Caroline Wagner

"There are truths that can only be discovered through suffering or from the critical vantage point of exxtreme situations..." Father Martín-Baró

@vrundasays_ That is me to a T.

I need more examples of people in academia who haven't had a linear path at all and missed years on the way to PhD and still did their PhD. I don't wanna feel all isolated here 🫩

@RichardHanania I don't know you, but you have stated the essence of the moral crisis facing us. Ray Kurzweil is trying to live forever while most people lack food, water, and a life of purpose.

Heard Ezra Klein talking to Alex Bores about AI and whether it will put everyone out of a job and what we need to do about it. About 750 million people on earth don't have electricity. Can we at least get everyone electricity before we talk about the "end of work"? It seems like many intellectuals have completely lost sight of trying to help real life people who are a long way from any kind of "post-scarcity" existence. Just get everyone in Africa clean water and working light bulbs as a first step and then maybe we can worry about technology creating *too much* prosperity. We've lost the plot.

@MAGACult2 Sorry to say, this is the reality we deal with...

We had this guy on the bench all along?!?!! Dems, this is our candidate!

China leads the world in chemical research. What does this mean for industry worldwide? chemistryworld.com/news/china-dom…

@iluminatibot @grok what evidence exists that the CIA murdered Kennedy?

RON PAUL: “There’s been a coup. We don’t have any resemblance to a government that believes in a republic. We don’t have honest money. We don’t have integrity. We don’t even have people in Washington who even pretend… to tell the truth.” “[I believe the coup began on] November 22, 1963.” IAN CROSSLAND: “What happened on that day?” RON PAUL: “That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government. You know, by the CIA.”

@jaredrhoads Who pays the fees?

Hear me out: Common App, but for submitting manuscripts to journals. (Submit one place. Journals claim. Authors have 12 hours to accept or hold out.)

@JamesWHankins1 Some truth here... student evaluation of instruction in particular undermines the entire HE system...

An often overlooked factor is the enormous cost of higher education in the US, which encourages students to think of themselves as purchasers of a luxury credential. It’s intolerable to them that university authorities can cheapen the value of their degree by giving them anything less than an ‘A’.

@FurkanGozukara 🙏

A prominent retired US General drops a truth bomb on MS Now. Mark Hertling confirms military commanders are actively preparing to defy Donald Trump. They are bound by the Constitution to disobey unlawful orders to bomb Iranian civilians. A military revolt is brewing.

@ubi_works American Indians on reservations have basic income. It has not worked out well for their culture.

Author of Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber said basic income unleashes human creativity and innovation, which both the left and right can support. Instead, we're held back by bullshit jobs. The next John Lennon “is lifting boxes in some department store as welfare conditionality”.

@InterstellarUAP @grok is this a fake video

🚨 MARCO RUBIO UFO BOMBSHELL: "We shot down FOUR things over the United States... and THREE of them we have NO IDEA what they are”👽🛸 "For the first time in 65 years, the United States shot something down over our airspace not once but four times. Three of those four things we have no idea what they are." "We've been seeing objects flying over restricted airspace... immediately it was about UFOs and flying saucers and aliens." "These are important questions... the American people deserve to know." Is this real UFO/alien disclosure... or advanced foreign tech sneaking into our skies? 🔥 Watch the full clip and drop your take below 👇 Aliens? Adversaries? Or finally telling us the truth!

@maddenifico So what should we do?

I agree with renowned historian Timothy Snyder. Trump is going to stage a coup. As Snyder explains, Trump's proposed 50% defense budget increase should be seen as nothing short of a bribe to secure military loyalty for a coup attempt — and that a staged domestic terror attack is Trump's best remaining path to nullifying elections. Pete Hegseth's recent firing of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George is more evidence that the fascist authoritarian Trump regime is more interested in loyalty than competence. If the 79-year-old pedophile psychopath is to succeed in conning the US Armed Forces into supporting him in overthrowing American democracy and the constitution, his only chance is to have quislings and sycophants throughout the top brass in the military.

Another way to get back to the Stone Age: defund the source of your prosperity and technology.

@GeauxGabrielle I have been speaking and writing about this non-stop.

The number one election issue for me is the sciences. And not a soul is speaking about it. The brain drain aside, this country will fade into nothingness without a robust scientific workforce. They have eliminated student loans for doctors. Capped at $200K TOTAL. NIH grants will not eliminate SCHOLARSHIPS like the Kirchstein fellowship which was helping fund doctors and scientists. We are deporting and banning outside scientists. They want this country stupid, sick, and ignorant

@RachelBitecofer Boomers were the ones who desegrated and deracinated the workplace.

Bc that’s 1st generation of men that had to share with women and minorities

@newstart_2024 He really does not understand economics.

Rory Sutherland drops a sharp observation about the double-income trap that a lot of people quietly feel but rarely say out loud. It started as a nice option: two salaries, more money, better life. But over time it became something else. House prices rose to absorb the extra income. Governments collected more tax. Homeowners got richer. And the typical double-income household? They gained a bit more stuff… but lost around 35 hours of discretionary time every week. What began as freedom quietly turned into an obligation. Now even high-earning single professionals (like hospital consultants) often struggle to afford a decent place to live on one income. Raising kids on a single salary — something that was possible for working-class families a generation ago — has become much harder. Sutherland’s point lands hard: what looked like progress for families ended up benefiting governments and existing homeowners far more than the people actually living it. It makes you wonder how many “lifestyle upgrades” in modern life are actually traps in disguise. Have you seen this shift in your own life or circle — where two incomes went from advantage to necessity?

China now tops the U.S. in R&D spending by one key measure | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

@hashjenni Congress.

For heavens sake, people in the US. We've all had enough. Surely there's something in your bloody Constitution about getting rid of a president so dangerous and destructive?

@juliankissa People could find purpose in helping the poor, sick and needy…

Peter Diamandis just warned why humanity could collapse in this new age of AI abundance. In the 1960s, a scientist created an experiment where they built the perfect city for rats. They had everything they needed: • Unlimited food • Unlimited space • Unlimited activities The population exploded and they were thriving. Then suddenly the society started to break down. • Babies started dying at birth • Mothers abandoned their young • A group of males called "the beautiful ones" withdrew completely and just groomed themselves in corners Eventually, the population plummeted and the society fell apart. There was no disease wiping them out, no predators hunting them nor was there famine, so what caused it? He believes it was because they had nothing left to struggle for. Diamandis hints this might be where humanity is heading. Just like the rats, we live in a society where everything is handed to us and we have massive abundance, especially of information. And companies using AI are about to amplify it by creating more content for us to read, watch and scroll through. That's why he believes there are only two possible futures for humanity in this age: 1) The Wall-E Future People are fat, passive, and consuming endlessly with no purpose. 2) The Star Trek Future People create new challenges for themselves and solve it with the help of AI. Build cities on the moon. Explore the universe. Push the boundaries of what's possible. The difference comes down to purpose. Humans need a reason to keep going that wakes us up every morning. Without that, abundance just destroys us. — Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis), Exec. Chairman at @XPRIZE @fountainlife_hq (and more)

@newstart_2024 in order to grow, the economy needed workers... thousands of educated women un- or underemployed were drafted into the workworld. No one accounted for the children left home alone.

Rory Sutherland made a quietly devastating observation about one of the biggest societal shifts of the last 50 years. He said the move to the double-income household started as an option but quickly became an obligation. The big winners? Governments (twice as many people to tax) and property owners (now two salaries were needed to buy a house). The big loser? The family itself, which lost roughly 35 hours of discretionary leisure time per week — with no real increase in living standards, because the extra money was largely soaked up by higher house prices and taxes. It’s a classic example of how something that begins as liberation can quietly turn into a new form of constraint. Longitudinal studies on happiness and time use (including data from the American Time Use Survey and OECD reports) show that the sharp rise in dual-earner households correlated with stagnant or declining leisure time for families, while subjective well-being metrics for parents have not risen in line with the additional income — supporting the idea that much of the gain was captured by housing costs and taxation rather than improved quality of life. It’s a reminder to look carefully at changes that society presents as inevitable progress. What do you think — has the double-income model delivered more freedom or more pressure for most families?