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Beautiful cluster of black trumpets (Craterellus calicornucopiodes) popping out from underneath a mossy log
February 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Beautiful cluster of black trumpets (Craterellus calicornucopiodes) popping out from underneath a mossy log
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this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!
Opinion | DEI and Disparate Impact
The next step in restoring meritocracy is to reject the theory that proportionate outcomes equal fairness.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!
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quick tip: if something has already been nuked but it’s on archive.org, you can pass that through archive.today or megalodon to create an extra copy and preserve it in case archive.org gets striked down
February 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
quick tip: if something has already been nuked but it’s on archive.org, you can pass that through archive.today or megalodon to create an extra copy and preserve it in case archive.org gets striked down
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if you want and can, use archive.today to preserve whatever you can, archive.org is cool but it is within american jurisdiction so it is vulnerable, today is hosted in france and pretty bulletproof
February 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
if you want and can, use archive.today to preserve whatever you can, archive.org is cool but it is within american jurisdiction so it is vulnerable, today is hosted in france and pretty bulletproof
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Also, if anyone wants to make winter warm kits, you can find the info here. It's a decentralized mututal aid project that anyone can take part in wherever they are:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#Warm4Holidays2024
#Warm4Holidays Public Library Edition For a few years on Twitter, I used the #Warm4Holidays hashtag to organize crafters to join a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day challenge. Crafters were invited t...
docs.google.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Also, if anyone wants to make winter warm kits, you can find the info here. It's a decentralized mututal aid project that anyone can take part in wherever they are:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute
When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech
We are talking about an actual Nazi
When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech
We are talking about an actual Nazi
February 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute
When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech
We are talking about an actual Nazi
When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech
We are talking about an actual Nazi
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Ganymede is bigger than Mercury, it has a magnetic field (which no other moon in the solar system has) that protects it from Jupiter’s intense radiation. Also, it has more liquid water than any other object in the solar system INCLUDING EARTH.
January 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Ganymede is bigger than Mercury, it has a magnetic field (which no other moon in the solar system has) that protects it from Jupiter’s intense radiation. Also, it has more liquid water than any other object in the solar system INCLUDING EARTH.
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.