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“Ezra Klein contends that living with one another on the basis of ‘social shame and cultural pressure’ cannot work and would not be worthwhile if it did: a nation where such things flourished would not be ‘a free country.’”
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on what this gets wrong:
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on what this gets wrong:
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Ezra Klein contends that living with one another on the basis of ‘social shame and cultural pressure’ cannot work and would not be worthwhile if it did: a nation where such things flourished would not be ‘a free country.’”
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on what this gets wrong:
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on what this gets wrong:
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Happy Labor Day!
Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...
Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...
Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happy Labor Day!
Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...
Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...
Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
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Fuck
September 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Fuck
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“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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every college degree has only two pathways for careers
for example, if you get a degree in psychology, you can
1) help poor and underprivileged people: $30,000/year
2) research new ways to make people gamble even more: $700,000/year
for example, if you get a degree in psychology, you can
1) help poor and underprivileged people: $30,000/year
2) research new ways to make people gamble even more: $700,000/year
May 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
every college degree has only two pathways for careers
for example, if you get a degree in psychology, you can
1) help poor and underprivileged people: $30,000/year
2) research new ways to make people gamble even more: $700,000/year
for example, if you get a degree in psychology, you can
1) help poor and underprivileged people: $30,000/year
2) research new ways to make people gamble even more: $700,000/year
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(guy who listens to one ep of The Science Racist podcast): if i just ate more offal i would be the first person to live forever
April 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
(guy who listens to one ep of The Science Racist podcast): if i just ate more offal i would be the first person to live forever
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Growing up my strengths were treated as an inconvenience (people-centered, too chatty, too distracted), and only parts of me were praised (reads well, speaks well) so I grew up feeling at war with myself. 1/4
#pathologicaldemandavoidance
#pathologicaldemandavoidance
April 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Growing up my strengths were treated as an inconvenience (people-centered, too chatty, too distracted), and only parts of me were praised (reads well, speaks well) so I grew up feeling at war with myself. 1/4
#pathologicaldemandavoidance
#pathologicaldemandavoidance
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This sounds extreme and it is but it’s also the thinking of 90% of our media and elected officials and many of you all on here.
A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”
March 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This sounds extreme and it is but it’s also the thinking of 90% of our media and elected officials and many of you all on here.
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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20+ years of Right-wing & Corporate Media complaining that elite universities are not giving right-wing extremist enough voice on campus, free speech they cried to US, but then Republicans take charge & start *disappearing* students for op-eds they don't like. It was all so transparent.
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
20+ years of Right-wing & Corporate Media complaining that elite universities are not giving right-wing extremist enough voice on campus, free speech they cried to US, but then Republicans take charge & start *disappearing* students for op-eds they don't like. It was all so transparent.
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
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i have zero interest in most modern low budget shlock because it’s doing this self conscious “haha so bad it’s good just like the 80s!” thing. but you can’t produce that intellectually. you need to be trying to make a normal movie and have it come out wrong because you’re a crazy person
March 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
i have zero interest in most modern low budget shlock because it’s doing this self conscious “haha so bad it’s good just like the 80s!” thing. but you can’t produce that intellectually. you need to be trying to make a normal movie and have it come out wrong because you’re a crazy person
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There should not be as much unexplored joke territory around this as there is
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
There should not be as much unexplored joke territory around this as there is
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there are two kinds of people. people who understand the limitations of ai and people who are going to be embarrassed in a few years
March 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
there are two kinds of people. people who understand the limitations of ai and people who are going to be embarrassed in a few years
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"My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech..."
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech..."
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Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
In America, EVERYONE has a RIGHT to due process - regardless of immigration status. It’s fundamental to our Constitution.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
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It’s absolutely wild how this country has literally zero plan in place for if and when (the when is now) the president just ignores the whole checks and balances thing. Like, literally nothing.
March 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It’s absolutely wild how this country has literally zero plan in place for if and when (the when is now) the president just ignores the whole checks and balances thing. Like, literally nothing.
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Frodo don’t destroy the ring, you’ll just be playing into their hands by reacting at all imho
March 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Frodo don’t destroy the ring, you’ll just be playing into their hands by reacting at all imho
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Hold onto every single reason for hope you can find. Jewish Voices for Peace gave you another one today.
NEW: Nearly 100 people were arrested after protesters gathered at Trump Tower in Manhattan to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and Columbia University alumnus who was detained by immigration authorities on Saturday.
Nearly 100 arrested at Trump Tower during protest supporting Mahmoud Khalil
Protesters carries signs reading "Free Mahmoud Khalil," "Fight Nazis not students" and "You can't deport a movement."
www.axios.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Hold onto every single reason for hope you can find. Jewish Voices for Peace gave you another one today.
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In the future the right wants corporations can do absolutely anything to you, and when you fight back it’s terrorism
The FCC has launched a new effort to roll back regulations on tech, media, and telecommunications.
The commission it is seeking public comment on “every rule, regulation, or guidance document that the FCC should eliminate."
The commission it is seeking public comment on “every rule, regulation, or guidance document that the FCC should eliminate."
March 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In the future the right wants corporations can do absolutely anything to you, and when you fight back it’s terrorism
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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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This is what happens when you don't tax rich people, I'm dead serious. You have to keep the money moving in rational ways or it all devolves to hustle
this is a good joke but this also speaks to a truth about 2025 America: the growing, horrible sense among many people that running scams is the only path to basic financial stability
this is, of course, utter poison for human society
this is, of course, utter poison for human society
Feels like I'm leaving money on the table by not doing a scam or swindle of some kind. Would you guys buy a car for $100,000 if I pretended it can drive itself. What about a fake currency
March 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is what happens when you don't tax rich people, I'm dead serious. You have to keep the money moving in rational ways or it all devolves to hustle