This Machine Isn’t Mad At You

This Machine Isn’t Mad At You

@joeava.bsky.social

Bearded dad and AP Euro / World History teacher. MA student - Transatlanticism, Political Ecology, Empire. New Jersey gavone. COYG.

1,216 Followers 604 Following 949 Posts Joined May 2023
4 hours ago
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I think OBAA and Sinners were both great

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7 hours ago

It’s a celebration for the nearly 1/3 of Americans who are the descendants of starving, poverty-stricken immigrants. I don’t know what to tell you if you can’t see how the current moment demands an acknowledgment of that.

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8 hours ago

Hey, I know this place is a bit of an echo chamber but just a reminder that if you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in any way and don’t want to abolish ICE you’re a fucking hypocrite.

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8 hours ago
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How Do You Satirize a Politician Who Is Already a Self-Parody? Like This. Newt Gingrich and I disagree on many things, from abortion and gay marriage to taxes to whether or not “people like me are what stand between us and...

RIP GingrichIdeas. One of my favorite early Twitter accounts:

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8 hours ago
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Newt’s still got his fastball.

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5 days ago
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

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1 day ago

you can make the case that iran has control over the situation now. its remarkable. im not sure we can get out of this. which just makes our incompetent regime all the more dangerous

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1 day ago
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a man with a beard says lisan al-gaib in white letters ALT: a man with a beard says lisan al-gaib in white letters

Max Dowman

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1 day ago

Lee Dixon is either incredibly dense or so worried about being perceived an Arsenal man that he’s deliberately obtuse.

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1 day ago
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Another gem from @citiesbydiana.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8qvrUCM/

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1 day ago

All I'm saying is absolutely no one should have impostor syndrome about anything. Trump doesn't know what he's doing, but, worse yet is that other people believed he knew what he was doing. Why would anyone think that. Don't know who's a bigger fool here, but I think it's Jim lol

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1 day ago

The strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

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1 day ago

The strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

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1 day ago

Touch grass, read a book, learn something, and get a grip. Social media isn’t life.

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1 day ago

Entire island has trolling posts about the impending US occupation of Kharg. Just confirms to me that a fundamental problem of American society is that people need to get a fucking life.

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1 day ago
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Nothing to worry about, everyone. Google Maps assures me the landings at Kharg have already happened without incident.

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2 days ago

The implication here is that a year of secret police crackdowns fueled by racial profiling have left thousands of sleeper agents unmolested, great stuff.

*FOX NEWS RADIO AIRS TRUMP INTERVIEW RECORDED ON THURSDAY
*TRUMP ON IRANIAN SLEEPER CELLS: THERE COULD BE MORE THAN 1,700

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4 days ago

Denial is powerful but reality is stronger.

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4 days ago

I believe he’s really and truly stepped in it this time. The only way is through and that way is pain.

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4 days ago

Oh word?

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4 days ago

There was grumbling about rationing and strike waves during World War II! The only way you get through this is through persuasion based on values.

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4 days ago

Beyond the fact that they’ve been extremely lazy in selling the American people on this war that’s also not a war — this is just not a winning message. Americans have hated this since the Jefferson administration.

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6 days ago

THIS IS INSANE

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6 days ago

So sorry but there’s no unfucking this chicken.

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6 days ago

"iran is going to keep trying to close the strait [which will drive insurance costs to unsustainable levels]" versus "no they aren't"

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6 days ago
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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

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1 week ago
Dr. Manhattan on Mars in the comic

It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.

It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.

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1 week ago

Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet.

It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.

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1 week ago

What's making me lose my mind is that Hegseth made a career out of defending American soldiers who committed war crimes, now is openly ordering war crimes and bragging about it, yet our media does not have headlines screaming "Sec Def is Ordering War Crimes."

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1 week ago

I’ve seen many objectively better hype up videos at college basketball and MLS games.

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