I think there’s something special about Black Americans both being aware of the worst this country is and nonetheless working for its improvement because we also know how special it can be. There are forms of patriotism that aren’t built on ignorance.

abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”

Pro-life AND pro-death. 😞

Let's go back to basics. Elon Musk has de facto control of FDA, and is threatening to fire people there. He runs Neuralink, but Neuralink needs FDA approval. Okay. Pause. If you aren't screaming "🗣️CONFLICT OF INTEREST🗣️" at the top of your lungs right now, you need to recalibrate your ethics.

Republicans understand this by intuition, use it, but deny it vehemently. Democrats (may) know this theoretically, but do not understand it.

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A stay of execution.

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Unpopular opinion, I think some folks spend way too much time complaining about the dems in leadership. Most of the folks complaining are the same kind of milquetoast liberals that dems in office are, making the same kinds of mistakes, impacting my life just as much.

Algorithmic gaslighting has always been a thing, it's just automated now. Our brains are on a conveyor belt that feeds a meat grinder of procedurally-generated discourse, only to be fried and consumed by marketing firms and their clients. Jane, stop this crazy thing.

"Changing the system would mean abandoning the myth that this is the way things have always been, and the way things have always been. Abandoning that myth would cause the whole cavalcade of myths to crumble, and possibly unmake the American Dream and everything built atop its shaky foundation."

You may not like it, but this is what ideal transportation looks like

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The vibe of Black people working on NIH projects right now:

If anything comes of this, watch adolescent suicide rates skyrocket. (Also, does anybody remember when the Republican Party wanted *fewer* regulations? Why are they trying to regulate this?)

My University's School of Medicine put in place a hiring freeze yesterday. 😬

"You can't shoot flags, and you can't shoot strong speeches. There is no replacement for hard power." Yeah, I'm sure your power is real hard right now — you strong, virile man. 😒

We're exhausted. :(

Like clockwork, the brain-drain begins. All any country has to do is fund a program recruiting researchers. Many countries already have these programs in place. This country was built on the backs of my ancestors, so I have no intentions of leaving right now. That could change, but I hope not.

Maybe the collective wails of the damned will bring us solace? 😬

I've been part of reviews for DoD, NIH, and NSF that have gone the extra mile to listen to veterans and people in active duty so that we can make healthcare better for them. But, yeah, sure, treating soldiers and vets with respect is "woke." Okay. Sure. Got it.

Have y'all actually looked at the NSF DEI hit-list? It's an excel spreadsheet that sorts NSF projects into the categories: "social justice," "race," "gender," and "environmental justice." Wow. If your scientific project mentions "women" or "gender" at all, it's "inefficient," woke, DEI, etc. 🤷🏾‍♂️

I often explain to non-philosophers why we can't just appeal to dictionary definitions, but when philosophers do this, it raises red flags. It's easier to dismiss accusations of racism if your concept of racism is limited.

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Kendrick Lamar is a Pulitzer Prize winning rapper the first one to have earned that distinction. To say there was no "larger statement" within his performance when that statement was so patently obvious? That's epistemic violence. "40 acres and a mule this is bigger than the music," anyone? 💀

AI systems are largely just bundles of statistical models and procedural logic arranged in ways that accomplish work. They lack positionality, identity, motivation, experience— the very things that are required for having a voice. If/when AI truly learns to speak, we'll be in a different world.

Again, this is only the beginning of what looks like it will be a long, hard battle for intellectual freedom. Expect near constant legal action.

The veil over white supremacy gets thinner every day, huh?

"This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

me omw to ruin someone’s whole week

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I want to work through first-hand accounts of our struggles—autobiographies, memoirs, poetry, etc. I'll start with Harriet A. Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. It's public domain, so feel free to join me. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11030

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A PSA: The next time you're worried that your doctor is unqualified because she's Black, ask yourself… why do you think that? Do you think that Black doctors don't get trained? Why do you think that?

Great corroboration for a lot of our intuitions. But let's not forget… Meta isn't dropping fact-checking to fix bias. They're dropping it to gain political favor. 😅

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This is just the beginning. The subsequent restructuring of NIH will have a long-lasting impact on the global landscape of medical science research. Expect a "brain drain effect" as scholars in the US leave to other countries. Expect the US to become much weaker in medical science and technology.