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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18h

Once again thinking back to how this is the entire thesis that David Graeber came up with for Bullshit Jobs, which should have really been subtitled "Administrators at the London School of Economics who really annoy me".

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think I’ve always felt like this for art, but its definitely made me realise I also feel like this about math and it changed my half formed philosophical views on proofs. Oh an AI was so good it solved a millennium prize problem? I genuinely don’t care

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Getting an LLM to reproduce the idiosyncrasies of all possible search committee members to make this accurate would be far more impressive than any millennium prize problem solution

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

6 is already hilarious, but I like to imagine how he felt as he made sure not to name Messi as a comparison and it makes it even better

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/10/2026

Demanding your head coach read this out at a press conference is iconic.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look out! The giant bird is going to destroy the bridge!

Western Gull in the foreground making it look like a huge bird bigger than the Golden Gate Bridge in the background

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Teaching a class covering evolutionary ethics stuff next semester and I’ll definitely include this!

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look out! The giant bird is going to destroy the bridge!

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 04/10/2026

One consequences of the left's hostility to economics is that they rally behind solutions that will probably make things worse. Economics is not the enemy of the left, and hasn't been for nearly half a century

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also it’s my birthday, but I prefer the frog

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sadly no Condors, but did see California’s State Amphibian, the California Red-legged Frog

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As a sometimes Keynes scholar, I am sad that this is ending its run just before I'm next in London

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think the former better technically represents what it's actually about, but honestly yeah the latter does get the intuition of it better (and would improve understanding when teaching it to students)

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do like the idea that it's specifically about a bat though, and it all hinges on bats. It makes it more fun

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Serious Warhammer 40k spaceship vibes here in Cork.

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have done the Grand Canyon multiple times and never seen them, but people often have better luck at Pinnacles so fingers crossed

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Continuing my so far failed efforts to see California Condors this weekend, this time at Pinnacles National Park

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Wow this thing is really effective at writing Latex code and for loops, I should learn more about how it wor—“ “It’s god.” “Don’t listen to him. It’s not god. It may kill us all.” “Don’t listen to either of them. It’s not god, and it won’t kill us. To prove this, I made a virtual hell for it.”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is a little disconcerting that so many people who know a lot about LLMs on a technical level appear to go a little insane. It would be like if there was a really cool and effective new kind of pen, and for some reason about 40% of the people involved in the pen making process went mad.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This makes me think that Anthropic is a truly Californian company. Yes, Silicon Valley and venture capital but also cults, woo woo and vague spirituality.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.

Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are so many good sessions that at many times it's going to be difficult to choose which ones I will attend (but people should definitely attend my symposium, "Learning Across Games". We have some really cool talks!)

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Matt Haber @profmatthaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I made a public copy of my Program-At-A-Glance spreadsheet for the PSA27 contributed papers and symposia. You can make your own copy and customize your path through the program. It's going to be a great meeting, come join us! tinyurl.com/PSA26-Sep25. @philsci.bsky.social (psa26.oa-event.com)

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PSA26 Program-At-A-Glance--Shared (Sep. 25)

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Ben McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City are speed-running through every Simpsons meme in their desperation. A generational run.

Simpsons secret Cayman Islands banker meme

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And that was more focused on Russia, not Japan, anyway

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know you can (or at least could) do Russian History 1881 -1953 at 6th Form before uni in England, because I did it, and that covered the Russo-Japanese war. But that would require 1. Being English, 2. Taking history A level and 3. At a school that chooses that module, which really narrows it down

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also lets legislate for Oasis to re-split up at the same time, to really rub salt in the wounds

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My thoughts are that to be anywhere remotely fair, it needs to be all titles stripped, kicked out from the Premier League while the EFL also refuse them entry so they end up at least in the Conference (but preferably lower), and then sued and fined into the ground. Along with transfer bans etc

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's actually the reason Fernández wanted to join

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't know how you make City's punishment big enough that the cheating wouldn't have been worth it. Strip the titles and they could just win more, a single relegation to the championship and even with players leaving they'll be back up and a big team in no time. It needs to be even stronger

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People keep conflating it with strip their titles AND then award them to whoever finished second and then arguing against that instead. But there is nothing saying that you have to then reaward them afterwards. Just remove them and have no winner those seasons

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't know why Polanski is so constantly on social media. You could set up a bot that occasionally posts "Why is the Government doing X. It's time to tax the rich" while auto liking everything that mentions his name and it would dramatically boost his time for other things.

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I find it bizarre how in the 7 years I’ve been in the US how quickly it’s gone from far better than the UK on online gambling to far far worse

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it’s fair enough on something like a plane or on public transport, I’m just not even sure how much they even work in a bar or a restaurant or, in this case, a sex party. You’re going to be constantly removing them. Thats just using masks as a social signal rather than anything public health

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The UK is a very normal and easy to understand country

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very normal for a state to have its Head of State the head of the State Church of one constituent part, while having another constituent part with no State Church but a National Church of a different denomination the Head of State takes an oath to defend, and then two parts with no national church

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Given the band of dark feathers across it's chest, I think it's a Red-Tailed Hawk!

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Though you never know what your standard elderly cruise goer is into, so could easily be both

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can‘t even spend a night dogging near highly sensitive military bases anymore without being arrested as a terrorist

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is there any way to relegate them to the championship and then give them a 100 point deduction in one season so Burnley don‘t finish bottom?

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

- 'I love Bertrand Russell.' - 'Yeah, so do I.' - 'What's your favourite Bertrand Russell book?' - 'Tough one. I think I'd have to say 'Bertrand Russell's Best'.'

A picture of Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, wearing a black bomber jacket and in the middle of answering a question.

A screenshot of the Routledge page for the book 'Bertrand Russell's Best'.

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Spong @besidetheteesside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What at horrible day to have eyes.

A glory hole of Capt Tom, so it looks like you're sucking off the old garden wobbler.

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

Ummm hard to describe: a creepily colour-inverted Ichthyosaur wearing spectacles crawls through a cave to discover a copy of Currie’s “The Science of Lost Worlds”

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this how they select prospective parliamentary candidates?

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even knowing what it says and is I keep rereading it and imagining a bunch of medieval guys playing warhammer

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's a weird one because them being evacuees isn't strictly necessary to the plot. There are loads of ways it would be easy to get these kids into this countryside home and the plot run basically as is (with some minor changes). But it seems to make something about the story more empty by doing so.

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