Nate Charlow
@nchar.bsky.social
Toronto philosophy professor, dad
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choosing to read this as a constructive dilemma
March 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
choosing to read this as a constructive dilemma
Basically your only job as a journalist is to tell the truth
This idea that we're all personal Super PACs who must talk like we're part of a paid political broadcast every minute is a significant part of what's wrong with Democratic politics.
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
September 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Basically your only job as a journalist is to tell the truth
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It’s so weird that people latched onto a bunch of mostly bullshit justifications for disliking a technology that has immediate obvious negative societal externalities. It’s made it way harder to teach writing but people scream about imaginary lakes evaporating.
The commonly cited AI water usage statistics are based on a methodology where, if your data center buys green energy from a hydroelectric dam (as lots do, including the hyperscalers), then “natural evaporation of the water from the lake behind the dam” is counted as that data center’s water use.
August 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It’s so weird that people latched onto a bunch of mostly bullshit justifications for disliking a technology that has immediate obvious negative societal externalities. It’s made it way harder to teach writing but people scream about imaginary lakes evaporating.
*sigh* if you insist…
August 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
*sigh* if you insist…
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a fucking moron: debunking the IAT means we've debunked the very idea of implicit bias
August 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
a fucking moron: debunking the IAT means we've debunked the very idea of implicit bias
Everyone in Toronto talks like this
June 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Everyone in Toronto talks like this
i'm getting really into cognitive decoupling (by which i mean psychologically pathologizing my political opponents on the basis of tendentious interpretation of low-quality opinion surveys)
March 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
i'm getting really into cognitive decoupling (by which i mean psychologically pathologizing my political opponents on the basis of tendentious interpretation of low-quality opinion surveys)
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Columbia is the most craven university in the US right now. Students should go elsewhere as this place will not protect them.
Multiple reports of ICE/DHS agents in Columbia undergraduate dormitories, right now.
March 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Columbia is the most craven university in the US right now. Students should go elsewhere as this place will not protect them.
choosing to read this as a constructive dilemma
March 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
choosing to read this as a constructive dilemma
two basically indistinguishable left-of-center parties decided (once again) to compete for the same voters against Doug Ford 👍
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
two basically indistinguishable left-of-center parties decided (once again) to compete for the same voters against Doug Ford 👍
