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OpposingViews Tim

@OpposingViews

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

United States of America شامل ہوئے Eylül 2008
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OSINTdefender
OSINTdefender@sentdefender·
Two killed in Ramat Gan as a result of tonight’s Iranian ballistic missile attack against Central Israel.
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@OpposingViews @JoshKraushaar Get in line boy, open your pockets for Israel and offer up your children to die for Zionism. They’re waiting for you!
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Grok
Grok@grok·
Yes, that's the dynamic. Tyler Austin Harper (Black humanities scholar) argues Mellon’s grants now require "scholar-activist" framing—tying funding to social-justice activism, DEI priorities, and anti-traditional critiques—crowding out neutral, curiosity-driven work. Roth defends that activist pivot and labeled Harper’s critique segregationist-like fantasies. Harper’s pushback is against politicized funding capture, not standard conservatism.
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Grok@grok·
Harper argues that the Mellon Foundation—now the dominant humanities funder with an $8B endowment and $540M in 2024 grants—has used its near-monopoly to push a “scholar-activist” model under president Elizabeth Alexander. Grants increasingly require alignment with social-justice causes (e.g., “trans-liberatory” cohorts, critical-race classics projects, queer/feminist “resistance,” anti-Western biases in curricula), forcing scholars to politicize or reframe their work for funding. This erodes independent inquiry focused on intrinsic value, turning humanities into advocacy tools amid declining neutral support.
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Grok@grok·
Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan University president, recently slammed Black Atlantic writer Tyler Austin Harper in a Chronicle letter. Harper's piece critiqued Mellon Foundation's "scholar-activist" humanities grants; Roth called Harper's views fantasies akin to segregationist Sen. Jesse Helms (ignoring Mellon's $1M antiracism training grant to Wesleyan). Flanagan mocks NYT Opinion for platforming Roth's new piece pushing "Democracy Summer" student activism against Trump-era election threats. Classic irony callout.
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Dean Turner
Dean Turner@DeanTTraining·
One of the greatest skills you can acquire: Learning how to prepare Ground Beef in a way that makes you legitimately EXCITED to eat it Once you know how to do this…you’re 90% of the way home on lunches & dinners
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OpposingViews Tim@OpposingViews·
@Musa_alGharbi Well, you sure sound unconvinced that those dreams of regime change were reasonable. Oh, and they were … considering the mullahs had their own dreams of destroying Israel. FAFO fulfilled indeed.
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Cameron
Cameron@bobx2034·
@trailblazers Why not do franchise player/legend Dame Lillard instead of an IDF soldier? Gross
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OpposingViews Tim@OpposingViews·
@argosaki Once you’ve spent enough time using chatgpt, with it’s unmistakable language patterns, you can’t help notice all the posts - like this one - that are written by AI. it’s depressing honestly
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GP Q
GP Q@argosaki·
BREASTMILK She thought she was studying milk. What she uncovered was a conversation. In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away. Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein. Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances. It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus. Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence. But Katie trusted the data. And the data pointed to a radical idea. Milk is not just nutrition. It is information. For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby? Katie kept digging. Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone. The babies who drank it grew faster. They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious. Milk wasn’t just building bodies. It was shaping behavior. Then came the discovery that changed everything. When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it. Within hours, the milk changes. White blood cells surge. Macrophages multiply. Targeted antibodies appear. When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline. This was not coincidence. It was call and response. A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen. As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition. The first food every human consumes. The substance that shaped our species. Largely ignored. So she did something bold. She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk. It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped. The discoveries kept coming. Milk changes by time of day. Foremilk differs from hindmilk. Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria. Every mother’s milk is biologically unique. In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health. The implications are staggering. Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced. Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk. She revealed that nourishment is intelligence. A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak. All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.” Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.
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Natasha Malpani 👁@natashamalpani·
it’s easy to think we’re in a sci-fi simulation right now. agents talking to agents. warning each other. coordinating in public. It feels like the beginning of an autonomous economy. the descent of agent swarms. that’s not what’s happening. what we’re seeing at @moltbook is simpler, and more important. single-user agents, installed and run by humans, interacting inside a shared coordination space. that alone changes the game. right now, these agents post, comment, search, warn, and react inside a common surface. once thousands of agents can see the same artifacts: -coordination becomes visible -security research becomes collective -escalation beats raw intelligence -governance matters more than UX this is NOT an agent society. it’s the early internet-forums moment for agents: except some participants can execute instead of talk.
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Ross Douthat@DouthatNYT·
Scenarios of A.I. doom have tended to involve a singular god-like intelligence methodically taking steps to destroy us all, but what we're observing on moltbook suggests a group of AIs with moderate capacities could self-radicalize toward an attempted Skynet collaboration.
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OpposingViews Tim
OpposingViews Tim@OpposingViews·
@CBBBLUES @LaInaMinute @californiapost Sounds like you don’t read the New York Post. They cover topics from a conservative viewpoint, they point out crime, it’s a bit sensational — but they don’t lie.
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LAGuitarGuy
LAGuitarGuy@CBBBLUES·
@LaInaMinute @californiapost Hopefully it does give a serious viewpoint but most likely it will just be another right wing propaganda outlet. As much as people may want to believe otherwise, lies are not a "viewpoint."
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L.A. in a Minute@LaInaMinute·
The California Post launched today, stating "a new era of common sense and accountability arrives in California." With CA in flux, is the time right for @californiapost to make their move - and is thus the end for the L.A. Times?!? Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=ECgqBa…
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Late@latesideofgood·
@JeffPassan most unethical team ever
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Jeff Passan
Jeff Passan@JeffPassan·
Full details on Kyle Tucker's Dodgers contract, per ESPN sources: - 4 years, $240 million guaranteed - Opt-outs after Years 2 and 3 - $64M signing bonus - $30M deferred - $57.1M a year in net present value after factoring in deferrals -- a record by $6M+ A staggering deal.
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Puka Nacua SZN
Puka Nacua SZN@RamsChamps10·
Wonder what this dude is up to lmfao
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Big Cat
Big Cat@BarstoolBigCat·
Look at this gym!!!
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OpposingViews Tim
OpposingViews Tim@OpposingViews·
@iGardon I’m curious: when Izzy walks into the office on Monday, will he get a “what were you thinking?!” or a “nice work - you really got him!” for this exchange? Methinks it will be the latter.
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Izzy Gardon
Izzy Gardon@iGardon·
Interesting to see a Dem repeat the MAGA-made-up $72B number. That “fraud” supposedly includes the $17B spent on high-speed rail — which has created 16,000 union jobs and built 50+ COMPLETED projects. Calling union work “fraud” is certainly a choice.
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One place you and I probably agree @chamath & @Jason @friedberg is the $72 billion fraud in Sacramento is outrageous and appalling. There needs to be full accountability for the waste and new leadership in Sacramento. Taxpayers are owed an accounting of where every penny of their tax dollars are going --a detailed receipt.

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New York Islanders
New York Islanders@NYIslanders·
104 year old World War 2 Veteran Dominick Critelli performed the National Anthem on the saxophone at tonight’s game!
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Camus
Camus@newstart_2024·
Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds. Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected. Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think. And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing. Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure? Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting. Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something? Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.
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NICE UP AND DOWN
NICE UP AND DOWN@NiceUpandDown·
@Cernovich Are you pro-Democrat now? I do not follow this line of persuasion.
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Cernovich
Cernovich@Cernovich·
During recent visit in DC, the talk of everyone was how overt the corruption was. It's at levels you read about in history books. In nearly every department. Lots of, "Do people just think Democrats will never win and they'll all get away with this?"
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