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David Jekel

@davidjekel.myatproto.social
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Mathematician at University of Ottawa. Personal account/opinions. Posts often about current events, sometimes math & education. Leftist, anti-war, anti-colonialism, food & housing for all.

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 1h
It's so cool that our military is being run by a middle school bully from a low-budget 90s family comedy
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 53m
This is true of a *large* number of Americans from various political groups. The perspective that views everything through the lens of American politics is systematically produced by our political rhetoric and media.
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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 1h
This simple system works surprisingly well for my fifth graders. #TeacherSky
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 3h
Denver has banned all lawn watering due to drought (good, there should be no lawns in arid ecosystems). No water use restrictions for CoreSite’s datacenter, which by the company’s own estimates will use 115,000 gallons per day—not counting the additional two buildings currently paused for one year.
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Separating fact from fear when it comes to our Elyria Swansea data center (Opinion)
CoreSite’s planned DE3 data center near the National Western Center has been at the center of … worries. I want to address the five most common concerns.
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 12h
Why does everyone (including themselves) act like there’s an election of Zohran Mamdani versus Benjamin Netanyahu?
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 13h
In another case of press repression, Egyptian police arrested two editors from the Matsda2sh platform, Mohamed Ashraf and Abdullah Qadri, on September 28 after raiding their homes and confiscating their phones and laptops. 🧵
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 18h
Editor Sophia Dasser and reporter Cereese Qusba of the Cornell Daily Sun are the reason we now know about the gang rape case at Cornell and the university’s shameful under-reaction. Nice work, ladies. (📸 Heather Ainsworth)
Two young women, one in a hijab, huddled over lap tops in a newsroom.
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 18h
It’s a common misunderstanding that academics don’t have any more grades or exams after finishing - PhD. We have GRANT APPLICATIONS
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 22h
Funny how if I buy a 1.5 liter bottle of water in Canada and it's $5.60 I think it's expensive, but if I buy it in Denmark for 30 kroner it seems much cheaper.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Liberal Government is slated to CUT ALL FUNDING for the Indian Residential School Resolution Health Support Program (IRS-RHSP) on March 31, 2028. There will be NO further funding allocated for these life-saving programs that support survivors and their families.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 29/09/2026
hello, fellow psych diagnosticians do you still use Rorschach ink blot testing? If so, why and how? I am *strug-gle-ing* to understand why this would be included in the assessment of a verbose adolescent female questioning Autism and ADHD and the report just says they did the test, no data
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 29/09/2026
so one of the great things about subscribing to youtube accounts of extremely boring balding men in suits talking in an uninsulated living room with 3 framed degrees in the background is that you get to learn fun (horrifying) stuff like "life insurance and pension funds are invested in AI buildout"
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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this does seem a little out of reach, especially since it usually takes weeks for me to fundraise sometimes, but i can only hope that there are 100 people who can contribute $20 each with in the next 10 hours. i’ve been trying to scrape together enough for this scan for months now.
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Center for Large Landscape Conservation @largelandscapes.org · 28/09/2026
The largest wildlife overpass in North America was completed in 2025 spanning I-25 in CO. According to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the crossing, and nearby crossing infrastructure, has reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions on the stretch of I-25 by 91%. www.denvergazette.com/outtherecolo...
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Massive wildlife overpass has helped reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% in Colorado
In December 2025, it was announced that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) had completed the construction of the I-25 wildlife overpass in the area of Greenland, between Denver and Color...
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
my mom expects me to remember things she told me when i wasn't listening
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Juspreet Singh Sandhu @freegaussians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The same situation as with Tristan Buckmaster and NS, brought to you now in Biology with Anthropic: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s... In this substack, a scenario leading to this blatant academic plagiarism, which Mark Chen of oAI responded to in Tristan's case with "all companies do it" is given:
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I won't even allow a Google Home or Amazon Echo in my home, and I've been burned by *password managers* and bad Chrome extensions; I sure as heck won't trust Meta's Muse to do anything involving personal information
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/09/2026
The current trend towards protein and return of hyperskinny aesthetics for women are inseparable both from each other and from the rise of fascism. They are a sign of strongman politics, where food is for men, and men are defined solely as muscularity. In this essay I will...
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normal-wife @category-fury.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey all I am trying to stay here in Australia (and out of America) permanently but the cost of a partner Visa is a bit extreme. Please help me stay here with my beautiful partner Lucy for good! gofund.me/b264e145f
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Donate to Help Olivia stay in Australia (Partner Visa), organized by Olivia Borghi
Hi all I have been living here in Australia for 5 years now. I came here … Olivia Borghi needs your support for Help Olivia stay in Australia (Partner Visa)
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
Frieren would go on a month-long quest to obtain this spell
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Shiwali Patel @shiwalipatel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, the Department of Education announced a final Title IX rule that formally rescinds the Biden 2024 regulations and reinstates the 2020 Trump/DeVos rule. Here is my statement about the change: nwlc.org/press-releas...
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NWLC Warns Dept. of Education’s Title IX Rule Erodes Protections for Student Survivors - National Women's Law Center
WASHINGTON D.C., – Today the Department of Education issued a rule formally reviving the 2020 Title IX rule, which significantly weakens protections against sexual harassment in education.  The Depart...
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
The dark side of the presidency is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unconstitutional
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 28/09/2026
i am tired of living in a society that turns every cautionary tale into a business plan
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Such an important point. The AI press is designed to re-write the sense of self according to the blueprint of a select few that includes only an anemic view of self agency and determination.
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 17/08/2025
He resembles Gul Dukat from Deep Space 9!
Gavin Newsom.Gul Dukat from Deep Space Nine.
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
He could have some F-35 parts shipped to Hong Kong
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's quick update [Sep 27]: - RSF drone strikes targeting a fuel depot near Wad Medani, Jezira State. - SAF drone strikes targeting RSF positions in Nyala, South Darfur. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
“You’re good at math. Do you know anything about interdimensional travel, off the top of your head?” ~Kamala Khan
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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wait, why did Alex Karp buy 15,000 hectares of Swedish forest up north? Apparently he says it’s “to preserve the beauty” but the first thing he did was end the right to hunt on it. Can’t find any English language sources on it and I’m not sharing anything from Expressen
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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 27/09/2026
I don’t really know why we still allow fraternities on college campuses tbh
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my flight was delayed four hours and now it’s been almost additional two hours because the plane is too hot. like they can’t cool it down. do we not possess the technology to cool a plane??? i am posting because i have no recourse and just need to scream
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shiny stage moments don't work for generating major government commitments anymore The EU announces $810M "to help people affected by crisis in Africa". Sounds great! Small print: $430M of it is to tackle migration and support voluntary return www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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EU unlocks humanitarian aid for crises worldwide
EU allocates majority of aid to sub-Saharan Africa to fund actions related to migration, conflict and food insecurity.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DRONE TARGETS JOURNALISTS These images from the @afp.com show the aftermath of an Ethiopian drone strike today, on the headquarter TV station of the local Tigrai TV network in the Tigrayan city of Mekele, as war rages on. No info on casualties, Tigrai TV has been off air since the attack.
AFP photo showing the destruction caused to the headquarter building of Tigrai TV in the city of MekeleAFP photo showing the destruction caused to the headquarter building of Tigrai TV in the city of Mekele
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯
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They/Thempress @theythem.press · 27/09/2026
consent is impossible when you mix career networking and sex together in a social space. the inherent power differentials extant in such an environment muddies the waters of consent to the point of complete opacity. how do you say "no" to someone who has the power to make or break your career?
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, get fucked, @wsj.com. Now and forever. 🗃️
A fatuous WSJ editorial titled “The Ph.D. Job Crisis Is a Needed Market Correction.” The dek reads:
“Universities will produce fewer underemployed, overcredentialed and aggrieved young people.”
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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My short scifi story “Coda” from last year is in this! You can preorder these now.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is an obscene pleasure, a thrill, a delicious vindictiveness in pressing the unsubscribe button on a marketing email. O to exercise increasingly marginal acts of agency in a society defined more and more by pointlessness.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
When I was in grad school, I read 'Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality', and I found it extremely funny as a portrayal of 8th graders who are precocious and ask clever questions but lack maturity, but now I realize the parody was less intentional on the author's part
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine being a corrupt private prison CEO and your last name being SWINDLE
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Zakeriye @zakeriye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Ethiopia’s rebellion threatens to turn Horn of Africa into war zone, with some thoughts from me on the prospects for the conflict spreading.
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
"Of course everyone must have listened to 'Choosin' Texas' by now. How could you not?" ~Person whose *job* it is to listen to and review all new pop music by famous artists
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 27/09/2026
This betrayal might seem confusing. Some kind of aberration or mistake. A few bad apples. The reality is so much more disturbing and I implore every campus worker and student to read @nbedera.bsky.social. www.nicolebedera.com/_files/ugd/c...
I Can Protect His Future, but She Can’t Be Helped: Himpathy
and Hysteria in Administrator Rationalizations of
Institutional Betrayal
Nicole Bedera
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
ABSTRACT
It is well-established fact that sexual assault survivors who
report the violence they endured are retraumatized by the
reporting process, but there is limited research on how these
institutional betrayals are enacted. The current study draws on
ethnographic observation and interview data to explore how 24
administrators use gendered rationalization frames to justify
betrayal in Title IX cases. Specifically, administrators invoke
himpathy to define their primary role as protecting the futures
of young men. To defend this view from critique, they condemn
how survivors use Title IX by casting them as hysterical women
who are either mistaken in labeling an experience as sexual
assault or suffering from trauma too severe for a Title IX process
to repair. Taken together, these frames portray institutional
betrayal as moral, even as these ideologies reinforce gender
inequality.
ARTICLE HISTORY
Received 12 November 2021
Accepted 23 March 2023
KEYWORDS
Sexual assault; institutional betrayal; himpathy; hysteria; victim blame
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that a new oppressor can take over the infrastructure of colonialism is not just a broad principle—it is extremely literal.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pairi Daiza presents a shoebill in all its magnificence: #AGoodPlace
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