Araj
@4atan1.bsky.social
he/him. "learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow."
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*when you’ve been hearing about the “overproduction” of scholars for 20 years while also watching wealthy white people bribe their kids into limited spots with very few asking if maybe we should just have more school for people since they clearly want it.*
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
*when you’ve been hearing about the “overproduction” of scholars for 20 years while also watching wealthy white people bribe their kids into limited spots with very few asking if maybe we should just have more school for people since they clearly want it.*
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Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
Read about Commonsense Guardrails for Using Advanced Technology in Schools aiinstruction.org/sites/defaul...
aiinstruction.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
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Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
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IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
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masks. work.
(work even better when combined with other measures, work their best when properly fitted/continuously worn.
but work to an extent WORTH USING even alone; even inconsistently.)
(work even better when combined with other measures, work their best when properly fitted/continuously worn.
but work to an extent WORTH USING even alone; even inconsistently.)
"If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout, the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively Increasing the ventilation rate from 1 ACH to 6 ACH reduced the infection risk. ."
FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transmission of respiratory infectious diseases based on real close contact behavior in an emergency room
The risk of transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in emergency rooms is high, posing a severe threat to the health of healthcare workers (HC…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
masks. work.
(work even better when combined with other measures, work their best when properly fitted/continuously worn.
but work to an extent WORTH USING even alone; even inconsistently.)
(work even better when combined with other measures, work their best when properly fitted/continuously worn.
but work to an extent WORTH USING even alone; even inconsistently.)
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The conversation we're not ready to have, apparently, is the number of women and people of color who don't finish their PhDs because of the level of harassment and lack of support they experience during the doctoral process, even before we get to the fucking nonexistent job market. I Have Thoughts.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The conversation we're not ready to have, apparently, is the number of women and people of color who don't finish their PhDs because of the level of harassment and lack of support they experience during the doctoral process, even before we get to the fucking nonexistent job market. I Have Thoughts.
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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*stares indigenously*
We're doing pogroms in America now
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
*stares indigenously*
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS.
This is real! It happened!
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
This is real! It happened!
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS.
This is real! It happened!
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
This is real! It happened!
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
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It’s important that everyone is also aware that the regime is making it difficult and in many cases impossible for trans people to leave, by revoking passports and refusing to issue new ones.
Trump wants trans and intersex prisoners in the US to be raped and their rapists to suffer no consequences.
Time to leave the US.
Time to leave the US.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It’s important that everyone is also aware that the regime is making it difficult and in many cases impossible for trans people to leave, by revoking passports and refusing to issue new ones.
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
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READ THIS.
READ THIS.
READ THIS.
READ THIS.
READ THIS.
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
READ THIS.
READ THIS.
READ THIS.
READ THIS.
READ THIS.
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The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson
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Genuinely can't tell if this is just regular fascist nostalgia politics or if he just straight up can't taste anything because of COVID
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Late-stage MAGA means accepting that things will never be great again
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Genuinely can't tell if this is just regular fascist nostalgia politics or if he just straight up can't taste anything because of COVID
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Its telling where the IOC will let claims of scientific rationality be applied as a cover for their bigotry and where it wont. I'm assuming they wont be barring athletes for having the advantage of being too tall or too much lung capacity?
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Its telling where the IOC will let claims of scientific rationality be applied as a cover for their bigotry and where it wont. I'm assuming they wont be barring athletes for having the advantage of being too tall or too much lung capacity?
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I was in medical school then, having already earned a 3.97 GPA in biomedical engineering. And the president of freaking Harvard said people like me were not suited for science. He still had a high-powered, prestigious career after that but tell me again about how cancel culture ruins men’s lives.
One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I was in medical school then, having already earned a 3.97 GPA in biomedical engineering. And the president of freaking Harvard said people like me were not suited for science. He still had a high-powered, prestigious career after that but tell me again about how cancel culture ruins men’s lives.
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Never have. Never will. Not interested in going anywhere *near* a crap app built out of countless millions of hard-won words stolen from my colleagues, the use of which will (bonus!) begin progressively to degrade my cognitive skills and blunt the edge of the tool I’ve spent half a century honing. 🤨
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Never have. Never will. Not interested in going anywhere *near* a crap app built out of countless millions of hard-won words stolen from my colleagues, the use of which will (bonus!) begin progressively to degrade my cognitive skills and blunt the edge of the tool I’ve spent half a century honing. 🤨
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions
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This dynamic is part of why, with the exception of free fridge and food reclamation programs, it’s almost always better to give money than donate food.
"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This dynamic is part of why, with the exception of free fridge and food reclamation programs, it’s almost always better to give money than donate food.
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ISO 216 paper sizes are in fact rounded to the nearest millimetre which means
* A24 paper is exactly 0mm by 0mm
* So are A23 paper and all smaller sizes
* A22 paper is 0mm by 1mm
* A21 paper and A20 paper are both 1mm squares
* A19 paper is 1mm by 2mm
* A18 paper is a 2mm square
* A24 paper is exactly 0mm by 0mm
* So are A23 paper and all smaller sizes
* A22 paper is 0mm by 1mm
* A21 paper and A20 paper are both 1mm squares
* A19 paper is 1mm by 2mm
* A18 paper is a 2mm square
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ISO 216 paper sizes are in fact rounded to the nearest millimetre which means
* A24 paper is exactly 0mm by 0mm
* So are A23 paper and all smaller sizes
* A22 paper is 0mm by 1mm
* A21 paper and A20 paper are both 1mm squares
* A19 paper is 1mm by 2mm
* A18 paper is a 2mm square
* A24 paper is exactly 0mm by 0mm
* So are A23 paper and all smaller sizes
* A22 paper is 0mm by 1mm
* A21 paper and A20 paper are both 1mm squares
* A19 paper is 1mm by 2mm
* A18 paper is a 2mm square