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zwitterion.bsky.social

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The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

submitted 33 days ago • 420 comments

If you’re a sad man and you expect my sympathy, look elsewhere right now. The world is falling apart. I genuinely have no interest in listening to someone’s personal problems.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Hate to be this person but just want to note that Trump said he was going to deport anti-Israel protesters back in 2024 and anyone who didn't take him seriously is a fucking idiot

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

It’s not their stupidity. It’s their pride in their stupidity.

submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 50 days ago • 813 comments

We were warned

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 52 days ago • 1287 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 53 days ago • 1804 comments

Is this about the free markets or the personal liberties? It's all so confusing.

submitted 54 days ago • 104 comments

100% Supporting the idea that "collective action is a social norm and this is what it feels like" is part of the process of getting citizens to realize and employ their agency.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

There are like 5 scandals every day that would have broken any previous Administration.

submitted 57 days ago • 24 comments

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

submitted 59 days ago • 23 comments

Congressional Democrats say Congress should have spending authority and other powers laid out in Art. 1 of the Constitution. Congressional Republicans say this is a red line, insisting that budgets and other bills are merely suggestions, and the White House must be able to break laws when it wants.

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

In a heathy democracy, the WHCA would fight this by boycotting all WH and travel events until the old system was restored. But they’re going to roll over and do whatever it takes to maintain “access” so they can be lied to in comfort

submitted 59 days ago • 231 comments

I see these hot takes: "Academia had it coming for [reasons]." The problem with this is that unless you can explain why immigrants, LGBTQ people, minorities, teachers, federal employees, aid workers, health professionals, etc., ALSO had it coming, you'll end up short of a parsimonious explanation.

submitted 61 days ago • 15 comments

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often quite intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

submitted 65 days ago • 31 comments