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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 7h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

often! but mostly I see a great headline, look at the study go "hey this sucks" then lament everyone else still quoting the shit study

I never want to see that MIT 95% one again, still the *only* person i know to note they're web3 grifters, but I keep seeing it pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/21/m...

MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam — from 100% crypto bros

MIT’s Project NANDA has a new paper: “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025.” This got a writeup in Fortune a few days ago about how 95% of generative AI projects in business just fail. Th…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 21h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 23h

They're never beating the "weird" allegations are they

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 23h

What does Charles Murray actually do all year?
"he wrote in an email. He told me he plans to [respond] in a few months, when he has more time."
Murray gets paid by IAE to watch paint dry and post race science. What's he going to do those months? Try to kill goats telepathically?

Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 2d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 1d

Graeber gets accused of much the same

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

It’s been more than a decade since we learned that car manufacturers like Mercedes and VW were using ‘cheat devices’.

In that time thousands have died prematurely in the UK alone. So why no action? www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/sixteen-th...

Sixteen thousand deaths - and no action

Dieselgate is one of the crimes of the century - so why no action by the Gove

www.whatthelawdoes.com

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Jurgen Masure @jurgenmasure.bsky.social · 1d

An incredible book by @jacobsilverman.com.

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 1d

wat

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 1d

Bad MS Paint rendition of Miranda Fricker (Epistemic Injustice 2007) with laser eyes

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d

This would be GREAT paired with my article in doctors in the Klan in the 1920s.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly weird claim by Turkheimer that he had to think about Bell Curve for many years. It's junk. Very similar to Ezra Klein's comments on Charlie Kirk.
Shows the ultimate poverty of both sidesing.

jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 2d

Cambridge don clears situation of reality

21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 3d

Cambridge don Nathan Cofnas cleared of racism

Dr Cofnas stated that in a meritocracy ‘number of black professors would approach 0 per cent’

Lawful ... but also lacking substantiation or evidence, revealing absence of any sound research methodology

varsity.co.uk/news/30360

Uni clears don accused of ‘abhorrent racism’

The University's internal investigation launched last year has dismissed all complaints against Nathan Cofnas, and found his ideas 'represented lawful free speech'

varsity.co.uk

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 3d

Cambridge don Nathan Cofnas cleared of racism

Dr Cofnas stated that in a meritocracy ‘number of black professors would approach 0 per cent’

Lawful ... but also lacking substantiation or evidence, revealing absence of any sound research methodology

varsity.co.uk/news/30360

Uni clears don accused of ‘abhorrent racism’

The University's internal investigation launched last year has dismissed all complaints against Nathan Cofnas, and found his ideas 'represented lawful free speech'

varsity.co.uk

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Here is some material Bari Weiss published regarding Covid.

So when anyone defends her in any way, what they are saying is that real world victims of medical disinformation don’t matter.

It’s all just a game to these pundits.

• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back-and Won
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Free Speech on Trial
• Dr. Marty Makary: Dr. Fauci's Legacy
• Drs. Tracy Hoeg and Marty Makary: U.S.
Public Health Agencies Aren't 'Following the Science,'
• Dr. Marty Makary: Officials Say, Universities' Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad, Stefan Baral, Lucy McBride: Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos, Talking To Three Doctors Who Have Been Islands Of Reason In A Sea Of Confusion.
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Let Djokovic Play
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: We Have a Tripledemic.
Not of Disease, But of Fear,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad and John Mandrola: The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: How to Save Science From
Covid Politics
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: What RFK Jr. Gets Right— and What He Gets Wrong,
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Vinay Prasad: Why Was My Talk at a Medical Conference Canceled?
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Covid Vaccines Shouldn't Be 'Routine' for Kids.

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 2d

"With this said, it is important to note that the ‘very dissimilar education’ group consisted of only 10 TRA pairs. This small N is not a shortcoming of this analysis ... is a shortcoming of the TRA field; these 10 pairs represent the entirety of individual data published over the last century."

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 3d

What drives test score differences in twins raised apart?

School! Invest in schools!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are significantly influenced by educational differences

Over the last century, several large studies have been published exploring IQ differences amongst monozygotic (MZ) twins reared apart (TRA). By and la…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, antisemitic chant at a far-right anti-immigration protest today in Amsterdam: “Hey Franz Timmermans, you dirty filthy cancer Jew, just go and die”

(not getting into semantics of translating kkr, which I’m tempted to more loosely translate as “f*cking” in this context but that’s just me)

Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 3d

Het is dat ze geen watermeloen-button droegen, anders werd dit misschien wel antisemitisch genoemd.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

as i said, it's one of the best, i.e. it has a reasonable methodology and correctly identifies its caveats

i keep looking at studies with great headlines and the studies are all *dogshit*. That MIT 95% study is a Web3 scam promotion. The workslop one is statistically illiterate. etc.

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 3d

That's a very Jordan Petersonesque way of "reasoning"

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 3d

A little defensive of academic EvoPsych but interesting

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