Kevin Barron

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

This blog post by @davekarpf.bsky.social is really worth reading and reflecting upon.

YouTube video by CNBC Television 'Stand your butt up': GOP Sen. Mullin challenges Teamsters boss to fight at Senate hearing

Yup.

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Can see now why he has been chosen. Cage matches coming to senate & congress.

It is the claim of every nationalism that it isn't like other nationalisms. All nationalisms posit themselves via an exceptionalist thinking of what being human means. It reifies and exceptionalizes the "we," and in so doing it puts under erasure all the violence of that "we."

Giving new meaning to “We will Rock you”

Exactly this!
But of course, the idea is that it’s always best to bury the truth in order to keep manipulating public opinion and thereby maintain control.

Operation Epic Furry

Nah, what they lack in experience, they make up for with Epic Furry… or something.

OTOH, sending Melania “I dont care” to the UN seems outrageus yet somehow appropriate.

Thou Shalt Not Try to Start Armageddon Stop it.

“If you see or hear anyone saying that God supports Operation Epstein Fury so that Jesus can come back, you have God’s permission to absolutely lose your shit on them.”

I’ll let @ontopunk.bsky.social say more about Backloop itself, but running on substack has several limitations and isn’t fit for purpose (roughly speaking, building an expansive archive of material and conversations on collapse and regeneration).

Exit Interview One Year Since I Lost My NOAA Job

“But the quiet wisdom—why a buoy was placed in a particular channel, which coastal mayor to call before a storm makes landfall, how to interpret an anomaly because you saw its precursor 20 years ago—resides in people. When they leave en masse, the structure stands, but the inheritance falters.”

‘We’ll run out of food this week’: Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis

Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza,
threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis
@djrothkopf.bsky.social @joannacoles.bsky.social @donlemonofficial.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social @scaramucci.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Wonderful - Thanks!!
@semble.so looks particularly intriguing for what @ontopunk.bsky.social and I are doing with Backloop.

Woke up to a dozen messages of friends in Beirut saying Israel bombed

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No, I didn’t build this site, but props to those who did:

Bingo

And our combat troops are just “suckers and losers” according to the grifter in chief.

Precisely.

@mzjacobson.bsky.social instead of never-ending school funding issues, why not use all available rooftops, k-12 plus uni, to place solar panels?

Serious question: how would you design (or suggest design changes) for social media to work better?

That, and the way we have moved from conversations to solo performances. Like shock-jock radio and techBro podcasts, the emphasis shifts from communication to broadcast.

The largest grift on the planet. Of course this criminal regime wants to wield it for their personal enrichment.

This is when you are glad to realize that “the future is here - just unevenly distributed” @williamgibson.bsky.social

Never dabbled with the Xitter, but it does seem that the nuclear block option here on Bluski has created a sense of drive-by poasting.

Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN ••• I hope you aren't drunk and took your staff's advice, Rashida and I don't know this man and feel confident he didn't care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self, Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace • 6h My heart goes out to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib tonight. Sending them thoughts and prayers.

Make responding like this the new standard for opposition to conservatives please

Strike on Iranian primary school kills 148, authorities say Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation

The death toll rises and two realities collide: imagine headlines if 148 schoolgirls were massacred in New York, London or Paris. After this and Palestine, the asymmetry of grief in our so-called world order is brutal and impossible to unsee.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

I prefer not!

Oh, *that* Barron. Sure, I can get behind that.

I prefer not!

Oh, *that* Barron. Sure, I can get behind that.