The thing I have taken away from your writing on the subject is that our canons and norms of freedom of expression and freedom of conscience do not go back to the founding, but were hard-won relatively recently, and it is for exactly this reason that we should defend them zealously.
Hodgson is fascinating to me. Few books mention him. Because they rarely mention the fact that we forgot it was Hadrian's Wall at all. Because it's so OBVIOUS now. But we need to remember people like him. The quiet ones who do the leg work and test received wisdom 19/22
Screenshot of bookpage. Two columns of tiny text beneath two sentences of main text.
Two columns of tiny text but with an inscription replicated faithfully in the middle.
And then, wonderfully, almost 50% of the entire 400 page book is essentially a long, small text footnote in which John Hodgson slowly and methodically demolishes 1500 years of established history to prove Hadrian, not Severus, built the Wall.
It is beautiful. It is a work of art. 15/22
i don't know why "they're lying" is so hard to believe about a company whose MO is so heavily founded upon lying
NYC first comprehensive city wide zoning to keep jewish garment workers away from the clothing customers.
"Almost every zoning in the first 20 years is about keeping a minority away from the monied and powerful."
"Zoning masking segregation in the arid language of land use."
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
If there was video of a Senate Dem giving a compound fracture to a Marine while wearing his dress blues, that guy would've been burned at the stake by close of business
Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams.
Tales from…When the Masking Slips!
Health tech doing my appt check in:
“Do you feel safe at home?”
Me, without thought or pause:
“I don’t feel safe anywhere.”
*brief pause*
“Sorry. I live alone and yes I feel safe at home.”
"Scientists don't want you to know." Bullshit. Politicians, priests, and salesmen don't want you to know. Scientists are keening at the moon trying to tell people shit. That special interest juice is more powerful than any NDA.
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
it says a lot about us, none of it good, that we chose a leader with not a single redeeming quality: stupid? yup. corrupt? absolutely. dishonest? to his core. violent? maybe the most violent ever. any ability to empathize with people? none. baseline level of regard for human life? not even a skosh.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next.
What a disgrace.
The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.
congrats to the mens hockey team for letting a demented 80 year old sex criminal steal your shine and make himself the center of your accomplishment
Although not as bad as January, we all know that February is still quite a tough month, so here's a Scale-Crested Pygmy Tyrant, showing off a bit but then, if I looked like that, I'd show off quite a bit too.
Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism
Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
Apparently they also spent their lives drinking water from a well contaminated by graveyard runoff 🤢
The question is always, if this company is worth a trillion dollars what trillion dollar problem is it fixing and the only possible answer to that question in the instance of A.I. is “wages.”
Because legally qualified American voters don't want to be harassed and intimidated by masked gunmen as a condition of going to vote. Is that really hard to understand?
In other words, AI worked exactly at what it was designed to do: produce answers.
It has no ability to detect whether those answers are correct or not.
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
Numerous accusations from critical media outlets claimed the clinic was a “transing factory” that ignored “holistic” approaches to care and was recklessly prescribing puberty suppressant hormones, known as puberty blockers, to children. One article from The Times, published in 2022, claimed that at least 1,000 families were planning mass legal action against the Tavistock gender clinic for rushing youngsters into taking puberty blockers. However, a freedom of information (FOI) request to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, shared by Yorkshire Bylines, revealed that, between 2012 and 2022, only eight complaints over healthcare provisions had been lodged.
This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
The way they’re covered is so stupid. If you voluntarily get one after you turn 45, they’re considered “preventative” and are fully covered. However if you get one because you’re experiencing symptoms, then it’s treated like outpatient surgery
To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.
But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
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