Mawet
@misnomered.bsky.social
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
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Mr. Obama sir we tried to tell you that you were running with a bad crowd (billionaires), they’re bad news
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Mr. Obama sir we tried to tell you that you were running with a bad crowd (billionaires), they’re bad news
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
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In a speech to the cardinals today, Pope Leo XIV confirms he chose his name with Pope Leo XIII's contribution to social teaching in mind, noting that we are in another economic transformation not unlike the industrial revolution that prompted Rerum Novarum.
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
May 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In a speech to the cardinals today, Pope Leo XIV confirms he chose his name with Pope Leo XIII's contribution to social teaching in mind, noting that we are in another economic transformation not unlike the industrial revolution that prompted Rerum Novarum.
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
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I can't believe people don't think "Clippy, but it destroys the environment" is useful.
January 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I can't believe people don't think "Clippy, but it destroys the environment" is useful.
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“We tell them that plagiarism is bad. On the other hand, we give them a plagiarism machine, which, as an aside, may reduce their chances of getting a job, damage the environment, and widen inequality gaps in the process.”
My new op-ed. Let's stop pretending GenAI is compatible with the values of the university. futureu.education/higher-ed/co...
COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U
By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...
futureu.education
January 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“We tell them that plagiarism is bad. On the other hand, we give them a plagiarism machine, which, as an aside, may reduce their chances of getting a job, damage the environment, and widen inequality gaps in the process.”
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Has anyone in the past couple years has asked Elon if he views South African Apartheid as bad, and if not, why haven’t they asked him that?
There’s a racist pro-Apartheid South African account with only two paid subscribers on X. Guess who one of them is?
Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account.
www.mediaite.com
December 24, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Has anyone in the past couple years has asked Elon if he views South African Apartheid as bad, and if not, why haven’t they asked him that?
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One way to know that Zionism is a racial project is in the amount of anti-Palestinian racism that exists! That did not exist 100 years ago, Zionism made that, through a logic of race
December 25, 2024 at 5:00 AM
One way to know that Zionism is a racial project is in the amount of anti-Palestinian racism that exists! That did not exist 100 years ago, Zionism made that, through a logic of race
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There are people who still do not understand why we as Israel’s victims view it as an existential threat. Those of us who are Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese who just understand that Israel will stop at nothing in their ethnosupremacist project. That Israel will never stop unless forced to. 🧵
December 22, 2024 at 10:20 PM
There are people who still do not understand why we as Israel’s victims view it as an existential threat. Those of us who are Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese who just understand that Israel will stop at nothing in their ethnosupremacist project. That Israel will never stop unless forced to. 🧵
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My latest with Heidi Matthews and Priya Gupta on the role of universities during this moment of genocide. We critique the censorship of anti-genocide protest and critique in Western universities and the role they have sadly played in furthering the scholaticide
: theconversation.com/universities...
: theconversation.com/universities...
Universities should not silence research and speech on Palestine
Universities play an indispensable role in supporting the free inquiry needed to do the essential work of analysis, evidence gathering and recording of war crimes.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:46 AM
My latest with Heidi Matthews and Priya Gupta on the role of universities during this moment of genocide. We critique the censorship of anti-genocide protest and critique in Western universities and the role they have sadly played in furthering the scholaticide
: theconversation.com/universities...
: theconversation.com/universities...
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only using x for my banking moving forward
November 13, 2024 at 3:09 PM
only using x for my banking moving forward
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When the France election results are good
July 7, 2024 at 6:23 PM
When the France election results are good
took a @zeets.bsky.social tweet about a @philipchristman.bsky.social essay me notice Phil’s Twitter account no longer exists 😔
May 24, 2024 at 4:20 PM
took a @zeets.bsky.social tweet about a @philipchristman.bsky.social essay me notice Phil’s Twitter account no longer exists 😔
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Teacher: The world is warming, and we’re in several overlapping crisis. Who will step up?
*private equity raises hand*
Teacher: Private equity, if you’re going to suggest buying all the businesses and saddling them with the debt from the purchase, don’t bother.
*private equity lowers hand*
*private equity raises hand*
Teacher: Private equity, if you’re going to suggest buying all the businesses and saddling them with the debt from the purchase, don’t bother.
*private equity lowers hand*
March 23, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Teacher: The world is warming, and we’re in several overlapping crisis. Who will step up?
*private equity raises hand*
Teacher: Private equity, if you’re going to suggest buying all the businesses and saddling them with the debt from the purchase, don’t bother.
*private equity lowers hand*
*private equity raises hand*
Teacher: Private equity, if you’re going to suggest buying all the businesses and saddling them with the debt from the purchase, don’t bother.
*private equity lowers hand*
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How the US Waged a Global Campaign Against Baby Formula Regulation
Records & interviews show that the US govt repeatedly used its muscle to advance the interests of large baby formula companies while thwarting the efforts of Thailand and other developing countries to safeguard children’s health.
Records & interviews show that the US govt repeatedly used its muscle to advance the interests of large baby formula companies while thwarting the efforts of Thailand and other developing countries to safeguard children’s health.
How the U.S. Waged a Global Campaign Against Baby Formula Regulation
Records and interviews show that the U.S. government repeatedly used its muscle to advance the interests of large baby formula companies while thwarting the efforts of Thailand and other developing co...
www.propublica.org
March 21, 2024 at 12:37 PM
How the US Waged a Global Campaign Against Baby Formula Regulation
Records & interviews show that the US govt repeatedly used its muscle to advance the interests of large baby formula companies while thwarting the efforts of Thailand and other developing countries to safeguard children’s health.
Records & interviews show that the US govt repeatedly used its muscle to advance the interests of large baby formula companies while thwarting the efforts of Thailand and other developing countries to safeguard children’s health.
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Good news if you hated being able to trust anything you searched for.
Google has a new head of Search — and she’s all in on AI
The AI folks are starting to take over the Search team at Google.
www.theverge.com
March 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Good news if you hated being able to trust anything you searched for.
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Build cities for people, not cars. commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/batt...
Battle over parking often really about housing and development
A focus on parking and parking minimums have shaped post-war development in the US for the worse, says author Henry Grabar. But he says we're in the midst of an encouraging
commonwealthbeacon.org
March 22, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Build cities for people, not cars. commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/batt...
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"Still, even by the lax standards that prevail in the U.S., the independence of Tesla’s board was a fiction." newrepublic.com/article/1786...
That Judge Is Right. Elon Musk Isn’t Worth What Tesla Pays Him.
His compensation package was too comical to survive a court challenge.
newrepublic.com
February 1, 2024 at 4:23 AM
"Still, even by the lax standards that prevail in the U.S., the independence of Tesla’s board was a fiction." newrepublic.com/article/1786...
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“Biden wants to talk about broadband; the students want to talk about civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe...
Rep. Jim Clyburn helped Biden win young Black voters in 2020. This time, they're not listening.
Clyburn, D-S.C., has been campaigning for Biden ahead of the South Carolina primary. His frustration with young voters is palpable.
www.nbcnews.com
January 31, 2024 at 4:30 AM
“Biden wants to talk about broadband; the students want to talk about civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe...
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excel put this goddamn food on the table son, best not be bad mouthing spreadsheets in my presence
January 31, 2024 at 1:44 AM
excel put this goddamn food on the table son, best not be bad mouthing spreadsheets in my presence
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Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”
Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza | CNN
Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies.
www.cnn.com
January 31, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”
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She can be absolutely savage. Another favorite (from Sense & Sensibility): "Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
January 25, 2024 at 3:01 AM
She can be absolutely savage. Another favorite (from Sense & Sensibility): "Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
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Phoenician glass bead in the shape of a dog’s head (6th-4th century BCE)
January 17, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Phoenician glass bead in the shape of a dog’s head (6th-4th century BCE)