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Phenomenologically parsimonious. I perceive, therefore I understand . Sum, ergo cogito. Old me: epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com

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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 4h
One of these things is not like the others.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11h
Impeaching a chief justice takes a House majority. In 30 days we can elect one. Put your letter on John Roberts on the record now, so they know what we expect: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 10h
If Barça Femeni keep steamrolling their league nearest rival like this, they should seriously consider putting Laia Aleixandri on at halftime and let her play in crutches.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 11h
Laziness is a human weakness that cuts across all demographic lines, including intellect and achievement, but passing off AI-generated work as your own rises to another level: intellectual fraud. Plagiarism used to be the intellectual vice we worried about. Now it’s machine-enabled fraud.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 12h
This looks like a very interesting series, by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 12h
“While I learned many things at Yale [Law School], the law was not one of them.” Ouch.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 12h
this kind of chart doubles down on the dumb in “social science” and economics. the dumb comes from lossily compressing complex phenomena into rankable scalars, then using arithmetic and ranking to launder claims into “scientific” truths. 1/
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 15h
“Civility”
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 15h
UNDEFEATED
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Message to “faith healing communities” and MAHA: Your lunatic beliefs are killing or crippling your children. Their lives are your responsibility, and the rest of us hold you responsible.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apropos of nothing, I was reminded by something today that Stanley Cavell is one of the most *interesting* writers on philosophy and art that I know. I need to revisit some of his works.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
[S Carroll voice]: I do think physics as a discipline has dramatically underperformed at answering the question “WTF is dark matter/dark energy? And why do we keep proposing undetectable entities to plug holes in our leaky theorems?” Should’ve nailed that one long before it became a practical issue.
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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The philosophers have hitherto only fucked around with the most intractable questions, in various ways. The point, however, is to answer them.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They don’t want to do the job. Let’s do the kind thing and send all the bastards home this November.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“It can be a little bit hard to tell whether [AI evangelists are] talking this way because that’s how you raise money or whether they’re talking that way because they really believe it. But I think there are a lot of them for whom it’s both.”
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chris Olah could think a lot more productively about the question of AI consciousness and moral values if he just sat a while and reflected on his own words: “I think I’ll just go and, I don’t know, I’ll go retire to the countryside and garden, and do my math.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I endorse this complaint.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very plausible origin story of the AI Paperclipocalypse fears.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For an purported atheist, Chris Olah seems remarkably susceptible to magical thinking.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's one thing when businesses find it's cost-efficient to lobby to have their taxes lowered. That's frustrating but that's the game. It's another thing when a dozen random rich guys can fund a movement with their pocket change
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Elections Have Consequences, Part One Million:
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nobody sensible took early 2010s twitter seriously. It was fun, though.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Morons. His demographic is morons. Fuck them and him.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think the Temu trash should be removed immediately and stored for eventual use as kindling for the Orange Gasbag’s funeral pyre.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026
‘Artists used to learn their craft through imitation, and one could learn a lot from copying Jasper Johns’s paintings: where the pictorial commas are; the way an image becomes an object; how an edge changes the meaning of a surface.’ Dexter Dalwood on the artist. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Dexter Dalwood · At Guggenheim Bilbao: On Jasper Johns
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)
If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cindy Take Shrimp
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I like these 90 pound Ukranian women swimming in their helmets who shred their Russian opponents with mathematics (and grenades).
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Someone who actively destroys the fabric of our republic and strips rights from fellow citizens deserves neither civility nor peace. May his summer retreat become solitary confinement for the rest of his life. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ten’ll get you twenty that one of the suggestions will be a military base on Mars. 🤡
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From a discussion of updating a department website...
A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"I know 90 pound female drone operators in Ukraine with more confirmed kills than smallpox. Your post goes hard if you don't know jack shit about modern warfare."
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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Private equity dudes are starting to face facts. LBOs are *so over*. @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The End of Private Equity’s Leveraged Buyout Era Is Nigh
Higher-for-longer interest rates are forcing buyout firms to face facts. Struggling since 2023 to sell companies purchased in the long decade of ultra-cheap debt before the Covid pandemic, they’ve tri...
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Schmitt is too stupid or stubborn to be embarrassed by his mistake, I bet Kennedy is ripshit that Schmitt made him look like a fool, too.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder if some moron on his staff used AI to get that information. 😂😂😂😂
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is no more durable way to lower your energy bills than to rapidly deploy technologies that let you stay warm, travel and keep the lights on without buying/burning fossil fuel. chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i don't know how many people are like this, but the shit i have heard from some people about how eagerly they just let chatgpt decide everything for them is incredibly disorienting
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
one of the disconcerting things about all this is finding out how many people appear to be desperately seeking someone to do their thinking for them. i sincerely don't get it.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have never found Socratic dialogue useful, and I think oral argument is overrated as a method to further thought. But maybe I think differently than Professor Cruz and his kind. ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Adam Jonas’s personal attorney: “Good morning, Adam. How are you today? Yeah? Good. Um, yeah, I’m calling because I just saw your latest research report. Yeah, yeah, nice. Um, you got a minute? Great.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m glad somebody talked the OP off the ledge and she deleted her ridiculous post. There is nothing about the NYT article in question that can count as “erasing” this trans person’s identity. It is core to the reporting, FFS. Article link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How does explicitly mentioning his trans status in the sixth paragraph of a 19 paragraph article and several times thereafter count as “completely omitting” it? You do trans people no good and undermine their cause by posting such hyperbolic and misleading nonsense.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology
The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve noticed recently that Democratic fundraising text campaigns no longer acknowledge STOP responses. Shameless harassment.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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