All the cavorting these national "founders" did with our enslaved ancestors SHOWS they knew full damned well that *they were just as human as they were!* They enslaved their own blood kin! Infuriating. That mindset is just evil. And it was (and is) the founding mindset of the United States.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

1. This is terrible. 2. This is such a BS claim from a university: “We are committed to teaching students how to think, not what to think.” No! We do, in fact, commit to teaching you what to think. You sign up for a psych course, you have to learn psychology. You can ignore it later if you choose.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

This is the 60 minutes segment on CECOT that Bari Weiss has sought to suppress at CBD because she thinks the media should not cover stories that make the Trump administration look bad—which is the literal definition of fascism. Let’s make sure she fails by sharing this as widely as possible.

Laura Valdiviezo was a truly amazing scholar ane human being. This is such a huge loss for the field.

Conversely, lots of things that are AI often do not get recognized as such. As an example from this semester, a student told me that a professor banned the use of AI and then suggested they use grammarly to edit their writing.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

The whole “only x percent of college professors are republicans” being treated as evidence of the supposed lack of ideological diversity at universities is so misleading. Most programs have quite a bit of epistemological, methodological & content diversity. Partisanship is irrelevant to most fields.

The whole “only x percent of college professors are republicans” being treated as evidence of the supposed lack of ideological diversity at universities is so misleading. Most programs have quite a bit of epistemological, methodological & content diversity. Partisanship is irrelevant to most fields.

This type of study that denies marginalized people effective treatments is literally why research ethics boards were developed

It is the deluded notion that you are the exceptional one that they won’t send to the gulag after their fascist takeover is complete

What season of the reboot of House of Cards is this?

I am seeing alot of discourse about AI and citation practices. I agree with the assertion that people should read articles they are citing rather than rely on AI summaries. I also think sloppy citation practices are not new. Over-reliance on AI did not create the problem even as it may amplify it.

That’s the thing man. If they are to be taken at their word the only takeaway is that there should be no black people in any job any other white person wants. One quick Google search for any of these jobs would show there are usually one or two minorities are best in a unit of 20 or 30 or more.

Harvard’s PR people have managed to frame it as the leading defender of academic freedom even as it blatantly destroys any semblance of academic freedom as it relates to Palestine. But here is the thing. If scholars focused on Palestine don’t have academic freedom at Harvard, nobody does.

It's a slippery slope from "illegal aliens" to legal immigrants to naturalized citizens to people whose parents were born somewhere else to anybody who learns a forbidden concept or searches for the wrong phrase on the internet. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

I am old enough to remember when the GOP complained about government handouts

Yes Trump’s social media post about Rob Reiner was disgusting. Yes if you are just noticing Trump is disgusting you are part of the problem.

What sounds like “human” writing can never be disentangled from the fact that most of the world’s population has never been considered fully human by mainstream institutions

The elimination DEI to the selling of discounted poison to babies pipeline at Target happened much quicker than I could have ever predicted

Respecting people’s pronouns literally saves lies. Misgendering people is literally killing them.

What they mean is that his diplomats are straight white dudes who have constantly failed up throughout their careers

We are literally living in the matrix

Standpoint theory does not claim that suffering automatically grants political authority. Or objective truth. Insight is situated, not infallible. The problem here is epistemic neoliberalism. Where experience is commodified as moral capital; not feminism as a materialist project.

Our society literally had a civil war because white slaveowners felt efforts to acknowledge the humanity of Black people was oppressing them but somehow the problem is progressive race essentialism and feminism

This coupled with an article I read the other day about Trump’s immigration policies leading to a sharp decline in childcare workers shows that rather then stealing our jobs immigrants have literally been taking care of all of us.

What Podesta will not say is that the root of the problem are the neoliberal policies of centrist Dems. What we need is a populism from the left, not more neoliberalism that got us into this mess to begin with

Ugh & use of old theories to prove the "humanness" of LLMs, which use pattern recognition, challenging those formalistic theories! As @bethmsemel.bsky.social said, it calls on a narrow def of metalinguistic awareness. She shared this great piece anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What this study found is that AI is pretty good at adopting formal linguistic analysis that treats language as a set of disembodied linguistic structures unique to humans, which is not surprising since it relegates the complexity of human language to “performance” outside of the scope of linguistics

Fox News will soon be having every pundit now loudly claiming that insurance premiums going up is actually a good thing

Those moralizing about the sex lives of consenting adults in the name of protecting children are always the ones who are the actual threat to children

Expertise is woke DEI

It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

A related phenomenon that I have seen in course papers are fake quotes from real articles. What level of simulacra hell have we reached?

Even putting aside the existential threat this poses to academic freedom they are also shooting themselves in the foot here since taking to its logical conclusion this policy could literally bankrupt the school

We are at the “then they came for the Catholics” part of the US version of the “First They Came” poem.

Say what you want about Epstein, but he took the concept of intellectual diversity seriously

But some of you were mad when we suggested linguistics had a race problem

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

Two ponderings: 1.) I wonder how many white women who voted for Trump because immigrants were supposedly stealing “our” jobs are now ironically out of work. 2.) I wonder why child care workers and “American moms” seem to be getting treated as mutually exclusive here. 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

Also MAGA: it hurts my feelings when you give me a bad grade for submitting a badly written paper with no scientific evidence

It is mind boggling that they are explicitly acknowledging that the president is weaponizing federal funding to impose a partisan agenda (which is literal fascism) but then they blame those resisting this fascism for the consequences. This is an abuser’s mentality plain and simple.

Meanwhile we have women of color like Ilhan Omar, Jasmine Crockett and AOC who are constantly facing public attack who remain committed to using their voice to loudly challenge fascism, which should literally be the job of any democratically elected politician.

If transgender for everybody means everybody has autonomy over their own body and everybody else just minds their own damn business then I am all for it!

I think no politician is above reproach but am skeptical of influencers posting self described leftist critiques of Mamdani (who isn’t even in office yet) who remain noticeably silent on Trump’s fascist takeover of US society and imperial ambitions abroad.