Nathan Alexander

The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography | Department of History In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial fra...

There is a good book about this (though maybe it's a bit dated now and there are newer works too...)

history.stanford.edu/publications...

This is a brilliant article by Cory Doctorow on the AI bubble

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Worth noting that what Walsh is citing here isn't just the idea of IQ—it's the much more egregious "national IQ" data from Richard Lynn, something several colleagues and I wrote about last year for STAT News

I read this book earlier in the year. I never really knew much about the murders, but now, whenever I hear about Jack the Ripper, etc., I realize how deeply entrenched the myths are (e.g., the women were all prostitutes).

This is nuts

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI”

Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

It was purely by accident if he has haha

Oh no, Wayne Gretzky botching all of these names 😭

#WorldCupDraw

Consider yourself fortunate haha

I knew they would try to stretch it out a bit, but this is obscene

There might be another dictator that they need to flatter though...

This is probably the worst thing I've ever seen... 🤮

#worldcupdraw

The AI bubble can't pop soon enough...

If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.

Sort of reminds me of this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk...

Pale, desiccated, shrivelled, never even *known* moisture let alone retained any, and the turkey looks like shit too

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

An AI bot agitated you to such an extent that you raised your voice. You then suggested your comment be added to the AI's dataset, while also indicating the AI possessed a head that was actually a penis.

I feel like one unfortunate feature of social media in the past 5-10 years is that the threshold for someone to be "garbage, "trash," "a horrible person," etc., etc., is now... we agree on 95% of things but I have some minor policy disagreements with them

Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID

DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.

Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.

Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.

Huge if true

YouTube video by Sentientism Peter Singer - Consider The Turkey Then Pardon Them All - Sentientism 218

Consider Each Turkey youtu.be/vZ0fUKtNPEs

Wait a second, does this mean that all of the beautiful women who have contacted me on here claiming to find my profile intriguing and wishing to be friends are also fake???

I wonder this too. It was quite strange...

There’s never been a better use of this meme in meme history. 😅

That's true. There is definitely a contingent of people who will never get tired of hearing the same stuff over and over

I just don't think most Canadians care enough about this culture war stuff for it to be a viable strategy for Conservatives, or at least I hope so anyway

A (long-ish) health update:

TLDR: I have cancer but I’m doing well overall haha.

To recap, I was diagnosed with stage-four colorectal cancer this past July. I’ve now done over three months of chemotherapy. I’m feeling much better than before I started!

Thank you!!