Liberal mugged by reality. I aspire to be mildly amusing and occasionally insightful. I talk about politics, science, and games.
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Ignore anyone who tells you “trust the experts.” Pay attention when someone says “here’s the evidence.”
They’re still doing “how dare you suggest Biden is exhibiting cognitive decline” bullshit because they got caught with their pants down and they want to pretend like they didn’t just bold face lie to voters for four years. Pathetic.
I mean look, anyone who has dealt with elderly family knows that the claims of Biden having dementia were stupid. Dementia is a very specific disease that ravages a person's mind. I've witnessed it and it's horrific.
Biden was slowing down, clearly. But he wasn't exhibiting signs of dementia. People just used it, in my view, callously, as a catch-all phrase to mean that he's deteriorating.
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Actually I hate the version I experienced as a child standing in breadlines with my parents, the version I experienced begging my parents to buy me fruit they couldn’t afford, and the version I experienced that kept my parents from practicing their Jewish faith.
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My only contribution to the grad student stipend discourse is that it reveals how many well-paid, elite faculty are fake egalitarians. They could easily redistribute more of their income to their own grad students. But they don’t because they don’t think students have earned it.
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Vance's MOU cost Republicans the Senate and House
"Trump in recent weeks has privately criticized the June memorandum of understanding that Vance helped negotiate and questioned whether it was a costly mistake, two officials said, arguing that it gave Iran critical time to regroup and rake in oil revenues before the U.S. imposed a naval blockade."
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Having received hateful comments and harassment, I know how this damages one’s wellbeing. No one deserves personal attacks or threats. I ask that people refrain from directing hateful comments or bullying towards Dr. Knouse. We can hold each other accountable while being humane.
Gamers are now a constituency
The shift toward digital-only gaming is restricting gamers’ affordability and access to their own games.
Imagine purchasing a video game, only to discover a few years later that you can no longer play it—even though you paid for it.
I am introducing the Power to the Players Act to defend your right to own, transfer, and play the games you purchase.
It’s time to return power where it belongs: to the players.
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Yes, and a reminder that those young men in the photo are Jewish AEPi brothers from UNC Chapel Hill.
When the pro-Hamas mob ripped down the American flag and tried to replace it with a Palestinian one, these guys stepped in. Many were already there countering the raging antisemitism.
They held Old Glory high for nearly an hour while the protesters pelted them with bottles and screamed at them.
They sang the national anthem and Am Yisrael Chai.
They are American. They are Jewish. And they are Zionists — and they represent what is right and good in our nation 🇺🇸
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It's time to repair the damage done, to both this man's life and his promising cancer research.
thecollegefix.com/scientists…
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My feed has lots of tweets about the Harvard grad student strike. This is probably obvious, but it's interesting to me that the disagreement seems to hinge a lot on how to conceptualize what a grad student is.
To the first group, a grad student is primarily a worker at a job. When you see grad students as fundamentally employees, the labor lens can fit to speak of a fair salary and benefits for workers.
To the second group, a grad student is primarily a student at a school who decided to put working on hold to first pursue an extra degree. They will eventually leave school and enter the workplace and become employees. But for now they are students, so the labor lens doesn't fit.
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Ok, last thing, and I know it's unpopular, but on "grad students make this place run" and are "workers": when you become a professor, you will learn this is completely untrue. Love our students, but they are *students* and incredibly costly ones. 1/3
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one of the harder parts of grad union organizing is keeping hard science and engineering departments from asking too many questions about what labor the rest of the academy is actually doing
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В Брисбене, Австралия, должна была пройти масштабная демонстрация хамасовцев. Когда активисты из народа Маори узнали об этой демонстрации, они немедленно организовали на этом месте энергичную хаку в поддержку Израиля. Хамасовцы, как всегда в итоге зассали прийти на демонстрацию.
Спасибо, родные, с детства за маори! 🙏❤️🙏
If you don’t want to be overworked and underpaid, don’t go to grad school. Yes, that really sucks and it’s unfair. But you’re not going into academia for fairness. You’re going in because you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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They argue “we produce the research” but they never actually strike from their lab work or research! They strike from their teaching duties, harming the undergrads they are still being paid to help learn! Because grading sucks. But they don’t claim their worth is from grading.
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Many academics like to believe:
1. The best students stay in academia
2. The good students who leave, do it for money
3. You can only talk to people about cool stuff in academia.
This may have been true decades ago. It is false now.
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Israel's Ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, sat with 21 New York Times editors.
He brought numbers: how many aid trucks entered Gaza every day, and how IDF soldiers risked their own lives to spare civilians.
They brought feelings. "Ambassador, everybody can't be wrong."
His answer: not everybody thinks it's genocide. And if it feels like everybody does, maybe that's because of you.
Remember the NYT photo of the emaciated Gaza toddler? The boy had a genetic disease and cerebral palsy, and his perfectly healthy brother was cropped out of the frame.
That's not journalism. It's a blood libel.
And blood libels cost Jewish lives.
jns.org/news/antisemitism/le…
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Northwestern students canceled a food fair because Jews wanted to participate.
And then apologized for trying to include them and made sure everyone knew they had the correct thoughts about Gaza.
They somehow still think they’re “against discrimination in all forms.”
The strongest critique I can muster against a stand up bit is “I don’t find that funny.” No topic is off limits. Some topics are near impossible to make funny. Choosing those topics definitely says something about the stand up, because presumably the comic wants to make ppl laugh
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