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Joshua Earle Ph.D.
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He/Him/His Ass Prof of STS @ UVA Communications Director for SPT AOCs: Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people. Infrequent poster, frequent reposter.
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okay here’s the fish funeral story for everyone who missed it when it blew up six years ago

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There is no Green Party anymore. There is only a con artist with ties to Russia running a conservative-backed psyop designed to siphon votes from actual progressives. www.salon.com/2024/09/23/j...

Jill Stein paid $100,000 to a Republican consulting firm led by a suspected January 6 rioter
Jill Stein paid $100,000 to a Republican consulting firm led by a suspected January 6 rioter

The Green Party leader has hired a GOP consulting firm and worked with Trump-affiliated lawyers

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Photographer Kristie Kohn says "While I was trying to photograph the Northern Lights in the wee hours of the morning, my cat decided to photobomb the picture. Since I had the camera’s shutter speed maxed out, it ended up leaving a sort of ghostly image of my cat in the photo."

Photographer Kristie Kohn's 2024 aurora photo was photobombed by a ghostly image of her cat. The photo shows stars, above red and then bright green aurora, and the cat shadow, looking right, is in the bottom third of the photo, with the aurora appearing to go right through her
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this is the clearest evidence possible that there is no way for harris to satisfy either the call for more media hits or the call for more details. the political press has its narrative and it is not going to budge for it, even if it has to make up a reason to dismiss actual engagement with media

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Politico’s hard right pivot to reflect its right wing billionaire owner’s politics is one (very bad, unethical) thing. But sneering that 60 Minutes is not a substantive news outlet and that Univision won’t ask her tough questions is just dishonest in the first case and racist as hell in the second.

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A highly unusual and serious situation is evolving with Milton, a newly minted tropical storm that earned a name Saturday. It’s expected to rapidly intensify, probably into a major hurricane, and slam the west coast of Florida as a Category 2 or even 3 hurricane on Wednesday.

Threat grows that a dangerous hurricane could hit Florida’s west coast
Threat grows that a dangerous hurricane could hit Florida’s west coast

Milton will probably make landfall Wednesday as a Category 2 or 3 hurricane, with the potential for a disastrous storm surge in the Tampa Bay area.

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Three cats. Three of them. All cats. digitaltmuseum.org/021016813466...

Black and white photo of three animals in an indoor doorway. From right to left: a large longhaired tuxedo tabby, a small black and white shorthaired kitten, and then a scruffy little owlet which is about half the size of the adult cat.
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GOP: We oppose RELATIVISM, POSTMODERNISM, and REVISIONIST HISTORY. We are for TRUTH, FACTS, and OBJECTIVITY. Literally Anyone: Who won the 2020 US Presidential Election? GOP: Questions like this are fundamentally undecidable; indeed, it is impossible to meaningfully ask them. As Lyotard showed, th

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If I get assigned a robot caregiver when I’m older, I’m leading the Senior Citizen Butlerian Jihad.

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Joshua Earle Ph.D.
@cyborgapologist.bsky.social
He/Him/His Ass Prof of STS @ UVA Communications Director for SPT AOCs: Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people. Infrequent poster, frequent reposter.
564 followers577 following637 posts