Elijah

I contain multitudes

[Elijah @barsoons]

@lionel_trolling God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan OGieblyn has a really fascinating chapter where she talks about how people outsource their moral agency to AI because they view the machine as God and therefore beyond their understanding

[VoteVets @votevets]

🚨🚨🚨
Musk and Trump fired 1000 VA staff, including staff working the Veterans Crisis Line. That’s confirmed.

Musk and Trump are firing Veterans across federal agencies. That’s confirmed.

NOW is the time to make some noise.
NOW is the time to stand firm.

Make every day a living hell for them.

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

[Elijah @barsoons]

book of the new sun

[Elijah @barsoons]

@TrueSlazac Do the pre-Roman Gallic tribes count for anything here? Astérix and Obelix, oddly enough, stand out to me as unique expressions of a kind of proto-French identity, and murals referencing Gallic history are all over the pantheon

[Elijah @barsoons]

@CameronCorduroy @vanillatary I do think obesity is seen as a moral failing in a way that cancer is not, specifically in a personal responsibility way. People think that there HAS to be some catch with Ozempic because it feels like “cheating” otherwise.

[Elijah @barsoons]

@jeremyzorek Banger

[Elijah @barsoons]

@floppedgraduate Not really I’ve just met a lot of people that strongly dislike it so I thought your post was funny

[Elijah @barsoons]

@floppedgraduate bruh

[Elijah @barsoons]

@floppedgraduate LMAOOOOO

[Elijah @barsoons]

None of this to detract from the incredibly disturbing violence that’s happening on campuses rn but I would put a lot more faith in an actual campus protest to get the word out than any form of social media awareness.

[Elijah @barsoons]

I think what gets me about the Tiktok and free speech thing is the assumption that Tiktok is somehow a neutral platform? Thousands of protests are silenced there every day, with no spectacle or fanfare.

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

my entire feed is filled with

1. peaceful college campus protests being met with armed authorities

and

2. tiktok being banned

so if young people can’t speak out on their campuses or online — where do you want them to use their voices?

or maybe that’s the point…

[Elijah @barsoons]

The internet isn’t just the inert sum total of human knowledge because the primary ways of accessing and distributing that knowledge - search engines and social media - are in fact heavily mediated on all sides.

[Elijah @barsoons]

Type of shit I've been on as of late

[Elijah @barsoons]

@byjeffbuckley LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

This open letter from Jewish students just arrested at Brown made me actually cry.

These are my Jews.

So many of us.

I'm so proud of them for standing up and sitting in.

https://t.co/7E0bIfPQ8Q

[Elijah @barsoons]

@floppedpoet I think they do comedy there we should go

[Elijah @barsoons]

@sillyboysummer this is a good look