Engineering prof. Also teaches about "Why People Believe Weird Things". Interested in how and why people disagree over facts and values. Heavy metal enthusiast.
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Any serious scientist wants to know what is true. We may fumble in our attempts to find out, but our craft is always in the service of knowing what *is* and from there can flow all the discussions of what humans should do. The arrows do not go the other way.
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1 very poignant moment from The Captains: William Shatner & Patrick Stewart, Kirk and Picard about what if it were to all end now.
Beautiful. Star Trek legends.
Much love and respect.
Thanks for the memories.
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Jean-Luc Picard remains the single most compelling vision of progressive politics I am familiar with — secular, rational, compassionate, egalitarian; a believer in progress & abundance but also duty, hard work, and a constant battle for self-improvement and improving the world.
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Sesame Workshop mourns the loss of Sir Patrick Stewart. Thank you for being our friend and for sharing your brilliance, joy, and kindness with the world. 💛💚
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One of the greats. May he rest easy.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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I don't normally react to this account. But I rather feel there might be another factor here that is being left unsaid.
Conflict places more of the care burden on women and girls' shoulders.
#Peace and security require more than their unpaid labor.
Women and girls must be at the heart of peacebuilding.
🔗 See more on the @UN Secretary-General's report on #WomenPeaceSecurity: unwomen.org/en/articles/expl…
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Men/boys are the large majority of combat deaths in conflicts — omitted. Boys also do care work — omitted. Saying women & girls must be “at the heart” of peacebuilding is prioritisation, not equality. Higher unpaid care ratios occur because men are dying or fighting.
justsecurity.org/104722/gender-…
ukraine.un.org/uk/download/20…
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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There's a strange thing that happens online and in real world conversations, where understanding or explaining an idea or phenomenon is interpreted as SUPPORTING it.
As a result, people pretend to not understand things, lest they be seen as advocating them.
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No notes. It’s perfect.
25 women and girls.
That’s how many were killed 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙮 in conflict zones in 2025.
#Peace must mean safety for women and girls.
🔗 More on the @UN Secretary-General's report on #WomenPeaceSecurity: unwomen.org/en/news-stories/…
#ForAllWomenAndGirls
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According to the same UN report, women and girls accounted for one in four of over 37,000 civilian deaths in 2025. Men and boys were the remaining three-quarters. The report notes men are still likelier to be killed.
unwomen.org/en/articles/fa…
The first post in this thread had me wondering what argument she had against Haidt... but this post revealed that she's not worth taking seriously. Heritage Foundation? Old man? Over-the-top hyperbole? This is clown stuff. Glad she kept posting.
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We LOVED getting these on deployment. Kids would draw the wildest stuff and teachers clearly weren't reviewing them. They would draw Army men shooting people and blood coming out and then it would say "I hope you don't die." Everyone looked forward to getting them.
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The real reason the left hates Matt Yglesias is that for a moment he seemed part of the tribe, but then he showed he could think about stuff and that was unacceptable.
Clayface was great, almost exactly as I was hoping it would be. A nice little standalone film with echoes of the 90's classic Darkman and the more recent Joker. The cinematography was surprisingly nice, with lush sun-blasted interior shots all over for interesting lighting.