Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor

What if I’m fighting Pennywise from It tho.

Boo.

JFC. So... I actually quote this dude VERY BRIEFLY in my book that is coming out and the thing that I quote is... true and accurate I think? But now I *really* wish I had found a different source.

FFS

omg @evanbernick.bsky.social I just looked up his publications and "When Should Governments Invest More in Nudging?". I'M DONE.

I might get in trouble here but... I am assuming this dude is white?

I need an explainer because I don't know the context or what these words mean lol. Should I mentally equate this with people who say increasing the minimum wage hurts low wage workers?

<Insert Ayatoll’d’ya so joke.>

I didn't know the author but I just googled him and the first phrases my eye saw on the screen were "Raised in a Christian covenant community" and then "Quillette" and I'M DONE

The Retreat from DEI: The Impact of Legal and Political Developments on DEI Language in U.S. Private Foundations Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, large private foundations in the United States widely adopted language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on their public-facing websites. In 2023, a series of legal and political developments began reversing the institutional pressures that had encouraged this adoption: first the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023), then state-level anti-DEI legislation, and culminating in President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 (2025). Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we constructed a longitudinal corpus of 3,612 archived web pages from thirteen large U.S. private foundations and tracked the frequency of sixty-seven DEI-related terms from 2019 to 2025. Among the nine foundations with data in both years, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicates a decline from 2023 to 2025 (one-sided p = .029, two-sided p = .059), with median usage falling approximately 40 percent. The decline was broad-based across many terms. These patterns are consistent with coercive isomorphism: the same process that drove widespread, convergent adoption of DEI language after 2020 now appears to be reversing it. The findings establish an empirical baseline for tracking how political pressure reshapes organizational communication about equity.

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1

2026 and we’re still fucking doing the Crusades.

Best example is where after two minor rounds of revision final reviewer holdout returned a report in a day. There’s no way it doesn’t say “all good”. Waiting for the editor to process it now. For two months.

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I have given up all hope lolcry. I have 12 papers submitted in various stages of just waiting for people to do things. Sometimes just push a single button. It has been months.

2026 and we’re still fucking doing the Crusades.

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The serenity prayer demands that I let go of the things I cannot change the change the things I can, which is why, starting today, I shall be spelling it "programme."

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Uh, if it helps, I'm going to view this skeet 20k times on my own. Apologies that that is all I have to offer. 😞

What a bunch of transparent, rank hypocrites.

(uh, we don't actually know each other so: that was sarcasm)

But Jake, I peeked at a skeet and stared at a graph for 0.03 seconds and distinctly noticed only two things. 👀

Purposely no, so I would interpret our results as a lower bound?

BTW one of my favorite parts of this is that if the foundations object to their empirical portrayal here, they can just speak up loud and clear and say “we love DEI!”

BTW one of my favorite parts of this is that if the foundations object to their empirical portrayal here, they can just speak up loud and clear and say “we love DEI!”

Yeah. TBH I don't know how y'all do it.

Also OBVIOUSLY I will never have a Guadagnini... and/but I have this instrument that I got for practically $0 in 1987 and it will never be worth anything because it has no label BUT MAN DOES IT MAKE A SOUND and i would never let that thing be unprotected.

What my mood actually looks like under my social anxiety

What my feet actually look like under a nice outfit.

BTW leave it to an upper middle class cis white man to advise on breaking the rules! <takes bow>