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@babbsmarie

Admin assistant with a PhD in philosophy.

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Gentlemen, it’s Women’s History Month, so maybe take the initiative and explain what that is.

02.03.2026 14:55 👍 481 🔁 121 💬 19 📌 6

God gave us these beautiful bodies and said, now use the computer

07.03.2026 03:08 👍 287 🔁 55 💬 1 📌 0

In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics

04.03.2026 12:57 👍 66 🔁 37 💬 7 📌 5
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Former St. Louis Congressmember Cori Bush Runs for Seat Again After AIPAC Targeted Her in 2024 Cori Bush is running for Congress again. Bush previously served two terms as a Democratic congressmember for Missouri, until she was unseated in 2024 following a multimillion-dollar attack campaign ru...

Pro-Israel groups spent millions to unseat Cori Bush in 2024. Now, she is running for Congress again.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/27/cori_bush

27.02.2026 17:24 👍 203 🔁 57 💬 9 📌 9
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Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

24.02.2026 06:59 👍 1887 🔁 655 💬 108 📌 126
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 👍 21769 🔁 7742 💬 299 📌 637
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Children at Dilley ICE Jail in Texas Describe Their Anguish and Fear “I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” said a 13-year-old.

Children jailed with their families in Dilley, Texas, are describing intense anguish and fear, including a 13-year-old who said, “I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.”

11.02.2026 15:53 👍 102 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 9

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

11.02.2026 03:59 👍 2008 🔁 373 💬 38 📌 13
Old tweet from @shelfcomedy:

me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles
god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying

Old tweet from @shelfcomedy: me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying

The morning so far

10.02.2026 14:42 👍 8649 🔁 1303 💬 26 📌 46
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.02.2026 09:09 👍 47156 🔁 19330 💬 1352 📌 795
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#OtD 4 Feb 1924 175 @IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville, Maine, after KKK tried to threaten union organisers: "We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it". More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/

04.02.2026 05:55 👍 223 🔁 62 💬 3 📌 4
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“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

28.01.2026 05:46 👍 25161 🔁 11769 💬 915 📌 1050

Body cams are definitely going to fix this.

27.01.2026 14:50 👍 1928 🔁 490 💬 43 📌 24

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

25.01.2026 00:34 👍 18734 🔁 3870 💬 112 📌 152
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With no warning, feds just gassed people.

24.01.2026 16:37 👍 784 🔁 328 💬 6 📌 27

This is what our government has sent into cities across the country to arrest normal, nonviolent working people. Insanity.

07.01.2026 17:22 👍 1453 🔁 414 💬 27 📌 9

Oh my God

05.01.2026 13:43 👍 47 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
Mom’s Eyes Roll Back In Head At Dinner Table As She Feeds On Family’s Enjoyment Of Food

Mom’s Eyes Roll Back In Head At Dinner Table As She Feeds On Family’s Enjoyment Of Food

Mom’s Eyes Roll Back In Head At Dinner Table As She Feeds On Family’s Enjoyment Of Food https://theonion.com/moms-eyes-roll-back-in-head-at-dinner-table-as-she-feeds-on-familys-enjoyment-of-food/

11.12.2025 17:00 👍 1185 🔁 98 💬 17 📌 7

History will certainly view this as the stupidest fuckin time ever.

11.12.2025 12:05 👍 294 🔁 81 💬 11 📌 3

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

06.12.2025 04:38 👍 4632 🔁 766 💬 68 📌 58

Pheebs
@galpalpheebs
A ln Israeli drone strike hit a car in the town of al-Tiri in southern Lebanon, leaving several university students wounded after their bus happened to be driving just behind the targeted car.

The injured students were rushed to hospitals in the area.

Pheebs @galpalpheebs A ln Israeli drone strike hit a car in the town of al-Tiri in southern Lebanon, leaving several university students wounded after their bus happened to be driving just behind the targeted car. The injured students were rushed to hospitals in the area.

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Breaking: Another Israeli strike has hit Lebanon at 6:30 a.m. local time, less than a day after 13 people were killed in an attack on the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp.

Drop Site contributor @galpalpheebs (X) shares the details in the thread below 👇

19.11.2025 16:25 👍 24 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
Are you sure that
poisoning the
entire Earth is
the right
move?
Of course.
Nothing is
real except
money.

Are you sure that poisoning the entire Earth is the right move? Of course. Nothing is real except money.

07.11.2025 14:23 👍 1183 🔁 242 💬 0 📌 6

Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500.

Insane

01.11.2025 13:21 👍 15171 🔁 5415 💬 1059 📌 302
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American Association of Philosophy Teachers Upcoming 50th Anniversary (guest post) - Daily Nous The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) will be 50 years old next year. Renée Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Coastal Carolina University, was recently elected president of the AAPT. ...

Learn a little about the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, which is approaching its 50th anniversary…

21.10.2025 11:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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US musician Carsie Blanton on the Nazi-like ways of Israel after her kidnapping.

"I'm a Jewish American and in Israeli detention, I was really treated like scum"

09.10.2025 12:28 👍 98 🔁 46 💬 3 📌 6
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

29.09.2025 19:07 👍 1186 🔁 516 💬 21 📌 54

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

27.09.2025 03:08 👍 2018 🔁 415 💬 16 📌 19

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

26.09.2025 12:40 👍 8422 🔁 1897 💬 26 📌 18

It doesn’t matter what the job is.

If you give your full time labor to work, you should be paid enough to afford a decent life and build toward a better future.

24.09.2025 14:05 👍 121 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 3