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Assistant professor with too many opinions. Texpat, politics academia, gay stuff, anti-carbrain. Not an AI brain genius guy. "Train Linguist." 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ "See you divas on the streets." E me aperta pra eu quase sufocar [email protected] on Mastodon.

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CJ @virmalised.us · 23d

I refuse to mourn or grieve someone who believes I am not equal to them, and I think that's a fair criterion to judge others by

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

maybe @asayeed.bsky.social might know

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

what if i look away for just a second and everything is different

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

you're not supposed to be able to find out about these things! isn't it the whole idea to like, lie about it

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

Insane to do a coup in broad daylight jesus

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9d

Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller are pushing to remove Venezuela’s Maduro from power, the NYT reports.

There have already been meetings with opposition leaders.

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

these moments like waves

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

new benchmark: any profile that looks like a prompt is a bot

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

god the botnets are swarming this fucking sucks

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

i just got followed by a bot account called purple house photos????????

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

"The most important thing about AI isn't its technical capabilities or limitations. The most important thing is the investor story and the ensuing mania that has teed up an economical catastrophe that will harm hundreds of millions or even billions of people."

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9d

The line people ran with when Harvard was under the crosshairs was that Ivy League schools are just training grounds for the elite, and the actual fight for racial equity would be won in regional, state, and trade schools where “real” Black people could improve their economic outcomes.

Michael (MJ) Lyle @mjlyle.bsky.social · 9d

Nevada State University closed its Office of Community, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and scaled back other diversity programs. Faculty and students say they have faced retaliation for speaking out against university administration after they shuttered those programs. via @nevadacurrent.com

Nevada State faculty fear retaliation for denouncing shuttering of diversity programs • Nevada Current

Nevada State University current and former faculty members and students say they have tried to speak out, in vain, against a push from the university’s administration to tear down diversity serving pr...

nevadacurrent.com

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

it is very funny to me to see the "genius" level folks in my field just re-hash older papers and present the work as if it were their own

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

Would UB protect me?

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

indistinguishable from the snitches at Texas universities in gender studies classes, btw

The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 9d

At Cornell University, an eminent prof, whose work I was reading in graduate school got suspended b/c an IDF veteran grad student enrolled in his class for the express purpose of disrupting it. We are all cooked.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

www.thenation.com

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

i am so tired of hearing the voices of other people lol

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9d

Everyone in the kill chain should be prosecuted but we have an opposition leadership that thinks this is a distraction from funding rural hospitals in +70-80% trump country

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

Tired: Salt Fat Acid Heat

Wired: Harissa Explains It All

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

Which maybe is someone actually typing it out but still lol

CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

This is the place I saw it:

my dating checklist
The Trump administration isn't only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and "entities" whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following "indica" (indicators) of violence:
• anti-Americanism,
• anti-capitalism,
• anti-Christianity,
• support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
• extremism on migration,
• extremism on race,
• extremism on gender
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 9d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

In Coal-Powered West Virginia, Sky-High Energy Costs Strain Residents

www.nytimes.com

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

lightness

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 9d

I encourage you all to add your voice to protectiing the U.S. National Fungus Collection! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 9d

An important reminder the USDA plans to close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, home of the U.S. National Fungus Collection.

The public comment period is open until 9/30. I encourage you to submit comments to: [email protected]

Why does it matter? www.plantopiapodcast.org/55

Why a Collection of Dead Fungi Matters

www.plantopiapodcast.org

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

These guys (or their language models) do a lot of drugs is what this typo tells me

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

Bikes are freedom

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

The federal government lists "indica" (sic) of violence and I'd like to know whether fascists instead have "sativa" of violence

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CJ @virmalised.us · 9d

ship of theseus-ass court