Alejandro Schuler

oh really? wouldn't have guessed

when will we realize that they are just pod people??

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Democrats have trifecta control of government in 16 states; but not one of them has done what Republicans in Iowa and Florida have done in pumping millions of dollars into the humanities. ballotpedia.org/State_govern...

I have no idea if this one is true, but all this result proves is the absurdity of big-O notation.

Many papers I see: A global problem Search for modifiable "risk factors" A cohort study sorry I mean real-world data "Multivariate" regression Some associations Can't say cause Residual confounding Policy must change in ways having nothing to do with our findings More research is needed

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age.

Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam, in 1982 and today. A street once dominated by parked cars to a car free place for people, with children playing, greenery and cafés making use of reclaimed outdoor space. This is what’s possible when we choose to redesign our streets for life, not storage.

Tapping the sign

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

If the Speaker feels they don’t have enough expertise there’s a way to bring it back - The Office of Technology Assessment! www.liberalcurrents.com/congress-nee...

The first element of this strategy (external private monitors against systemic social risk) was tried in the aughts with credit rating agencies in the mortgage-backed securities market. It failed. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...

andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

WE GOT ANOTHER TAO THREAD mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172441...

ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move

shades of

May I politely suggest that the correct response to people voting for fascists is not, "how can we feel their pain and listen?" but "what the hell is wrong with these arrogant fools?" The latter is still a quest for understanding, but in the correct frame, I think.

Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

These are people whose goal is to publish, not to help patients.

Blue state AGs should be warning postal officials that they will face felony prosecution for election interference for any legal ballots diverted and not delivered. Separate felony counts for every single ballot mishandled and not delivered. We would expect no less if private citizens stole ballots

If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.

yeah we have departmental meetings

Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

Muckrack search, U.S.-based high domain authority news outlets over the past seven days: “Max Miller”: 256 articles “Hasan Piker”: 1,348 articles

I'd read the stories, but you really have to see it to believe it... Paris was already a great place to walk around, but now you hardly need to wait for a light, and you can look up an entire road and it will be empty for blocks when you really decide that cars and cities don't mix, it's obvious

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

why won't universities let me spout off about how diseases are caused by ghosts and goblins and witches instead of the germ theory, that's a violation of academic freedom

The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate.

Meanwhile, the US was the only country in the world to oppose a recent UN declaration about the need to reduce crash deaths. The vote was 162 to 1.