Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sometimes the Onion hits one out of the park. 🤣 571830430
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030471071
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026npr.orgMahmoud Khalil on his detention by ICE: 'It is a stain on the U.S. consciousness'Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On. 000
Reposted by Nathan Eric Dickmankenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Seattle 197197245650
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026An essay—Montaigne’s invention of trying to think something all the way through—is not a form of punishment or a consequence that must be faced for harming another person, and using it as such further evidences the erosion of intellectual life. The Cornell sexual assault case is 100
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is no unit of a higher order that could provide a generic class for the sentence conceived as a species. It is possible to connect [complete thoughts] according to an order of concatenation, but not to integrate them. ~Ricoeur, Interpretation Theory, 10 000
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message. 2394752975
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In January 2022, COVID killed roughly 6 kids per day and these guys yawned. They are not going to care about 8 measles deaths. 314536
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The war criminal United States should not interfere with the diplomatic mission to the UN (in NYC) of the Iranian President Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Araghchi, such as Secretary Bessent’s announcement moment ago of cancellation of all Iranian flights *after the President and FM 100
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Probably the *only* thing we’ve learned from chatterbot LLM AI’s like ChatGPT is that *a lot* of people prefer perception over reality when *given the choice.* 001
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"In past conflicts, preparing lists of proposed targets — work that includes assessing how they align with an operation’s objectives — had taken hours for staffers to complete. Ahead of the US attack on Iran, much of that work was condensed into several minutes via Maven," a Palantir AI system. 20487202
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanArianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Israel has 90 nuclear war heads. Iran has none. Iran has allowed a plethora of nuclear weapon IAEA investigations. Israel has never had an investigation. Iran is a signatory of NPT. Israel refused to sign. Don’t eat the BS. 🛑🛑🛑 517154
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanTricia Renee @theecatservant.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Bullshit. It's the rich that know nothing about the real world. Rich people don't even know how much milk is. Poor people, how much is a gallon of milk now at your local grocery? How much was it six months ago? 342
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just published a short “teaching tip” on Buddhism and film. Let me know what you think if you get a chance to check it out.blog.apaonline.orgIllustrating Buddhist Challenges to Western Substance Metaphysics with I <3 Huckabees’s “The Blanket Thing” | Blog of the APADavid O. Russell’s I <3 Huckabees (2004), inspired in part by the scholar of Tibetan Buddhism Robert Thurman (father of Uma Thurman), explores a number of philosophical and political concepts. One cli... 010
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just like the rich who want control over Palestine for a piece of that Big Christianity “holy land” tourism pie, so do they want (to keep) control over Mecca and Medina for a piece of that Big Islam “hajj” tourism pie. May the axis of resistance prevail. 100
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It is not just Netanyahu. It is the entire State of Israel. #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSeePalestineWillBeFree 000
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There are online profs considering having students submit video recordings themselves *handwriting* their essays, so the students can prove they didn’t use AI. 010
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026[Paying interest] is hated with good reason because of its being acquisition from currency itself and not from that for which currency is provided. Currency came into being for the sake exchange. The tokos [interest] makes it more. 100
Reposted by Nathan Eric Dickmanandy vs. @im-all-id.me · 12/12/2024Being held for questioning sounds so nice 692746436
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanJuniper @boringjuniper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Saw someone put a summary of themselves generated by chat gpt on their dating app profile. I don’t even know what to say anymore. 192
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I encourage every student who was ever failed on a paper or for a course on the basis of AI-detectors (I once witnessed a VPAA tell a student that detectors are the best evidence!) to look into FERPA and request reimbursement as well as damages. 010
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments. 292181628
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There is not one “benefit” of LLMs that offsets their damage to education (and their environmental impacts, their stealing of human produced writing and art, students pressured to default to them in every instance, etc.). 120
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanMother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.motherjones.comYou don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rulesA Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis. 14916931157
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026People truly need to understand, our aid to Palestinians is no way charity towards people who are lesser than us. Our aid to Palestinians is our show of solidarity with their struggle in our unity together, fundamentally. When you understand it as such you move as such. @pepsffk.bsky.social 37019
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So a lot legislators band together to condemn scary “socialism” 🙄 but say nothing about the US and Israel targeting and murdering little girls at school or weddings. You know who else is against scary “socialism”? The Islamic Republic of Iran. 100
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Professors and admin teaching students to call LLMs “tools” are the real *tools.* 000
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026With the rise of profs saying they’re going back to pencil and paper writing in class to try to circumvent LLMs, they better be prepared to wash their hands vigorously or we’ll see a correlated rise of pink eye cases. 000
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I keep seeing professional philosophers use an analogy to discourage students from using “AI tools.” Imagine joining a gym with great equipment and great personal trainers, but then using a forklift for the weightlifting. This analogy trivializes LLMs as just another so-called “tool,” downplaying 100
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/08/2026Claims that immigrants are responsible for measles outbreaks are a lie. 94% of US measles cases are in unvaccinated people. Contact tracing shows a majority of imported measles cases are in unvaccinated US residents returning from travel. The cause of measles outbreaks is anti-vax disinformation. 201047379
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026One inherent contradiction within the now notorious “letter to Iranian prisoners” is that to maintain a consistent prison abolition position requires application to scale—in this case, the nation state level where the Islamic Republic of Iran has been, in essence, 100
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanCurb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Just a reminder of how much attention the US media paid to the Claudine Gray Harvard plagiarism “scandal” vs how much they paid to Israel shooting a 6-year old girl with 300 bulllets during an ongoing genocide 7886324
Reposted by Nathan Eric Dickmanamulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this. 10999314
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I once heard about a coworker who was saying that I was “the worst colleague ever.” At that time, I was advocating to the higher ups that all employees under 75k should get a 5k raise immediately. Guess how much he makes? 000
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I was talking with a philosophy professor who said that “We need to accommodate legislators and orgs like TPUSA so that we do not give them more ammo.” I said, “Didn’t Socrates get executed by the State?” Apparently folks like that prefer to teach *about* philosophy rather than *be* a philosopher. 010
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I just think if you’re using definite and indefinite articles so often, you should cite your source for them. 000
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It’s Definitely Not Fine and I wish I could say it’s Not Normal…. “How is it that a free school meal for an AMERICAN schoolkid is evil communism but a $28 million bomb dropped on a school in Iran is fine and normal?” 22410
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Every judgment has a closure… yet is a member of an open and, according to ideal possibility, constantly widening thematic complex, which therefore is not closed. This complex is erected entirely on judgments, and it produces, 100
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Thinking of the dialogue format of Plato's Republic and realising with horror he is the classical equivalent of a man with a podcast. 310323
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanYour fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 28/07/2026And this is what I always talk about out with white people. We cannot talk about the actual problems in the US because we can’t even agree about reality. There is no issue with trans people In sports. None. It does not exist. But white folks are intent on imagining there is one. 112923
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanPretty Ass Ni ✨ 10/04 🤎 @allthingsaniyah.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I’d literally rather someone ask me 50+ questions for their own clarity instead of them assuming what I’m thinking or feeling 07249
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026All these colleges and universities—from ivies to SLACs to community colleges—with phrases like “for students and staff to live life fully” in their mission statements really ought to make their caveat explicit with “only in sanctioned ways that don’t put the institution at risk of legal liability,” 101
Reposted by Nathan Eric DickmanArbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A sitting US president stole $900 million in another country's oil money and transferred it into his own private account in Qatar and y'all mf worried about immigrants!!! 8439771285
Reposted by Nathan Eric Dickmanelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Biden is a war criminal who actively enabled a genocide and the denial by a good chunk of Dems is part of why we’re in this mess 19433
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026May the pro-Palestinian front of Spain symbolically defeat the pro-Zionist racists of Argentina. 020
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Iran has the right to defend itself against the war criminal United States and the US-backed genocidal State of Israel, who are targeting civilian infrastructure starting with little girls at school. The US should immediately and completely disarm. 000
Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Perhaps it is permissible to dream of a future when people will know no other use of their freedom than this free unfurling of itself; constructive activity would be possible for all... 100