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Audrey Yap

@audreysh.bsky.social
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Usually I pet dogs but sometimes do philosophy, mostly yelling about stuff (they/she)

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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Usually 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
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It 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
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We’re both short so maybe you sitting on my shoulders can count as our collective entry
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AI 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
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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
only a good guy with a thought experiment can stop a bad guy with a thought experiment
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is what happens when you let dramatic immigrants in I guess
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean I have historically been bad at relationships but nobody’s ever accused me of being stoic about it
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My philosophy claim to fame will just be that there’s a picture of me in this book
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No iced coffees at the Eastern APA
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I figured we were still in the abyss
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Alan 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)
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Took 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
A man in a white shirt with glasses behind a lectern and computer, gesturing with one hand, looking like he is clearly telling you some solid truths
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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
VicPD 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 #cdnfoi
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VicPD and province try to stop release of police “use of force” data — Needs More Spikes
VicPD 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...
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Surely the plagiarism machine will solve all of Hilberts problems
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Reading that back to myself perhaps that is only convincing to a very very small number of people
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If 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
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That’s accurate, though! Their whole thing was opposing technology-facilitated worker exploitation!
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s not making their education too easy, but it is making it easier for them not to get an education
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What are we even doing here
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Almost 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
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Big W for Waterloo
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Me, 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
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
2 Death 2 Furious
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Anti wokes and TERFs well represented here
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Olúfẹ́mi 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
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
living the accuracy-first epistemology dream
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don’t think there are enough truths out there, have you considered speeding up the rate at which they’re produced
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
For no particular reason, recalling that the Luddites had some pretty great ideas actually
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why even teach undergrads, just replace them with other agents so that we take people out of the process altogether
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ok but it Argentina would kind of have deserved it if they’d VARed that goal and decided someone was offside right
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Good bois around the world shuffling uneasily at this
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I can’t unsee this now
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Fistfight pausa when
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Held up in the air like a warning shot
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I thought tofurkey did a version of this
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
What is even happening in this game
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Also looks like great feedback provided
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Officiating discourse will hit its peak in that match
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If nothing else this tournament has taught us just what it takes to get people to root for countries like Belgium and Switzerland
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I don't understand the paranoia. It's not like FIFA have any obvious corruption issues.
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
lol
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Right, 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
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
And was it really so different from like everything that players have been doing this whole game?
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
VAR working hard for Argentina I see
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Love to see how much judges everywhere hate England, not just in Eurovision
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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I’ve been training for this remake of footloose
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
An Unexpected Visitor Turned Our Prison Block Into a Makeshift Aviary
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An Unexpected Bird Brought Gentleness to This Prison Block
Freedom isn't just about flying — it's about the small connections that make the bars feel a little less solid.
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