Always gotta go with the stupider option with this guy
Professor of Philosophy, UBC Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC Philosophy of Science History of Philosophy of Science
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Always gotta go with the stupider option with this guy
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I am guessing: “I have read the Epstein files and we are now arresting Bill and Hillary Clinton.”
NEW: Belgium has decided to recognize Palestine as well take multiple measures against Israel, including -The ban of all settler goods from being imported -Sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir -Restrictions on imports from Israeli businesses -No consular services to Israelis in the oPt
He stopped 20 wars over the weekend
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
In December 2020, the number of TV interviews I did, explaining this graph.... I don't think any mathematical curve has been as scrutinized as this one in all of history.
You could run all the humanities programs at UNC for the price of Belichick’s salary.
wow
Theye might be Gi-Aunts
Northern Hoosiers
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
Withnail, Gary, and I
Glengarry Glen Gary
Text from predatory conference: “Education, one of the hottest topics nowadays, is crucial to the progression of the society. Whether we are really producing university professors as a result of our education, education will not be eliminated as long as we want to live in our civilized shape.” 🥃🥃🥃
Welcome back to school!!!
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
“He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” Greene’s agent Michael Greene said in a statement to Deadline.” “Greene was born on June 22, 1952 in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve.”
I’m sorry but facts don’t care about your feelings. If you are blaming Democrats in 2025 for COVID policy in 2020 you have been brainwashed by Trumpism and the death of expertise. The basic point is that Trump associated COVID with his fate in office. That’s it. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#ACAB — all communists advocate blueskyism
Horrifying
Spectacular, open corruption is not a good sign of a working democracy
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
It’s weird how literally 1.5 million people died and most discourse centers if we went too far.
On #LaborDay, I stand with every worker demanding fair pay, safe conditions, and respect on the job. The fight for dignity is far from over. (2/2)
Photo of the Three Stooges promoting the polio vaccine for kids in 1961. You know your country’s in trouble when Moe, Larry and Curly Joe understand more about public health than the Secretary of HHS.
RFK2 is trying! Give him time!
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Happy Labor Day! Matt Meyer, the Democratic governor of my blue state, celebrated the holiday by vetoing an important bill that would have protected workers from one of the most common forms of wage theft (eg being reclassified as an "independent contractor"). Off to my union picnic!
Billboard on Westwood, approaching UCLA.
“I should very much enjoy the pleasure of your attention.”
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Goddamit, give me back the original brown Arby’s hat now!!!!
Are you saying that number cannot be replicated?
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
There used to be a region of on the south Baltic shore—Pomerania—run entirely by small dogs. Yet, they underperformed in government capacities elsewhere. Curious.
I urge folks who follow me to show empathy as well, to stand up against antisemitism, and to reject the equation of the Jewish faith and Jewish people with the actions of the state of Israel (and its complicit supporters in the West).
Ex-GOP lawmaker Adam Kinzinger, "So Trump put the national guard on 29 day orders?!" "Why does this matter: They don’t pay full housing allowance and no health insurance until 30 days," Kinzinger added. "What an abusive commander in chief. So Trump." www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Sorry about all that
Precisely—people knew for centuries how to create superior varieties of cattle and inferior varieties of dogs. Simple application to humans made difficult by figuring out what superior and inferior mean
Eugenics discourse reminding me, yet again, that the near-total lack of history of science education in various western societies is a PROBLEM
Hey Bulldog
The God’s honest truth. Proud of @maron standing up to fascist propagandists like Bill Maher, and hate filled anti-trans bullies like Chappelle. Chappelle is worse because he was once funny. Maher has always been a hack. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Does anyone doubt that a police state has less private crime (and more government crime) than a free society? That’s what US media is using as a gotcha against Dems now???
The talk was super interesting and I look forward to reading the written version!
Diagonalism has cooler overtones for people who know about Cantor and Gödel.
“Sure I was in a car accident last night but did you know I helped out someone before that happened?”—a masterclass in political messaging
The word you are looking for is: Justice!
This gets super-complicated fast if #cdnpse folks have research data or student data on their phones...
MAHA — Make America’s Humors Align By Robertus Vermis
And then there's this one, which might not seem awful if you've never encountered the people who say "Lincoln fought to preserve the Union so therefore the war wasn't about slavery!" Right. Tell me, why did Lincoln have to fight to save the Union? What issue did southern states cite when seceding?
Rightwingers: Universities must return to being places where there are fearless debates of every topic Also rightwingers: No, not like that.
The Iowa Board of Regents approved a policy that will stifle classroom discussions. “What is at stake is not only the rights of faculty and students’ freedom to learn, but the independence of Iowa universities from government overreach.” Read more here: pen.org/new-rules-on...
I always figure it means working toward Enlightenment rationality by throwing off self-imposed nonage.
Also open to Canadians!!! It is a very good program. (I helped adjudicate the American applicants for a couple of years.)
Checking in on the CDC’s first new leadership meeting
Post a meme made by you
A US President who has lost all contact with reality isn’t a good thing
University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Board’s consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldn’t go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
My Trumpist cousins have a liner that goes: the USA has uncontrolled mental health problems and we all hate one another. This always sounds to me far worse than the truth that they have far too much access to guns.
SSHRC has the most absurd deadlines—way too many graduate students and new PhDs start September under immediate deadlines and thus too many faculty are hastily composing letters. It is as if SSHRC is unaware of the Canadian academic year.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
These are entirely unserious people making up absurd lies
Another solution in search of a problem relevant to university classrooms.
There is a real crisis in childrens' health in the US. And Trump and RFK are only making it worse. www.vox.com/life/421703/...
FEMA employee on leave describes "culture of fear “ among agency employee
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
CHICAGO MAYOR ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER PROTECTING CHICAGO AGAINST THREATENED FEDERAL ACTION - I HAVE THE FULL EO FOR YOU Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just announced an Executive Order hardening the City of Chicago against an anticipated federal incursion and military presence.
End of summer
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
All these “you couldn’t make The Godfather today because today isn’t 1971, when it was made” takes suggest to me that deep in their hearts many people yearn to be analytic philosophers.
Folks, this is not a drill. An honest-to-god TT job in the humanities in my city.
“The mural was a collective act of artistic creation, undertaken w/serious intent by students, emerging from a course taught by a tenured fac member _Covering the mural,making it inaccessible to members of the university community, is a violation of academic freedom akin to shutting down a lecture”
This is an astonishing abdication of the fundamental duty of government to protect its people. The second Declaration of Independence now!
I think the problem is not the first sentence (when we are not being obtuse we know what it means; it might be true) but the second sentence. Are things more adversarial today? Is that the right diagnosis? Maybe Palin needs to think about all the stuff that couldn’t be made in 1975 and ask why.
Government efficiency is when you create permanent signs to stick up to warn people off from making temporary art.
She also coined the term “Matilde effect,” in contrast to the “Matthew effect,” to describe the “systemic bias” that explained “the women scientists who have been ignored, denied credit, or otherwise dropped from sight:” www.jstor.org/stable/28548...
And that they aren’t better at it.
But what about this Nothing But What? Does it not last because of negation or does negation exist because the Nothing But What Nothing-But-Whats?—Heidegger, trying his move again
This
Jokes aside, if Biden was AWOL for four days and had nothing on his sked for a holiday weekend: -CNN would permanently show a running clock on the last time Biden was seen in public -Alex Thompson would publish multiple stories a day on Axios -Chris Cillizza would crank out 56 "But His Age" stories
Bring RFK2 and all the GOP Senators who voted for him into the hearing room and repeatedly ask him about all the lies he told in his testimony. How did the Dems lose any sense of what political pressure looks like?
We are well past the time when the question of whether AI as currently trained encodes biases could be treated as open. We need very rapidly to enter the what are we going to do about it phase.
Right, exactly. All love to Bernie, but we are so far past the moment of strongly worded opinion pieces. Time to brush up on your Machiavelli and get deviously creative, before we all die of the plague.
Morning Bluesky. Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837. Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.
Maybe just one more sleep….
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
The Soviet Union went with Swan Lake. I am thinking Trumpistan might opt for this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=n8bm...
Oh, god, Light of Day (1987) with Joan Jett and Michael J Fox as sibling rock stars…. Written and directed by Paul Schrader…… wtaf?
The correct answer
This so much
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
She is great! Saw her at The Green Mill in Chicago and at the Jazz Festival in Vancouver.
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