That Mad Scientist
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Stemlord de gauche radicale. Il/lui
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BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
September 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
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a STUNNING composite 3d model of the cygnus loop supernova remnant using x-ray and optical data!!! 🌌
April 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
a STUNNING composite 3d model of the cygnus loop supernova remnant using x-ray and optical data!!! 🌌
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What is the State of the World’s Human Rights today?
Our report assesses 150 countries, painting a picture of a new age of rising authoritarian practices and a disregard for international law. Read for yourself 👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Our report assesses 150 countries, painting a picture of a new age of rising authoritarian practices and a disregard for international law. Read for yourself 👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends
Undoing decades of painstaking work and endangering billions of people.
www.amnesty.org
April 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
What is the State of the World’s Human Rights today?
Our report assesses 150 countries, painting a picture of a new age of rising authoritarian practices and a disregard for international law. Read for yourself 👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Our report assesses 150 countries, painting a picture of a new age of rising authoritarian practices and a disregard for international law. Read for yourself 👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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BREAKING NEWS: Look at this otter.
April 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Look at this otter.
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C'est le député qui disait que les SDF dorment dans la rue par choix. Et visiblement il veut donner ce choix à encore plus de monde.
April 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
C'est le député qui disait que les SDF dorment dans la rue par choix. Et visiblement il veut donner ce choix à encore plus de monde.
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Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
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Palestine is the litmus test of our age.
April 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Palestine is the litmus test of our age.
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T’as envoyé des flics tabasser des femmes dans leur propre manif pour protéger un défilé fasciste de quoi tu nous parles ?
March 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
T’as envoyé des flics tabasser des femmes dans leur propre manif pour protéger un défilé fasciste de quoi tu nous parles ?
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The list of words the Trump administration has banned from research grants is even longer than the lists I’ve seen online. Here are screenshots of the words confirmed by the NYTimes and listed in this article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The list of words the Trump administration has banned from research grants is even longer than the lists I’ve seen online. Here are screenshots of the words confirmed by the NYTimes and listed in this article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
March 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
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BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
March 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
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Thus we see a statement that "biological differences" require "sex-specific practices" in medicine which will, I predict, be broadly used to enforce gendered practices of all kinds under the banner of "health".
February 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Thus we see a statement that "biological differences" require "sex-specific practices" in medicine which will, I predict, be broadly used to enforce gendered practices of all kinds under the banner of "health".
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This is the topsy-turvy place that this definition takes us to, where a hypothetical (and in practice undecideable) purpose of the body can be deemed to be "objective biology" whereas the actual physical state of a body is declared irrelevant.
February 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This is the topsy-turvy place that this definition takes us to, where a hypothetical (and in practice undecideable) purpose of the body can be deemed to be "objective biology" whereas the actual physical state of a body is declared irrelevant.
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The definition of sex put forwarded on this page, however, thinks that biological structures inherently have purposes.
Thus it stipulates that even if a body does not function to produce gametes, it *ought* to.
This is, at core, scientifically illiterate...
Thus it stipulates that even if a body does not function to produce gametes, it *ought* to.
This is, at core, scientifically illiterate...
February 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The definition of sex put forwarded on this page, however, thinks that biological structures inherently have purposes.
Thus it stipulates that even if a body does not function to produce gametes, it *ought* to.
This is, at core, scientifically illiterate...
Thus it stipulates that even if a body does not function to produce gametes, it *ought* to.
This is, at core, scientifically illiterate...
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... which was the central insight that Darwin had.
There is no design in biology. Evolution is blind, and does not design towards goals: there is no teleology in biology.
When we say an organ has a function, what we are characterizing is simply what it *does*, not what it is *supposed* to do...
There is no design in biology. Evolution is blind, and does not design towards goals: there is no teleology in biology.
When we say an organ has a function, what we are characterizing is simply what it *does*, not what it is *supposed* to do...
February 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
... which was the central insight that Darwin had.
There is no design in biology. Evolution is blind, and does not design towards goals: there is no teleology in biology.
When we say an organ has a function, what we are characterizing is simply what it *does*, not what it is *supposed* to do...
There is no design in biology. Evolution is blind, and does not design towards goals: there is no teleology in biology.
When we say an organ has a function, what we are characterizing is simply what it *does*, not what it is *supposed* to do...
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by the way, the claim that pronouns are "sex-based" and "biological" is no more credible than claiming "men prefer football and women prefer shopping" is "sex-based" and "biological." language is social: the claim about pronouns is no less a gender norm.
February 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
by the way, the claim that pronouns are "sex-based" and "biological" is no more credible than claiming "men prefer football and women prefer shopping" is "sex-based" and "biological." language is social: the claim about pronouns is no less a gender norm.
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Violences à Bétharram : Emmanuel Macron apporte toute sa «confiance» à François Bayrou
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Violences à Bétharram : Emmanuel Macron apporte toute sa «confiance» à François Bayrou
www.liberation.fr
February 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Violences à Bétharram : Emmanuel Macron apporte toute sa «confiance» à François Bayrou
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Là ça va devenir très très très compliqué pour Bayrou. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
February 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Là ça va devenir très très très compliqué pour Bayrou. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
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Des milliers de livres mentionnant l'existence des LGBT+ ou sensibilisant contre le racisme sont retirés des bibliothèques des écoles aux États-Unis.
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
États-Unis : une censure conservatrice "sans précédent" prive les écoles de milliers de livres
Les États-Unis subissent une vague inédite d'interdictions de livres ciblant principalement les ouvrages destinés à la jeunesse abordant les sujets de genre, racisme, ou les questions LGBTQ+. La récen...
www.france24.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Des milliers de livres mentionnant l'existence des LGBT+ ou sensibilisant contre le racisme sont retirés des bibliothèques des écoles aux États-Unis.
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
February 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
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Le mot "chrétien" induit en erreur et doit être remplacé par "Fondamentalisme protestant et intégralisme catholique". Quand la révérende Mariann Edgar Budde s'est exprimée, Trump et sa clique n'avaient aucun mal à manifester leurs préjugés anti-chrétiens (de gauche) 🤷♂️
February 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Le mot "chrétien" induit en erreur et doit être remplacé par "Fondamentalisme protestant et intégralisme catholique". Quand la révérende Mariann Edgar Budde s'est exprimée, Trump et sa clique n'avaient aucun mal à manifester leurs préjugés anti-chrétiens (de gauche) 🤷♂️
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In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day
February 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day
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Decathlon, la fabrique des forçats du textile
Au Bangladesh, le géant du sport sélectionne les sous-traitants qui paient les salaires les plus bas. Quitte à travailler avec des usines clandestines et des adolescents, révèle @disclosengo.bsky.social
Épisode 2 ⬇️
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Au Bangladesh, le géant du sport sélectionne les sous-traitants qui paient les salaires les plus bas. Quitte à travailler avec des usines clandestines et des adolescents, révèle @disclosengo.bsky.social
Épisode 2 ⬇️
disclose.ngo/fr/article/d...
Decathlon, la fabrique des forçats du textile au Bangladesh
La marque française a choisi le Bangladesh, pays pauvre d’Asie du Sud, pour fabriquer ses chaussures et vêtements de sport. Sur place, Decathlon sélectionne les sous-traitants qui paient les salaires ...
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February 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Decathlon, la fabrique des forçats du textile
Au Bangladesh, le géant du sport sélectionne les sous-traitants qui paient les salaires les plus bas. Quitte à travailler avec des usines clandestines et des adolescents, révèle @disclosengo.bsky.social
Épisode 2 ⬇️
disclose.ngo/fr/article/d...
Au Bangladesh, le géant du sport sélectionne les sous-traitants qui paient les salaires les plus bas. Quitte à travailler avec des usines clandestines et des adolescents, révèle @disclosengo.bsky.social
Épisode 2 ⬇️
disclose.ngo/fr/article/d...