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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 8h

One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.

NYT headline

Trump Has His Eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize.
Will He Get It?
President Trump has coveted the prize for years. The winner will be unveiled 48 hours after President Trump announced a breakthrough in the Israel-Hamas war.

Ms. Graeger also noted that some of Mr. Trump's foreign policy aims run counter to the prize's criteria - such as peaceful disarmament and international cooperation - given the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear program, its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and its cuts to international humanitarian aid programs like U.S.A.I.D. She added that Mr. Trump's domestic policy agenda points to an
"infringement of the basic democratic rights."

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 23m

The sole reason Trump and the fascists want him to win the prize is precisely to devalue it and destroy its reputation.

It’s not because they think he’s a peacemaker. It’s just shitposting.

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 8h

One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.

猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 2h

It sounds very much like CS Lewis’ defence of Christianity.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 4h

Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger (D): "she does not think that gay couples should be able to marry...she thinks it's ok for someone to be fired from their job for being gay"

Winsome Earle-Sears (R): "that's not discrimination!"

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 4h

It appears to be from this prestigious research journal

nationalpost.com/opinion/turn...

Turns out there is discrimination in hiring professors — but not against minorities

Universities could only have reached 21.1 per cent visible minorities by heavily favouring non-whites in recent hiring. And that’s exactly what they’ve done

nationalpost.com

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 4h

In a social media post?

Can you explain your thinking here?

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 5h

What is likely is social stratification. Pressure to force down costs in the public sector vs parents paying for teachers in the private sector.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 5h

It's certainly curious that he believes in evidence for claims of systemic racism when it comes to harming white people, but only then.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, it's not the greatest look for an academic to say things like claims of systemic racism are unfalsifiable.

You only get to that position by a mixture of a total lack of curiosity in the world and incompetence in research methods.

Or racism.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 5h

That isn't to excuse all conduct of the Israeli government now or in the past, but to address some of the sillier comparisons such as with Wales.

The modern expansionists - the settler movement and the far right - are not the only Zionists. A lot of Zionists oppose them and Netanyahu.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly. I see many comments trying to abstract the issue in order to avoid the historical complexity: Jews were not only persecuted violently in Europe, but also in the Middle East. Zionism as a homeland, a safe place for Jews, is a response to that, and cannot be abstracted from that context.
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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 6h

So this superbrain didn’t recognise that by claiming barriers did not exist, he was being political.

Yeah, I mean, putting something a) openly antagonistic & b) demonstrably false on your form is a really good way to impress people that you are aware of how institutions work and can manage people.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

I still haven’t seen it but now I want to.

猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 10h

Realising I’d seen most of the godfather on the Simpsons first.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly, this would be great at the Olympics

You guys really need a song that the crowd can sing along to

youtu.be/EJ9yAV8uQ7g?...

The Muppet Show Theme (Season Five)

YouTube video by killerwattvids

youtu.be

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 18h

I found an old Reddit discussion of people convinced he had been fired from his job at a university (a part time gig teaching film-making) because he was TOO GOOD at teaching critical thinking.

Critical thinking obsessives are generally very bad at critical thinking.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 18h

This reminded me of that “teacher” who did the fake video of talking to a student who said SWMNBN was transphobic but who couldn’t give any examples.

Unsurprisingly, his YT channel is now just solid far right bullshit about Matt Walsh etc “destroying” people.

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Adult Human Person @mxbice.bsky.social · 20h

She-who-must-not-be-named once loudly proclaimed she would stand by trans women if anyone attacked them.
And then, she started having "concerns"...

猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 21h

One of the central characteristics of the anti-trans movement is how it has lied in public and only slowly revealed the full extent of its nasty beliefs.

A few years ago, they would all claim to have trans friends they loved and respected.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 20h

While she was actually a fan of the vicious transphobe and antisemitic conspiracy theorist Magdalen Berns all along.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 21h

It turns out you weren’t that interested.

a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background

Alt: a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background Tumbleweed rolls by.

media.tenor.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 21h

This and the skeet it’s replying to are so worrying.

It’s storing up all kinds of problems - not just intellectual deskilling, but interpersonal deskilling and emotional health.

hotoynoodle @hotoynoodle.bsky.social · 21h

My friend mentioned to another mom of an 8th grader about having her daughter write thank you notes.
Other mom: just let her use Chatgpt.

So parents are actively encouraging this nonsense.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 21h

I generally agree, but I do think “prompt” is a better word than command because commands get followed, whereas GenAI isn’t entirely biddable.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 21h

(To people who knew more about the movement and its darker corners and private chat groups, the viciousness was always on display. But the media have been happy to cooperate in laundering all that rather than investigating and uncovering)

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