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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 2d

Anti antifa=fascist. The president is holding a meeting for fascists.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 4d

Gee, I wonder what all those troops in the street and ICE goons will be doing come election time?

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 8d

What kinds of purity tests exactly? Can you clarify? Just curious not being snarky.

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 9d

Has this guy read Dan McQuillan?

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 9d

"AI will forever be devoid of self-creation and self-extension so long as it lacks the capacity to imagine a world different from that which we’ve codified and fed to it. AI remains a dead-metaphor remix machine, with an emphasis on dead and machine." open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

We are the song death takes it own time singing

In the sweetness, in the bitter

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 10d

The women remaining in the military will be relieved.

Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 12d

Could Klein BE any smarmier or condescending? He’s an incurable know-it-all.

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you so much for this. It helped clarify my thinking a lot. Shame is necessary to social cohesion; its parameters are a collective creation. It’s willful blindness to see it as ‘outside’ of a culture somehow and always just ‘bad.’

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 17d

I think one way to understand the present is that the ruling class discovered that rule by ideology was too difficult to maintain and switched to rule by agnotology, by the production of ignorance.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/03/the-...

The Production of Ignorance: Ideology or Agnotology?

www.unemployednegativity.com

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 17d

While RFK is roid raging in the background, the woman (whoever she is) is looking on with the bemused look of a kindergarten teacher trying to encourage her worst student…

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 18d

Autism does not need to be cured

Ableism does

The end

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 22d

You'll be next, folks

CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 22d

Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its three transgender laws: memo
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Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its three transgender laws: memo

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith plans to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause this fall on three laws affecting transgender people.

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 23d

Only the streets are left now people. No one is coming to save you.

Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 23d

Don’t hold your breathe.

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Timothy Wilson @hoagywilson.bsky.social · 23d

Wow. Cancel culture, anyone?
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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk

Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 26d

So true. Kirk’s style was never civil, it functioned under that premise but ‘change my mind’ was a taunt, structurally designed to proselytize and demean- and his audiences were always younger and far more naive. He was a professional bully pure and simple.

Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 28d

This whole Kirk thing, the self-censorship, the crazy fawning, elevating a white supremacist, queer-bashing patriarch even by liberals, shows how totally and completely cooked the US actually is.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29d

so ezra gets his dogshit take today and then a column about the bluesky reaction next week. i do admire the laziness. it’s something i really aspire to.

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 29d

The outsized response to Kirk’s death is a function of the outsized power of mediated attention. He didn’t ‘debate’ so much as deploy the heckler’s veto- yelling, demeaning, belittling his opponents.
He was a professional bully and he made millions doing it. That’s what passes as politics now.

Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 29d

Good lord, those NYT opinion pieces about Kirk are the last of a long line of last straws. Absolutely abominable. ‘a taste for disagreement’. Go f**k yourself. A pox on all your houses.

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · Sep 10

Live by the sword die by the sword

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank God the Supreme Court gave the president's secret police the right to profile and detain anyone based on any immutable characteristic today, knowing the president himself will never reveal himself to be writing Zodiackian poems and pervert kiddie sketches to a world-historic pedophile.

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · Sep 5

RFK Jr., American Psycho

He needs to go. Now.

www.thenation.com

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