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09:00 PM - Apr 26, 2024
I don't know if VPNs these days have much utility.
Servers are simply detecting that a client is using a VPN, and then blocking it, thus making the VPN useless. For example, I cannot use ChatGPT with my VPN.
I am not even sure if this practice should be legal.
Servers are simply detecting that a client is using a VPN, and then blocking it, thus making the VPN useless. For example, I cannot use ChatGPT with my VPN.
I am not even sure if this practice should be legal.
11:06 AM - Apr 25, 2024
#AAUP pushing back against the coordinate efforts by conservatives to end academic freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/li...
https://www.youtube.com/li...
09:11 PM - Apr 17, 2024
#AAUP and #AFT are planning a National Day of Action on April 17th, 2024. Old Dominion University's AAUP chapter will participate in the event.
We are looking for someone to speak via Zoom on that day about higher ed policy in Virginia. If you are interested email me - rgrahamodu.edu
We are looking for someone to speak via Zoom on that day about higher ed policy in Virginia. If you are interested email me - rgrahamodu.edu
11:50 AM - Mar 25, 2024
I like Cornel West's stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He echoes my sentiments and articulates them beautifully.
I just don't think you can be a (non-conservative) black American and not be very sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
I just don't think you can be a (non-conservative) black American and not be very sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Piers Morgan HUMILIATED By Cornel West On Israel, Aaron Bushnell - YouTube
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09:14 AM - Mar 14, 2024
12:22 PM - Mar 13, 2024
12:22 PM - Mar 13, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Social media platforms - their technological affordances and the culture that builds on those platforms - generate the behavior we see, more than the personalities of the individual people that use them.
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08:48 AM - Mar 13, 2024
We are all victims of circumstance, whether we choose to accept that or not.
This fate is shared by all of us, and if truly acknowledged could be an avenue towards community and connection.
This fate is shared by all of us, and if truly acknowledged could be an avenue towards community and connection.
04:33 PM - Mar 11, 2024
09:52 AM - Mar 07, 2024
This is not your momma's Reagan and Bush-led Republican Party: a party grounded in fiscal conservativism and social liberalism.
This new, Trump led Republican Party no longer rejects anti-Semites and white nationalists. They welcome them openly.
https://www.nbcnews.com/ne...
This new, Trump led Republican Party no longer rejects anti-Semites and white nationalists. They welcome them openly.
https://www.nbcnews.com/ne...
10:19 AM - Mar 02, 2024
At the #ESS conference in DC. Visited the National Portrait Gallery where they have an amazing Frederick Douglas exhibit.
I wonder why there hasn't been a biopic about one our greatest Americans.
I wonder why there hasn't been a biopic about one our greatest Americans.
06:38 PM - Mar 01, 2024
This is what the developer of my favorite video game looks like. I suspect many developers of video games look just like this.
08:12 PM - Feb 26, 2024
07:47 PM - Feb 14, 2024
My self-consciousness is undefeated.
I am thinking to myself "do I belong in this group? I am a 'social scientist'. What will the physicists in the group think?"
Jesus Christ man, get over yourself.
I am thinking to myself "do I belong in this group? I am a 'social scientist'. What will the physicists in the group think?"
Jesus Christ man, get over yourself.
05:16 PM - Feb 12, 2024
One cannot truly understand the appeal of Donald Trump without reading this book.
12:36 PM - Feb 08, 2024
June 3, 1972: Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.
At this moment, both players have EXACTLY 648 career home runs each. #BlackHistoryMonth
At this moment, both players have EXACTLY 648 career home runs each. #BlackHistoryMonth
12:25 AM - Feb 08, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
This is intriguing.
Politics as spectacle. Spectacle as politics.
On the one hand, yes I can see how the Iranian government would want to leverage #WhitneyWright . On the other, what if Wright (presumably) is genuine in her comments currently, and has been publicly pro-Palestinian for years?
Politics as spectacle. Spectacle as politics.
On the one hand, yes I can see how the Iranian government would want to leverage #WhitneyWright . On the other, what if Wright (presumably) is genuine in her comments currently, and has been publicly pro-Palestinian for years?
02:33 PM - Feb 05, 2024
Episode 6 of the new Mr. and Mrs. Smith series is some of the best television I have seen in a long time.
Given my incredible ability to like things no one else does, I fully expect everyone else to hate it and the series will be cancelled.
Given my incredible ability to like things no one else does, I fully expect everyone else to hate it and the series will be cancelled.
10:11 PM - Feb 04, 2024
01:22 PM - Feb 04, 2024
Doing some research for a book proposal I am putting together (it's about deviant behavior online), and I found more proof that our civilization is coming to an end.
You really shouldn't hire a hitman on a website called [ahem] "RentAHitman."
You really shouldn't hire a hitman on a website called [ahem] "RentAHitman."
01:05 PM - Jan 21, 2024
"I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it,” Charlie Kirk said... “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”
It was only a matter of time.
https://www.wired.com/stor...
It was only a matter of time.
https://www.wired.com/stor...
07:09 PM - Jan 19, 2024
A claim:
A full figured, beautiful women with all of their natural curves are at the pinnacle of human development.
A full figured, beautiful women with all of their natural curves are at the pinnacle of human development.
09:50 PM - Jan 18, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
This is excellent. So many people are demonizing teachers (which I still find amazing). More people should post videos giving shout outs to educators who were impactful in their life - even if that educator was their mom, like McConaughy.
https://www.instagram.com/...
https://www.instagram.com/...
03:04 PM - Jan 17, 2024
11:44 AM - Jan 15, 2024
I understand that we should avoid stereotypes:
"Lesbians drive Subarus."
But the sociologist in me can't help wondering how this stereotype was socially constructed.
Apparently, I'm not the only one with this curiosity.
"Lesbians drive Subarus."
But the sociologist in me can't help wondering how this stereotype was socially constructed.
Apparently, I'm not the only one with this curiosity.
11:37 PM - Jan 09, 2024
I see on TV so many times women say: "he makes me feel like I'm the only person in the world."
Why would someone want to feel that way?
That is the most narcissistic thing imaginable.
Why would someone want to feel that way?
That is the most narcissistic thing imaginable.
08:07 PM - Jan 07, 2024
