Homo absurdus
@fabsurdus.bsky.social
pedagogue of "how write good” @ uofuhumanities.bsky.social | MS/LIS student @UIUC | history, archaeology, environmental humanities
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Gift article. Climate disasters & rising insurance rates may be the death knell for some US housing markets: “Homeowners don’t appreciate or don’t understand that we are living in a much riskier world than we were 25 years ago. And that risk? They have to pay for it.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article)
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Gift article. Climate disasters & rising insurance rates may be the death knell for some US housing markets: “Homeowners don’t appreciate or don’t understand that we are living in a much riskier world than we were 25 years ago. And that risk? They have to pay for it.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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It's really good to see this issue being raised in such an esteemed journal.
Source: Nature
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Source: Nature
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To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
search.app
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's really good to see this issue being raised in such an esteemed journal.
Source: Nature
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Source: Nature
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“Don’t be evil”
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
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“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Don’t be evil”
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For 2,000 years one could reasonably argue either “democracy has never worked” or “true democracy has never been tried.” (One still can.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
For 2,000 years one could reasonably argue either “democracy has never worked” or “true democracy has never been tried.” (One still can.)
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I'm cancelling Mia for speciecism, earthworms deserve better than being likened to this monstrous warmongering scum!
REST IN PISS YOU DISGUSTING FUCKING WORM IT WILL BE CANABALISM WHEN THE EARTHWORMS DEVOUR YOUR BODY 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED
www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED
www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies | CNN Politics
Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, accordin...
www.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm cancelling Mia for speciecism, earthworms deserve better than being likened to this monstrous warmongering scum!
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Wow. I Didn't Know That. You're Telling Me Now for the First Time.
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Wow. I Didn't Know That. You're Telling Me Now for the First Time.
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BREAKING: OpenAI to invest $1trn in new compute so as to be able to calculate accurately how much money it’s losing
November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BREAKING: OpenAI to invest $1trn in new compute so as to be able to calculate accurately how much money it’s losing
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With all due respect, using "critical AI" is like using "critical smoking," "critical pollution," "critical brutality," or "critical exploitation." An inflection that never changes the destructive nature of the thing.
October 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
With all due respect, using "critical AI" is like using "critical smoking," "critical pollution," "critical brutality," or "critical exploitation." An inflection that never changes the destructive nature of the thing.
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It's not looking good. Another imperialist war to steal resources that aren't ours...
You can not fight off capitalism's inherent contradictions forever.
The US Empire needs to end!!
You can not fight off capitalism's inherent contradictions forever.
The US Empire needs to end!!
Pentagon moving massive naval force towards Venezuela
The Trump administration is mobilizing the largest naval force in the Caribbean Sea since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, in open preparation for a massive and illegal war against Venezuela.
www.wsws.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's not looking good. Another imperialist war to steal resources that aren't ours...
You can not fight off capitalism's inherent contradictions forever.
The US Empire needs to end!!
You can not fight off capitalism's inherent contradictions forever.
The US Empire needs to end!!
academe is joever
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
academe is joever
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Jfc. ICE weapons purchases increased 700%. Of the $71,515,762 spent, most was “on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”
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ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.
popular.info
October 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Jfc. ICE weapons purchases increased 700%. Of the $71,515,762 spent, most was “on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”
popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
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I really really hate it here.
A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required
Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch
A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I really really hate it here.
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I literally just taught Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep this week, and I'm here to tell you it was NOT an instruction manual
"We're basically outsourcing empathy and outsourcing relationships to these machines without considering the consequences…”
I tested an AI-powered pet designed to 'ease stress and bring comfort' to Gen Z—it went exactly how a psychologist predicted
My week with Moflin, Casio's first AI-powered companion robot.
www.cnbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I literally just taught Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep this week, and I'm here to tell you it was NOT an instruction manual
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Our CEO @billhare.bsky.social called the new data “alarming and worrying.”
“Let there be no mistake, this is a very clear warning sign that the world is heading into an extremely dangerous state – and this is driven by the continued expansion of fossil fuel development, globally.”
“Let there be no mistake, this is a very clear warning sign that the world is heading into an extremely dangerous state – and this is driven by the continued expansion of fossil fuel development, globally.”
UN agency says C02 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather
The United Nations weather agency reports that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached record highs last year, intensifying climate change and extreme weather.
apnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Our CEO @billhare.bsky.social called the new data “alarming and worrying.”
“Let there be no mistake, this is a very clear warning sign that the world is heading into an extremely dangerous state – and this is driven by the continued expansion of fossil fuel development, globally.”
“Let there be no mistake, this is a very clear warning sign that the world is heading into an extremely dangerous state – and this is driven by the continued expansion of fossil fuel development, globally.”
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Ocean Vuong is vastly overrated
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Ocean Vuong is vastly overrated
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The truth doesn’t fear questioning—only lies do.
October 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The truth doesn’t fear questioning—only lies do.
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Fuck this guy
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
October 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Fuck this guy
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Rare bit of honesty from Ted Cruz about the Republican Party's MO on the Epstein files
www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-say...
www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-say...
Ted Cruz Says ‘Let’s Stop Attacking Pedophiles’ in Awkward Gaffe
The GOP senator suffered the slip up while railing against Democrats’ crime policies at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
www.thedailybeast.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Rare bit of honesty from Ted Cruz about the Republican Party's MO on the Epstein files
www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-say...
www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-say...
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The most annoying thing about centrists is how smart they think they are while they propose policies and strategies that have failed consistently over the course of hundreds of years
September 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The most annoying thing about centrists is how smart they think they are while they propose policies and strategies that have failed consistently over the course of hundreds of years
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A history of money and power, told through water:
In the Navajo Nation, a third of residents live without running water. But St. George, Utah-a majority Anglo city 80 miles away-consumed the most water per person per day in the US, and paid the least for it.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
In the Navajo Nation, a third of residents live without running water. But St. George, Utah-a majority Anglo city 80 miles away-consumed the most water per person per day in the US, and paid the least for it.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
A Navajo man cries out for water on a pinnacle in Utah: Elliot Ross’s best photograph
‘This is me shouting into the wind for change,’ said Tim, who lives in the Navajo Nation, where a third of residents have no running water. ‘But it falls on closed ears’
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
A history of money and power, told through water:
In the Navajo Nation, a third of residents live without running water. But St. George, Utah-a majority Anglo city 80 miles away-consumed the most water per person per day in the US, and paid the least for it.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
In the Navajo Nation, a third of residents live without running water. But St. George, Utah-a majority Anglo city 80 miles away-consumed the most water per person per day in the US, and paid the least for it.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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If you think antifascists are bad, it just might be because you’re a fascist
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
If you think antifascists are bad, it just might be because you’re a fascist
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Not a university anymore.
Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.
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conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
September 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Not a university anymore.
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“Not only AI enthusiasts, but even some scholars whose expertise concentrates on identifying and critically interrogating ideologies and sociotechnical relationships — such as historians and gender scholars — unfortunately fall prey to the teleological belief that AI is an unstoppable force.”
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Not only AI enthusiasts, but even some scholars whose expertise concentrates on identifying and critically interrogating ideologies and sociotechnical relationships — such as historians and gender scholars — unfortunately fall prey to the teleological belief that AI is an unstoppable force.”
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I don't think people are concerned enough about the fact that the majority of people in the world have objected to this genocide for nearly 2 years and nobody in power cares one bit. They're conditioning us to do what we're told. This isn't just about Palestinians. Just wait until the next pandemic
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I don't think people are concerned enough about the fact that the majority of people in the world have objected to this genocide for nearly 2 years and nobody in power cares one bit. They're conditioning us to do what we're told. This isn't just about Palestinians. Just wait until the next pandemic