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Doug Wilson is the same pastor that Pete Hegseth platforms and states that Mormons shouldn’t be allowed to vote. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Small-town Idaho may seem like a strange place for an ambitious young coder, but he stayed there for a compelling reason. As Taylor explained on X in 2023, he lived in Moscow "in order to be part of a medium-sized church community." That community was the fiefdom founded by Doug Wilson, the self-proclaimed Christian nationalist pastor of Moscow's Christ Church. In a 2023 tweet, Taylor described Wilson as a huge influence on me regarding wealth." In an email to Mother Jones, Wilson said he first met a teenage Taylor when his family relocated to Moscow; Wilson described Taylor as "a go-getter." Taylor didn't respond to our request for comment on his relationship with Wilson and other details of this story.

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Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Considering the crisis of the time, I'm surprised more people aren't talking about how prescient this was, especially as a debut novel. Do people not read Player Piano in high school anymore?

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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 5h

“Their arguments are a potent combination of Latter-day Saint scripture, Cold War paranoia, and free-market principles that bare the marks of their era while simultaneously claiming to capture eternal truths.” 🔥 Thank you, @benjaminepark.bsky.social . I’m so excited for your upcoming book!!!

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Commentary: Cold War may be over, but anti-communism is hot again — and Latter-day Saints are in the thick of it

Latter-day Saints have played a crucial role in the fight against communism, a fight that has resurfaced again.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What people don't realize is that the #stochasticparrot argument is NOT the only conceptualization of how LLMs work! There are at least two others, and I talk about one of them in this post: reedhepler.substack.com/p/parrots-an... Another writer posited another explanation, I will try to find it.

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Parrots and Octopi vs. Domain Models

Two Ways of Thinking about AI Tools and Their Implications

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every month or so, I get on here and see how the conversations re:AI and Copyright and Education and Libraries go. They very often intersect, and every three or four months, the same type of "pattern" restarts.

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i have no oats @ihavenooats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sure, I'm sure a linguist is totally qualified to frame her comments as fact regarding what are now multimodal models. It's a shame; her criticisms were much more reasonable in '23 when LLMs weren't multimodal, but now it's just grifting nonsense.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join me a month from today to talk about avoiding intrusive AI! October 6th, Noon MT, $99/person.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is what I said two years ago...

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No, it's more like "it's in the public domain, so no one will sue us." It also doesn't hurt that it's in almost every #MusicAppreciation class ever, so it is *cultured* to like it, because everyone thinks THEY discovered it themselves.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite episodes, obviously, is the #Mormon -centric one, when #Frasier gradually realizes to his HORROR that his new agent is a Mormon. He was even a member of the #TabernacleChoir. "When there's a dirty job to be done, you can't go wrong with a *Mormon*!" has me dying every time.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did you know that the #mormon #lds Church History Department kept a collection of all the internal and external publications that influenced the new hymnbook's creation? You can browse the metadata for 200 records at catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/search/_simp... #music #faithsky #mormonsky

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 22/09/2026

***NEW PUBLICATION*** If you've had a browse round the new website as well as spotting some new music you may have seen this little number coming soon... Introducing The Collect for the Rail Replacement Service.

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Penguin School & Library @penguinschoollib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Andrea, an elementary school librarian, is sharing the stunning new picture book from award-winning and acclaimed creators Traci N. Todd and Vashti Harrison! THAT YOU ARE HERE IS NO SMALL THING is an honest and empowering read to add to your shelves 💜🐧 #ad #edusky #penguinclassroompartner

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I created this list of #OER -finding resources that I have come across in my 4-ish years working in the #Open and #openaccess ecosystem. Let me know of any sites I should add, or if you have any questions! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Resources for Finding OERs

The Big List of OER-Finding Resources Remember: just because something is copyrighted does not mean it is not Open Access! OA includes copyrighted materials that have been made available for free by t...

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 16/09/2026

Huge kudos to David Whitworth for coding this majestic timesuck. Enjoy. www.davidwhitworth.co.uk/app-developm...

davidwhitworth.co.uk

App development | David Whitworth

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 16/09/2026

PROTECT THE CHAMBER ORGAN. l1nk.dev/chamberorgan The priceless chamber organ is under threat. Tourists are approaching with cameras, sticky fingers, and an insatiable desire to touch things they have been specifically asked not to touch. As the Lay Clerk on duty, you must defend the organ.

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Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join us for a wonderful Scholar/Student Panel on Friday at UVU! Gen Z Religion: Are We Seeing a “Quiet Revival” of Faith? Two scholars will discuss trends and two UVU students will share their own stories of navigating religion in this particular cultural moment + Pizza! www.uvu.edu/philhum/degr...

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

my bff @thelibbiegrant.bsky.social's book about the AI singularity comes out TODAY and it is MAGICAL AF. We all know how I feel about AI & I loved this book so much, I blurbed it the timing is absolutely extra hilarious ALSO LIBBIE WROTE ONE OF DOLLY PARTON'S OWN FAVORITE BOOKS CAN YOU IMAGINE

Cover of The Ended World by Libbie Grant

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Being a Xennial is wild When I was 5, I sat next to a woman who lived before the invention of the American gasoline car engine (1893!) She told me what it was like to go everywhere by horse, to not have electricity after my 5th birthday, Mississippi ratified the 19th amendment Now here we are

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 13/09/2026

"No, you absolutely were in tune."

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This concept sounds like the most outlandish thing. I think most people would fail at it. But this is magnificent. Ey makes it sound natural. And Tumblr is an excellent place to get WALLS of text. Why wouldn't social media be a place to get text to set to music? I'll have to ruminate on this idea.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On the one hand, this is an absolute MUST READ. On the other hand, how is it that they have NEVER read this before?... I read this in junior high.

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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A passage from my blog (fun fact- I was an OG Mormon Mommy blogger) 15 years ago. I’ll reiterate. We forgot. We need to find this level of unity again. Americans are stronger when we’re together.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you want America-inspired music for today, this is classical music's Statue of Liberty, from Olivier Messiaen: youtu.be/h0N40AVL32U?...

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Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles (Chung, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France)

YouTube video by Rique Borges

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remember, e-mail was also not so ubiquitous then, and it would be another 10ish years until I sent my first text message. So short of turning on the TV or radio, having someone call you on the phone or tell you things IRL, OR connecting your internet, it was easy to just ... not know things. 2/2

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I saw this a while ago and found it fascinating, because the audience clearly had no idea what was going on until the hosts (and eventually an ABC news team) told them. They'd been sitting in the audience all morning and, again, no smart phones, no wireless internet, etc. youtu.be/_h1wDjMwkOA

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9/11/01 Live Regis and Kelly (Entire 58 minutes of the show)

YouTube video by Jerry L. Small

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

These are the hazards of using 5 or 6 suppliers for your library services, especially if you are a smaller library! That being said, if you think Spydus is a "horrible CMS," you haven't used it enough. Loads cheaper and we replaced 5 of our previous subscriptions with it, including Springshare.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The funny thing is, at least when I was learning about open science in 2021, people knew this would happen. My instructor said, "for now things are good, but there is no way to stop someone from misusing or misinterpreting your data. It is a risk you have to be wiling to acknowledge and take."

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, this is nice, but I don't get why this is such a big deal. God forbid I go to Costco and push my kids in their two-bucket carts or *gasp* an actual stroller. The amount of GLARES I get from husbands, like I'm some kind of gender traitor, is astonishing. One guy even asked where my wife was...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

“Is Lorelai Gillmore working class” the greatest thread in the history of Gillmore Girls forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

EVERYTHING I learned about music before high school, and some even then, was useless and/or wrong.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I had a student call my cellphone at 10 pm because I had not answered an email about database access... at 9 pm. They woke my babies up. My personal phone isn't in the college directory. They looked me up on Google. Needless to say, my email signature included an explicit addition from then on lol

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@benjaminepark.bsky.social In your research on Skousen etc, have you come across the reasons for "Mormon cultural exceptionalism" that revived in the 1990s and has never really gone away since? Anne Frank posthumous baptisms, blatant changes to hymns, claiming Lewis was "unconsciously Mormon," etc.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Never let an ARCHIVIST help you move.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026

Never let a writer help you move

A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 01/09/2026

Rise up: Make Altos Great Again.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Come join me in two Tuesdays (September 8th) at Noon, Mountain! This 60-minute webinar explores the historical evolution of research methodologies and information access, from traditional library catalogs to modern AI-powered tools. $99/person www.library20.com/ai-sessions/...

AI SEARCH: How to understand and navigate this dramatic change in search technology

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

WORDS By #FranzWright I don’t know where they come from. I can summon them (sometimes I can) into my mind, into my fingers, I don’t know why. Or I’ll suddenly hear them walking, sometimes waking— they don’t often come when I need them. When I need them most terribly, never.

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Currently reading @jessicaduchen.bsky.social’s biography of Gabriel Fauré and I’m at the bit where he’s writing his First Piano Quartet. So what better to listen to than one of my favourite pieces, that I’ve neglected a bit recently?

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Quartetto Fauré Di Roma - Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartets op. 15 & op. 45

Listen to Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartets op. 15 & op. 45 on your streaming service

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I would be most excited about the Bartok String Quartets!

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's the problem, though: Conference organizers make "active learning" a REQUIRED element of the rubric. So we have to put that in the presentation, or the proposal is rejected.

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My institution's IT helpdesk page is blocked... by IT... for being insecure... Who exactly do I contact about this?

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This pairs well with my mantra lately, "the library is not the bookstore," which is needed this semester much more frequently than previous semesters, for some reason...

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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