Eric Hoffman
@ericseth.bsky.social
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
As someone who started programming in APL and FORTRAN I can totally believe this. Suck on that zoomers!
To be clear, I 100% believe that the primary barrier to Elon Musk gaining control of the Treasury payments system is COBOL
February 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
As someone who started programming in APL and FORTRAN I can totally believe this. Suck on that zoomers!
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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Welcome to the plutokleptokakistocracy! Where the ultra wealthy steal from you and run the country in the most insanely inept way imaginable.
January 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Welcome to the plutokleptokakistocracy! Where the ultra wealthy steal from you and run the country in the most insanely inept way imaginable.
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“The most recently ratified amendment, the 27th, was finally approved ... more than two centuries after it was proposed.”
Legal expert @tribelaw.bsky.social talks history, delays, & eventual ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-equal-...
Legal expert @tribelaw.bsky.social talks history, delays, & eventual ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-equal-...
The Equal Rights Amendment at Long Last
Thanks to President Biden, the Constitution will finally guarantee equality for all
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January 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“The most recently ratified amendment, the 27th, was finally approved ... more than two centuries after it was proposed.”
Legal expert @tribelaw.bsky.social talks history, delays, & eventual ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-equal-...
Legal expert @tribelaw.bsky.social talks history, delays, & eventual ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-equal-...
This long read is well worth your time. Written in the last year of Trump 1 , before the entire Republican Party completely and irrevocably bent over for him
In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This long read is well worth your time. Written in the last year of Trump 1 , before the entire Republican Party completely and irrevocably bent over for him
This promises to be a solid source of reliable news
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January 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This promises to be a solid source of reliable news
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Solid coverage from @brianstelter.bsky.social : www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/m...
Jen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering ‘authoritarian threat’ | CNN Business
Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list of Washington Post figures to leave the troubled institution.
www.cnn.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Solid coverage from @brianstelter.bsky.social : www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/m...
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Meta's policy is that group-based harassment is generally bad and forbidden *except for this one particular group*
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Meta's policy is that group-based harassment is generally bad and forbidden *except for this one particular group*