Stentor Danielson

This. Stop anthropomorphizing the tech.

January: Conservatives lose their shit because Bad Bunny said that "America" can refer to the whole Western Hemisphere, not just the USA.

March: Trump announces some sort of security thing for the whole Western Hemisphere called "Shield of the Americas."

None of my grandparents would approve of the positions I'd take as a congressional candidate. One grandfather wouldn't let me park in front of his house because he didn't want the neighbors to see the ACLU bumper sticker I had.

Grandpas were a dairy farmer and a bank manager.

One grandma was a church organist, the other ran a business making sewing patterns.

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

🐳🎵 stop reposting accounts that don't source their infooo 🎵 🐳

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.

It's especially important to be skeptical of viral stories that perfectly validate your worldview and prove just how blatantly horrible the bad guys are. Christian Nationalism is a serious problem but that doesn't make every story about CN true. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...

it would be great if christians would stop using “throwing the money changers out of the temple” as their go-to anti-corruption metaphor in light of *waves hands frantically*

1. Actual humans spend decades crafting Wikipedia articles driven by love of knowledge

2. AI companies hoover up Wikipedia content to train their models

3. The models shit hallucinated slop all over Wikipedia, degrading its reliability

What a great system.

Phillips: We need to stop stigmatizing this condition.

Everyone in the replies: Let's stigmatize someone I hate by accusing him of having this condition.

The Star Wars universe is chock full of humans, but the only animals we ever see are alien ones.

Squirrel Hill Lunar New Year parade canceled amid fears of ICE in Pittsburgh’s Asian community In lieu of the public event, organizers invite residents to write their New Year’s wishes on red tags, and tie them on trees throughout the neighborhood.

Abolish ICE www.wesa.fm/identity-com...

My students are working on creating critiques of the "Gates Memo" about climate change, and they are having a raucous good time ripping into him for putting faith in AI.

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

He's a great communicator *and you fell for his bullshit*!

Communication is a skill, and it can be used for evil purposes like convincing people that a military contractor with with a Nazi tattoo is a leftist savior.

Evangelicalism is intellectually vapid, with not a shred of logical or historical justification, and that's the point. It's a big "fuck you" to anyone who thinks you should have a better justification for your actions than raw hatred.

... all the sexism, racism, transphobia, ableism, and general unrestrained violence and hatred against the Other that you could want. Want to indulge the frisson of hypocrisy as you falsely accuse others of your own favorite crimes? Come on down to your local megachurch!

Evangelicals like to say that people leave the church because they "just want to sin." This is straightforward projection, because people join evangelical churches specifically in order to sin.

Evangelicalism's whole appeal is that it provides an intellectual excuse, and social support, for ...

Somehow I have to set aside the illegal wars, the kidnapping and killing of brown people, the dismantling of public health systems, and the campaign of extermination against trans people, in order to focus on prepping a lesson about rushing headlong into the existential threat of climate change.

Electrical equipment with a worn out sticker that says "Snowmobilers for Bush '04"

Flashback to a forgotten era.

We have to start telling centrists "oh you want minor reforms that don't challenge the fundamental structure of society? Well I'd like a unicorn. We can't always get what we want, so you're going to have to settle for radical social change."

PS I don't recommend officially filing to run for president if you're not serious about it -- there's a lot of paperwork and the FEC doesn't care if your candidacy is a joke or not. ballotpedia.org/Stentor_Dani...

I am sadly related to some of our worst actual presidents -- Franklin Pierce and George W. Bush -- through the more-distant-immigrant branch of my family tree, so I guess I could run to redeem the Pierce clan's honor.

As someone who legally ran for president, I need to know how we're calculating this -- is having one foreign-born great-grandparent enough to disqualify you, or is having one US-born great-grandparent sufficient? Or are we taking some sort of average of your family tree?

Lots of supposed liberals/leftists have insisted that trans people stop fighting for our rights because "kitchen table issues" or whatever.

What we're seeing in Kansas right now is the natural outcome of you throwing us under the bus.

Fix your hearts.

Weird to call these "Dem structural reforms" since none of them are being pushed by the Democratic party.

(I'd venture to say that "Dem structural reform" is an oxymoron since a core element of Dem philosophy is refusing to consider any structural reforms.)

I've thought about this speech practically every day since Trump's first election. (Though I don't think it's at all unusual for Tolkien to be relevant.)

Florida Hands Down Sociology Curriculum to State Colleges The sociology curriculum is likely just the state’s first foray into course development; the Florida Department of Education is already working on a similar framework for American history classes.

Link in the first post might be messed up, try this one: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Solidarity to all of the sociologists in Florida who have to figure out how to keep both their jobs and their consciences.

All of the forbidden topics are ones I teach in my own classes. Or at least I teach things that right wingers would interpret as forbidden -- I have no illusions about being able to "well technically" my way out of a wrongthink charge.