Noah Joad
@noahjoad.bsky.social
All that and then some; short, dark, and handsome
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Thank goodness Republicans got rid of all the bureaucracy and political correctness in education
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Thank goodness Republicans got rid of all the bureaucracy and political correctness in education
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Relevant to this. Same principle. Some people think that others saying different things like "Happy Holidays" during the holidays is somehow a ban on them saying "Merry Christmas"
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Relevant to this. Same principle. Some people think that others saying different things like "Happy Holidays" during the holidays is somehow a ban on them saying "Merry Christmas"
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Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
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Which wars were won due to little-to-no rules of engagement, and which wars were lost due to tighter rules of engagement?
The Soviets had more permissive rules of engagement in Afghanistan than the US did, and killed more civilians. They still lost, and at greater cost to their country.
The Soviets had more permissive rules of engagement in Afghanistan than the US did, and killed more civilians. They still lost, and at greater cost to their country.
Pete Hegseth: "[Trump] changed the rules of engagement [and] untied the hands of war fighters…We don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars."
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Which wars were won due to little-to-no rules of engagement, and which wars were lost due to tighter rules of engagement?
The Soviets had more permissive rules of engagement in Afghanistan than the US did, and killed more civilians. They still lost, and at greater cost to their country.
The Soviets had more permissive rules of engagement in Afghanistan than the US did, and killed more civilians. They still lost, and at greater cost to their country.
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Princess Diana, Children and AIDS Conference, April 1991.
December 2, 2023 at 1:15 AM
Princess Diana, Children and AIDS Conference, April 1991.
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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Unified Theory of "Everyone Is Twelve" has broken Bluesky containment
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Unified Theory of "Everyone Is Twelve" has broken Bluesky containment
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I named my fists Harold and Maude because they don’t care whether society approves of what they do together
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I named my fists Harold and Maude because they don’t care whether society approves of what they do together
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Not to put too fine a point on this but if you take a cognitive awareness test, but you think it's an IQ test, you have failed both the cognitive awareness test and a IQ test .... just saying
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Not to put too fine a point on this but if you take a cognitive awareness test, but you think it's an IQ test, you have failed both the cognitive awareness test and a IQ test .... just saying
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Feeling some degree of pessimism about Things
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Feeling some degree of pessimism about Things
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
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On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
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Pete Hegseth will face prosecution for real war crimes, not imagined ones, so there's no problem.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Pete Hegseth will face prosecution for real war crimes, not imagined ones, so there's no problem.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
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issuing correction on previous orders of mine, regarding an alleged narco boat. you do not, under any circumstances, gotta “kill everybody"
This is great, now Team Trump is acknowledging that illegal orders were given to kill survivors of the initial strike, the only question is who gave them? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth denies he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
issuing correction on previous orders of mine, regarding an alleged narco boat. you do not, under any circumstances, gotta “kill everybody"
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OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
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It’s things like that convince me that even most believers don’t actually believe in a supreme being that will hold them to account. At best they believe they have an invisible friend who helps them with whatever they want
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It’s things like that convince me that even most believers don’t actually believe in a supreme being that will hold them to account. At best they believe they have an invisible friend who helps them with whatever they want
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This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.
August 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
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I love the "return home after this Congress" language. As if it's 1825 and he's not seen his humble farm since he rode off on horseback to serve in the nation's distant capital. Cue plaintive fiddle music.
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I love the "return home after this Congress" language. As if it's 1825 and he's not seen his humble farm since he rode off on horseback to serve in the nation's distant capital. Cue plaintive fiddle music.
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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The Framers anticipated a president who wanted to be a king.
but they couldn’t build a political system to could resist a small cabal of billionaires who purchased and shaped an entire political party, and used their money to select Congressmembers, judges, and staffers who want to destroy America.
but they couldn’t build a political system to could resist a small cabal of billionaires who purchased and shaped an entire political party, and used their money to select Congressmembers, judges, and staffers who want to destroy America.
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The Framers anticipated a president who wanted to be a king.
but they couldn’t build a political system to could resist a small cabal of billionaires who purchased and shaped an entire political party, and used their money to select Congressmembers, judges, and staffers who want to destroy America.
but they couldn’t build a political system to could resist a small cabal of billionaires who purchased and shaped an entire political party, and used their money to select Congressmembers, judges, and staffers who want to destroy America.
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Also, the Nazi winking troll technique that has become completely omnipresent in US government social media. It's out of control. The whole game is to drop as many clues as possible while never quite explicitly endorsing neo-Nazism, so if you accuse them of it they can say you're paranoid.
"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Also, the Nazi winking troll technique that has become completely omnipresent in US government social media. It's out of control. The whole game is to drop as many clues as possible while never quite explicitly endorsing neo-Nazism, so if you accuse them of it they can say you're paranoid.