JPL

Supporter of the so-called Gender Freedoms. Coastal urban elitist of Appalachia. he/him

[JPL @teknonym]

@jeff23hi @MattBruenig @SnekMonger If you have a mortgage with negative equity it's basically impossible, and not for mental reasons.

[JPL @teknonym]

@Fifongirmfo @jakebackpack The commas indicate a non-restrictive appositive. It's just additional information, it doesn't change the previous clause. Maybe it got mangled by a copy editor but I think it's just sloppy.

[JPL @teknonym]

@SethYefrican Thinking trans people are human is leftist ideology.

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

What’s currently happening in the tech sector is possibly the biggest misallocation of capital in history: socially- and environmentally degrading, wasteful of crucial natural resources, involving a massive political power grab, all without providing any real productivity increases or technological breakthroughs—and yet we’re told that this newest act of oligarchic enrichment and authoritarian aggrandisement is evidence of the superiority of the American model of capitalism.

[JPL @teknonym]

@rcobooth He posted a follow up that basically shows Trump/Harris accounts for the majority of whatever difference there is and gender is kind of just there for the narrative.
https://t.co/tEM5vfmkOh

[Steve Kornacki @SteveKornacki]

The numbers for Gen Z women who voted for Trump and Gen Z men who voted for Harris

[JPL @teknonym]

@SteveKornacki So gender is basically irrelevant then except for narrative purposes. What's the margin of error on these crosstabs btw?

[JPL @teknonym]

@OsitaNwanevu MacIntyre himself dismissed Virtue Ethics in his earlier "Short History of Ethics"

[JPL @teknonym]

@TheJackieB @Sam_Rasoul The focus on standardizef tests was a Republican project from the start. Dems should just ditch them and refocus on actual teaching.

[JPL @teknonym]

@NoahProoval @MattBruenig @ckieser13 Yes, they are capped by the Obamacare law. They used to be much higher.

[JPL @teknonym]

@besttrousers @MattBruenig @KelseyTuoc The impact of the treatment could depend on some variable which is distributed differently in the volunteer and non-volunteer populations, which would bias your estimate.

[JPL @teknonym]

@MattBruenig 🎶DJ Khaled... 🎶

[JPL @teknonym]

@SethYefrican That's a graph of the wealth distribution.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

NEW: UNC Student Activist Loses Prestigious Scholarship For Gaza Protest

Laura Saavedra Forero, a wheelchair-using student activist and Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, has lost her scholarship after helping organize last year’s Gaza solidarity encampment. Once praised by the program for her disability rights advocacy, Forero was later surveilled, disciplined, doxxed, and criminally charged for her pro-Palestine activism—before the scholarship was finally revoked.

Key Details:

➤ In 2023, the Morehead-Cain Foundation placed Forero under contract, warning her against engaging in “disruptive” activism.
➤ The scholarship fully funded her education and supported her roles as co-president of UNC’s Campus Y and team manager for the national champion women’s soccer team.
➤ On April 30, Forero joined the pro-Palestinian protest with her laptop and wheelchair charger; all her belongings were seized during the police raid.
➤ She was later charged with resisting an officer after she says UNC police knocked her out of her wheelchair while seizing her phone.
➤ Forero emphasizes that she was targeted for being “hyper visible” and unmasked as a disabled activist.
➤ The Morehead-Cain Foundation suspended and later terminated her scholarship due to her continued involvement in protests.
➤ Despite these challenges, Forero remains resolute: “I think there is no greater show of moral force of character than being willing to stand up to a genocidal regime knowing the consequences that await.”

[Read the full story by Brianna Atkinson via WUNC. Link in reply.]

[JPL @teknonym]

@eriktweets "A lot of the people who steal Palestinian land are suburbanites with high tech jobs." Um, ok?

[JPL @teknonym]

@who_shot_jgr I'm A.C.E.

[JPL @teknonym]

@roomcguire Get that little girl inside already you monster.

[JPL @teknonym]

@verdazarine Now my kids are on Java and my new job is mod installer. So many tears about mod and version conflicts.

[JPL @teknonym]

@verdazarine Lol this was me in 2020 trying to figure out why my son's item sorter wasn't working. The biggest issue we had was finding videos for Bedrock.

[JPL @teknonym]

@tysonbrody I feel like this was always the plan. Let everyone think about it over the weekend, have a phone call, then do a Truth about how they gave him what he wanted.

[JPL @teknonym]

@singlepayertom Then right after you were done painting it they could tell you they wanted a different color all along and have a screaming meltdown.