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It's Out!!!
The official Queer Vox Trans Resource Guide is now live! Thank you to everyone who helped add to it! You can check it out here!
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Queer Vox's Trans Resource Guide
Hi there! Welcome to our Resource Guide. Its main purpose is to help inform trans people of resources, options, and aid out there for them. However, a lot of this information extends beyond that and c...
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March 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It's Out!!!
The official Queer Vox Trans Resource Guide is now live! Thank you to everyone who helped add to it! You can check it out here!
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The official Queer Vox Trans Resource Guide is now live! Thank you to everyone who helped add to it! You can check it out here!
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You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway.
I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many
I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many
June 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway.
I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many
I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many
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It's really hard to overstate how hugely favored conservatives were up until two months ago.
Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)
Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)
Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It's really hard to overstate how hugely favored conservatives were up until two months ago.
Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)
Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)
Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
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The effect of social media deactivation on users' emotional state before the 2020 US election, from Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, Juan Carlos Cisneros, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Drew Dimmery, et al. https://www.nber.org/papers/w33697
April 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The effect of social media deactivation on users' emotional state before the 2020 US election, from Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, Juan Carlos Cisneros, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Drew Dimmery, et al. https://www.nber.org/papers/w33697
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I wrote this a year ago and many people thought I was overreacting or stoking panic.
Nearly all of it has or will soon materialize.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/project-20...
Nearly all of it has or will soon materialize.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/project-20...
Project 2025 and the End of America
The Conservative plan to eliminate Democracy in the coming year
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I wrote this a year ago and many people thought I was overreacting or stoking panic.
Nearly all of it has or will soon materialize.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/project-20...
Nearly all of it has or will soon materialize.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/project-20...
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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this is nice
rebrand it:
- machine matching
- generative pattern recognition
(algo ai can just be “running a formula”)
rebrand it:
- machine matching
- generative pattern recognition
(algo ai can just be “running a formula”)
March 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
this is nice
rebrand it:
- machine matching
- generative pattern recognition
(algo ai can just be “running a formula”)
rebrand it:
- machine matching
- generative pattern recognition
(algo ai can just be “running a formula”)
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problem solved
March 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
problem solved
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The effect of exposure to AI and machine learning technologies on wage earnings and employment, from Menaka Hampole, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, and Bryan Seegmiller https://www.nber.org/papers/w33509
March 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The effect of exposure to AI and machine learning technologies on wage earnings and employment, from Menaka Hampole, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, and Bryan Seegmiller https://www.nber.org/papers/w33509
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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
Just filed an article about the upcoming German elections (out on Sunday) and what strikes me is how timid much of the institutional pushback against the far-right has been. Some people have distinguished themselves but for the most part it’s just been really complacent - really disappointing.
February 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
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many people seem to understand how the mega-rich can subvert democracy by purchasing a political party's loyalty, but pull up short of understanding that they can just do that to the whole system. as if their wealth only gets one vote & has to pick a side
February 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
many people seem to understand how the mega-rich can subvert democracy by purchasing a political party's loyalty, but pull up short of understanding that they can just do that to the whole system. as if their wealth only gets one vote & has to pick a side
@sunsetvisitor.studio on second thought — please port to iOS... my phone is 10y ahead of my ancient, rotting laptop.
If it's possible at all, that is. I know nothing about hardware limitations.
Happy CNY.
If it's possible at all, that is. I know nothing about hardware limitations.
Happy CNY.
February 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
@sunsetvisitor.studio on second thought — please port to iOS... my phone is 10y ahead of my ancient, rotting laptop.
If it's possible at all, that is. I know nothing about hardware limitations.
Happy CNY.
If it's possible at all, that is. I know nothing about hardware limitations.
Happy CNY.
@sunsetvisitor.studio please port to OS X, if you can 🙏 I want to play!!
February 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
@sunsetvisitor.studio please port to OS X, if you can 🙏 I want to play!!
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Lessons to be learned:
1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
January 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Lessons to be learned:
1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics" by Ethan Kaplan, Jörg L. Spenkuch, and Haishan Yuan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics
(Forthcoming Article) - We exploit the timing of natural disasters to study the connection between attention to politics and legislators' support for special interests. When a disaster strikes, the me...
www.aeaweb.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics" by Ethan Kaplan, Jörg L. Spenkuch, and Haishan Yuan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Not today, Satan
January 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Not today, Satan
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I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.
January 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.
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Yes, you can download it from www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Yes, you can download it from www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
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It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
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Writers, you might be struggling rn.
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
January 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Writers, you might be struggling rn.
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
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This will always be my favorite thing ever.
January 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This will always be my favorite thing ever.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1616:
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.
January 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1616:
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.