Tarek Anous

@tarwreck.bsky.social

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Lecturer of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London (he/him)

Physics and Cigarettes (One thing old, one thing new, one thing false, one thing true)

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Incredible that members of a party that fashions itself as "republican" decided to crown a king yesterday apnews.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have broad immunity, dimming chance of a pre-election Trump trialapnews.com The justices rejected Trump's immunity claims in a ruling that left for another day the issue of whether former presidents can ever insulate themselves from criminal charges for officials acts they to...

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there’s a popular assumption that even if these guys are cruel and reactionary, they are analytically intelligent enough that they aren’t gonna fall for Q Anon level bullshit. wrong! they’re stupid in very regular ways!

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@adamserwer.bsky.social summed it up pretty aptly in an article a few yrs back: "every joke [...] every pretend gesture toward the moral standards of liberal democracy has the same punch line: We are going to kill you. There is nothing more profound to unearth from their ideas, or from them."

Jokes as a test of boundaries is a great way to think of it. It's the "kidding (not kidding)" approach many have seen. Another way I've heard this described is as a "threesome lie." Basically "I was just joking... unless you're into it." "Jokes" get them from unthinkable to thinkable to comfortable.

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When I was younger "you don't have the right to sell your rights" was one of those obvious things that kept right-Libertarians from cluttering up message boards with their pro-slavery nonsense, and now here we are.

Virginia prosecutors are asking defendants to waive protections against unreasonable police searches as a condition of pleas. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill that would have ended that practice. NEW in Bolts:

“An Impossible Choice”: Virginians Asked to Waive Constitutional Rights to Get a Plea Dealboltsmag.org Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill that would have barred prosecutors from making defendants waive protections against unreasonable police searches as a condition of pleas.

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Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests. www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...

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instead of realizing the threat of authoritarian extremism and adjusting coverage accordingly, a bunch of media sector brunchlords decided to kiss the ass of the increasingly radical right wing and it's going really well for them

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Mayor Scott responds with precision to the gutter racism infesting the American right, in a way that directly exposes the feeble minded cowardice of the euphemisms they’ve employed to hide something everyone can see www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

Baltimore mayor responds to racists who called him ‘DEI mayor’www.thebaltimorebanner.com “We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor,” Scott told The Banner. “They really want to say the N-word.”

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University of Kentucky president proposes to eliminate shared governance

Kentucky president proposes to strip faculty body’s powerwww.insidehighered.com Eli Capilouto released a “draft of principles” Wednesday that would dissolve the University Senate and replace it with an advisory group.

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Also worth noting the Gazans being wiped off the face of the planet did not carry out terror attacks against Israel on 10/7. The people who did and who are responsible don't live in Gaza. And Israel knows that.

Absolute brainworms. Here Stephens seems to admit that the only difference between the Holocaust and the Palestinian genocide is that the Palestinians deserve it. If a tiny group of Jews *had* carried out terror attacks it would have been OK to kill 6 million of them?

De Rossi may be a green coach, but the advantage of that is that managers have yet to figure out how to break his sides down. It may be a matter of time before that changes. Hopefully it's a sign of things to come

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Leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the country’s oldest+most prominent Black Christian denominations, called this week for the US to end its financial aid to Israel, saying the monthslong military campaign in Gaza amounted to “mass genocide.” www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/u...

Prominent Black Church Leaders Call for End of U.S. Aid to Israelwww.nytimes.com The African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishops Council says American financial assistance to help Israel fight its war in Gaza supports “mass genocide.”

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wait why isn’t everyone posting this one?????????

Thoughts on Roma-Inter -De Rossi brings us an open game against a top side -Fitness is an issue. Inter overload came off too easily -Kaarsdorp is a liability when he's high up the pitch but facing Roma's goal -Baldanzani flashes of greatness -Question marks on Patricio's positioning on each goal

The plagiarism story is a canard. Were it substantiated, it would be grounds for Gay to also lose her faculty position, not just the presidency. I feel for the poor dweebs that fell for it.

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Just to clarify: A member of Congress who supported white nationalism tried to get a Black university president fired by accusing her of anti-semitism. When that failed other white nationalists accused her of plagiarism, but needed mainstream media to treat it as a big story. And they did.

Very happy to announce that I've been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. Very excited for what's to come and keep an eye out for postdoc openings at QMUL! www.ukri.org/news/75-new-...

75 new Future Leaders Fellows and upcoming rounds announcedwww.ukri.org 75 of the most promising research leaders will benefit from £101 million to tackle major global issues and to commercialise their innovations in the UK.

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