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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 2h

Centaur (AI piloting human) is the wrong metaphor. What you really need is three parts: humans piloting AI piloting deterministic systems - like that amateur astronomist who used LLMs _and_ traditional astronomy tools to find a new exoplanet, or LLMs writing property tests as machines to find bugs.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 3h

what if we eminent-domained and rewilded every Trump golf course as forest

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"It’s time we rethink what outreach in organic chemistry can look like. We often focus on K–12 students, as we should. But there is another audience we may be overlooking: intellectually curious adults who simply want to learn about our field." #chemsky 🧪

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Opinion: I gave a chemistry lecture in a bar. It was a revelation

I discovered adults eager to learn. Let's do more to reach them

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Though, cards on the table, in my ideal world we would have shifted those interceptor stocks and then told Ukraine to absolutely keep blowing the crap out of Russian oil infrastructure until every last Russian soldier was either off Ukrainian soil or buried in it.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Probably woo. The way superpositions represent uncertainty in the popular conception is very different than their relationship in the actual math. The weird physics in biological systems largely applies to all cells, not just neurons. (Stats for molecular behavior breaks down @ low copy numbers.)

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Imagine if a crib that sometimes collapsed while a baby slept inside was treated as an impossible to predict feature of the emergent complexity of cribs and therefore we decided nothing could be done.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Higher levels of anti-Semitism on the left lead to higher levels of anti-Semitism on the right and vice versa.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is immoral

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m super interested, I don’t feel comfy trusting some parts of my life (like student email management) to a remote LLM but I could also REALLY use an autosecretary.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here. From my dissertation:

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes
I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen
the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are
Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me.
"Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation
to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque
to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines.
We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes.
It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn
by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fun fact about Catholic doctrine on the death penalty, there's no carveout for "what if the guy was really bad"

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 09/10/2026

president zelenskyy fire at will

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 09/10/2026

NEW YOON HA LEE SPACE OPERA THIS IS NOT A DRILL NEW YOON HA LEE SPACE OPERA seriously. If you haven't read the Machineries of Empire series... ooh boy are you in for a treat

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 09/10/2026

maybe but this sentiment is consistently coming from above, it seems to me, from people with money and power whose version of the american dream has already come true.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 09/10/2026

That history matters now more than ever. Trust in democracy's ability to deliver is at historic lows, and it won't be rebuilt with empty slogans. It gets rebuilt the same way it was built the first time: government visibly, reliably making people's lives better.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

and the zeroth step is getting a solid enough victory to scare Republicans into line

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🌊 Nature-based ≠ automatically carbon-negative Oyster reefs can grow faster as sea levels rise, helping protect coasts from waves, but they may not store net carbon. Shell formation can offset the CO2 buried in reef sediments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sea level-induced oyster reef accretion causes minimal net carbon burial change - Nature Geoscience

Oyster reefs in North Carolina have grown vertically as sea level has risen in recent centuries, although this has not led to an increase in carbon sequestration, according to an analysis of oyster re...

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gonna repeat my usual heuristic: * If you believe Gazan babies should die because of Hamas/etc, you are racist and a bad person. * If you believe Israeli babies should die because of the Likud/etc, you are racist and a bad person.

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Far too many people on my feed and in my mentions are debating which Israelis are inherently killable. Guys, the issue isn't whether all Israelis serve in the IDF, or whether you can get out of conscription. It's that anyone who says "all members of group X are guilty" is advocating genocide.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

another year where all the science nobels went to men, as was the case in 2024 much of this piece, about the structural barriers women face in doing innovative research and receiving credit for it, holds up (I think) www.statnews.com/2024/10/11/n...

statnews.com

Men won all the science Nobels this year. There's an even bigger problem

The Nobel's gender gap reflects larger barriers faced by women in science

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 07/10/2026

"A woman is dead who should still be here. A man I deeply care about is waiting for the state to kill him. Both things are true. Those truths do not cancel out each other. They sit beside each other, like two people left alone in a room after everyone else has gone."

texasobserver.org

'I Guess if the Drugs Don’t Work, They’ll Just Shoot Me in the Head'

After a botched execution in Tennessee, Texas is set to kill Jamaal Howard, who has so many mental health problems and intellectual disabilities that he doesn't understand how he will be killed.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also there are outcomes other than worker productivity entirely, which I'm considering in this thread. Being correctly identified as a candidate for a rare disease treatment before the window of intervention closes is an example of a possible outcome from helping resolve some tasks more efficiently

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know how people find these random old posts, but sometimes they find a winner. Yesterday someone liked this 2+ year old image and it let me see it again. Look at baby Colin Robinson.

Tiny baby white goat in a field of blue and red wildflowers

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes and - there are versions of “want to get better at punching” that are scary but there are plenty that are just sportsball reasons, or deliberately trying to work off a physical response to stress in a way that is healthier than turning that anger elsewhere, etc Culturally determined meaning

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This isn't Twitter, you don't need to hide links here.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

really useful thread about anti-Arab racism in Israel. Is the situation "good?" NO. Is it easily paralleled to situations in America? ALSO NO.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

alternate universe sex roles where math and physics are AFAB-coded because you can do those on paper while watching a toddler

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"not dying horribly;" "not needing to be on the hook for hella backstop fire insurance payouts;" etc. You seem to think that barging into a conversation about science with "lol, suckers" shows how smart you are and how naive I am. It actually shows that you use cynicism to excuse your own laziness.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Basically — out with DAC, in with fully wind- and solar-powered plants that electrochemically deacidify seawater. And giant algae tanks that we turn into biochar, again fully powered with renewables. And spreading crushed rock into soil to improve soil pH and passively capture CO2…

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The thermodynamic fundamentals still matter — it will always take more energy to capture carbon from burned oil than we got from burning it — but with widespread cheap solar that may matter less.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DAC is the best-known strategy for carbon capture, mostly because it has tech parallels to in-plant CCS and the fossil fuel industry will pay absurd $$$ to keep pretending that is viable. But there are plenty of other,better strategies! Many focus on *marine* rather than air capture.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rehabilitation requires accountability. Decarceration’s best self is about finding new ways to hold people to account, that are less toxic for both the holders and the held. It is *hard as shit.* Its worst self gives up on accountability, and therefore trades rehabilitation for perpetuated harm.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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👻spOOokika👻 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Urban blue voters need to understand that if farm workers could vote, rural farming areas would turn blue overnight. But they can’t. Stop punishing rural America just because only landlords control the vote.

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brianloveswords @brianloveswords.com · 01/10/2026

it's the least mind-boggling thing i've ever heard; it's a connect-the-dots with two dots.

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

vote for 70s-style lines at the pump I guess!!!!!

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betsythemuffin.bsky.social @betsythemuffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am assuming the "price cuts" are gas tax cuts, or possibly some esoteric subsidy-for-price-controls plan?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s actually interfering with my friendships because real messages just get buried in the avalanche of political spam.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is ultimately why organizations such as Standing Together are rejected as allies by much of the radical fringe - because their goal is no longer mutual peace & understanding, but absolute victory & renunciation of an entire people & culture, no matter what is claimed otherwise.

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