Keith O'Hara

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If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Joseph Weizenbaum in 1975: "The very asking of the question, 'What does a judge (or psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?' is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times." #ai

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."

Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?

this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...

So…not antisemitism.

RIP Ozzy.

Fun fact: Black Sabbath's first US show was at my (and Patti Smith's) alama mater, Glassboro State College (Rowan University).

My entire career is premised on the idea that people are smart enough to understand what I’m talking about if I’m smart enough to explain it clearly.

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Say what you will about Trump threatening to strip citizenship from his critics and have immigrants put into concentration camps in a swamp, but he never did anything truly power-mad like forgive student loans.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

I believe that there is an educators frequency. Just when you feel like an absolute useless sack of %#!? a former student finds you.

I was LIVID and pissed and exhausted and spoiling for a fight when this found me today.

Trump administration to end LGBTQ+-specific crisis hotline The Trevor Project, a leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group that works with the government to help administer the "Press 3" option, said the decision could have grave consequences.

The Trump admin is ending the LGBTQ+-specific national suicide and crisis hotline known as the “Press 3" option.

The Trevor Project, a leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group, warned that the decision could have grave consequences.

Tucker Carlson says Fox is a propaganda network that manipulates their mostly elderly audience.

Dispatch from Kingston, NY, where over 20% of the city population took to the streets to protest ⬇️

YouTube video by KSBW Action News 8 Senator Alex Padilla removed from Sec. Noem press conference

If you know about the very hands-on forced expulsion of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla from DHS press conference you need to watch it. Sure, a knucklehead standing on a burning car is a scary image. This is MUCH scarier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R42v...

Some thoughts on leaders at Bard College & Paulsboro High School

blog.drablab.org?p=1319

Pork rubbed.

Pork smoked.

Pork pulled.

Pork (Trump) roasted.

Good day of BBQ.

In like 1998, I opened a bank account at a place called Commerce Bank, which has since been acquired/renamed like 3 times. BUT, the email folder named COMMERCE still works. #itsthesmallthings

Waste, Fraud & ABUSE.

We found the waste, fraud and abuse: AGI. So dumb.

"JFC" is the correct response 💯

New shed roof.

Old shed roof

Next-level grading procrastination unlocked. New shed roof!

My wife just fell victim to an AI generated crochet pattern.

What hellscape have we wrought?

Same.

Interconnected - dress rehearsal

JJ might be my newest version of a version control system!

jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

$ meta-vcs log
rcs
cvs
svn
darcs
hg
git #yuck

$ meta-vcs new -m "jj"

The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king.

That’s it.

Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.

To be clear: it's still Waltz's fault he shouldn't have been using Signal for this!