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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 23h

Opposing genocide in Gaza requires no opinion whatsoever on the innate character of the state of Israel or Zionism itself. It is a specific group of war criminals pursuing a criminal policy of collective punishment, not the Pure Spiritual Expression of the Israeli Will.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering where ‪@erinbiba.bsky.social is? Suspended. Officially, it's b/c 2 weeks ago, she posted an accurate description of the End Times scenario Christian Zionists believe in (all Jews convert or die), & typing this *apparently* encouraged violence or self-harm. Unofficially? Feels sketchy AF.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 3d

Beyond revolting. Full solidarity with the Muslim community who are also seeing a sharp uptick in abuse and violence against them.

Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.com

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Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 3d

Proud of my DA @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social for saying essentially that

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 26

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 9d

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago.

He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”

“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’

Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidatio...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ericnonymous @ericnonymous.bsky.social · 12d

Another important factor is that aside from citations and patents the NIH funds training opportunities. While much harder to quantify, NIH funding of PhD students and postdocs gives pharma the talent needed to perform drug development.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 17d

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity.

And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18d

Claude is pretty funny: “Give me 10 brilliant ideas for a science fiction short short story, pick the most brilliant and execute it terribly”

It picked: “People start receiving Amazon packages from parallel universes where they made different life choices.”

And it was terrible

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18d

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient."

No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18d

I have reached out to CVS, Walgreens and Walmart to ask how they will apply these recommendations to people seeking vaccines at their pharmacies. I cannot provide any info on how this will affect your ability to get a vaccine right now, because I don't know yet.

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Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 20d

The link to the new Terms of Service

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Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 20d

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 20d

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree: instead click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 24d

I recommend everyone watches this

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 26d

Today in the @jewishinsider.com: A person who blamed "Jewish dollars" for funding "Marxist culture" and decried Jewish control of Hollywood, nonprofits, and the media, to be remembered as bulwark against antisemitism.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27d

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:

www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

www.404media.co

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 29d

This is not at all an exaggeration. Elon Musk, a single deranged billionaire, killed USAID and thus will kill millions globally.

🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 Femininomicon ex Mortis @ofvick.bsky.social · 29d

Elon Musk will end his days with a body count comparable to the Holocaust's

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28d

Democrats can demand a rollback of the Supreme Court ICE racial profiling case. It’s a trivial legislative fix. It poses virtually no political risk for them. It protects 68 million people from open government persecution. It protects basic constitutional values. No government funding without this.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29d

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29d

Yes, do this.

"You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

Charlie Board @chboar.bsky.social · 29d

A provision banning racial profiling of Hispanics by ICE in reaction to yesterday's SCotUs action should immediately be added as a non-negotiable position for any kind of CR.

*Force* the GOP to *demand* racial profiling of Hispanics and make them threaten to shut down the government over it

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Sep 7

I saw this with gay marriage in my teens and 20s. The Democrats tied themselves in knots with “I don’t support gay marriage but I do support civil unions” business. These positions only served to alienate a core constituency and didn’t convince anybody that was uneasy about gays and lesbians 2/x

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