Derek Fox
@partialobserver.bsky.social
Penn State Astronomer (he/him), personal account. “We went and made everything a computer without ever bothering to fix computers.”
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Any viable left-populist economic coalition in a diverse polity has to include people whose economic exploitation is experienced through racialized and gendered forms.
You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Any viable left-populist economic coalition in a diverse polity has to include people whose economic exploitation is experienced through racialized and gendered forms.
You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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People have advocated for per-mile insurance which would help with this…If insurance was per mile then a simple app could tally the cost of your commute, for any proposed trip, giving you a fair comparison to alternate methods of transport.
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
People have advocated for per-mile insurance which would help with this…If insurance was per mile then a simple app could tally the cost of your commute, for any proposed trip, giving you a fair comparison to alternate methods of transport.
Oh goodness I just caught up TODAY (yes I’m slow) and I was just thinking about this! 9-year jump means Margo.. can’t have been in prison all that time? But why would Gore pardon her after the asteroid debacle? Gaaaah #HiBob
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Oh goodness I just caught up TODAY (yes I’m slow) and I was just thinking about this! 9-year jump means Margo.. can’t have been in prison all that time? But why would Gore pardon her after the asteroid debacle? Gaaaah #HiBob
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Your misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism etc? All parts of the same fucking system. If you hate your neighbor enough you ignore the horrors happening to them until they happen to you. And then you can't fight back because you have no allies. See the police state
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Your misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism etc? All parts of the same fucking system. If you hate your neighbor enough you ignore the horrors happening to them until they happen to you. And then you can't fight back because you have no allies. See the police state
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This is the study she’s referencing. Hofmann, V., Kalluri, P.R., Jurafsky, D. et al. (2024) AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect - Nature
Despite efforts to remove overt racial prejudice, language models using artificial intelligence still show covert racism against speakers of African American English that is triggered by features...
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is the study she’s referencing. Hofmann, V., Kalluri, P.R., Jurafsky, D. et al. (2024) AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s415...