Ernest
@ernestdaburnest.bsky.social
Philosophy Lecturer, Leftist, Wizard . Follows are not endorsements. Love my gf!!
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[me, introducing myself to literally anyone at a conference from now on] are you… Alex rails?
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
[me, introducing myself to literally anyone at a conference from now on] are you… Alex rails?
Long time no see y’all. My thesis defense went great!! I graduated and got hired as an adjunct phil lecturer. It wouldn’t have been possible without my mentor,my friend, my GOAT Idris. Had a lot of help from my department and I am forever grateful. PhD applications are the next step, wish me luck!!
July 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Long time no see y’all. My thesis defense went great!! I graduated and got hired as an adjunct phil lecturer. It wouldn’t have been possible without my mentor,my friend, my GOAT Idris. Had a lot of help from my department and I am forever grateful. PhD applications are the next step, wish me luck!!
Thesis is done! Defense is on Friday.
April 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Thesis is done! Defense is on Friday.
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
I’m alive. Just working on my MA thesis on Freedom,Identity, and Communism
March 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I’m alive. Just working on my MA thesis on Freedom,Identity, and Communism
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🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵
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December 22, 2024 at 12:44 AM
🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵
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Here are some nice mushrooms
December 21, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Remember: some of the first "health insurance" was workers' mutual aid societies that they formed to take care of each other in the face of factory work that was destroying their health. Today's insurance industry that profits from denying healthcare is a gross perversion of this.
December 19, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Remember: some of the first "health insurance" was workers' mutual aid societies that they formed to take care of each other in the face of factory work that was destroying their health. Today's insurance industry that profits from denying healthcare is a gross perversion of this.
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Even just the picture of Chicago style is upsetting me
December 16, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Even just the picture of Chicago style is upsetting me
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Here are some nice mushrooms
December 13, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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UnitedHealth CEO sent employees a memo yesterday (leaked to me) listing anonymous statements of support for the company.
December 12, 2024 at 3:19 PM
UnitedHealth CEO sent employees a memo yesterday (leaked to me) listing anonymous statements of support for the company.
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Hot take: scientists and engineers also have a moral obligation towards awareness of the social-political ramifications of their work.
We scientists always have a choice about whether we do the work of killers or not
And even in scenarios where we did not realize that was what we were doing, once we know, it is our moral obligation to stop, immediately
And even in scenarios where we did not realize that was what we were doing, once we know, it is our moral obligation to stop, immediately
December 10, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Hot take: scientists and engineers also have a moral obligation towards awareness of the social-political ramifications of their work.
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One of my opinions is "thinking beyond the left right binary" or cetera is mostly just incoherence. The cluster of left/right wing intuitions track plausible collections of views, and it's just refusing to face hard choices or take unpopular stands (most people are incoherent) when people mix views.
December 10, 2024 at 10:47 PM
One of my opinions is "thinking beyond the left right binary" or cetera is mostly just incoherence. The cluster of left/right wing intuitions track plausible collections of views, and it's just refusing to face hard choices or take unpopular stands (most people are incoherent) when people mix views.
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Editors in publishing that are cool with using A.I. for covers and marketing assets, A.I. for summaries of the book and other copy, ChatGPT for whatever, pushing authors to allow A.I. companies to use their books--babes you are next.
You're being used to dig your own grave. Pish back now or perish.
You're being used to dig your own grave. Pish back now or perish.
December 11, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Editors in publishing that are cool with using A.I. for covers and marketing assets, A.I. for summaries of the book and other copy, ChatGPT for whatever, pushing authors to allow A.I. companies to use their books--babes you are next.
You're being used to dig your own grave. Pish back now or perish.
You're being used to dig your own grave. Pish back now or perish.
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lots of americans understand how their healthcare system is fucked up but if americans collectively understood just how fucked up their healthcare system is compared with other countries there would be a revolution tomorrow
December 5, 2024 at 9:52 AM
lots of americans understand how their healthcare system is fucked up but if americans collectively understood just how fucked up their healthcare system is compared with other countries there would be a revolution tomorrow
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Breaking: Chelsea Manning is leading a bathroom sit in protest at the Capitol.
Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.
Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.
December 5, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Breaking: Chelsea Manning is leading a bathroom sit in protest at the Capitol.
Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.
Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.
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All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else
December 4, 2024 at 11:35 PM
All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else
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check my bio buster
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December 5, 2024 at 3:32 AM
check my bio buster
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i don't think we need to take "the left drove tech oligarchs to the right" seriously as an argument. all parties involved know they're either lying or being told a lie
December 2, 2024 at 6:11 PM
i don't think we need to take "the left drove tech oligarchs to the right" seriously as an argument. all parties involved know they're either lying or being told a lie
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Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.
Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to…
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December 3, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social