@proudwalkingjingle.bsky.social
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Reminder: Plato argued that, since souls reincarnate, souls in men & women are the same & equally capable of all things, so the sexes are equal.
P’s mother Perictione was (ancient sources say) a Pythagorean philosopher.
19th C didn’t believe she could be a philosopher so erased her from P’s bio.
P’s mother Perictione was (ancient sources say) a Pythagorean philosopher.
19th C didn’t believe she could be a philosopher so erased her from P’s bio.
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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surreal times
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Reminder: Plato argued that, since souls reincarnate, souls in men & women are the same & equally capable of all things, so the sexes are equal.
P’s mother Perictione was (ancient sources say) a Pythagorean philosopher.
19th C didn’t believe she could be a philosopher so erased her from P’s bio.
P’s mother Perictione was (ancient sources say) a Pythagorean philosopher.
19th C didn’t believe she could be a philosopher so erased her from P’s bio.
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Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie
January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Bari Weiss needs to resign from CBS News. Having watched Sunday's well-reported "60 Minutes" torture-prison story Weiss squelched, I can see no way for her to restore even a semblance of professional competency. She's an amateur, in way over her head, humiliating her talented staff of journalists.
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Bari Weiss needs to resign from CBS News. Having watched Sunday's well-reported "60 Minutes" torture-prison story Weiss squelched, I can see no way for her to restore even a semblance of professional competency. She's an amateur, in way over her head, humiliating her talented staff of journalists.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Chicago police and the FBI killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark 55 years ago today on the westside of Chicago while they both were asleep. A headline from Rising Up Angry's paper (a local group part of Hampton's original Rainbow Coalition) published a year after their murder states "Fred Lives!"
December 4, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Chicago police and the FBI killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark 55 years ago today on the westside of Chicago while they both were asleep. A headline from Rising Up Angry's paper (a local group part of Hampton's original Rainbow Coalition) published a year after their murder states "Fred Lives!"
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Imagine how many Joyce Carol Oates roasting Elmo we could have if we fully funded the humanities
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Imagine how many Joyce Carol Oates roasting Elmo we could have if we fully funded the humanities
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When ICE abducts people from Belmont Ave and Broadway no one anywhere in Chicago is safe. This area, E Lakeview, is predominantly white and relatively affluent.
STORY HERE — Video footage obtained by The TRiiBE shows federal agents pulling Laugh Factory Night Manager Nate Griffin as he holds on to a scaffold.
Bystanders screamed at the agents, saying "Show your face," as they detained Griffin.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/laug...
Bystanders screamed at the agents, saying "Show your face," as they detained Griffin.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/laug...
Laugh Factory worker detained by federal agents on Chicago’s North Side • The TRiiBE
Two people were detained by federal agents Friday morning at Broadway and Belmont Avenue on Chicago’s North Side.
thetriibe.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
When ICE abducts people from Belmont Ave and Broadway no one anywhere in Chicago is safe. This area, E Lakeview, is predominantly white and relatively affluent.
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Interesting paper that highlights some of the distortions in thinking we see historically and currently. Fabrications and propaganda.
"We argue that contemporary distrust of science is mostly collateral damage, a spillover from carefully orchestrated conservative distrust of government."
"We argue that contemporary distrust of science is mostly collateral damage, a spillover from carefully orchestrated conservative distrust of government."
This is a very good paper on the myth.
P-hacking, failure to replicate and fraud are real problems but don't remotely represent science collapsing in on itself. The existential threat to science comes from conservatives, full stop.
P-hacking, failure to replicate and fraud are real problems but don't remotely represent science collapsing in on itself. The existential threat to science comes from conservatives, full stop.
From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science
Empirical data do not support the conclusion of a crisis of public trust in science. They do support the conclusion of a crisis of conservative trust in science: polls show that American attitudes tow...
www.amacad.org
August 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Interesting paper that highlights some of the distortions in thinking we see historically and currently. Fabrications and propaganda.
"We argue that contemporary distrust of science is mostly collateral damage, a spillover from carefully orchestrated conservative distrust of government."
"We argue that contemporary distrust of science is mostly collateral damage, a spillover from carefully orchestrated conservative distrust of government."
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The board of trustees is covering research expenses to the tune of ~$10M/WEEK. This is not sustainable. Critical health related research (into ALS, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cancer…) will end if funding isn’t restored. Cures of the future will not be developed. Patients of all types will suffer.
May 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The board of trustees is covering research expenses to the tune of ~$10M/WEEK. This is not sustainable. Critical health related research (into ALS, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cancer…) will end if funding isn’t restored. Cures of the future will not be developed. Patients of all types will suffer.
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More than the freezing of individual grants at Northwestern, I hope it breaks through that all NIH money to Northwestern is stopped even for grants that have not been frozen or terminated. The university has received $0 from NIH since March.
Here's the opening, folks. Good work for Durbin cracking it open. No ALS research cuts, you say? Oh dear.
DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
May 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
More than the freezing of individual grants at Northwestern, I hope it breaks through that all NIH money to Northwestern is stopped even for grants that have not been frozen or terminated. The university has received $0 from NIH since March.
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Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
May 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025