumeric names make me suspicious. As does blatant catfishing.

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I feel like @michaelerard.bsky.social made this argument a decade ago.

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The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

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I wish we had the corresponding artifacts: "This knife is for butter"; "This comb is only for sheep." My favorite artifact is a come that says (most likely) "Hair."

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I've always felt bad about not being on task with the holiday--the family never gets presents on time. So I'm definitely going to lean into the extra week offered by Hanukkah and the extra week and a half offered by Epiphany.

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Another reason why LLMs should absolutely never be used to do emotion detection. I don’t really think anything should be used to do emotion detection because emotion its so variable by culture, context, and individual. Plus the consequences of errors here could be so bad.

submitted 58 days ago • 10 comments

The only Christmas song I love.

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In addition to talking about the history of the Kennedy's and their impact on disability rights and access (and how badly RFKJr fails in his family's legacy), Perry articulates the value of the humanities succinctly and meaningfully.

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