Make no mistake here: the most distinctive characteristic of modern souls and modern books is not lying, but ingrained innocence in moral deception. ~Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (2008), 115

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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause, I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me. ~Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Psychology--A Fragment, 324

Well I’m just so glad that even with a government shutdown that they tried to use to take food from hungry people, government resources can still be allocated for Trump’s staff to have an emergency huddle in the situation room about how to handle his heinous crimes against minors coming out.

This. I’m always kind of surprised when people say it writes well

Aurora Borealis!

my first order assumption is that any antisemitism I see from anonymous pro-Palestine accounts is Hasbara intended to make Palestinians and anti-Zionists look bad not always true, certainly, but stay woke y’all!

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Those who see essence and essential difference And entities and nonentities, They do not see The truth taught by the Buddha. ~Nagarjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, XV.6

From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.

When you read a sentence produced by a GPT chatterbot, and you believe you understand what that sentence *means,* that is the same thing as imagining a bunny in a cloud. Or it’s like believing a compliment from a pathological people-pleaser.

The person who is forced into an oppressively narrow and regular morality, who for want of external adversaries and resistance impatiently tears, persecutes, gnaws, disturbs, mistreats oneself,

Fellow writers: this is depressing #BookSky www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Bleakly hilarious state of affairs that "the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%)."

When I say some folks (mainly MAGAs, the TACO administration, the genocidal State of Israel, transphobes, etc.) talk exactly like flat earthers, this is an inductive argument by analogy. And the argument is rooted in a theory of semantics (how words mean things):

I always thought when people said “say the magic words,” they were using the word “magic” ironically. It turns out too many people believe it, because all these folks (MAGAs, KKKirks, this TACO administration, the State of Israel)

These are flat earther level ignorant policies. Flat earthers say that the binary sunsets and sunrises are “immutable laws of nature” but we know Earth orbits the Sun and spins. This TACO administration claims the binary “male” and “female” are “immutable laws of nature,”

BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!

you ever have a shitty time and then a small compliment or interaction from a stranger completely turns your day around? you can be that stranger for others. i just think that’s Neat

“But celebrate we must, if only to create some space for the optimism that things can get better.”

I hope everybody understands that the people who say we can't have anybody better than Harris, Pritzker, Newsom, etc. are lying because THEY don't want anybody better.

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

“Politics is no longer something that just happens to us, but rather it is something we do!… In this time of political darkness, New York will be the light. No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.” ~NYC Mayoral Elect, Zohran Mamdani

One of the biggest virtue signals is when megawealthy people need their names on academic buildings.

Every time you defer to AI, you’re using the fast food of thinking.

Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.

The future will not judge us for forgetting, but for remembering all too well and still not acting in accord with those memories. ~Huyssen, "Monuments and Holocaust Memory in a Media Age" in Morgan's A Holocaust Reader, 363

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

All dating bios out here look like this: “Another software engineer in the Bay Area. I like climbing, after work sports leagues, and aftercare Consent is sexy 😜 I am so busy chasing perfection I have never had a true moment of intimacy in my life”

If you’re donating to a food bank, consider donating some respirators too! Food banks will be overwhelmed and crowded. Covid is still with us, still disabling and still killing. Many folks are losing food assistance & healthcare. A well fitted respirator can keep you healthy!

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People (mainly MAGAs, fanatical Israelis, and collaborating “liberals”) *really believe* that I am just “name-calling” when I am sincerely providing expert semantic and hermeneutic diagnoses.

This story reminds me: Release the Epstein files.

"There should be restrictions for SNAP benefits when it comes to processed/sugary food" is what happens when classism is combined with healthism. People deserve access to food even if you don't like their dietary choices.

Tyrants seek the hooks on which to hang you. Try not to have any hooks. ~Snyder, On Tyranny, 87

The proven genocidal State of Israel must put down all of its arms, and must stop all terrorizing of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank.

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Flat earthers have no principled way to distinguish interpretation from explanation. Do you? And, if so, do you believe the TACO administration does?

I don't think anything has ever sapped me of my love of teaching like watching AI companies and universities hard sell gAI to students and (some, not all, but enough) students buy the tripe that they are sold. Disheartening is not the world, its not enough to describe this feeling.

Well, that was the point

"The evil Jew is funding the entire US left" is a piece of rank, obvious antisemitism that we have just collectively decided to accept in public, because IOKYR.

To all the disingenuous or ignorant people posting that "No Kings" is ridiculous because Trump never claimed to be a king, here is an official tweet from the White House earlier this year:

Israel Kills 11, Mostly Women and Children, in Attack on #Gaza Bus, Violating Ceasefire #R2P #StopIsraelimpunity #CeasefireViolations #genocide qudsnen.co/israel-kills...

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

The truthiest of truths. Thanks for the giggle, No Kings Chatham County NC

Some No Kings Day 2.0 pics!