Monica Gonzalez-Marquez

Does anyone here have a background in conceptual engineering?

Very intrigued by the ideas in this paper:

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/philosophy-as-conceptual-engineering

and wondering if that might be a good frame to understand what we are trying to do with our Heliocentric Model […]

responsible headline (and possible excellent news) […]

Gavin Newsom launches portal to report ICE agents who ‘abuse authority’ in California Golden State officials said the tool would help push back against a ‘campaign of terror’ by Trump administration

Gavin Newsom launches portal for California residents to snitch on federal agents who ‘abuse their authority’ | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gavin-newsom-california-ice-agents-illegal-b2877676.html

I'm not gonna say Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, deserved to die. If you really think about it: no one deserves to die.

However, if you turn a profit off of algorithmically denying people the necessary medical care they need to survive, then you've made a decision about who deserves […]

@realscientists.de because it’s people who comprise a journal, and people can be fooled.

A WHO graphic showing close-up hands making the “finger heart” gesture. A woman smiles softly in the blurred background. Text on the right reads: “EVERY ACTION COUNTS. 90% GIRLS VACCINATED. 70% WOMEN SCREENED. 90% TREATED BY 2030.”

#CervicalCancer could be the first cancer EVER in the world to be eliminated, if:

9️⃣0️⃣% of girls are vaccinated
7️⃣0️⃣% of women are screened
9️⃣0️⃣% of women with cervical cancer receive treatment

Learn more: bit.ly/47GIbzd #EndCervicalCancer

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or […]

Salon: Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism.

(Aka: men’s loneliness is extremely profitable)

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/17/dont-blame-women-for-mens-loneliness-blame-capitalism/

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Yikes!!! For anyone wanting a job at Mercor:

#SheikhHasina, the ousted PM of #Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of #CrimesAgainstHumanity for the violent suppression of #student #protests last year that led to the collapse of her govt.
A panel of 3 judges from the International Crimes Tribunal (#ICT) […]

@brembs stay safe

Sparks fly up Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.

@bonfire is doing some of the most interesting work on the open social internet, and they're doing it in the most exhilarating ways. I am delighted to be even a little bit involved in the work they have planned:

https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

The Democrats who engineered and/or voted for the odious shutdown deal are even more cowardly and reckless than anyone could have imagined. See this:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/shutdown-deal-would-let-senators-sue-over-jack-smith-searches

THIS 👉🏻 "Wikipedia has proven itself to be incredibly resilient because it is a project that specifically leans into the shared wisdom and collaboration of humanity, our shared weirdness and ways of processing information." - @jasonkoebler

Let's keep the web weird and wonderful and human!

From […]

To believe that #Musk is worth his trillion dollar salary, one must believe that he adds more value for #Tesla's shareholders than ten million employees each paid one hundred thousand dollars could.

Do you believe that? Does anyone?

The Future of Scientific Code in the Era of Generative AI - Elle O'Brien
https://youtu.be/i_Op27piQis?si=uNWTnH1BUXEETc1_

IDK who needs to hear this but the president of the United States of America is appealing a judge's order forcing him to fully fund snap. Yes - djt is appealing a ruling telling him to not starve his own people. Let that simmer.

This is posted by Patton Oswalt and I'm just really sick of the fact that we have to explain this to people on the Right, who will then try to argue that it's necessary & a good thing.

@sennoma read something here recently about how if we were more comfortable speaking ill of the dead, maybe the living wouldn’t be such assholes …

Post from Jie (they/them) Seeing the absurd electricity usage by AI after growing up in the 90's surrounded by campaigns telling us not to leave the lights on when we leave the room, to save power and help the environment ... like ... I cannot begin to explain how much this breaks my brain.

For me it's even worse, because i not only got that in the 90's, i also grew up in the 70's during the oil crisis. Speed limits were lowered to 55 mph to save gas, fuel efficiency standards were first introduced, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed […]

[Original post on chaosfem.tw]

@sennoma sounds delicious. Rather like a variation on sauerkraut on white pizza 😊

Harry S. Truman socialism is a scare word

@muellershewrote.com

Trump and his thug regime also have lists.

It's why I said to please remember this.

Every week, German officials reviewed records, searching for "undesirables." Jews. Political dissidents. The educated. The disabled.

Anyone deemed useless to the Reich and/or in the way.

It's a remarkable story, this one of a Polish country doctor at that time in history, and the only reason I am bringing it up is because of this:

We are all Dr. Lazowski right now.

We are all watching people in our communities being taken, forced into unmarked vehicles, and disappeared.

From a friend here, if you're wondering why what the GOP is really saying: "no food stamps until you agree to no insurance"

"Yesterday we got a letter in the mail saying that our insurance in 2026 is going from $226/month to $2984/month. Let that sink in. More than our rent."

#politics

Screenshot from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zohran_Mamdani&oldid=1320519259 (current as of November 4, 2025) Mamdani's campaign platform has been considered by outlets to be similar to the policies pursued by former New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia and former U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[91][92] The German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle classifies Mamdani's policies as being on the center-left of the global political spectrum.[93] This is unusual in the United States, as the 1950s Second Red Scare and the 1990s Democratic Pivot towards centrist neoliberalism occurred, which shifted the overton window of American politics significantly to the right compared to almost any other liberal democracies, and led national politics to being generally restricted between centrists and the hard right.[93] While misinformation has spread during the 2025 New York mayoral race calling his policies radical or communist, there is a consensus among political scientists that his policies are similar to those pursued by mainstream center-left parties in other developed democracies.[93] Mamdani identifies as being within the democratic socialist tradition.[51][94] He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[60][71] Mamdani has also been called a progressive.[68]

Gee, I wonder why billionaires want to control the encyclopedia.

(Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)

#ICE Shot a #US #Citizen Trying to Help #Kids

According to his lawyer, #immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that #children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

#Trump #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality […]

Ich habe die Nase voll…

ICH BIN ES LEID..... zu lesen, dass unsere geflüchteten Mitmenschen ein Problem seien. zu lesen, dass wieder Menschen an der Grenze abgewiesen wurden. zu lesen, dass es an vielen Grenzen Pushbacks gibt. zu hören, dass wieder Menschen im Mittelmeer ertrunken sind und […]

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NRW spart – du zahlst mit deiner Zukunft Demo & Kundgebung gegen Hochschulkürzungen Mi., 05.11. Düsseldorf Demo ab 13 Uhr Kundgebung ab 15 Uhr Komm zur Demo – gemeinsam für bessere Bildung! Logos: Schlussverkauf Bildung, AStA Uni Bielefeld, LAT NRW, Bielefeld Unkürzbar, genug gekürzt

NRW cuts back – you pay with your future Protest & rally against university fundig cuts …

Habe mich gefreut, heute in der #UniBielefeld diese Plakate zu sehen.

Die Demo ist am 5.11. ab 13 Uhr vor dem Landtag in #Düsseldorf.

Vorsicht: Der QR-Code führt zu Whatsapp.

#SchlussverkaufBildung #GenugGekürzt #NRW #Bildung #Hochschulbildung #Bildungsmisere