Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Usually the one thing I harangue incoming grad students about is that they should have and maintain a source of meaning in their life that isn’t school, because having academia be your everything can be super bad for you 0200
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It does sound like a fun game to describe your activities in the most sinister way possible, feels like we could come up with something good for chess 040
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We’re both short so maybe you sitting on my shoulders can count as our collective entry 120
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026AI has been useful for my work, but only because of how many times I’ve now done a bit in my classes where I tell students they should just ask me their questions instead of asking ChatGPT, and I’ll just make sure I take a big swig of water before answering Turns out it reminds me to hydrate 1110
Reposted by Audrey YapMatt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026only a good guy with a thought experiment can stop a bad guy with a thought experiment 1174
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is what happens when you let dramatic immigrants in I guess 020
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I mean I have historically been bad at relationships but nobody’s ever accused me of being stoic about it 131
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My philosophy claim to fame will just be that there’s a picture of me in this book 060
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Alan invited me to a workshop full of AI haters so I figured the best present I could give him that was the farthest thing from AI slop was a delicate squash I grew (pictured) 040
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Took this picture of @alanrichardson.bsky.social and I like to think he’s asking how much your favourite Vienna Circle member would have hated generative AI 1152
Reposted by Audrey YapStephen Harrison @stephenharrison.bsky.social · 10/09/2026VicPD asked the province not to release any of its use of force data, and they agreed. After multiple appeals, we can now see things like how often VicPD injured people, including people they’ve already jailed, or used force during “wellness checks.” needsmorespikes.com/blog/use-of-... #yyj #cdnfoineedsmorespikes.comVicPD and province try to stop release of police “use of force” data — Needs More SpikesVicPD asked the government not to release data showing how its officers used force between 2022 and 2024. The government agreed, but they were overruled by the privacy commissioner. The data shows Vic... 11411
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Surely the plagiarism machine will solve all of Hilberts problems 020
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Reading that back to myself perhaps that is only convincing to a very very small number of people 130
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If I hadn’t once been a 20 year old trying to write you essays on Leibniz, I would not have become the middle aged person I am with a monad pun for all appropriate occasions 130
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026That’s accurate, though! Their whole thing was opposing technology-facilitated worker exploitation! 160
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It’s not making their education too easy, but it is making it easier for them not to get an education 170
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Almost as though these issues might be connected…? No I can’t see any reason why people who care about climate and marginalized people would care about massive amounts of bombs being dropped on Indigenous people by their colonizers 060
Reposted by Audrey YapTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent 172688470
Reposted by Audrey YapOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final 183697577
Reposted by Audrey YapRichard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 13/08/2026living the accuracy-first epistemology dream 0203
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I don’t think there are enough truths out there, have you considered speeding up the rate at which they’re produced 1343
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026For no particular reason, recalling that the Luddites had some pretty great ideas actually 0120
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Why even teach undergrads, just replace them with other agents so that we take people out of the process altogether 030
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Ok but it Argentina would kind of have deserved it if they’d VARed that goal and decided someone was offside right 100
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Good bois around the world shuffling uneasily at this 000
Reposted by Audrey Yapmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday. 115111492404
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Officiating discourse will hit its peak in that match 010
Reposted by Audrey YapOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA 332746342
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026If nothing else this tournament has taught us just what it takes to get people to root for countries like Belgium and Switzerland 0121
Reposted by Audrey YapRob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I don't understand the paranoia. It's not like FIFA have any obvious corruption issues. 151
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Right, like it just makes me feel like donning a tin foil hat that this one was the simulation yellow card, not anything of the flopping around that happened in the rest of the game 240
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026And was it really so different from like everything that players have been doing this whole game? 130
Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Love to see how much judges everywhere hate England, not just in Eurovision 050
Reposted by Audrey YapPrison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 07/07/2026An Unexpected Visitor Turned Our Prison Block Into a Makeshift Aviaryprisonjournalismproject.orgAn Unexpected Bird Brought Gentleness to This Prison BlockFreedom isn't just about flying — it's about the small connections that make the bars feel a little less solid. 03913