Allister Beharry

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It is disheartening to see today that the strength of international law and humanitarian law no longer seems binding, replaced by the presumed right to overpower others. This is unworthy and shameful for humanity and for the leaders of nations.

@DaveShapi The stuff NotebookLM comes up with are just guides, not references. It will make mistakes. It's an amazing tool for getting started with some difficult subject and self-study but it's not a substitute for reading the sources.

NotebookLM is so effing broken. You can just casually upload 40 PDFs of research, easily a million words, and just generate a mind map of it all in less than 60 seconds.

@solipsism_2 @avidseries I don't disagree, there was a time when affirmative-action and similar stuff could be justified but it's long past that time now. You can't solve injustice by more injustice.

@avidseries That Americans who suffered long-term racial discrimination in the workplace are more likely to respond yes should indicate it doesn't show "rates of anti-white racism" The question is too ambiguous - how do you separate people who just want justice for past wrongs from racists?

@CheeseForEvery1 I don't think that at some unspecified time in the past universities were bastions of fairness and meritocracy and ideology-free objective knowledge and obviously practical learning. The flaws you see today were present in the 50's too, it's just different who has power now.

I value education a great deal, and my university has had for the most part very little tumult. But the future is bleak.

I feel down about my job for lots of reasons these days, but I think many were obviously in denial about the damage academia was doing to its own reputation that made it vulnerable to political attack.

@ggreenwald You are one of the best journalists in the business and you are being targeted by evil forces because of your fairness and integrity and talent. The world needs people like you, now more than ever.

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@MichaelMethexis @wil_da_beast630 You can't base normative statements on things we observe in nature. Any attempt will always contain hidden claims like 'more suffering is bad' or 'more sentient life is good' which, true or not, can't be derived from observing nature.

@allisterbeharry @wil_da_beast630 It’s not unmoored. You’re presenting a false dichotomy.

I'd go further: most of true progressive leftism is a neo-religious rebellion against natural reality. In a society where all people are literally equal by law, the vast majority of "patriarchy" (more women ID as psychological/sexual submissives, etc) comes down to human nature. So does most of "systemic racism," to the very limited extent that this exists at all.

@TheIvyExile @SohrabAhmari My issue is this admin seems to lack either the expertise or patience to try to fix the problems in public orgs and institutions. It cares only about scoring cheap political wins and is actively destroying a good number of public institutions Americans need.

@TheIvyExile @SohrabAhmari Any public org that wields power, be it police or public journalism, is gonna attract people with certain values and political beliefs and managing bias and fairness is always gonna be a challenge.

Defunding NPR is where I’m unapologetically DOGE Because I’ve been on the sharp end of their bias. A few years ago, an NPR affiliate ran a whole feature on how I’m such a bad, scary force on the New Right—with no chance for me to respond or sound counterpuntal notes. Fuck them

@TheIvyExile @SohrabAhmari Agree with most. Some of my best memories of American TV like Sesame Street or The NewsHour were from PBS and Frontline and other docs were always top-tier. Reform of the national news stuff would serve the national interest way better, but this admin chooses destruction mostly.

@allisterbeharry @SohrabAhmari In case you're interested, a piece I wrote about mending rather than ending PBS... substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://i…

@TheIvyExile @SohrabAhmari I don't personally doubt that NPR and even PBS have become more biased to one side over the years as EVERYTHING has become more biased and politicized, but the correct thing would be to just change the leadership or the people or structure.

@allisterbeharry @SohrabAhmari I started my career in PBS News, and came to believe that it was too systemically biased to merit public funding. I believe in public broadcasting and in sustaining PBS, but the news programming has got to go, perhaps to syndication or cable if private funding can be found.

@SohrabAhmari If you're gonna set policy though you have to objectively determine the benefits orgs like NPR and PBS bring to the American people. Is there any objective evidence to support the defunding of these orgs? pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/…

@allisterbeharry Well they can screw me journalistically without screwing me fiscally.

@SohrabAhmari @Gundisalvus "A 2016–2017 study by Nielsen Media Research found 80% of all US television households view the network's programs over the course of a year." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS

@SohrabAhmari @Gundisalvus "For the sixth consecutive year, a GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media poll shows Americans consider PBS the nation's most trusted institution among nationally known organizations and the best choice in children's programming for...." pbs.org/about/about-pb…

"Over a four-month period from November 2022 to February 2023, liberal Democratic guests on PBS NewsHour outnumbered conservative Republican guests 3.7 to 1." US public broadcasters dug their own graves. Must-read Mike Gonzalez (@Gundisalvus) unherd.com/2025/05/npr-an…

@mirkel @ZaidJilani ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user… "The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is extremely grave and rapidly deteriorating. • There is a strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas within the northern Gaza Strip"

@ZaidJilani The FRC is the ultimate authority on food security worldwide, and they have affirmed several times there is no famine in Gaza.

@ZaidJilani From the most recent IPC FRC update from November 2024: "There is a strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas within the northern Gaza Strip." ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user… He only mentions the FRC didn't agree with USAID's assertion of famine in May.