What if the world is run by idiots who can’t tell the difference though?

“Before going to gender clinics” - oh, you mean before the 138-year wait time is up? How strange!

It’s interesting how in sexual harassment cases, universities usually just shrug and claim there is nothing they can do, and harassers keep working there for literal decades. And yet, how quick they are to suspend an instructor who follows the scientific method rather than MAGA brainwashing.

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Mahagonny!

Have been forced how, exactly? If they stand in solidarity with trans girls, a good way to show that would have been to welcome trans girls. I hate JKR’s whole terfy terf operation. But what really makes me sad is the apparent lack of resistance, even from self-proclaimed “allies”.

Das war keine Irrfahrt, der ist einfach ausgebüxt und gut für ihn.

That’s a weird way to spell “about an applicant’s race and gender”

Also paging @danny14.bsky.social @prubisch.bsky.social

Hi hello yes please

Ist jemand ein Rassist, nur weil er rassistisch denkt, rassistisch spricht und rassistisch handelt? Wir bleiben dran!

Fine, but arguably if writing things that nobody ever reads is part of our job description, we should question why they need to be written in the first place. The production of writing is not an end in itself. If it doesn’t serve either the writer or the reader, why do it at all?

So cool!

[PS] What is a good PhD? I think it’s one that only that particular person could have done, one that uses their unique and weird combination of skills and interests and passions. What makes a student great is exactly the ways in which they are different from a chatbot. And I wish they knew that.

One thing I have learned in my (very short) stint as a learner of Dutch is that the Dutch are quite tolerant with respect to the “r” sound. (Though maybe my teacher was just saying that to be nice)

It makes me sad to think that there are people who think they have nothing to offer in that department, that their humanness can so easily be replaced. [Fin]

It also made me sad that they are essentially allowing themselves to be replaced by an Averages Machine. When what makes people interesting are the ways in which we are different from the average, not necessarily better, just unique. Our quirks. Our weird nerdy interests. Our individual stories [17]

I was listening to a podcast a while ago about people who used chatbots to do their messaging on online dating apps. Aside from the question of why you’s want to be dating if you think “having a conversation with another human person” is a tedious task better to be outsourced to machines. [16]