Wendy Orent

I find it frustrating the way discussions of Ashkenormativity inevitably lead to this posture of “Ashkenazi bad” instead of the correct “Ashkenazi one of several equally lovely ways to be Jewish”

Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — the Black voice is too often invited in only to be pushed out when it dares to speak of the nation’s truths. Attiah, the Post’s only Black female opinion writer, said she was ...

“The absence of Black journalists doesn’t just harm us, it impoverishes the entire profession,” NABJ President Errin Haines declared. “When our voices are missing, stories go untold, perspectives go unchallenged, and the truth remains incomplete.”
blackpressusa.com/pew-finds-ju...

My user name is--my name.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to remind you that resistance is not futile. And if this was a targeted action, Elon helped steal the data and build the surveillance system that makes this bullshit possible. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

It would scare the shit out of me.

I find it hard to believe, but appalling if it’s true.

Not a Sexual Matador? You don’t say!

What a wildly dysfunctional family! Paloma is the daughter who died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after rejecting chemotherapy in favor of "juices & coffee enemas." Gabriel is her twin brother, on a quest to avenge her death... against his conspiracy-promoting mom & dad.

I’m
sure they just gave her another pastrami sandwich.

I think Kamala Harris should be the next AG when we get the acceptable (to other people) white guy President. (she’s my choice but too much sexism in the US.) Then she can prosecute Miller et al for multiple crimes against humanity. Can’t wait. No Garland she!

This is what happens when education is underfunded for decades.

Yom Kippur and the Manchester murders remind me too horribly of October 7th. Where are all the artists and actors speaking out against the slaughter of innocents, which they put all on Israeli’s head? Has even I e come out to say, wait a minute, this isn’t resistance, it’s the open murder of Jews?

Stephen Miller is a troll, all right. The kind who lives under a bridge and would scare the bejesus out of any normal human being.

Sooo…what I’m wondering is what goes on in Stephen Miller’s head? How does someone-anyone-hate as much as he does?
And how did anyone so lacking in charisma, so palpably loathsome, ever get put in a position of power?

Thank you!😂

Part of same thing "it seems like in humans consciousness just appeared when sufficiently complex systems. So you can't rule it out for LLMs"

Yes we can. The way it makes mistakes is exactly indicative of nonconciousness.
Of a lack of any sense of comprehension of its inputs.
And of self awareness.

I thought this guy was permanently canceled.

The Sexual Matador Speaks

The actual issue before us — which is very simple & clear — is that you are masterminding a police state for your overlord & classifying opponents as “terrorists” & in the process destroying the Constitution & a free society.

Jew to Jew, Stephen, you’re a complete piece of shit.

I asked a simple question at a pro-Palestine protest and it turned ugly Police arrested 493 people at the pro-Palestine protests in Trafalgar Square, where I encountered abuse, swearing, ignorance and virulent, unthinking antisemitism

Matthew Syed, braver than me, asked Palestine activists "Who do you blame for what is unfolding in Gaza? Do you think Hamas bears any responsibility?".

These aren't peace marches but pro-war marches, feeding our far right.

www.thetimes.com/article/650a...

Sad that this still needs repeating.
#antisemitism #Manchester
@faniaoz-salzberger.bsky.social

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

It's true. Filling the streets day after day does tend to scare the shit out of career politicians.

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

Light blue background. Young woman with dark hair makes a sign of strength with her arm and she has a vaccine bandaid on her upper arm. It says "The HPV Vaccine Works!"

The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised.
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS

h/t @boghuma.bsky.social

#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪

Quite right. But despite the allusion i wasn’t hoping for martyrdom but impeachment.

Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science

“framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents who must be overcome”

An interesting thesis and suggestion of a solution

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... 🎁

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done! The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

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