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I think dissolving the tripartite divisions of knowledge in this age of their obsolescence--in which they act as barriers to collaborative knowledge work on equal footing--is the only way we'll get such a humanistic perspective in natural science in any sustained way.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 18h

Schlichter did this to me as well years ago when I noted the military PTSD connotations of ‘trigger’ warnings. Tried to spin it as me being anti-military, and I was flooded with messages from bad athletes who couldn’t run a mile in under 10 minutes or do 13 pushups and probably now work for ICE.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 18h

Every single person responsible for this needs to be investigated, unmasked, and brought to justice before the law. The judge should be fired immediately. Anything less is anti-American.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo did a live play-by-play of how he was going to manipulate the NYT with the Claudine Gay story as a way to discredit academics of color broadly. He has never believed in colorblindness! Not once!

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly. The relentless, smug pessimism is for me just a non-starter. In the academic humanities in particular it’s poisonous, even among the most well paid and secure.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, and among other things this is why I’m increasingly frustrated by the framing of AI against ‘writing’ in general, as if ‘writing’ is a singular thing with no variation.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 19h

Didn’t she once call it A1?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wordcel High Decoupling - Analytic Philosophy. Wordcel Low Decoupling - Continental Philosophy Shape Rotator High Decoupling - No one this is fake if you're doing maths you're drawing out structural connections cf Bourbaki. Shape Rotator Low Decoupling - String Theorist

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 20h

I do think a lot of problems in academia that people attribute to AI are actually resource problems for which AI is challenging the polite fictions that sustained an under-resourced higher ed.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine if violent crime were covered this way. ‘Perpetrator broke into the car and pistol whipped the driver in the head, fracturing his skull and likely skirting the law. This unusual approach to hailing a taxi comes amid a turbulent environment…

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23h

In real terms, public undergraduate tuition today is less than half of what it was twenty years ago – and this is without taking rising family income into account www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/the-...

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The surprising facts about college tuition - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The statistics in the article below come primarily from the Digest of Education Statistics, published annually by the National Center for Education Statistics, and CollegeBoard’s annual Trends in Coll...

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 29/09/2026

We have a bunch of high follower account types with institutional incentives and perhaps personal predilections towards performative cruelty who should absolutely know what they're doing, and then we also have a platform that enables it.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is one of the risks of disciplinarity, particularly acute when the discipline in question exists for decades in a defensive crouch. What people don't adequately understand is that disciplines are designed to self-destruct.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hate how polarized this discussion has become. Writing is obviously not one thing! You don't have to think writing literally *is* thinking to think it's an important way of thinking things through. You don't have to be a Platonist or a denialist about this...

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Between DoJ in Boasberg and Schmitt today, it's hard to escape the idea that MAGA is affirmative action for bloviating idiots. Are you extremely ideologically motivated and also extremely stupid? MAGA is here with your handouts.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“You fled to The Hague“ “Yes to prosecute a murderous dictator” “I rest my case”

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They can't do 13 pushups, they can't run a mile in under 10 minutes, and they don't know ball.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think the answer, after several decades, is fairly obvious. its a person who suffers from all of the defects neil postman ascribed to television without any of the benefits of mass media creating a shared psychological space

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 28/09/2026

an LLM cannot have understanding because that is a capability reserved exclusively to me, as I unwittingly parrot the premise of a paper I didn’t read based on some overconfident tweets I saw one time in 2023

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My wife, a Mars rover fan, named the robot vacuum Perseverance, shortened to Percy.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 28/09/2026

Youre doing platos cave activism and not actually engaging with the world as it is.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

no, "rationalist" isn't ironic. they specifically contrast themselves with empiricism -- and they literally believe that they can derive everything in their light cone from first principles to the disappearance of the last neutron.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when this app said it was going to start suspending users who cruelly dogpile people, and a bunch of accounts were like, "how dare you silence my culture"

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hailey @hailey.at · 27/09/2026

unironically, bluesky is the social website for ML. couldn’t do this anywhere else

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yinz guys no longer in this meeting jagoffs

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 28/09/2026

Let’s be clear: It is ILLEGAL to pay for campaign ads with taxpayer money. There's a whole bunch of federal laws specifically designed to prevent this! The seething, sinister vibes are just as alarming. He really does see himself as above silly things like “the law” and “campaign ethics.”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense

Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 28/09/2026

This is a good reason to be interested in interpretability. LLMs aren't very good at fiction yet, but once they are, I bet we learn a lot by contrasting the processes that produce gripping stories to those that produce lame ones.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And even if you are hot shit, you can get a much better feel for where your talents and skills begin and end and what you’d need to do to improve them to have a reasonable prospect to accomplish or know such and such. Which relatedly is why super low risk educational choices are bad.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I kinda get why people hate on fussy philosophical stuff, but on the other hand don't you think we live in a time where it'd be especially helpful to have rigorous conversations about things like personhood, meaning in life, the point of art, the point of pure mathematics, & operationalizing ethics?

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would never occur to me to bring coffee or any beverage to a job interview, but also it would never occur to me to give a shit if someone else did when I’m interviewing them.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Data 👏 centers 👏 are 👏 affordable 👏 housing

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These agents need to face a criminal jury for assault.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026

Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions. State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.

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Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way.

From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being against anthropomorphism and overestimating its epistemic problems is old-school scientism. The very word ‘computer’ was first applied to humans who did calculations.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly I think it's a bit of a fools' errand to try and get people to stop anthropomorphising LLMs. I say my computer is angry at me if it beeps too loud.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh yeah, that's good bluesky right there

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I largely agree with this, at least in spirit, but I think it’s impractical with respect to (a) the pace of change underway / the risk of near-term obsolescence and (b) actually defining ‘AI use’ and ‘for an assignment.’

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