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Thank you to @asanews.bsky.social for suing the US Department of Education over its now-infamous ‘Dear Colleague’ letter, which is an existential threat to the social sciences (and intended to be so) contentsharing.net/actions/emai...

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“Data doesn’t lie.” Spoken only by someone who has never worked with data in their life.

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We're dropping our DEI policy as we seek to employ the most highly qualified candidates, which is why, going forward, we are only hiring applicants who went to ivy league schools because their rich dads donated money

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man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.

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Crickets from the so-called free speech warriors and heterodox thinkers in response to this, of course 🦗🦗🦗

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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

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Shocking news. Michael Burawoy was a real one. Condolences to his family and the sociological community at large www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

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Intervention à point de Kev Lambert: « Les immigrants ne menacent pas la culture québécoise. Ce qui menace la culture québécoise, ce sont les élus qui définancent, privatisent et détournent l’argent public vers les multinationales. » lp.ca/5pi0Oh?shari...

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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

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I spent so much ink on Gitmo in my book about concentration camps because it was clear that by failing to eliminate detention there, this is where we've been headed for decades. What the US has already done is horrific, and in an unconstitutional no-man's-land, we face the possibility of much worse.

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The Trump administration’s wide-ranging and bad faith halt to federal grant funding is an illegal overreach of presidential authority that will deeply harm people across the nation and will be rightfully challenged in courts. ➡️ www.washingtonpost.com/documents/de...

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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

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“Putting on what is clearly a bro disguise to join the boys’ club and sit at the big boy table – it should feel humiliating […] What could be more masculine and cool than selling out vulnerable communities and women to impress the alpha male?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Just been in awe of the work the team at Octavia's Bookshelf has been doing in response to the fires. It's a powerful reminder of both the existing power of local third spaces AND the potential for a better world if our economy centered such places. Read about their work here...1/2

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Chinese folks on tiktok and remote are black pilling the US youth. Cultural exchange never hit so hard.

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Mike Davis was brilliantly prescient www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...

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Alas, I think that might be 2025's goal too

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America. 2025.

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Saw “The Brutalist” (in 70mm!) last night: while literally monumental and self-consciously striving to be the latest Great American Epic in its themes and structure, it lacks an emotional depth and characters with fleshed out inner lives. Brody expresses this well: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Charlie Brooker, quoted here upon the release of “Cunk on Life,” captures the feeling of internet-and social media-driven indifference to expertise: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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The free speech™️ people want the government to retaliate against people for political speech. This is literally what the first amendment is designed to protect against. They never actually cared about free speech, they just wanted a platform to silence others.

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the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none

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In other news, Nick Clegg is leaving Meta. Joel Kaplan will be Meta’s new global affairs officer. His record & politics suggest there is little reason to expect Kaplan to hold the line should Trump engage in unconstitutional & authoritarian acts again on office.

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When you cover violent U.S. imperialism like it’s the WNBA awarding new franchises

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The American Association of University Professors described the PNG orders as tantamount to suspension and “part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to allow a chronically homeless person to live on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we are paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street & do nothing… www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...

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On Spotify Wrapped’s particular soullessness in 2024, hollowed out by Big Tech AI: “if we want to protect the sacred place within us that can’t be commodified or killed, we’ll have to envision alternative modes of consumption and curation outside the algorithm” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Errr, what did I just read? A vigilante with a fetish for a revival of a cartoonish version of Japanese traditions and whatever those sex toys (?) are— the non-hero we deserve

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Voici mon entrevue avec @icimjdubreuil.bsky.social sur la charité vs. la solidarité, le rôle de l’Etat vs. les dons individuels en cette période des Fêtes ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

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Thanks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social for joining us virtually for the screening of 'Separated' @hotdocs.bsky.social tonight and for his reporting on this story. The film is in the best Erroll Morris tradition: bracing, morally urgent, factually devastating--and portending what is to come.

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‘Tout terrain’ @radiocanadainfo.bsky.social est un modèle de qui se fait de mieux en radio, la première heure ce matin consacrée à des reportages et analyses sur la Syrie, Notre-Dame, la Roumanie, et le conflit israélo-palestinien. Félicitations à @janictremblay.bsky.social et toute l’équipe

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Writing an article about far-right masculinism online (research begun years ago, though now sadly topical) and delighted to report that my spellcheck has not yet been redpilled

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