i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need
05.03.2026 16:31
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i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
This was the worse case scenario, which I think I wrote about a couple months ago.
the rules are clear: Ryan Coogler gets to keep shooting until he misses
The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.
MUST READ:
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
This week, we have 2 critiques of the Mellon Foundation's politics, one from the most effective journalist of the anti-DEI hysteria
Pretty easy to see where this goes next--establish the narrative, then write the legislation:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! #2026MMM
(With a hat-tip to the Dropkick Murphys)
The season's upon us, it's that time of year!
Science & carnage, there's battles to cheer,
there's twists to these plots
and there's stings to be stung,
there's research to do
and plenty of fun!
"wars can be lost before they are even declared if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle."
English speakers like "that was less political than I thought" lol they had ricky martin singing "dont do us like you did hawaii"
Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
I know the answer, but how do we have enough surveillance to block activists from getting TSA precheck but not to find Savannah Guthrie’s mom?
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted
In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia
You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge
Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old
dark times ahead. but we are going to win
While it may explain some of the context, this framing also hides that women scientists didn't cozy up to epstein the way men did. They also need funding, no? This is also about being part of a powerful boys club where one can act in despicable ways with impunity. Misogyny is a huge driving factor.
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
“Unfortunately, Liam is not the only child subjected to this treatment.
Let me be clear: this ruling does not erase the trauma inflicted on Liam or his family.”
Thank you for all your work lifting up this family, Rep. @crockett.house.gov.
rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!
liam and his dad are home!
and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
And I don’t want a single other tweet / skeet or post about Liam from an elected official
GO GET THAT CHILD OR GET OUT MY FACE
Not a movie from the classic era, but a favorite nonetheless, Catherine O'Hara with Eugene Levy (and Winky) in Best in Show (2000) 🖤
You just love more people than you hate, and I think that means you’re good. I think you’re good.
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
