David L 🏳️⚧️
@finitisminmath.bsky.social
disabled academic | vaccinate your kids | historian of women and gender in philosophy | they/them
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Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
Ladies, gentlemen, and others--we got 'em.
It’s darkly funny how a decade of attacking “safe spaces” in favor of some sort of social Darwinist fantasy where the strong devour the weak has consistently progressed to the vigorous defense of special enclaves for masculinity.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ladies, gentlemen, and others--we got 'em.
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everyone's clowning on this, and it is clown stuff to be sure, but you have to see bari weiss as essentially an employee of the rich, old pervert men of america. she says what they like no matter how ridiculous and they give her shiny things
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
everyone's clowning on this, and it is clown stuff to be sure, but you have to see bari weiss as essentially an employee of the rich, old pervert men of america. she says what they like no matter how ridiculous and they give her shiny things
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Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president
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Finding Linehan as ‘generally credible’ and ‘genuinely frank and honest’ is picking sides. This is parodic
Someone ask the judge what her reaction would be if she was on the receiving end of what Glinner did, *then* followed it up with that performance in court?
But of course we all know the answer anyway.
But of course we all know the answer anyway.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Finding Linehan as ‘generally credible’ and ‘genuinely frank and honest’ is picking sides. This is parodic
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imagine being such a hateful little rat that you make yourself hate everything good in life bc it might tangentially relate to gay or trans people
Well, y'all did it AGAIN!
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
imagine being such a hateful little rat that you make yourself hate everything good in life bc it might tangentially relate to gay or trans people
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That means that Mother Randle, who just celebrated her 111st birthday two weeks ago is the last living survivor of the 1921 Greenwood Massacre.
Mrs Fletcher.....you deserve your peace 🙏🏾
Mrs Fletcher.....you deserve your peace 🙏🏾
I forgot to mention that Lessie Beningfield Randle, better known as Mother Randle celebrated her 111th birthday 4 days ago.
One of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Both Mother Randle and Mother Fletcher are 111 now.
And still without justice.
Happy birthday Mother Randle
One of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Both Mother Randle and Mother Fletcher are 111 now.
And still without justice.
Happy birthday Mother Randle
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
That means that Mother Randle, who just celebrated her 111st birthday two weeks ago is the last living survivor of the 1921 Greenwood Massacre.
Mrs Fletcher.....you deserve your peace 🙏🏾
Mrs Fletcher.....you deserve your peace 🙏🏾
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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Since the start of this year, some 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE, according to government data — the highest number since recordkeeping began a decade ago. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Since the start of this year, some 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE, according to government data — the highest number since recordkeeping began a decade ago. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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in addition to all of his experience, in 2011 someone tried to assassinate kelly's wife, former congresswoman gabby giffords. no way he's cowing to these ass clowns.
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
in addition to all of his experience, in 2011 someone tried to assassinate kelly's wife, former congresswoman gabby giffords. no way he's cowing to these ass clowns.
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This is the Chicago apartment building that DHS raided with Blackhawk helicopters. (It wasn't barricaded. They could have walked in any door.)
Tenants' doors were taken off hinges with battering rams and apartments ransacked. News stories showed that the slumlord owner was in cahoots with DHS.
Tenants' doors were taken off hinges with battering rams and apartments ransacked. News stories showed that the slumlord owner was in cahoots with DHS.
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is the Chicago apartment building that DHS raided with Blackhawk helicopters. (It wasn't barricaded. They could have walked in any door.)
Tenants' doors were taken off hinges with battering rams and apartments ransacked. News stories showed that the slumlord owner was in cahoots with DHS.
Tenants' doors were taken off hinges with battering rams and apartments ransacked. News stories showed that the slumlord owner was in cahoots with DHS.
'Just to clear up any confusion: There is no statute that allows the president to unilaterally revoke birthright citizenship. There is no statute that authorizes racial profiling. And there is no statute that permits the government to use incredible and indiscriminate force against protesters,'
A federal judge in Chicago issued a massive opinion on *Thursday that required the Trump admin to stop brutalizing people at the Broadview ICE facility
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence
For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
'Just to clear up any confusion: There is no statute that allows the president to unilaterally revoke birthright citizenship. There is no statute that authorizes racial profiling. And there is no statute that permits the government to use incredible and indiscriminate force against protesters,'
In typical UK governmental fashion, there's no way to know with any real certainty anything about anything. So it's best to just be ruthlessly malevolent instead.
Leaked EHRC guidance says no official UK document - not even a Gender Recognition Certificate - can reliably prove someone’s sex.
Here’s what else we learned about the draft code’s “trans-exclusive” approach 🧵
Here’s what else we learned about the draft code’s “trans-exclusive” approach 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In typical UK governmental fashion, there's no way to know with any real certainty anything about anything. So it's best to just be ruthlessly malevolent instead.
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Great thread and replies here on the latest development in the UK's effort to turn its higher education sector into a wasteland.
Welp given what I know of LSE finances I guess if anyone is looking to hire I may soon be in the need of employment! Fuck could I somehow link what I do to AI maybe?
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Great thread and replies here on the latest development in the UK's effort to turn its higher education sector into a wasteland.
Upset for all my colleagues, siblings affected by the seemingly unending cowardice of Labour.
I honestly kinda thought the sheer economic stupidity of this one would prevent it coming to be. But I guess if you're super short-termist and only willing to do things that poll well (and still somehow end up where Labour are in the polls now) then it makes sense. I underestimated how bad they are.
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Upset for all my colleagues, siblings affected by the seemingly unending cowardice of Labour.
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I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
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Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
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Oh look, Missouri continues to suck absolute ass.
AG Catherine Hanaway publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to ICE, claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
https://bit.ly/4ocoBQj
https://bit.ly/4ocoBQj
Missouri AG Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Oh look, Missouri continues to suck absolute ass.
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hey between this and the jazz broadcasting their games for free what is cooking there in utah
Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
hey between this and the jazz broadcasting their games for free what is cooking there in utah
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It’s unequivocal and historically evidenced that the human mind is conditioned to normalize tragedy if it goes on long enough & that empathy drops off a cliff & eventually people are telling those still suffering that it’s time to buck up.
The only controversy is that we don’t point this out more.
The only controversy is that we don’t point this out more.
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It’s unequivocal and historically evidenced that the human mind is conditioned to normalize tragedy if it goes on long enough & that empathy drops off a cliff & eventually people are telling those still suffering that it’s time to buck up.
The only controversy is that we don’t point this out more.
The only controversy is that we don’t point this out more.
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There is no American foreign policy. Trump thinks he has one. They tell him so. But as we know, his policy is whoever he just talked to. When Rubio - one of the weakest and dumbest people who ever lived - was installed, I said it would be factions trying to kill each other. And here we have it.
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
There is no American foreign policy. Trump thinks he has one. They tell him so. But as we know, his policy is whoever he just talked to. When Rubio - one of the weakest and dumbest people who ever lived - was installed, I said it would be factions trying to kill each other. And here we have it.
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Neil Young is definitely a cat
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Neil Young is definitely a cat