Lee Gilmore
@leegilmore.bsky.social
Academic angst. Angry political re-posts. Religions from the margins. Theater in a Crowded Fire once upon a time. Kalapuya land.
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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2)"Hegseth said the Pentagon is working on a new program, which could curtail what qualifies as a faith or belief recognized in the military"
This is language used to set up a Establishment Clause case to go before SCOTUS officially to impose a specific religion/practices through the government
2/x
This is language used to set up a Establishment Clause case to go before SCOTUS officially to impose a specific religion/practices through the government
2/x
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Police officer who shot Tamir Rice hired by West Virginia departments, report says
Rice family attorney calls the hiring "imbecilic and heartless," as Loehmann has previously resigned from three other departments after public protests.
www.cleveland.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
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Exactly this. All these universities are talking a big game about ‘globalism’ will slashing and gutting the core of what global work is. By globalism they mean business and revenue, not educating people to excel in a global environment through intercultural understanding.
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Exactly this. All these universities are talking a big game about ‘globalism’ will slashing and gutting the core of what global work is. By globalism they mean business and revenue, not educating people to excel in a global environment through intercultural understanding.
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If you cite fake sources, why should we trust *any* part of your work?
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you cite fake sources, why should we trust *any* part of your work?
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while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
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This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people
These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people
Delicious religion nerd thread about all the things Wake Uo Dead Man gets right & wrong about Catholicism, gender, power, etc.
I think it had to be a Catholic parish not to tell A story about misogyny (Lord knows it’s everywhere) but to tell THIS story about misogyny, where celibacy can breed such seething hatred of women that a grandfather raises his grandson to call his own mother a whore
December 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Delicious religion nerd thread about all the things Wake Uo Dead Man gets right & wrong about Catholicism, gender, power, etc.
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Real easy way to honor Rob Reiner is to remember this. The 'courage' part means even when you're scared or when it's hard or when it might cost you something.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Real easy way to honor Rob Reiner is to remember this. The 'courage' part means even when you're scared or when it's hard or when it might cost you something.
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Why use AI when God is clearly giving us all the middle finger
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Why use AI when God is clearly giving us all the middle finger
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
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This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
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The thing about Trump's approval falling below 40% is that cowards have a way of rediscovering their courage once they see the winds are changing.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The thing about Trump's approval falling below 40% is that cowards have a way of rediscovering their courage once they see the winds are changing.
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At our school (UCLA), we’re told we’re in a budget crisis. And yet central IT is out here buying licenses from OpenAI. As I told the person responsible, if anything, OpenAI should be paying US for beta testing their dangerous, flawed software.
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At our school (UCLA), we’re told we’re in a budget crisis. And yet central IT is out here buying licenses from OpenAI. As I told the person responsible, if anything, OpenAI should be paying US for beta testing their dangerous, flawed software.
As if we needed another reason to push back against AI everywhere.
Fifty different problems in the world just locked into one big uniform piece like a Rubik's cube in my head.
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
As if we needed another reason to push back against AI everywhere.
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Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI."
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI."
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
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“Her library estimates that 15 percent of emailed reference questions it receives are now ChatGPT-generated, and some include hallucinated citations for both published works and unique primary source documents. ‘For our staff, it is much harder to prove that a unique record doesn’t exist.’”
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“Her library estimates that 15 percent of emailed reference questions it receives are now ChatGPT-generated, and some include hallucinated citations for both published works and unique primary source documents. ‘For our staff, it is much harder to prove that a unique record doesn’t exist.’”
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I want jobs for humanities experts to kill AI systems.
I'm starting to see jobs out there for 'humanties experts' to train AI systems. I know we all need work, but don't do it.
December 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I want jobs for humanities experts to kill AI systems.
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Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...