stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright
Kansan Transes, would you like to help me make a comic about the drivers-license law? My DMs are open and my email is si AT arrr DOT net
Larry Summers is the Olivia Nuzzi of economists and should be treated accordingly.
You are remembering correctly.
🧵 of 🧵s. My views on this are clear, longstanding, & tiresome to many I'm sure. But I'll never stop being deeply angry that Larry Summers dominated the entire National Conversation™️ on the economy during Joe Biden's presidency & was lauded for being so epically wrong & repeatedly ignoring the data.
I've been thinking a lot lately about how communities in the Antebellum North organized to protect Black Americans from kidnapping enslavers, and also how witnessing (and resisting) such kidnappings slowly radicalized a critical mass of white Northerners against slavery www.salon.com/2017/08/05/w...
Real human beings are being tortured and killed by the United States government right now for the crime of being brown.
If you can’t get off your ass to fill out a piece of paper to make it very clear that you are opposed to that, then you aren’t opposed to that.
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
We are a nation in which thousands of Black people were "legally" kidnapped with the assistance of the federal government & sent back into slavery.
We are also a nation in which thousands of white & Black people organized in their local communities to try to stop those kidnappings.
"We" are both.
the gap between automated alerts, and first hand human reporting is the sweet spot for both “llm reporters” and “bad info will kill people.” naturally, i expect disaster reporting will get worse and worse until we pass a law to reel in bad actors
A former USAID employee saved 60 years of development project data before the Trump administration shut the platform down (which was worth over $30 billion). She speaks to me about what her open source LLM found, and the lessons that could be applied to conservation projects and international aid:
A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly
basically if dishonesty is a loadbearing aspect of a discourse feel free to hit the snooze button on your Good Faith module
Dropout is a lot of fun, especially if you like improv/kind people being very funny.
Not surprised that people on the left appreciate Moscow Mitch!
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
The real thing Democrats lack is not a backbone, it's a drone army like the Republicans have.
Thank you for the coverage, @npr.org.
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Every member of this administration should be booed wherever they go for the rest of their miserable lives. They should never have a moment of peace.
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
My dad made plenty of sexist mistakes with me, but I'm really glad he got me into SFF via Anne McCaffrey and Lois McMaster Bujold (and to never bother with unabridged Heinlein).
Yeah, being a 12yo girl and finding Piers Anthony in your middle school library was...not great, man.
I'd love to see one that picks up from where this left off, or even one from then to 2010 and a 2010-25 edition as well -- I know I'm missing pivotal new authors!
Better than Port Authority.
Maybe we can get him to request Port Authority.
I mean, we all know why.
It's still a part of every conversation and every discussion of systemic sexism. But this keeps happening, in every industry, in every setting, and we keep siding with the men. "Oh she was too pretty, she was a temptation." "Oh she made him do it." "Oh she was at fault."
It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
"I can't mitigate them through more personal effort, education or professional experience."
This is what I am saying about academia! If you are a woman and you "failed" to advance in academia, you actually WERE FAILED.
