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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8d

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · 24d

When I saw the name Steven Pinker I figured it couldn't be good. Not only are these guys really bad academics but also disgusting bastards (Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein's defense attorney, was a good friend of Pinker).

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Aug 31

Caroline Finkel was arrested among 64 others for supporting Palestinian Action. We are all behind you, Caroline. What a dark times we live in. chiswickcalendar.co.uk/historian-fr...

Historian from Chiswick among those arrested for supporting Palestine Action - Chiswick Calendar News

Caroline Finkel; image Hachette publishers Protestors told they are facing ‘serious charges’ A historian living in Chiswick is one of 64 people named by the police as having been arrested […]

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Aug 21

Israel is a terrorist state.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Aug 21

They want to make us all dumb and rob us of the experience of learning. Don't let them replace learning with AI.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Aug 21

Shout-out to Nick Sousanis for his wonderful graphics bsky.app/profile/nsou...

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Aug 21

AI is anti-learning. There is no room for AI in the classroom. Period.

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Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Aug 3

Jesus fucking Christ

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · Jul 26

The President of the United States on the human beings of Gaza:

"𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮, 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙖𝙙. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙗."

Welp!

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · Jul 26

Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · Jul 23

Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”

UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”

“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 25

Always trace the money. If a publication is funded by right-wing billionaires, you know something is wrong, even if it publishes so-called leftist authors. The goal is ideological obfuscation. Just take the case of Gaza.

Michael Hauer @mickeymoosenhauer.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes. I’ve been on their case for a while: contrahistorical.medium.com/frank-furedi...

Frank Furedi Fronts and Network — an insidious web of ‘pretend left’ and ‘contrarian’…

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Michael Hauer @mickeymoosenhauer.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes. I’ve been on their case for a while: contrahistorical.medium.com/frank-furedi...

Frank Furedi Fronts and Network — an insidious web of ‘pretend left’ and ‘contrarian’…

Introduction

contrahistorical.medium.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Jul 24

And how dare Israelis who commit genocide still claim to worry about the legacy of the Holocaust?

You are the Nazis in this scenario.

That you’ve betrayed the memory of your ancestors is your problem, your curse, your haunting. You did this to yourselves.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

what I witnessed was not you merely making fun of Cutrone in a rather weird way, but rather in this fun and games it occurred to me that it was actually taking the genocide rather lightly, like some game to fuck around with. It disgusted me. I was totally disgusted.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

you ignored some chats i recall, refused to engage. Whatever. Water under the bridge.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

my alma mater the U of Chicago will be following suit soon enough. First they need to cut much of their humanities programs, which is their summer project.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Jul 23

Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

About Frawley, no doubt.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

LOL didn't know this. Cutrone was always a cunt, defending the Iraq war. The Plats are a front for something. Making right-wing republicans out of left-wing wannabees while spouting quotes from Marx

Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

Lain has no brain, just Cutrone's lap-dog

Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

fuck Lain, total idiot on top of being nasty. And he has gone full stream fascho himself now.

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

It's sad that I could never have this conversation with Djene, but he is incapable of it, as I found out.

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