Or, as @joncoutts.bsky.social has said, better virtue signalling than vice signalling!

Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."

ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy

Look, not the point I know, but could somebody please help me to understand what the word "navigate" means in this paragraph. Also (again not the point), "mass murder" means someone killed many people, not many people killed one person. I'd be mortified if this person complimented my writing.

not *that* unusual for demons to offer you the ability to consult with the mythic founders of the empire

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode (lol): no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

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Is FIFA irreparably corrupt? Sure, but they're also hilariously stupid and incompetent!

A helpful reminder that rich people threats during elections should basically just be ignored.

That paragraph is dead-on. It also serves as another example of the way in which the public should be more suspicious of the "genius" of these public figures. They are very bad interpreters of the texts they claim to love.

What a time to be alive.

As an apologist for the PMC the difference between the average computer programmer, academic, lawyer, etc and those who lead the institutions we work for and often claim to speak for our profession is vast.

This is why the MOU (the pipeline part esp) was a smart political move. BC and the coastal indigenous peoples are never gonna let it get built, it buys the LPC space in the prairies, and we're a gajillion years away from an election so any political costs in the lower mainland don't matter.

One of my post Wake Up Dead Man opinions is that Hollywood should hire either Scorcese or @rianjohnson.bsky.social for any movies about Christianity, because they actually understand what they're talking about.

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lol, if you had integrity you would have quietly taken the zero.

In a more normal version of partisan politics, this would lead to the collapse of a government and a pretty big backlash at the polls. Sadly, AB does not seem to be able to shake its unthinking dedication to the laziest form of conservatism.

What he's also doing is hiding behind the principle of democratic election to shield himself and the UCP from their obligation to follow the law (including federal law) appropriately. Your right to run the govt doesn't supercede citizens' basic charter rights.

I've seen the future, brother, it is murder. Murder by sloth and petty grift. When they said "repent!" I wonder what they meant.

My stance on the accommodations issue du jour is that it's like any social safety net program where it's not worth it to try to catch bad actors, who are rare, because it takes resources and discourages people who need accommodations from using them. BUT, I do think at the college level -

The idea that you somehow get a higher quality, more efficient healthcare system through corporatization of healthcare and health insurance is one of the dumbest, most obviously untrue things that people believe on a regular basis.

One of the basic problems with institutions is that they are constantly trying to predict the values they'll need in the future instead of responding to the present in a way that is consistent with their existing values. Panicked Unis jumping on the AI bandwagon is a parade example.

You know, I think if private universities really want to prove their public utility, they should go all-in on refusing AI and use the money they would have spent on this nonsense to roll out even more scholarships.

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Philosophy has methods that produce disciplinary knowledge. So when scientists or even other humanists ask philosophical questions they should consult experts.

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Going forward my immediate response to all who dislike TLJ will be, "oh, so you agree with JD Vance then?"

when people tell you who they are, etc.

Ya, it's pretty normal to have some kind of "good faith" clause in language about grade appeals, and the OU admins who (eventually) received her official complaint should have just denied it point blank for that reason.

This would also dramatically improve the Uni experience for students.

Wow, as the kids say, touch grass. It is obviously good to save people from a terrible disease.

100%. There's no such thing as "AI", there are various somewhat related technologies that manage huge amounts of information in powerful ways. Some are fantastic, some are stupid, and it's pretty easy to tell the difference.

The greatest irony of this comment is that it's actually fossil fuel companies (and the governments they've captured) who are living in the past. The rest of the world is moving towards renewables, and all this multi-billion dollar fossil fuel infrastructure is going to be worthless stranded assets.

I know this won't happen, but accessing private voting information for political purposes should lead to immediate resignations by both Nally and Smith. That's a simple and straight-forward violation of privacy by powerful elected officials. Conservatives used to get angry about such things.

unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country

It's just laicite again folks. Still terrible, but not new at all.

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I'm not really recommending you read this piece, because the subject matter is the opposite of edifying, but Phillips does conclude with a sentence that cuts to the heart of a lot of the evil with which we are beset because of rich fools. "It’s hard out there for the people it’s easy for."

Gets even more depressing when you start digging into the related American evangelical complex.

The degree of self-parody here is truly wild.

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

Their history really is "we lied to everyone and got away with it long enough that we won at the poker table so now you have to treat us like a real company". This is what people insist is the future of money.

The normie experience of late capitalist economics summed up in a single post.

From this guy's lips to God's ear.

Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.

This is the main thing I keep saying. I don’t presume to know whether AI is bad at EVERYTHING but the main thing it can’t do is what the powers that be in education want it to do and the reason I keep saying it is you don’t need any studies

Our political era is said to be marked by polarization, or fragmentation, or being post-truth. All of those are true enough. But perhaps above all we are living in an era of shamelessness.

This is truly the funniest thing I've seen in ages. Thanks for the laughs grok, made my day.