PhDon't
@jdmar3.bsky.social
If you know me, no you probably actually don't. Professional chaos wrangler. 🏳️🌈 All pronouns, all at once.
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i don’t really care abt this old vs nu trek debate but this is a v funny thing to say about a franchise which has a literal mirror universe where everyone is Very Evil and also has a moustache
Course those shows had villains. But they were villains that had a degree of dimension and subtlety to them. They weren’t all paint-by-numbers, moustache-twirling, scenery-chewing nutcases with zero motivation for why they are the way they are.
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
i don’t really care abt this old vs nu trek debate but this is a v funny thing to say about a franchise which has a literal mirror universe where everyone is Very Evil and also has a moustache
WTAF
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
WTAF
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A major problem in the country is that for years, regular people have actually been made to feel and have sometimes been told to leave "THE LAW" to the "professionals I.e. THE LAWYERS" and that was always ridiculous for multiple reasons. But it succeeded in distancing regular people from organizing.
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A major problem in the country is that for years, regular people have actually been made to feel and have sometimes been told to leave "THE LAW" to the "professionals I.e. THE LAWYERS" and that was always ridiculous for multiple reasons. But it succeeded in distancing regular people from organizing.
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The only legal scholars I want to hear from in the years to come are the ones seriously thinking about how to fully disempower the Supreme Court. What would that take? THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. Offer practical suggestions that could become political campaigns led by the public.
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The only legal scholars I want to hear from in the years to come are the ones seriously thinking about how to fully disempower the Supreme Court. What would that take? THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. Offer practical suggestions that could become political campaigns led by the public.
I am just going to start making up awards and giving them to people.
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I am just going to start making up awards and giving them to people.
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The Supreme Court has reinstated the Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map in Texas after it was blocked by a lower court, with the Roberts court once again putting its thumb on the scale to weaken protections for minority voters and entrench GOP political power.
The Roberts court just helped Trump rig the midterms
The Supreme Court reinstated the Trump-inspired congressional map in Texas.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The Supreme Court has reinstated the Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map in Texas after it was blocked by a lower court, with the Roberts court once again putting its thumb on the scale to weaken protections for minority voters and entrench GOP political power.
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Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social's definitive look at the chief justice, whose court has spent Donald Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social's definitive look at the chief justice, whose court has spent Donald Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way.
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What exactly is this force that compels these people to do the most asinine thing possible at just the wrong moment?
the US is abandoning green energy at precisely the moment it is becoming not just a climate neccesity but also like a strategically important industry
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
What exactly is this force that compels these people to do the most asinine thing possible at just the wrong moment?
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If Hipkins thinks trans kids, whose identities have been stripped from the sex ed curriculum, whose community events have been literally invaded by violent bigots, whose ability to access healthcare just got banned, aren't at risk now, what exactly is his definition of "at risk"
Hipkins response to me was basically, "we absolutely support trans people & will reverse it, but we don't want to start a culture war that would put trans kids at risk."
It doesn't make sense. WP has already started the war, TPM & the Greens response didn't start a flare up of hate afaik.
It doesn't make sense. WP has already started the war, TPM & the Greens response didn't start a flare up of hate afaik.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If Hipkins thinks trans kids, whose identities have been stripped from the sex ed curriculum, whose community events have been literally invaded by violent bigots, whose ability to access healthcare just got banned, aren't at risk now, what exactly is his definition of "at risk"
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Reminder, DOGE wasn’t about cutting costs, it was about stealing your information.
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Reminder, DOGE wasn’t about cutting costs, it was about stealing your information.
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me, ~20 years ago: "I'm a computer information science major, why is an ethics course part of my core degree requirements?"
me, today: "ah"
me, today: "ah"
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM
me, ~20 years ago: "I'm a computer information science major, why is an ethics course part of my core degree requirements?"
me, today: "ah"
me, today: "ah"
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There are more disabled people who are pretending to be healthy so that you don’t judge us or think us incapable than there are healthy people pretending to be disabled. If you find yourself questioning whether someone is really disabled, you’re doing the work of the oppressor. #disability
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
There are more disabled people who are pretending to be healthy so that you don’t judge us or think us incapable than there are healthy people pretending to be disabled. If you find yourself questioning whether someone is really disabled, you’re doing the work of the oppressor. #disability
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No good ever came of late-night rumination. Life's problems have never been resolved by anyone at 11pm. Deal with that tomorrow
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
No good ever came of late-night rumination. Life's problems have never been resolved by anyone at 11pm. Deal with that tomorrow
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I also ask this of universities but ya know.
When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I also ask this of universities but ya know.
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The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
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The Nazis used the term "Lying Press" (Lügenpresse) to discredit and censor all dissenting media, simultaneously targeting journalists, and seizing, and giving their political allies control of news outlets to crush any opposition.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Nazis used the term "Lying Press" (Lügenpresse) to discredit and censor all dissenting media, simultaneously targeting journalists, and seizing, and giving their political allies control of news outlets to crush any opposition.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
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just interrupting #DissertationWriting every 15 minutes to see if the possible bombing has begun yet.
We can choose to live differently:
To quote Eisenhower:
“This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
We can choose to live differently:
To quote Eisenhower:
“This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
just interrupting #DissertationWriting every 15 minutes to see if the possible bombing has begun yet.
We can choose to live differently:
To quote Eisenhower:
“This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
We can choose to live differently:
To quote Eisenhower:
“This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
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I know, I was kidding. I remember it well. That was the year when my parents' generation went from saying "you have to get a degree if you don't want to flip burgers" to saying, "what, you think just because you have your fancy degree that you're too good to flip burgers now?".
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I know, I was kidding. I remember it well. That was the year when my parents' generation went from saying "you have to get a degree if you don't want to flip burgers" to saying, "what, you think just because you have your fancy degree that you're too good to flip burgers now?".
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Just sent out this free piece. When the stories of the 28-point plan were first written, too many people went into overdrive to try and make excuses for Trump (He was not informed! He was not involved!). open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
We Seem Intent On Making Excuses For Trump Until He Destroys Us
Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Just sent out this free piece. When the stories of the 28-point plan were first written, too many people went into overdrive to try and make excuses for Trump (He was not informed! He was not involved!). open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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It's so cool how everyone in power everywhere is stupid
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's so cool how everyone in power everywhere is stupid