Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 1hI don't have a problem with math being just another dance going forward, but math has not been dance until now. 000
Reposted by Michael J. Corlissjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4hjesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 370129612062
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 1hClaude is going to relish vibe coding a browser plugin to change this back. 010
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate 1133727891
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 5hTelevising an execution is unconstitutional under an Originalist interpretation because the Founding Fathers didn't have TVs. 000
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18hMy quote of the day Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Frank Herbert 1367
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I am aware of the history of 20th century fascism and grew up around Holocaust survivors. When fascism returns, they said, expect indifference or outright cowardice from 90% of your friends, neighbors and colleagues. AND YET, it still shocks me to see this groveling cowardice in real time. 3448143
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I say again it’s sort of amazing the libs are getting both Great Books and the Protestant Work Ethic in the national divorce 2073290
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's one of those divorces where everyone knows whose fault it is. 0261
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6659071173
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Some people mourn with silence. Some people mourn with song. 000
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sure, individually they are all horrible people, most of whom are criminals. But together, they're a team. 1100
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For what it’s worth, arguing LLMs can’t do addition now is flat earth-level science denialism. Here’s Gemma 4b, a non-reasoning model that could only theoretically memorize binary operations up to 65535 x 65535, oneshotting a eight digit addition and hex conversion *on my phone* with no tool calls 1843439
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru... 382253484
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853452189
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm not saying I endorse it, but every day I understand the French Revolution better. 000
Reposted by Michael J. Corlisslastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Once again struck by the thought that I'm absolutely sure I know more about this western civ stuff than the people who'd think I'm emblematic of its downfall! 4341843
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“I’m planning to punch myself in the balls” “I don’t think you should do that” “But what’s the alternative plan?” 310111
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 23940291044
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My impression is that it's something to do with treating insane racists as merely mistaken rather than immoral. Also relates to how high decoupling is often just being a mark. 030
Reposted by Michael J. Corlissᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thank you @garbageday.email for *actually* explaining why nobody you know has heard “Choosin’ Texas,” yet it is paradoxically topping the charts www.garbageday.email/p/why-choosi...garbageday.emailWhy "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hitRead to the end for FlubberLover01 621761
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Choosin' Texas is an unremarkable song and my bubble was right to ignore it. 000
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, but if you *have* heard the song, you just live in a different bubble. There is no such thing as not living in a bubble. 140
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive. 383905764
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Granted that says nothing about cognitivist meanings, and there is a lot of equivocation in AI discourse (some of it intentional). 000
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That makes sense for 'cognition', but 'intelligence' seems more ambiguous, with both cognitivist and behaviorist definitions. In a behaviorist sense, something like 'ability to solve novel problems', if the simulation is really solving problems, it's really 'intelligent'. 100
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026But simulated music just is music, right? A simulated pattern is a pattern. There are some things where a simulation of the thing just is the thing. 110
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissMichael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 23/09/20261987 was only a couple of years ago, surely 3353
Reposted by Michael J. Corlissarr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership. 6246791036
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026sometimes you've gotta put the watercoloring brush down and give ruining the world another go 161183166
Reposted by Michael J. Corlissgreg macdougall (613) @equitableeducation.ca · 22/09/2026I haven't heard the 'transplants' thing before but I do think that ex-pats is a term that should be used more to refer to migrants. Just to demonstrate the double-standards. 021
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Just read out loud naked, then you can use the video in multiple contexts. 0101
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Every reporter who attends an admin briefing until this is reversed is a scab. 000
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Well, everyone should just walk out then. This isn't complicated. 0131
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/09/2026Accusations don’t have to be false to be racist or malicious. Insisting that they do is just answering bad faith with bad faith. 1212
Reposted by Michael J. CorlissKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/20262. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/ 152170
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I recommend both the book and the movie, but I think I prefer the book. It's not as narratively polished, and the movie is more entertaining, but I find the book to be the more valuable text for the modern world. 000
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026That's also reinforced by the change in the captain, who in the book is a parallel to Frankenstein's younger seld, and motivated by pure discovery without regard for consequence; in the movie, he's more a contemporary of the older Frankenstain, and his motives are less clear. 100
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Book-Victor was the archetype of 'preoccupied with whether [he] could, [he] didn't stop to think if [he] should". Making it about daddy-issues cheapened that, and somewhat undermines the clear parallels to the people who are seeking to build superhuman minds today. 100
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But I'm not sure about the change in who Victor was and why he did what he did. In the book, Victor was driven by the pursuit of knowledge; in the movie, it was more like revenge against his father. That eliminates a central theme from Shelley's story, and probably the most relevant to today. 100
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Elizabeth's character is much more interesting in the movie than the book, and I liked how that changed her relationship to Victor and the Creature. I'm no Shelley scholar, but I think it's faithful to the emotional tension she developed in the book, and I think she'd have approved. 100
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A lot of changes were necessary because the original has weird things that were normal at the time but don't translate for modern audiences, like Victor's father marrying his friend's daughter, and Elizabeth and Victor's siblings/cousins/arranged marriage thing. 100
Michael J. Corliss @corliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Guillermo del Toro movie inspired the reread, and I waited to watch it until I'd finished. Great movie, not entirely faithful but breaks from the original in interesting ways that I mostly liked. 100
