Nathan Eric Dickman
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When you read a sentence produced by a GPT chatterbot, and you believe you understand what that sentence *means,* that is the same thing as imagining a bunny in a cloud. Or it’s like believing a compliment from a pathological people-pleaser.
Make no mistake here: the most distinctive characteristic of modern souls and modern books is not lying, but ingrained innocence in moral deception. ~Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (2008), 115
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Make no mistake here: the most distinctive characteristic of modern souls and modern books is not lying, but ingrained innocence in moral deception. ~Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (2008), 115
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1. Transgender soldiers and veterans have faced horrific mistreatment by the Trump administration.
Now, a coalition of LGBTQ+ military organizations are urging states to pass legislation to help those forced out of service or off healthcare.
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Now, a coalition of LGBTQ+ military organizations are urging states to pass legislation to help those forced out of service or off healthcare.
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Veterans Group Urges States To Pass Protective Policies In Response To Trump Trans Bans
Trans veterans are being let go without a safety net. Here’s what your state can do about it.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
1. Transgender soldiers and veterans have faced horrific mistreatment by the Trump administration.
Now, a coalition of LGBTQ+ military organizations are urging states to pass legislation to help those forced out of service or off healthcare.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, a coalition of LGBTQ+ military organizations are urging states to pass legislation to help those forced out of service or off healthcare.
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause, I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me. ~Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Psychology--A Fragment, 324
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause, I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me. ~Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Psychology--A Fragment, 324
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Well I’m just so glad that even with a government shutdown that they tried to use to take food from hungry people, government resources can still be allocated for Trump’s staff to have an emergency huddle in the situation room about how to handle his heinous crimes against minors coming out.
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Well I’m just so glad that even with a government shutdown that they tried to use to take food from hungry people, government resources can still be allocated for Trump’s staff to have an emergency huddle in the situation room about how to handle his heinous crimes against minors coming out.
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This.
I’m always kind of surprised when people say it writes well
I’m always kind of surprised when people say it writes well
not many people are good at words, as the chatGPT era is ironically really hammering home right now
The thing is not many people are good at math
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This.
I’m always kind of surprised when people say it writes well
I’m always kind of surprised when people say it writes well
Aurora Borealis!
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Aurora Borealis!
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my first order assumption is that any antisemitism I see from anonymous pro-Palestine accounts is Hasbara intended to make Palestinians and anti-Zionists look bad
not always true, certainly, but stay woke y’all!
not always true, certainly, but stay woke y’all!
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
my first order assumption is that any antisemitism I see from anonymous pro-Palestine accounts is Hasbara intended to make Palestinians and anti-Zionists look bad
not always true, certainly, but stay woke y’all!
not always true, certainly, but stay woke y’all!
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NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
Those who see essence and essential difference
And entities and nonentities,
They do not see
The truth taught by the Buddha.
~Nagarjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, XV.6
And entities and nonentities,
They do not see
The truth taught by the Buddha.
~Nagarjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, XV.6
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Those who see essence and essential difference
And entities and nonentities,
They do not see
The truth taught by the Buddha.
~Nagarjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, XV.6
And entities and nonentities,
They do not see
The truth taught by the Buddha.
~Nagarjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, XV.6
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From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
When you read a sentence produced by a GPT chatterbot, and you believe you understand what that sentence *means,* that is the same thing as imagining a bunny in a cloud. Or it’s like believing a compliment from a pathological people-pleaser.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
When you read a sentence produced by a GPT chatterbot, and you believe you understand what that sentence *means,* that is the same thing as imagining a bunny in a cloud. Or it’s like believing a compliment from a pathological people-pleaser.
The person who is forced into an oppressively narrow and regular morality, who for want of external adversaries and resistance impatiently tears, persecutes, gnaws, disturbs, mistreats oneself,
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The person who is forced into an oppressively narrow and regular morality, who for want of external adversaries and resistance impatiently tears, persecutes, gnaws, disturbs, mistreats oneself,
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Bleakly hilarious state of affairs that "the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%)."
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Bleakly hilarious state of affairs that "the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%)."
When I say some folks (mainly MAGAs, the TACO administration, the genocidal State of Israel, transphobes, etc.) talk exactly like flat earthers, this is an inductive argument by analogy. And the argument is rooted in a theory of semantics (how words mean things):
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
When I say some folks (mainly MAGAs, the TACO administration, the genocidal State of Israel, transphobes, etc.) talk exactly like flat earthers, this is an inductive argument by analogy. And the argument is rooted in a theory of semantics (how words mean things):
I always thought when people said “say the magic words,” they were using the word “magic” ironically. It turns out too many people believe it, because all these folks (MAGAs, KKKirks, this TACO administration, the State of Israel)
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I always thought when people said “say the magic words,” they were using the word “magic” ironically. It turns out too many people believe it, because all these folks (MAGAs, KKKirks, this TACO administration, the State of Israel)
These are flat earther level ignorant policies. Flat earthers say that the binary sunsets and sunrises are “immutable laws of nature” but we know Earth orbits the Sun and spins. This TACO administration claims the binary “male” and “female” are “immutable laws of nature,”
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers.
Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
These are flat earther level ignorant policies. Flat earthers say that the binary sunsets and sunrises are “immutable laws of nature” but we know Earth orbits the Sun and spins. This TACO administration claims the binary “male” and “female” are “immutable laws of nature,”
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BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!
We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!
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you ever have a shitty time and then a small compliment or interaction from a stranger completely turns your day around? you can be that stranger for others. i just think that’s Neat
Being nice to people is just fun. Asked young server at taco place how her day was going (fine but tired) and she asked me back. I said I managed to finish my to-do list and she unexpectedly gave me a high five! Treating people like people is always rewarding.
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
you ever have a shitty time and then a small compliment or interaction from a stranger completely turns your day around? you can be that stranger for others. i just think that’s Neat
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“But celebrate we must, if only to create some space for the optimism that things can get better.”
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“But celebrate we must, if only to create some space for the optimism that things can get better.”
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I hope everybody understands that the people who say we can't have anybody better than Harris, Pritzker, Newsom, etc. are lying because THEY don't want anybody better.
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I hope everybody understands that the people who say we can't have anybody better than Harris, Pritzker, Newsom, etc. are lying because THEY don't want anybody better.
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Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM
“Politics is no longer something that just happens to us, but rather it is something we do!… In this time of political darkness, New York will be the light. No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.” ~NYC Mayoral Elect, Zohran Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
“Politics is no longer something that just happens to us, but rather it is something we do!… In this time of political darkness, New York will be the light. No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.” ~NYC Mayoral Elect, Zohran Mamdani