Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno
@tzraick.bsky.social
Columbia Sociology & Sustainable Development…
Fan of math, science, evidence based practice & nuance…
Pragmatic realist & autodidact…
R/ts are NOT endorsements, all standard disclaimers apply.
Fan of math, science, evidence based practice & nuance…
Pragmatic realist & autodidact…
R/ts are NOT endorsements, all standard disclaimers apply.
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I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
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A Utah rep made a 6/7 joke on the house floor. I had to text my kids and let them know 6/7 is over. The Olds are using it now.
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A Utah rep made a 6/7 joke on the house floor. I had to text my kids and let them know 6/7 is over. The Olds are using it now.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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these are basically the same tweet
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
these are basically the same tweet
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
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I'll start dressing like they did in the 50's when airlines offer the cabin space they had in the 50's.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I'll start dressing like they did in the 50's when airlines offer the cabin space they had in the 50's.
Bbwahaha
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Bbwahaha
Priceless cultural criticism
I was pitched on AI's ability to give us an immediate cure for cancer and reverse global warming, and I'll I'm getting is being able to see what some absolute loser's imaginary girlfriend looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Priceless cultural criticism
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Would be great if DHS didn’t post on social media like a Nazi account.
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Would be great if DHS didn’t post on social media like a Nazi account.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
I have no sympathy for people who do this shit.
There’s no reason half of these kids should have published articles under their belt. Sure, they’re smart, but most of them buckle & fail under Socratic dialogue.
You’re telling me THAT kid is the author of five published articles? No.
There’s no reason half of these kids should have published articles under their belt. Sure, they’re smart, but most of them buckle & fail under Socratic dialogue.
You’re telling me THAT kid is the author of five published articles? No.
Had to see for myself. Shared by @smutclyde.bsky.social, published in Nature Scientific Reports (like PLOS One, peer-reviewed [!] for soundness, not importance). The article is about AI-based autism diagnosis. Article processing charge: $2690. AI slop science: priceless
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I have no sympathy for people who do this shit.
There’s no reason half of these kids should have published articles under their belt. Sure, they’re smart, but most of them buckle & fail under Socratic dialogue.
You’re telling me THAT kid is the author of five published articles? No.
There’s no reason half of these kids should have published articles under their belt. Sure, they’re smart, but most of them buckle & fail under Socratic dialogue.
You’re telling me THAT kid is the author of five published articles? No.
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🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; our job was to find the facts that would fit the narrative.”
“Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; our job was to find the facts that would fit the narrative.”
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; our job was to find the facts that would fit the narrative.”
“Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; our job was to find the facts that would fit the narrative.”
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And worse, it's *much easier* to read papers from paper mills and predatory journals.
To be clear, I don't think most academics read that stuff.
But I've lost count of how many times relatives have sent me a random paper on PubMed about 6 mice published in some alternative medicine journal.
To be clear, I don't think most academics read that stuff.
But I've lost count of how many times relatives have sent me a random paper on PubMed about 6 mice published in some alternative medicine journal.
September 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
And worse, it's *much easier* to read papers from paper mills and predatory journals.
To be clear, I don't think most academics read that stuff.
But I've lost count of how many times relatives have sent me a random paper on PubMed about 6 mice published in some alternative medicine journal.
To be clear, I don't think most academics read that stuff.
But I've lost count of how many times relatives have sent me a random paper on PubMed about 6 mice published in some alternative medicine journal.
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It's great some authors will share their work if you email them for a pdf.
But this isn't a good use of your time, or theirs.
I do think academics have more important things to do than a system where they reply one by one to every potential reader who wants to read beyond the abstract.
But this isn't a good use of your time, or theirs.
I do think academics have more important things to do than a system where they reply one by one to every potential reader who wants to read beyond the abstract.
September 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's great some authors will share their work if you email them for a pdf.
But this isn't a good use of your time, or theirs.
I do think academics have more important things to do than a system where they reply one by one to every potential reader who wants to read beyond the abstract.
But this isn't a good use of your time, or theirs.
I do think academics have more important things to do than a system where they reply one by one to every potential reader who wants to read beyond the abstract.
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And we will make exceptions for empirical social science research about AI in society – e.g., a study on how AI use affects workers in an organization – on a case-by-case basis. If your paper on an AI topic is rejected and you would like to appeal, email us a short note of explanation. Sorry!
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
And we will make exceptions for empirical social science research about AI in society – e.g., a study on how AI use affects workers in an organization – on a case-by-case basis. If your paper on an AI topic is rejected and you would like to appeal, email us a short note of explanation. Sorry!
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1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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Hard choices for preprint servers.
bioRxiv has always declined reviews/hypotheses b/c of concern about signal:noise and a wish to avoid subjective judgments. AI slop makes screening certain content similarly challenging so other servers are adopting new restrictions. Two thoughts... 1/3
bioRxiv has always declined reviews/hypotheses b/c of concern about signal:noise and a wish to avoid subjective judgments. AI slop makes screening certain content similarly challenging so other servers are adopting new restrictions. Two thoughts... 1/3
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hard choices for preprint servers.
bioRxiv has always declined reviews/hypotheses b/c of concern about signal:noise and a wish to avoid subjective judgments. AI slop makes screening certain content similarly challenging so other servers are adopting new restrictions. Two thoughts... 1/3
bioRxiv has always declined reviews/hypotheses b/c of concern about signal:noise and a wish to avoid subjective judgments. AI slop makes screening certain content similarly challenging so other servers are adopting new restrictions. Two thoughts... 1/3
Every cat that I’ve had always preferred a glass of their own.
Never a bowl, a glass. Preferably filled up to the top.
Never a bowl, a glass. Preferably filled up to the top.
Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Every cat that I’ve had always preferred a glass of their own.
Never a bowl, a glass. Preferably filled up to the top.
Never a bowl, a glass. Preferably filled up to the top.
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
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Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'