Sam Kastner
way too online oceanographer (he/him)
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- Reposted by Sam KastnerIf a degree is just a piece of paper you need to get a desirable, good-paying job, someone invents a machine that can do it for you, and the notion that you might go to college to develop your mind for its own, non-remunerative sake is a punch line and an elite privilege, why not use the machine?
- Reposted by Sam Kastnerthis is the whole ballgame imo. the fact that students can feel like their entire future depends on doing well on a paper doesn’t incentivize learning; it incentivizes doing well on the paper. goes double when those futures depend on having a degree
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- Reposted by Sam KastnerI have poured from the vintage where the grapes were stored and which you were saving for the coming of the lord forgive me they were so wrathful and so battle born
- Reposted by Sam KastnerI do think it's worth marking and remembering that these people were willing to tolerate everything we've experienced since January and more provided it didn't disrupt the economy.
- “A top Goldman Sachs executive summed up the frustration with Mr. Trump succinctly: Someone has to stop him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
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- Reposted by Sam Kastnerif you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
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- Reposted by Sam Kastner🚨Inbox: Palestinian Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, a negotiator for the student encampment last spring, has been detained by DHS agents “without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.”
- more luka flopcic am I right
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- Reposted by Sam KastnerThis is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
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- Reposted by Sam KastnerI just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
- Reposted by Sam KastnerWith the NIH cuts, there’s no longer any excuse for any professor, in any discipline, to not address the moment in their classes. You don’t even have to be “political” if that’s how you roll; this changes everything. You need only observe reality. 1/
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- Reposted by Sam Kastnerphysicists have long debated how many dimensions there are. i believe there are six, and i'll walk you through how i got there. pick up a block and count its sides. four, right? front, back, west, and right. add a fifth dimension for weight and a sixth for what color it is and there you go
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- Reposted by Sam Kastnerif you report on "privatizing" NOAA its important to make clear that the private sector simply cannot replicate the data collection and modeling services performed by NOAA. They don't want to run it in the private sector, they want to paywall it so they can sell you something your taxes paid for
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- Happened on Cantwell’s line this morning too
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- Reposted by Sam Kastnerthey are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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- Reposted by Sam KastnerIt is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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- Literally: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5q... people are dead and they’re reprising Clark and Dawe
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- Reposted by Sam KastnerMe, smirking at the bear devouring my flesh: So you actually can’t do that it’s illegal. Focus on economics
- Reposted by Sam Kastneri am constantly hearing that the left is elitist but if it is elitism to stand up for basic values of citizenship and decency against a bunch of cruel dumbasses who have no greater ambition than to tell bad jokes and hear the braying laughter of their dumbass friends, then i am an elitist
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