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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky

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Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches the history of Detroit, Michigan, and the US at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (5) and Boogie (3). Gynocentric communicator. He/him 💖💜💙

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · Aug 23

Alright I have a little bit of time here before Boogie’s birthday party is starting up so I’ll make a little thread here of how this is the case. At least until I get called away to set something else up.

The “everything is eugenics” thread:

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · Aug 23

Welcome to the history of eugenics, where everything happening now is an extension of the eugenics program set about over 100 years ago

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · Aug 23

TIL marriage counseling was invented by a lunatic compulsory sterilization advocate who mentored James Dobson, which feels like a Behind the Bastards waiting to happen

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 4h

Oh no his interpretation of Gendo Ikari would be soooooooo messed up

Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 4h

No-one show Peter Thiel Evangelion. Please for the love of God.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 4h

The archives burned down.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 4h

Not at all surprised that the woman who wrote two (2) flattering books on Lance Armstrong thinks Bari Weiss is some sort of girlboss

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 4h

Has Sally Jenkins said what views of Charlie Kirk’s she actually disagrees with?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 6h

Are they mad at me?

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 6h

Thiel is obsessed with antichrist figures because he recognizes a kindred spirit

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 6h

We will need to look at the brains of Thiel and Musk and the like after they die for any signs of CTE

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 6h

Ok but Papa Smurf does symbolize Jesus Christ in this essay I will—

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 6h

This may be the least surprising bit of this story

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 7h

Kinda wild she sees and states this so clearly while Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

CANDACE: “Trump wants a Nobel Prize for the planned ethnic cleansing of Gaza they can profit off of and turn into a beach town… every family set to inherit what they did will be cursed… when they build a Trump Hotel there, I caution 🌍 to stay far away from that cursed land.”

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 8h

Count Von Count on the cover of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 8h

book covers featuring the muppets: thread

Elmo on the cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 7h

If you see this quote with a game that released the year you were born.

A picture of the cover of the original Sid Meier’s Civilization. It shows the skyline of late-80s NYC built out of sand and underneath the title the subhed reads “build an empire to stand the test of time”. It was released by MicroPose

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 18h

Wait he wasn’t the head coach of Iowa back then?

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 18h

There is going to be a clear difference in the very near future of the professors who use AI and those who are actually competent

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 18h

Nothing wrong with a thicc ghost

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 19h

Had a buddy who once blew a .4 at the hospital

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 1d

One of my friends was reading it like 5 minutes before a basketball game we were playing and the coach took the book from his hand and read the part where Sirius dies to him. I still don’t know if it was hilarious or horrifying

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 1d

But yeah. Tale as old as time. Teenager goes through puberty, gets the hornies, tries to find pornography, discovers they will be able to read stories about their favourite characters doing it in the butt if they learn a new language, teenager accidentally becomes bilingual. 🧵

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 1d

You can say that literally none of what he said is true

Politico @politico.com · 2d

Johnson slams the No Kings protest march scheduled to take place in DC next week as the “hate America rally” that would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.”

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 1d

At least there’s some karmic retribution for the mariners winning I guess

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the latest ChatGPT commercial is literally “I can plan your entire vacation for you so you can spend time doing what’s important, like being at that meeting that could have been an email”

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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