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Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
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Good example of how it's not really a failure to understand, or a hallucination, or something you can fix with better iterations. The statistical word association machine fundamentally does not deal in concepts, it has no comprehension of ideas, it can never do anything that requires human thought.

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Uhhh dawg? Your gyre is widening

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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

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this is like the moment in Endgame where the Avengers realize there's a brief window where all three infinity stones are in New York at the same time. we'd only need to send one guy

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The damage Trump is doing to the international reputation of the United States will take a decade to recover from. We will still be feeling the effects of this well in to the second Mr. Beast administration.

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cannot decide if I should go to work and fail to get anything done or stay home and fail to get anything done. choices

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Christopher Walken said in a podcast recently “I’m not religious, but I am afraid of God,” and I think that’s basically exactly how I see the matter.

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For everyone joining the Dichen Lachman superfan community today, welcome, and go watch DOLLHOUSE

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Fall 2025 Course: Frank Herbert's DUNE gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/f...

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dang they really are running the government like a university

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"The goal is not to change public policy, but to render public policy impossible. The goal is not to transform American society, but to destroy it completely, to destroy everything that makes it possible to call this great and terrible nation a human society." itself.blog/2025/02/23/t...

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me: Star Wars is dead, it's beyond dead, really, it's like it never existed in the first place also me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4w...

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I know exactly which company to start with

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for every blue-collar cardinal we lose in the western provincials we will pick up two moderate archbishops in the suburbs of Rome

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Is history produced by heroic individuals or by impersonal laws, the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a complex interaction of human and nonhuman agents after 12239 pages of heated debate,

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famously, the heroes of Office Space

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In my original timeline the federal workforce was unionized.

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America eats its children

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Officially laying down my marker: the next 3D Mario game is going to be Mario Multiverse. Fits with the idea that there some levels (but not many) connected to the film, lets them do retro stuff and Cappy throwback levels without it dominating the game, fits the zeitgeist, etc.

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"Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from carrying out certain anti-DEI directives" www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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captain america's response is simply not adequate to this moment

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“They will have drastic effects on all of us – this is not hyperbole, this is fact,” said Todd Wolfson, president of the AAUP. The orders “will kill” as advances in the treatment of diseases as diverse as cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes are delayed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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NASA trying to reduce panic so they can finish the A.R.K. project without interference from those who will be left behind

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Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

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This move will allow Trump to reward his voters and punish Dem voters at the level of the ZIP+9, to say nothing of the potential for election interference. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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sending every American a $5000 check for no discernible reason must mean the plan to default on the debt right

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Depending on how long the film takes in production there's a decent chance Bond will be younger than Amazon itself.

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extremely tricky messaging problem www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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"The Rings of Power" almost sounds like it could be a Bond title if we're looking for some synergy

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It's been one month since the inauguration.

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Hearing things today making me wonder how much it would cost a consortium of Catholic universities, dioceses, USCCB to join a 1A lawsuit seeking to defend DEI on religious liberty grounds. I think enough institutions are implicated that these costs could be bearable and they *should* do it.

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don't look up: as the odds of the asteroid hitting us go up I see more and more posts describing it as a "city killer" (suggesting there's no particular global urgency in trying to do anything about it)

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making the meme real day by day

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Catholic bishops sue Trump administration for ‘pulling the rug out’ from under refugee programs

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America in its "two looks like carelessness" era.

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In a new letter to colleges, the Trump administration doubles down on opposition to race-based programs. chroni.cl/4hLRj8b

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