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How am I only now finding out about this fantastic short story, “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”? Thanks to @rachelahandley.com clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

What is structural racism, and how do we measure it? @tyson-brown.bsky.social, @pahoman.bsky.social, and I have a forthcoming Annual Review article on @socarxiv.bsky.social. Check it before studying structural racism is banned (and follow Tyson and Trish, new to Bluesky). osf.io/6zbgh/

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 5 days ago • 289 comments

Extremely terrible!!! A big blow to philosophy and HPS, especially.

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Maybe if I’m a sniveling coward when it matters most people will trust me to lead

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Letter from Dewey to Roosevelt, 1936. ... Fifty years ago, at the Statue [of Liberty], this country was spoken of as an asylum of the oppressed, a haven for political refugees who had been driven from their homelands. Today this tradition is in danger of being completely discarded.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Emil Bove is Stringer Bell

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

submitted 14 days ago • 67 comments

Another Stebbing banger, quoted in in Gillian Russell's "Logic: A Feminist Approach"

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As chair of our senate academic policy committee, I just proposed 1) developing a P&T research impact statement (similar to Covid) to support faculty whose research is being halted/blocked and 2) revamping P&T criteria to account for everything breaking. If you're doing the same, let's talk!

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

personally I think Kendrick should have looked directly into the camera and changed the lyrics of "Not Like Us" into a political treatise explaining his exact position on both separation of powers and the immortal science of dialectical materialism. missed opportunity tbh

submitted 17 days ago • 116 comments

It’s real!

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I realize this is very unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but today is the last day you can download a free pdf of my little book about logics with words that are ambiguous/ confused, or that refer to nothing doi.org/10.1017/9781...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

More of this, America.

submitted 18 days ago • 1235 comments

"The United States is in a constitutional crisis" Agree: 54% Disagree: 27% Unsure: 19% YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106

submitted 19 days ago • 659 comments

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

submitted 23 days ago • 101 comments

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

submitted 23 days ago • 127 comments

The Trump’s campaign promise was to finish the job they started on Jan 6 and this is what it looks like.

submitted 24 days ago • 206 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 24 days ago • 1697 comments

The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 25 days ago • 76 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 26 days ago • 166 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 26 days ago • 970 comments

1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.

submitted 26 days ago • 292 comments

1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order. MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students. Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on." Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 27 days ago • 63 comments

Berkeley's notebooks are like a jaunty version of Wittgenstein

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Guys I’m beginning to think all of this isn’t about fairness in women’s high school sports

submitted 27 days ago • 40 comments

Unilaterally shutting down USAID via Executive Order and merging it with State is openly illegal and Dems should immediately converge on D.C. and call for protests if Trump tries to do it.

submitted 27 days ago • 32 comments

Author’s copies of my micro-book arrived. What am I supposed to do with 10 of these? Also, the PDF version is still free for a few more days: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Jfc do not trade the fucking First Amendment for a goddamn merger www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

submitted 28 days ago • 120 comments

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

submitted 28 days ago • 314 comments

I know that Trans Youth Emergency Project could use donations. Perhaps they even need some volunteers. southernequality.org/tyep/

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

submitted 31 days ago • 382 comments

NEW Senator Thom Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth that if she signed a sworn-statement about her former brother-in-law’s conduct that it would carry weight and could lead him, Murkowski, and Collins to vote NO on Pete Hegseth’s nomination. He then became the 50th century to vote YES.

submitted 31 days ago • 214 comments

Decades of confirmation hearings where women testify to abuse and sexual violence, only for the men in question to rise to higher positions of power, is a perfect encapsulation of why more victims don’t come forward.

submitted 33 days ago • 161 comments

Nothing illustrates our media’s complete & total lack of fitness for dealing with a far right authoritarian party than the immediate & craven normalization of Lebensraum these last two weeks. bsky.app/profile/mcop...