Nathan Alexander
Historian (race, atheism), Univ. of Ottawa 🇨🇦. Self-publishing a fantasy novel, Ashes of the Revolution 🐉. Author, Race in a Godless World. Project manager, @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. Co-host, Beyond Atheism Podcast.
https://www.nathangalexander.com
- There used to be this idea that there were unreleased recordings from The Apprentice where Trump used the N word and that if they ever came out, it would end his political career. I think now if such tapes did come out, it would barely make a one-day blip in the news cycle
- A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- The "pick me" energy of this guy is off the charts www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderNew episode of the Lifestances Podcast is now available! Ep. 7: Religion and Nonreligion in the Classroom: Educating for a Diverse World Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5EVs...
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderThe NCF invites you to an upcoming virtual book launch for the newest book from our team, Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (De Gruyter, 2026). Date: February 24, 2026 Time: 4:00 pm ET Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderHas there been a religious revival in the UK? In this article, @conradhackett.bsky.social (Pew Research) digs into this question and shows how the use of certain survey methods can offer a skewed picture www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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- NY Post editorial board: "The alacritous and misleading rhetoric coming out of the administration needs to stop ... DHS Secretary Kristi Noem should also take a break from her self-promoting and combative TV hits." nypost.com/2026/01/25/o...
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderWatching this old man take a water bottle and slowly walk into a mist of tear gas is going to stay with me. Everything they do to make people scared empowers them all the more.
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderIt’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderThe White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderNew from NCF team member Guilherme Borges, "Secular Religious Education? Brief Reflections Based on a Brazilian Case" in the NSRN blog @thensrn.bsky.social thensrn.org/2026/01/17/s...
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderIt's a small thing, but it fills me with civic pride to walk through the giant park near my house and see Hmong families having cookouts, Somali parents pushing their laughing kids on the swings. Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
- Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
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- Big announcement from @manchester.ac.uk today: "The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, becoming the first university in the world to give Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to every student and colleague." #GenerativeAI #Research #Manchester
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/ - It's interesting to observe Trump and other right-wingers mourning their own. Like with Charlie Kirk, it doesn't like seem there is any genuine affection for the person, only for their usefulness.
- Seeing these photos and videos of ICE agents slipping and falling has been nourishing my soul
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderWe're excited to announce the publication of Religion and Nonreligion in Same Sex Marriage Debates: Emerging Imaginaries (edited by Juan Marco Vaggione, Paula Montero, and Lori G. Beaman). This is the latest in our NCF book series published by De Gruyter.
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderYesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderAgain, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.
- Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children - Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderBest TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
- The article is every bit as cringe-y as advertised
- Looks like it was written by AI...
- Not sure how I feel about this exactly, but I do wonder whether keeping plants in pots is ethical... I feel like maybe they should only be in the earth
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- Way too real
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- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderKilling in the name of… nothing
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- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderTotal gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
- The story has now been updated with a quote from Donald Trump on the situation: "They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs! Hannibal Lector. Insane asylums. FIFA Peace Prize. Did you hear about the new White House ballroom?"
- CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration 60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage My NPR story www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
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- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderI’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
- I don't read Chinese, but you had me at "Hot Paper"!!
- Wow, this will be a tough competition but my money is on Elon to come out on top!!
- 🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
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- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderToday in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
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- This is a brilliant article by Cory Doctorow on the AI bubble pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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- This is nuts
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderUniversities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI” Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
- Oh no, Wayne Gretzky botching all of these names 😭 #WorldCupDraw
- This is probably the worst thing I've ever seen... 🤮 #worldcupdraw
- The AI bubble can't pop soon enough...
- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderIf universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
- Sort of reminds me of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk...
- "Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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- Reposted by Nathan AlexanderGood morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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- Huge if true
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- Wait a second, does this mean that all of the beautiful women who have contacted me on here claiming to find my profile intriguing and wishing to be friends are also fake???
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