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Epistemic justice warrior. Crazy aunt. Gender outlaw. Rootless cosmopolitan. Disaster bi. Running on amphetamines & wrath.
My cyborg uprising will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.
they/themself, Mx./Dr.
https://linktr.ee/i_rohl
My cyborg uprising will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.
they/themself, Mx./Dr.
https://linktr.ee/i_rohl
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The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".
Why was Summers's infamous sexism not already seen as disqualifying?
(Yes I know why.)
(Yes this does in fact make it much worse.)
(Yes I know why.)
(Yes this does in fact make it much worse.)
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Why was Summers's infamous sexism not already seen as disqualifying?
(Yes I know why.)
(Yes this does in fact make it much worse.)
(Yes I know why.)
(Yes this does in fact make it much worse.)
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If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.
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Skynet would at least be a cooler way to die. This is so much worse.
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Skynet would at least be a cooler way to die. This is so much worse.
There are many valid ways of processing loss, and approaches to such things can depend a lot on one's own mental state, the way one related to the deceased, and the cultural context. So *usually* I try not to judge.
All that said, WHAT THE FUCK?
All that said, WHAT THE FUCK?
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
Disney Channel Star’s AI App That Creates Avatars Of Dead Relatives Sparks Backlash
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There are many valid ways of processing loss, and approaches to such things can depend a lot on one's own mental state, the way one related to the deceased, and the cultural context. So *usually* I try not to judge.
All that said, WHAT THE FUCK?
All that said, WHAT THE FUCK?
If we as a society are going to have any concept of crime (something about which I am ambivalent), then this shit needs to be considered some kind of criminal recklessness.
www.404media.co/power-compan...
www.404media.co/power-compan...
![[Screenshot from 404 Media]
The Idaho National Laboratory, a Department of Energy run nuclear lab, is already using Microsoft’s AI to “streamline” nuclear licensing. “INL will generate the engineering and safety analysis reports that are required to be submitted for construction permits and operating licenses for nuclear power plants,” INL said in a press release. Lloyd's Register, a UK-based maritime organization, is doing the same. American power company Westinghouse is marketing its own AI, called bertha, that promises to make the licensing process go from "months to minutes.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7soh2zyx7vqj37ngempaec4d/bafkreia4ohwpda37j75f7vmfisdmw44mlchhyafsjfng5gwlzd3bgtlxci@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If we as a society are going to have any concept of crime (something about which I am ambivalent), then this shit needs to be considered some kind of criminal recklessness.
www.404media.co/power-compan...
www.404media.co/power-compan...
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One would think that if you had a new & poorly-understood tool, about which nobody was prepared to offer any reliability guarantees, you might try using it for low-stakes things for a while & take some notes about that before using it for obviously life-or-death stuff.
bsky.app/profile/jose...
bsky.app/profile/jose...
New from 404 Media: Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
www.404media.co/power-compan...
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
www.404media.co/power-compan...
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
One would think that if you had a new & poorly-understood tool, about which nobody was prepared to offer any reliability guarantees, you might try using it for low-stakes things for a while & take some notes about that before using it for obviously life-or-death stuff.
bsky.app/profile/jose...
bsky.app/profile/jose...
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It's frustrating to see people say Jesus was a Jew without specifying what sort of Jew, so I can know whether to serve rice or not if he shows up for Pesach
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It's frustrating to see people say Jesus was a Jew without specifying what sort of Jew, so I can know whether to serve rice or not if he shows up for Pesach
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Wait actually what if someone organized a speed dating event with a poster session or something? Has this been tried?
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wait actually what if someone organized a speed dating event with a poster session or something? Has this been tried?
[taps radical feminist sign]
When they talk about "protecting" women they mean in the sense of securing/maintaining-control-of important or valuable resources, not in the sense of defending the autonomy and wellbeing of people.
When they talk about "protecting" women they mean in the sense of securing/maintaining-control-of important or valuable resources, not in the sense of defending the autonomy and wellbeing of people.
Nancy Mace keeps insisting Trump "protects" women, even as she voted to release the Epstein files.
This is incoherent, but her nonsense reflects a deeper dilemma facing all Republican women: keeping up their delusions about Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/11/14/s...
This is incoherent, but her nonsense reflects a deeper dilemma facing all Republican women: keeping up their delusions about Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/11/14/s...
Sorry, Nancy Mace. Donald Trump hasn’t “protected women”
The congresswoman’s Epstein dilemma is a problem for all Republican women
www.salon.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
[taps radical feminist sign]
When they talk about "protecting" women they mean in the sense of securing/maintaining-control-of important or valuable resources, not in the sense of defending the autonomy and wellbeing of people.
When they talk about "protecting" women they mean in the sense of securing/maintaining-control-of important or valuable resources, not in the sense of defending the autonomy and wellbeing of people.
WTF is going on with the other 30%?
70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv
Poll shows 70% of trans people think BBC News is ‘hostile’
The right wing claims the corporation is ‘pro-trans’, but the people at the sharp end of its coverage disagree. The BBC must stop its attack on trans people.
goodlaw.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
WTF is going on with the other 30%?
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Lawrence Summers wants you to forget all about Larry.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Lawrence Summers wants you to forget all about Larry.
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Sounds to me like they dodged a bullet - better to be alone than with someone who doesn't want to hear 30 minutes worth of coelacanth info.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Sounds to me like they dodged a bullet - better to be alone than with someone who doesn't want to hear 30 minutes worth of coelacanth info.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but they way they *get* annoyed at people, and how they *decide* who to be annoyed at, is through social media.
This future is Thomas Chatterton Williams arguing in the Atlantic with ten Twitter leftists who called him 'Whomas Thateterton Cilliams' forever.
This future is Thomas Chatterton Williams arguing in the Atlantic with ten Twitter leftists who called him 'Whomas Thateterton Cilliams' forever.
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Not to put too fine a point on it, but they way they *get* annoyed at people, and how they *decide* who to be annoyed at, is through social media.
This future is Thomas Chatterton Williams arguing in the Atlantic with ten Twitter leftists who called him 'Whomas Thateterton Cilliams' forever.
This future is Thomas Chatterton Williams arguing in the Atlantic with ten Twitter leftists who called him 'Whomas Thateterton Cilliams' forever.
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There are two kinds of people--those for whom a 30-minute lecture on coelocanths makes them irrepressibly horny and those who find such lectures so off-putting that they ghost the lecturer
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
There are two kinds of people--those for whom a 30-minute lecture on coelocanths makes them irrepressibly horny and those who find such lectures so off-putting that they ghost the lecturer
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"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With many of Jeffrey Epstein’s documents and emails now available to the public, subtle messages from the disgraced financer like “Donald Trump is a sex criminal I have done sex cri...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
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Seen on CNN front page.
The claim that Trump "hasn't been accused of wrongdoing" in connection with Epstein would presumably come as a shock to Katie Johnson.
Does "accused" or "wrongdoing" mean something different for the folks at CNN?
(Article link: www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p... )
The claim that Trump "hasn't been accused of wrongdoing" in connection with Epstein would presumably come as a shock to Katie Johnson.
Does "accused" or "wrongdoing" mean something different for the folks at CNN?
(Article link: www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p... )
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Seen on CNN front page.
The claim that Trump "hasn't been accused of wrongdoing" in connection with Epstein would presumably come as a shock to Katie Johnson.
Does "accused" or "wrongdoing" mean something different for the folks at CNN?
(Article link: www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p... )
The claim that Trump "hasn't been accused of wrongdoing" in connection with Epstein would presumably come as a shock to Katie Johnson.
Does "accused" or "wrongdoing" mean something different for the folks at CNN?
(Article link: www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p... )
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transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
I still think about this tweet.
![[screenshot of a tweet by twitter user @C_Zinkiev. text of tweet follows]
"Went on a date with a guy I really like. I dressed nice, did myhair, ggave him an extensvie 30 minute lecture on coelacanths, yet I haven't heard from him 🤔 the only thing I can think of is perhaps I did not provide enough information about coelacanths?? Fish people pls advise"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7soh2zyx7vqj37ngempaec4d/bafkreiafxfntj3c2wadbmdt36vatmhjtwbwf3b74y3irqmrnlx7mbpbtqy@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I still think about this tweet.
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I think the thing that frustrates me the most about this dipshit is that he exists in a hermetically-sealed world where he will never encounter an actual argument or critique.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I think the thing that frustrates me the most about this dipshit is that he exists in a hermetically-sealed world where he will never encounter an actual argument or critique.
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on a slightly closer read this piece suffers from the same malady as every TCW piece: he is incapable of dealing with the substance of a thing. the most relevant thing to him is that jan 6ers and george floyders *sounded the same*, the substance of what they wanted is irrelevant. this is stupid.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
on a slightly closer read this piece suffers from the same malady as every TCW piece: he is incapable of dealing with the substance of a thing. the most relevant thing to him is that jan 6ers and george floyders *sounded the same*, the substance of what they wanted is irrelevant. this is stupid.
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also the assertion that a sense of moral clarity precludes introspection is an argument to make and not a fact to assert
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
also the assertion that a sense of moral clarity precludes introspection is an argument to make and not a fact to assert
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i think it's a strange attractor for people who don't actually know anything. like the theme running through all this is not having to know anything of substance about the subject--not having to take and defend a position about what's actually true--and instead it's all just meta-discourse critique
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
i think it's a strange attractor for people who don't actually know anything. like the theme running through all this is not having to know anything of substance about the subject--not having to take and defend a position about what's actually true--and instead it's all just meta-discourse critique
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you can't not be annoyed by people. i am annoyed by people all the time. i try not to make this my intellectual north star
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
you can't not be annoyed by people. i am annoyed by people all the time. i try not to make this my intellectual north star
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Awww, Kevin got me a Chateau Picard wine glass and lap blanket. The man knows me.
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Awww, Kevin got me a Chateau Picard wine glass and lap blanket. The man knows me.
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Partly this but also partly, like, when somebody talks about the depravity and/or degeneracy of "elites", IME there's a good chance they're using "elites" to mean either "queer people" or "Jews"
What would be "reactionary-coded" be in this case? Fire and brimstone? Seriously asking.
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Partly this but also partly, like, when somebody talks about the depravity and/or degeneracy of "elites", IME there's a good chance they're using "elites" to mean either "queer people" or "Jews"