Noémie Verhoef
@noemieverhoef.substack.com
Prof de philo passionnée d'histoire, de philo du langage, d'intelligence artificielle et de bêtise humaine.
Ce dernier sujet occupe la majeure partie de mon temps et j'essaie, au mieux, de ne pas trop y contribuer.
Je ne réussis pas toujours.
Ce dernier sujet occupe la majeure partie de mon temps et j'essaie, au mieux, de ne pas trop y contribuer.
Je ne réussis pas toujours.
Ah, l'été! L'occasion de revoir des amies de longue date lorsqu'elles sont de passage près de ma jungle! 💖
June 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Ah, l'été! L'occasion de revoir des amies de longue date lorsqu'elles sont de passage près de ma jungle! 💖
Excellent 🤣
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
June 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Excellent 🤣
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Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
June 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
Speechless.
Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.
June 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Speechless.
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Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.
June 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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The internet was a mistake.
Our modems used to scream to warn us.
Our modems used to scream to warn us.
June 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The internet was a mistake.
Our modems used to scream to warn us.
Our modems used to scream to warn us.
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I keep seeing people say Musk “failed” in his government takeover.
No, he did not fail.
He shut down investigations into his businesses, he garnered huge contracts, and he stole the personal data of everyone in the US.
That’s not a “failure.” This motherfucker won, and won big.
No, he did not fail.
He shut down investigations into his businesses, he garnered huge contracts, and he stole the personal data of everyone in the US.
That’s not a “failure.” This motherfucker won, and won big.
May 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I keep seeing people say Musk “failed” in his government takeover.
No, he did not fail.
He shut down investigations into his businesses, he garnered huge contracts, and he stole the personal data of everyone in the US.
That’s not a “failure.” This motherfucker won, and won big.
No, he did not fail.
He shut down investigations into his businesses, he garnered huge contracts, and he stole the personal data of everyone in the US.
That’s not a “failure.” This motherfucker won, and won big.
Wow. Ouvertement à la pêche à l'anecdote pour "soutenir" leur discours raciste. Puisque les vraies stats ne sont pas de leur bord.
Someone should set up a phone line to contact if you were helped in some way by an immigrant. I bet it would get a lot more calls than this ridiculous and offensive ICE line.
May 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Wow. Ouvertement à la pêche à l'anecdote pour "soutenir" leur discours raciste. Puisque les vraies stats ne sont pas de leur bord.
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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
« Beaucoup d'hommes, à mon avis, auraient pu accéder à la sagesse s'ils n'avaient pas pensé y être déjà parvenus [...] » (Sénèque, De la tranquillité de l'âme, XVII)
May 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
« Beaucoup d'hommes, à mon avis, auraient pu accéder à la sagesse s'ils n'avaient pas pensé y être déjà parvenus [...] » (Sénèque, De la tranquillité de l'âme, XVII)
Wow. Des nouvelles des Anglais : maintenant les femmes qui souhaitent avorter ont intérêt à savoir comment effacer leurs traces de navigation sur internet et ne pas avoir d'information à ce sujet dans leur téléphone... 🤬
May 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Wow. Des nouvelles des Anglais : maintenant les femmes qui souhaitent avorter ont intérêt à savoir comment effacer leurs traces de navigation sur internet et ne pas avoir d'information à ce sujet dans leur téléphone... 🤬
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Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
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Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless populat...
theonion.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
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Wow is this how I found out I didn't get the job? A fucking chimney?
May 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wow is this how I found out I didn't get the job? A fucking chimney?
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Trump's tariff war could reduce the supply of Christmas toys. But deporting children could reduce the demand.
May 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Trump's tariff war could reduce the supply of Christmas toys. But deporting children could reduce the demand.
Un peu de Shakespeare avec votre jugement incendiaire contre Trump? 🔥🔥🔥
JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power.
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May 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Un peu de Shakespeare avec votre jugement incendiaire contre Trump? 🔥🔥🔥
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yarvin is like one percent as intelligent as he thinks he is, and his knowledge of history is a quarter inch deep. his only real genius is in packaging his ignorance in a way that made very old right wing ideas sound new and shiny to young tech bros who are nominally literate
So Curtis Yarvin is a fool, so it will not surprise you that 'executive' is not, in fact, a 'literal synonym' of 'monarchy.'
Executive is just "that which carries out" from Latin exsequor, 'to follow to completion.' There is no etymological reason the executive needs to be a single person.
Executive is just "that which carries out" from Latin exsequor, 'to follow to completion.' There is no etymological reason the executive needs to be a single person.
Always funny to me that Yarvin is held up as the great intellect of the New Right and then when he argues for stuff it's this - here's some etymology for a synonym of a word you're using, so we gotta have a tyrant -- checkmate libs. Behold the philosopher.
May 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
yarvin is like one percent as intelligent as he thinks he is, and his knowledge of history is a quarter inch deep. his only real genius is in packaging his ignorance in a way that made very old right wing ideas sound new and shiny to young tech bros who are nominally literate
Les juges américains ont encore du bon sens... C'est encourageant. Mais ont-ils assez de mordant pour y faire quoi que ce soit?
“Allowing the President to unilaterally define the conditions when he may invoke the AEA, and then summarily declare that those conditions exist, would remove all limitations to the Executive
Branch's authority under the AEA…”
Branch's authority under the AEA…”
Really good to see a federal judge just declared Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for renditions *unlawful.* This part says, in effect, that Trump can't just say the president gets to make shit up with abandon and then use it to justify illegal kidnappings. Bad faith matters:
May 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Les juges américains ont encore du bon sens... C'est encourageant. Mais ont-ils assez de mordant pour y faire quoi que ce soit?
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An alternate theory:
You guys are being so mean to Kristi Noem, but sometimes you have to pay for Dalmatian puppies in cash.
April 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
An alternate theory:
"The SCV is a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which promotes a revisionist version of history that whitewashes the Confederacy’s racist past and downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War."
Yé.
Yé.
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month
Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.
www.mississippifreepress.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"The SCV is a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which promotes a revisionist version of history that whitewashes the Confederacy’s racist past and downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War."
Yé.
Yé.
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@melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century.
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April 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas,
@melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century.
buff.ly/CUxiWM1
@melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century.
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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getting MS-95 tattooed on my knuckles so people know my favorite edition of Windows hopefully this never provides fuel for a dictator to make claims about my criminal history
April 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
getting MS-95 tattooed on my knuckles so people know my favorite edition of Windows hopefully this never provides fuel for a dictator to make claims about my criminal history
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How it's going for the oligarchs....
How's it going for you?
How's it going for you?
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX $5.9 billion in new contracts, while Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will get $2.4 billion. These are government handouts to the super rich on the biggest scale.
www.wftv.com/news/local/o...
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Musk, Bezos awarded billions in Space Force Contracts
Contracts support 84 space missions for national security.
www.wftv.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
How it's going for the oligarchs....
How's it going for you?
How's it going for you?