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Hallo aus Deutschland. Ich bleibe zu Hause.

Bonn, Germany Katılım Şubat 2019
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@JacobAShell The idea is to explicitly teach dumb kids one of the ways that smart kids play inwardly.
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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
Yes but I very much doubt this is the one “correct” mental process…seems like this is a way to get dumb kids to do something besides just memorize, but at cost of smart kids being allowed to do it in their own inwardly playful way.
Shirtless in Seattle@drocto

@JacobAShell I suppose it's about borrowing from one integer to get the other to 10. 8+9+(2-2) = (8+2)+(9-2) = 10 + 7 = 17 This is what we do ex-memorization to add 8+9 in our head, really.

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@ijbailey It’s not segregation to provide space for him onsite to be comfortable - instead he left after 25 mins because he was so uncomfortable in the bad situation. Thats clearly the wrong choice.
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@joelwatsonfish Self-deception is another issue, especially in social sciences. Will people use these tools to rationalize their preexisting beliefs? Anyone can easily generate a research paper that “proves” what they already believe. Will there be any intellectual dialectic? Or various silos?
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Joel Fish@joelwatsonfish·
Part of the slop problem. I'm not convinced that lean-checked proofs are the answer either. (At least not for a while.) Ultimately, I think the only way out is the development of a human-level layer of trust/understanding. This well could be the way university math research stays (financially) viable.
Arthur Spirling@arthur_spirling

@alexolegimas This point- it is extremely hard for humans to verify, but it could well be wrong- is something that will be everywhere in AI-assisted science soon. Needs urgent attention!

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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@pegobry_en The British people are the problem. Some crowns aren’t worth it. Leopold turned down the Greeks before accepting the Belgian throne
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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@feelsdesperate Then all they remember is that you were “bad” for disagreeing with them
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Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate·
These people will scream at you that you’re a moral leper, for years, decades even, right up to the millisecond they realize, ‘Gee, that’s actually right,’ at which point the belief instantaneously becomes reasonable to have.
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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
Alberta’s borders would make for a very awkward unaesthetic extension of the US.
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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@WombsNotForRent “Ironically”, your callousness to a traumatized woman like Louise Thompson proves her point. She suffered a medical trauma that took away her ability to have another child and now she’s no longer good enough for your compassion.
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StopSurrogacyNowUK@WombsNotForRent·
Ironically, 'opting' for #surrogacy does make you 'less' human in a sense, if you selfishly seek to justify exploiting another human being, a woman, to meet your own desires. Our moral compass is what makes us human. Where it points to shows what kind of person you are.
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StopSurrogacyNowUK@WombsNotForRent·
Women who cannot have children (or another child) are not ‘less human’ and if IVF and/or societal pressures are responsible for this then we really need to start talking about that. The solution is not using another woman’s body to make you feel ‘whole'. dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti…
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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@SocialNomadRach I think poor people should be ready to accept their crosses if they’re definitively unemployable
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@joelwatsonfish A given professor’s academic freedom is policed by fellow faculty holding them to disciplinary standards. Classroom neutrality *should* be a disciplinary standard. And if faculty won’t hold each other accountable, then they collectively shd lose their rights to academic freedom.
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Joel Fish@joelwatsonfish·
Honestly though, I'm not sure how much classroom activism there has been, and I'm not sure if "classroom neutrality" is enforceable given the protections of academic freedom.
The Harvard Crimson@thecrimson

NEW: Harvard President Alan Garber said the University “went wrong” by allowing faculty activism in the classroom, arguing professors’ political views have chilled free speech and debate on campus. @EliseSpenner and @HugoChiassonn report. thecrimson.com/article/2026/1…

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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@captgouda24 If a doctor tells a patient a procedure is medically indicated or necessary or “life-saving”, yes they are liable for malpractice.
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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@joelwatsonfish I wouldn’t mind if AI researchers paid me to read their papers. Sounds lucrative
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Joel Fish@joelwatsonfish·
@DeutschPlc Well, when there is money on the line, there is incentive to read the paper. :)
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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@wesyang He commited suicide right after murdering the MIT prof. They would have found his body in the self-storage eventually.
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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@JacobAShell The “rufo threat” is just internalized oppression from DAW. Claiming that “GOP would pounce” if internal self-crit was allowed was a key tactic to policing dissent.
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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
It was hard throughout the 10s for liberals and progs inside the institution to voice any critiques or reservations they had about DEI...this was long before the rise of Christopher Rufo! DAW's sense of chronology is upside down.
David Austin Walsh@DavidAstinWalsh

@christopherrufo I've said it before and I'll say it again, paisano -- one of the reasons *why* it's impossible to talk openly and honestly about this stuff is that guys like you want to use this as a pretext to purge academia of minorities and women writ large, and I'm not in favor of that!

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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@JacobAShell I think it’s an international phenomenon. Europeans are intensely focused on US politics as well.
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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
This has happened simultaneous with the left leadership having increasingly formidable international connections, e.g. Mamdani w Uganda and India, Omar with Somalia, etc. So why has their discourse become so stubbornly provincial?
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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
It's been noted elsewhere that, at some point during 2010s, the US left did a pivot from being interested in world as a whole to only US domestic issues. Non-US issues now only on the left's radar insofar as they can be linked to US red-vs-blue format, e.g. Takaichi is "bad because she's their Trump" or Sánchez "good because he's their AOC." Some new knowledge about Middle East has come through the left's cycle (I think temporarily) bc of Gaza and the left sees Gaza War in strictly US-centric terms. But Africa? Southeast Asia? The ethnic-minority periphery of China? Central Asia? Something about India which doesn't boil down to "Modi is their Trump, you see"? These days I feel like I only hear about these places from people who've tuned out politics altogether; or who have vaguely right/trad-leaning political sensibility.
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell

The left wrote about this topic a lot until the pandemic, spent early Biden 100% preoccuped with domestic--trying to meme Biden into being second coming of FDR--and only diverted attention to foreign pol for Gaza.

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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
My experience is that while incentives from classroom dynamics are shifting, incentives from uni admin, grant system, and publishers are the same as 5-plus years ago.
Joseph Miller@dysangelistes

@JacobAShell Yes. They just want to keep pushing, in fact, and our position of permanent inferiority means that we have very little institutional weight against them.

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Keith Orejel@keithdorejel·
Yes honorifics are silly and pretentious and hierarchical. But if you’re making the argument that PhDs don’t get them but medical doctors and judges and politicians do then you aren’t opposed to honorifics you just hate academics.
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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@JacobAShell A Millennial who acts in his own political interest? I’ll believe it when I see it
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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
A prediction I have about Zohran. I don't think it's going to be "rule by NGOs" and in the near-medium future we're going to remember NGOcracy as a distinctly Obamoid center-left vice, not a socialist one. Bookmark this and dunk on me if I turn out to be wrong.
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell

@CentipedeMouse I think he'll back off from "open border New York" bc unlike an Obama-style center-left progressive he's not going to outsource authority to random NGOs. He'll realize "open borders" is bad for his authority.

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plcDeutsch@DeutschPlc·
@JacobAShell Does fortune favor the bold? Can a small clique fill the vacuum and aggressively impose a new paradigm?
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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
Many in academia today sense the lack of a big organizing shared metapolitical project or ethos or intellectual mania. For 30 years there was unbroken chain of these: Postmodernism, the Crash and critique of big finance, Climate and the "sixth extinction", intersectionality and the "Resistance", more Climate. But today...I don't hear a thing.
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