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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 5h

I mean the guy with the Nazi prison guard tattoo then worked as a merc for a blackwater offshoot. Kinda seems related.

Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social · 5h

Roxane, do you really and truly believe that Platner is a Nazi? Can you point to any evidence apart from this one regrettable tattoo? Anything in his campaign literature or his speeches? In the platform he's running on?

Serious question.

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 5h

Pretty common Russian oligarch practice disputeresolutionblog.practicallaw.com/dirty-laundr...

Dirty laundry: are the English courts washing dirty money?

"Pin-striped enablers." A new synonym for lawyers according to Andrew Foxall and his report, Russian Kleptocracy and the Rule of Law: How the Kremlin Undermines European Judicial Systems, recently pub...

disputeresolutionblog.practicallaw.com

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 6h

I never heard of it before either. But leven if the story is he just knew the name and never googled it……like that either doesn’t add up or is really weirdly uncurious. Like if someone had gotten duped into getting some wrong Chinese lettering and then being too oblivious to find out for 2 decades

✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 7h

In a world where a military history buff decides not to google his tattoo for decades.

✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 9h

You don’t need internet connection to have a bed cooling system. There’s options that aren’t internet connected. There’s no practical reason for it to be reliant on the internet.

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 9h

Conservatives continually find new ways to « feel » oppressed. But « disagreeing with me is un-American » has got to be a low bar in creativity.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

Surprised to learn that I had an anti-American tilt.

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 10h

Like this is a goal they talk about a lot on that podcast. He thinks there’s way too many PhDs doing research and more research by it’s nature somehow dilutes genius. bsky.app/profile/jben...

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 11h

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know much about the tattoo except it’s one that reveres the defense of 1930s german nationalism, which seems to be making a statement on how they view the make up of society. And he might have gotten it as a mistake. But 10 years is a long mistake.

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah to me history just doesn’t make sense. And I don’t see that as a me problem. If he’s coming in as a candidate with 🚩🚩🚩 then he’s got to explain why people should trust him. If the explanation of a complete unknown is empty head for 10 years, people are going to judge, like why wouldn’t they.

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 11h

I donno. If a candidate goes to church, fine. If a candidate is part of some Christian nationalism sect that thinks their duty is to expel other religions that says something about their ability to lead as a senator in a diverse country. Same thing with hey I like my group of dudes vs a hate group

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 11h

I donno. I had classmates join the military before and after 9/11 and none of them came back with Nazi tattoos. They also were much less well off and didn’t then join blackwater. These are pretty atypical choices even for the time.

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 12h

Seems a bit better than the strategy of Clinton and Harris lost so we need to stop running women and run someone like Planter.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

“People on the website owned by a Nazi and dominated by far-right discourse support me on how a Nazi tattoo is no big deal.”

Lyle Jeremy Rubin @lylerubin.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway, the gap between the Twitter broad left and the BSky broad left on all this remains monstrous. The former has the virtue of being correct.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

The most American candidates are from cities and suburbs, they work in service or white collar jobs, they can be women, they’re liberals, they earnestly love pluralism and constitutionalism. The median Democrat is a 55-year old lawyer holding a sign that says “Arrest Stephen Miller” AND THAT’S OKAY

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 14h

Liberal censoriousness - what does that even mean. Like I think a lot of things are bad ideas. Conservatives also think a lot of things are bad ideas. There’s no way she’s criticizing the idea of people disliking stuff. Otherwise we’d all agree and there’d be no point in voting.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 15h

If people affiliated with the campaign have to fall back on stuff like this in October in the year prior to the election, you're toast, pack it in.

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 14h

And I get that you’re critical of it too. I just think people’s criticism of it is also based on real application and their needs and people are obviously going to criticize mostly what’s irritating them in front of them.

✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 14h

My disagreement is that the initial products were worse than what we have now. I think it’s very strange that edtech feels worse since Covid than before. There’s a lot of things that have improved. But the overall application of it is worse.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 16h

I want to follow up on an ethical issue that arises from the Lifecycle Journal publication of this pilot. Each of the papers must be submitted to @cos.io's lifecycle journal, which received 1M from meta and stands to receive more.

The *journal* has a competing interest here.

#metascience

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

As a result, the collaboration cannot identify the very mechanism of harm that Meta itself was internally concerned about. Users whose feeds are 25% harmful content will be lumped in with those for whom it is low... and only vague metrics of usage can be compared.

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 16h

She’s popped up on podcasts sometimes and all her “quirky, relatable, we’re just down to earth practical people” stories leave me kinda 😬

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

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We are all paying for this vanity project

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 16h

Good thread on edtech. But this point I don’t agree with all that much. I think edtech has gotten worse since Covid or at least what’s forced on students in a learning setting has gotten worse. And it makes sense to judge edtech on what they’re forced to interact with and not hypotheticals.

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 4d

As with many things, the initial ideas were the worst product designs: let's replicate the WORST parts of sitting in a big lecture hall and one-way sage on the stage. But the modalities of learning still hit real needs. Software dev is sure proof of asynchronous online learning

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 23h

A weather balloon launched by private company that uses a bag of sand as a ballast, shattered the cockpit window of an airplane at 36,000 feet last night. Yikes!

Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the UA1093 incident is tentatively confirmed to be a balloon and not space debris, per this exchange on the other site

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 17h

I think there’s a lot of a certain kind of smarts that must have led him to where he is. He now just sounds like a novelist with an underdeveloped idea, But I haven’t ever heard him sound great. I listened to him on the 1st episode of the Portal and it was real bad.

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 1d

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AP US History Document Based Question

Evaluate the extent to which social media transformed American political movements in the early 21st century.

Document 1:

Top Republicans Stand by President's Poop Video

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to invent a story or more likely believes a story of how the world rests on his shoulders. But it’s just a huge narcissism plot. Like his delusions of grandeur have come true in a way but people don’t think he’s a God must be a hard thing to reconcile.

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