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the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Hi! Disability scholar here. IQ is a deeply racist and classist metric weaponized by eugenicists and used to claim the innate superiority of the white ruling class. Stop listening to ppl who crow about IQ. Intelligence means nothing without compassion, humbleness, and owning one’s mistakes.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

✨Autotheories✨ mitpress.mit.edu/978026255229... Out now! You can read my essay “Autoethnography, Undone: Toward a Crip Critique of Ethnographic Realism.” Or Judith Butler’s chapter. You know, whatevs. Grateful to editors Vilashini Coopan and Alex Brostoff.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Honestly refreshing to see an organization speak up in support of a minority in the membership because it's the right thing to do. Thank you @asianstudies.org

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 5 days ago • 838 comments

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

While we are all dealing with the Great Destruction — of NIH and US science and the US economy — we have been hearing from NIH people who want to write things for the outside world. If you are an NIH person that wants to share a blog post with the world anonymously, please let us know.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

You can download most of your books in the .azw3 format, and there are tools online to convert those to epub or even pdf. You've got 1 week to do it.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

A regime so terrified of its illegitimacy that it puts a bounty on the head of a teenage A-level student www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Nursing a take that the major Silicon Valley firms can be understood as organized crime syndicates and perform some of the same functions as the old ones used to — money laundering, feeding addictions, skirting regulations, political influence.

submitted 7 days ago • 70 comments

How absurd that the US has spent so much time thinking of itself as Russia’s opposite when they’re so similar: vast distances, terrible infrastructure, aboveground power-lines, swaths of underresourced rurlandia w/ exhausted & undereducated populace, now autocracy. Ice storms bring this into focus

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity. It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated). 30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.

submitted 99 days ago • 112 comments

It’s so disingenuous that The Telegraph is asking what radicalised Elon Musk. TRANSPHOBIA did! His child came out as trans and he flipped. The same transphobia The Telegraph has been relentlessly pushing for YEARS! @rolandoliphant.bsky.social @jamestitcomb.bsky.social @kierankelly20.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

Adding trying tepache de piña to my bucket list but until then I might have to tide myself over with a class of chicha at my Peruvian rotisserie spot.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It’s very interesting how media outlets like 404 and Wired who do tech and not DC cocktail party circuit slop have covered the Musk angle best because their guiding light isn’t getting a ticket to next weeks book release party in Georgetown

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Got great food/nutrition photos? Check out the annual Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition photo contest! Win glory! #anthropology #foodstudies #anthrosky foodanthro.com/2025/02/13/a...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 10 days ago • 788 comments

Keep calling and making noise. Don't think that no one is fighting.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 13 days ago • 256 comments

the thing is that there are legit political theories about how laughter is a great way to combat fascism (not the only way!!! just one of the ways!!!)

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Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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❗#USAID Temporary Restraining Order issued: "All USAID employees currently on administrative leave shall be reinstated until [Feb 14] ... no additional employees shall be placed on administrative leave before that date. No USAID employees shall be evacuated from their host countries"

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

The most infuriating part of this thread is that not a single poli-sci bro in the replies mentioned what Taiwan wants for itself. This kind of imperialism is truly sickening, however it's rationalized.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Rereading The Hobbit as an adult casts Gandalf in a new light: an immortal who's lost touch with mortal timescales. Whenever he needs a hobbit for some adventure, he pops by the Shire to recruit that one hobbit he knows. If that guy's too old or dead, Gandalf harasses their next of kin instead

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

Peddlers’ calls have a long tradition in Beijing: Once performed by street vendors to attract customers, these sounds are now understood as a unique type of ‘street theatre’. Odila Schröder on the soundmark of Beijing's peddlers: www.historyworkshop....

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A great read! 'History is filled with examples of people changing genders or living between genders' I recently found out about Margery/John Young who practiced medicine and who had two wives. Their story was posthumously related in The Tatler in September 1710 (attached). #LGBTplusHM25 #queer 🌈🎓🗃️

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.

submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments