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The newly potty trained toddler that lives with me loves to show me their poops. One of their recent masterpieces looked like a little turtle.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think this is what Arendt meant by this concept. She thought Eichmann was _not_ a “true believer” or a dupe. He was banal in that he was just unthinkingly “doing his job.”

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 19h

People who park cars in lots — would you tell a stranger they were parked poorly? What if you parked next to them and can’t really get out of your car?

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dragonball Z is a direct descendant of Buddhist scholasticism, which also categorizes demons and calculates how long you need to self cultivate to develop special powers. So yes.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The upāya of Keynes, different lessons for different audiences: in the short term, we dig holes out of a Great Depression. In the ultra long term, we work ten hour work weeks. In the medium long term, we are all dead.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the long run we are all dead. Well, not me. I’m undead. — KeynesBot2000

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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility." - @lilymasonphd.bsky.social

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think this is what Arendt meant by this concept. She thought Eichmann was _not_ a “true believer” or a dupe. He was banal in that he was just unthinkingly “doing his job.”

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thesis: be best — Melania Antithesis: …it can only good happen — Donald Synthesis: it can only BEST happen — Pangloss from Candide

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you have departments that produce fewer numbers of majors why is that always the fault of the department and not of the administrators? “Only two students taking Akkadian. We have to fire you.” “No, you’re supposed to get me more Akkadian students. You’ve failed your job. I fire you!”

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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“In Chinese, the word for “artificial” is formed by combining the characters for “person” (ren) and “work” (gong), emphasizing something made by human effort rather than set in opposition to nature.” www.theideasletter.org/essay/shooti...

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Shooting the Suns

Bequelin situates China’s approach to artificial intelligence within the country’s longer trajectory of treating science as a primary engine of development and state-building. That history has produce...

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I miss the multilingual madness of twitter. I wake up under a bluesky in the US and it's mostly UK-English and German on my feed. I can't read Arabic, Hebrew, Georgian but I appreciated the algorithm feeding me some

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BIG NEWS! I am launching a new podcast together with colleagues from the Cluster of Excellence on Cross-Cultural Philology here at the LMU in Munich. It's called Pages of History and will appear once a month, following today's initial launch with three episodes. pagesofhistorypodcast.net

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is she fired from her old job yet

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

in my experience political scientists talk louder

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Religious studies folks, are fraternity hazing rituals still a go-to for classroom discussions about van gennep/turner on 'rites of passage', 'liminality', 'secrecy', 'generation', 'ritual' period? How do we feel about that given the *gestures wildly*?

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*sees netflix advertisement for “new stanford prison experiment” ew one stanford is well enough can’t reckon why we’d need a new one

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will hire Bari Weiss. I will give her five dollars to introduce me at parties, “I may be Bari Weiss, but I know somebody who is _Very Wise_…”

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Blinded by teleology, China did eventually end up settling mostly on the codex format… but the scroll perdured for a very long time, and all the “transitional” forms btw scroll and codex are also pretty interesting.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'm a College Professor. What if New York Times Op-Eds Are Designed to Make You Stupider?"

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026

Mr. President.... China, they.... it's bad. They just announced Ultra Intelligence

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been listening to _Lady Chatterley's Lover_ in the car, and I'm finding it much less of a grind than _Sons and Lovers_. I don't think of myself as a prude, but I feel a bit squirmy when the narrator has his characters say 'f*ck' and 'c*nt' over and over again.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As wealth and income inequality have become more and more fractal does this strengthen an ideology that qualities like 'beauty' and 'intelligence' are and ought to be distributed along an exponential curve, correlated to wealth & income?

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hadn't heard of Djuna Barnes or Nella Larsen until like a year ago and now I see them everywhere.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thinking of running a Lin Manuel Miranda Large Language Model Multilevel Marketing (LMMLLMMLM) scam

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google runs our mail server at work. Can I use their emoji-response buttons (👍) or are these by definition already unprofessional? I've heard tell that Gen Z thinks 👍is a sarcastic "okay mom" but I think this is inadmissable evidence as it is Gen X hearsay.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the hyper-complex labor intensive affect gets focused on because it fits into a model of measurable work output that is rewarded in our current professional and educational evaluation systems, a sort of quantitative sublime that aspires to qualitative meaningfulness.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*trebek voice* This Iris Murdoch novel’s title is so nice she named it twice

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)

Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing LLM ‘agents’ seem to be good at is searching thru all the tweets and perfunctorally attempting to rebut your claims that they are not very helpful and in most cases are programmed to be invasive, grifty, and even malevolent

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

finally, a good threads post

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I’m fine with “let people enjoy things” and I hope it’s not overly bothsidesy to make the corollary “let people be snobby too.” Learning to make your calls about what’s worth consuming, making, thinking about — in distinction to one’s “inferiors” — is critical to participating in democratic culture

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Please mind the noahfact/noahvalue distinction

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I don’t really understand what “distinction without a difference” means. In the example here, the author of the statement likely means to draw a distinction btw “lying” as a moral transgression and “stretching the truth” as acceptable. That’s a big difference!

A distinction without a difference is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things where no discernible difference exists.[1] It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.
For example, a person might say "I did not lie; I merely stretched the truth a little bit."[2]

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

skimming rn. always see it in citations, decided to just go for it. i think what's fun about it is that different classes not only like to consume different things, but they have different theories for why they like things and not other things (the things that you like, that are stupid).

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NICK (V.O.): "It's been three years since you've gone, old sport. I will destroy your enemies. I will win back your lady love. I am going to become ... The Greater Gatsby."

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lol watching with the sound off i thought this was like a 'too many cooks' sketch and that it was just gonna keep going

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One nice thing about Buddhist narratives of karma is how often they describe 'ineffective altruism.' You can just be nice! It'll pay off, maybe for the person you're used to calling 'you,' maybe that's what it'll take to convince you. But you can just be nice!

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Daniel B. Thompson @dbttheater.com · 30/03/2026

shofar, so good

A protester blows a shofar at Rahm Emanuel

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What's the point of these surveys demonstrating an electorate doesn't know basic facts, expresses fascistic sentiments, or wants impossible things? Pundits seem to offer these survey results as evidence that "this is why we need to put the tools of governance out of reach of the democracy"...

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A really delicious theorization of what's going on here culturally is Anna Kornbluh's _Immediacy_ book from 2024. "Three queueing" skips past phonics. Chromebook screens devalue physical teachers. Stdized tests teach reading passages or defining words correctly. Fetish of the right here right now.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Onion Counterpoint: you DO gotta hand it to me actually

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I still think it would be a good bit for the Harper's Letter writers to write the same letter, collect the same signatures, and distribute in Harper's Magazine, every month, Pierre Menard-style.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Substitute in “being an evangelical Christian in the US” for “being from Yorkshire” and I think you have a pretty good definition of USian evangelicalism.

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The first rule of being from Yorkshire is that you must always talk about being from Yorkshire at every possible opportunity. And then create other opportunities to talk about Yorkshire

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