Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner

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Japan/World/Food historian. Nerd, geek, comics. Blogger. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Views expressed are mine alone (RTs are someone else's). Cis he/him/his.
Same handle on Spore.Social, where most of my activity will be. Here mostly to follow friends.

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Tom Steyer... There's a billionaire political dabbler I haven't heard of in a while. Don't these guys ever just go away?

It seems to me the NYT (and WH Press for that matter) should have cross-referenced the dates of Dr. Cannard’s visits w/ the president’s schedule. On the second of the supposed 8 dates, 8/25/23, Biden wasn’t at the WH for any of that day. He was at Tom Steyer’s place in Tahoe that whole week.

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So this is just a full on ratfuck operation got it

The NYT Parkinson's "scoop" is even worse than it seems from the headline, bc buried in paragraph 11 the reporters *know* Dr. Connard met with someone other than Biden, and on March 28, 2024 the President's Public Schedule shows Biden was in NYC the whole day

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Virginia S. O'Possum

By which I mean it was tactical errors by the DNC and the campaign -- that fucking Dem tendency to take some states and groups for granted -- that lost in 2016. Get your shit together and Harris can win.

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The idea that children—even infants—have human rights is anathema to the right and only very dimly grasped by liberals and many leftists. 🥚

A lot of people seem to confusedly think that secrecy/anonymity in #adoption is part of “reproductive freedom” because they forget that the reproduction already happened, and that the infant is a person with rights of their own. And by “a lot of people” I mean the fucking ACLU.

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The Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Kickstarter features solicited authors John Chu, Aliette de Bodard, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Scott Lynch, Samantha Mills, and Tade Thompson! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't. www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

This state is introducing digital driver's licenses. Here's what you need to knowwww.zdnet.com Your physical wallet is being replaced piece by piece. Here's what you need to know about using digital IDs.

Administrators have outsourced survey classes in critical core fields that elevate the college experience from job training.

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This was someone asking me how hoping that Biden would be pulled left worked out and the answer is: better than I ever imagined it would in 2020, most progressive president of my lifetime, did not think in a million years it would be Joe Biden, 10/10 highly recommend best L I've ever taken.

Amazing that someone thinks this is a dunk. Different realities.

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i just commented this elsewhere but this is also victim-blaming behavior and you should rethink before implying that you are too smart to be fooled or abused. take a long hard think about what are you really saying

I see we've reached the "famous artist credibly accused of sexual assault wasn't actually a great artist and you're a chump for liking him" phase. Consider that pretending terrible people can't make great art helps terrible people who make great art whedon their way into vulnerable communities.

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We don't need pop culture books on Japanese exceptionalism and exoticization to enact change, we need to do the work. Many other cultures and time periods had people who practiced reuse and recycling methods.

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This is why I don't tell jokes in class.

🎼🎵 "How do you solve a problem like Mar-a-lago...." 🎶

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Big mood

Daily bunny no.2542 is out on a calm empty sea

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This is why I don't tell jokes in class.

🎼🎵 "How do you solve a problem like Mar-a-lago...." 🎶

Big mood

Daily bunny no.2542 is out on a calm empty sea

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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️‍⚧️

(vision) So I do not want a revolution. I do not want to destroy society. I want to build on what we have and create a world where EVERYONE who has sleep apnea gets a CPAP. Where EVERYONE who has prediabetes gets metformin. Where nobody faces barriers to medicine and everyone thrives. 17/17 & FIN.

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Please help get the word out about Heavyweight! This is gonna be a grassroots kind of marketing campaign 😅

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Yes yes yes. This is one of my hard lines in the concrete (not sand, I'm too firm for that). There is only one acceptable position on Ukraine and that is to give them wherever they need to defeat the Russian invasion of conquest.

Anyway we should continue to give as much military aid as we can to Ukraine because it’s likely paying off for the US’s other major security concerns

"given the popularity of human rights and progress frameworks, we could redeem Kantianism as one palatable form of liberalism in the service of racial justice in moral and political philosophy. This would mean that we are using Kant against himself but still engaging with Kant!"

“Kantianism — among other systems that aided white supremacy while preaching equality and dignity for all — contributed to the house in which we live, and this house turns out to be oppressive for a majority.”

Kant’s Ideas Shaped Human Rights Theories. How Do We Contend With His Racism?truthout.org The anti-Black ideas within Immanuel Kant’s philosophy show how liberalism and racism are closely intertwined.

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We don't need pop culture books on Japanese exceptionalism and exoticization to enact change, we need to do the work. Many other cultures and time periods had people who practiced reuse and recycling methods.

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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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i've never skeeted about the potato plan, only tweeted, so here we go! the potato plan is MECFS community's highest recommendation for when you're recovering from covid. it's your best bet against getting long covid and/or M.E. 🧵

We must protect each other to survive.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

It's a great book, very clear on the depth of the trouble we're in...

Finished reading David Austin Walsh’s fabulous new book. It filled in a number of gaps in my understanding of the modern conservative movement and introduced me to a number of new and disturbing characters. The chapter on McCarthy alone was worth the price of the book. 🗃️

Republicans vote to kill.

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

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Friendly reminder that you should all actively boycott the NYT now

This is all the article says about Trump's actual actions: "Many felonies — like Mr. Trump’s and Hunter Biden’s as well — amount to lying on official paperwork." So entirely avoiding the intent to violate election law and getting in a "both-sides-do-it" at the same time. The NYT remains trash.

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Assistive technology is freedom.

just took my new wheelchair for a spin around the block w/ my dog (something i could never even dream of doing before) & i am tearing up at how much joy it brought me. it's incredible how just by having access to the right mobility aids, i already feel so much less depressed.

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My cover has been released!! I love it soooooo much! www.routledge.com/Water-in-Wor...

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Hard side eye for any academics blorping on about using AI, it’s an ethical disaster in every dimension and the failure to acknowledge that vs trying to look shiny & clever for the bandwagon is frankly embarrassing.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share