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Ellen Evers retweeted
Jun 12
Can’t stop thinking about how Wall Street is celebrating Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire, while he single handedly eliminated humanitarian aid that will lead to the needless deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest children in the world in the next 4 years.
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Jun 11
The irony of this response to someone announcing leaving Frontiers for being forced to use too many bad AI assistants.
Jun 11
The detail that matters here: a system revoking expert invitations a human editor deliberately sent. That's not AI assisting judgment — it's AI overruling it.
That's exactly how this technology shouldn't be used. The right design for something like reviewer matching is AI that recommends and a human who decides. The moment the system can override the editor, the architecture is backwards.
AI in scholarly publishing should make human judgment better informed — never optional.
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Jun 11
I wonder if a lot of the "having moral intuitions means you are irrational and dumb" online discourse can be traced back to a single streamer profoundly misunderstanding the emotional dog and its rational tail
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Ellen Evers retweeted
How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?
His lips are moving, saying the words "I'm lying", and he is trustworthy, so you can take him at his word.
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Ellen Evers retweeted
May 5
one awesome thing about America in 2026 is that if I were to tell you the Rutgers University School of Engineering removed its graduation ceremony keynote speaker, I could stop the story right there & you could fill in every detail with precise accuracy (link below)
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Ellen Evers retweeted
May 4
you know who isn't apologizing for the commencement speech? Derek Peterson 👏🏾
May 4
🟡🔵 University of Michigan President Domenico Grasso is “apologizing” after a commencement speech by the Faculty Senate Chair yesterday praised pro-Palestinian student activists for helping open people’s hearts to the “injustice and inhumanity” suffered by Palestinians in the U.S. -backed Israeli war on Gaza.
Grasso called Professor Peterson’s remarks “hurtful,” “insensitive,” and “inappropriate,” and said they “do not represent our institutional position.”
Grasso also said the comments did not belong in a “celebratory” setting, distancing the university from the message, and pledging to review future ceremonies. “We will not allow a 30-second soundbite to tear down the goodwill,” he declared.
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Apr 26
To figure out why Cole Allen did what he did, I obtained a copy of his resume and talked to his former friends. The portrait that emerges is unlike what the White House is saying:
kenklippenstein.com/p/assass…
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Apr 22
I'm in the Chronicle of Higher Education today arguing that teaching and learning centers (basically, professional development centers for higher ed teachers) are not genuine sources of teaching expertise and shouldn't be treated like they are. (link in first comment) (1)
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Apr 18
Just finished Lessig's discussion of the final Gino allegation. This may be the least curious thing I've ever encountered, just absolutely zero motivation to figure anything out.
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Ellen Evers retweeted
"The Boys are Back in Town" is meant to sound celebratory. But to those of us like myself who considered the boys our friends, it can hurt hearing it second-hand, like I'm the last one to find out
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Guy who cheered on the suppression of the protests: “Where are the protests??”
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Apr 11
The 2025 documentary Pistachio Wars by Yasha Levine (Watermelon Pictures) shows that billionaire California pistachio magnates Stewart and Lynda Resnick, owners of The Wonderful Company, use their influence to drive a hardline U.S. foreign policy against Iran to protect their market monopoly.
The film links the couple to funding hawkish think tanks like the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) that advocate for policies that “kill” all diplomatic efforts.
@pistachiowars | @watermelon_pics
Apr 6
💢 REPORT | Opening Strikes in U.S.-Israeli Bombing Campaign Targeted Heart of Iran’s Pistachio Trade
Iran was once the world’s leading pistachio producer. Today, USDA data show the U.S., led by California, accounts for roughly 65% of global output, while Iran’s share has fallen to about 18%.
In the first week of the war, reports and geolocated satellite imagery indicated strikes in and around Rafsanjan, the heart of Iran’s pistachio sector, including apparent damage to pistachio warehouse facilities near the airport.
The Resnick family, owners of The Wonderful Company and dominant players in California’s pistachio industry, have used political influence to secure vast water rights in drought-stricken regions, at the expense of local communities.
The 2025 documentary Pistachio Wars examines their longstanding backing of pro-Israel lobbying groups, arguing that hawkish policies toward Iran align with their commercial interests, as weakening a key global competitor benefits their bottom line.
🎥 Pistachio Wars (2025) trailer.
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Apr 10
Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.
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Ellen Evers retweeted
I can’t understand why every single democrat isn’t calling for the 25th amendment
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Apr 6
we're reaching john stuart mill levels of absurd "thought experimetns are just as good as real experiments" scientism with this one
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Imagine being one of those astronauts looking down at Earth, and discovering that you don't feel anything.
You'd have to pretend.
I wonder if any of them are like that.
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Mar 31
Fun discovery - if you're from the UK, Grok will attempt to translate Japanese text into British English but will comically overdo it in the process
What I see vs what my American friends see
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Ellen Evers retweeted
Mar 31
Have you ever seen the mascots of Philadelphia get a stern talking to??? Because I have
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