Sign in

Jason Miller

@euthydemus.bsky.social
154 followers 73 following 421 posts

College admissions & rhetoric coach, data tactician, coffee drinker, world traveler, and cat walker. College Advising: veridiction.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jason-miller-iec

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Jason Miller
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5h
The US is literally being avoided like the plague.
771557301
Reposted by Jason Miller
Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this actually seems like the *exact right image* to accompany the text
26514
Reposted by Jason Miller
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Many thoughts about the argument in this piece but one is that citing a few studies to say that there is little evidence that "we discover what we think in the act of writing" contradicts everything I saw in 26 years of teaching college writing. Of course not the only we figure out what we think/1
37821
Reposted by Jason Miller
octopuswaffle.bsky.social @octopuswaffle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Multnomah County folks: Mask up, an estimated 1 in 29 people are currently infected with COVID.
A screen capture showing PMC Covid Dashboard for September 28 showing in Multnomah County, Oregon an estimated 1 in 29 people are actively infected with Covid.
166
Reposted by Jason Miller
Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
434559899
Reposted by Jason Miller
Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loved nerding out on trust in government with my former @ourpublicservice.bsky.social colleague Lindsay Laferriere. Plus, several reviews of DOGE, VA capacity, EV trucks, the Trimphant Arch, and of course AI safety in the latest Sirens. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com
EVs, DOGE recap, Trust in Government
Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · September 25 · 55m
044
Reposted by Jason Miller
Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 27/09/2026
Wage theft is the biggest form of theft. And because employers force their employees onto poverty assistance, it's also a theft of your tax money. The robber barons love it when you blame the people they decided to rob. www.epi.org/publication/...
epi.org
Wage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft—But Workers Remain Mostly Unprotected
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberi...
013560
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here, let me tap this sign before bringing up the current state of things in a nested thread...
A reminder that "Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics." With a Mighty Hunt[er/ress] to lighten the oil-heavy mood of this thread. (via Giant Military Cats from probably Twitter several years ago?)
010
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
True story: there is an AI toilet to help solve this novel new problem. 💩🚽 (#WishIWereOnlyHalfJoking, ☠️) www.kohler.com/en/products/...
kohler.com
000
Reposted by Jason Miller
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
5776142098
Reposted by Jason Miller
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
251368405
Reposted by Jason Miller
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.
7340106
Reposted by Jason Miller
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty.
tyler cowen being really creepy about AI virgins@eriktorenberg
Erik Torenberg
a16z
@eriktorenberg
Sep 22
Thrilled to announce our latest incubation: Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy will be a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16 to 22 year olds.

My biggest regret from my college experience is how divorced it was from the real world (both practically but also intellectually)

HAA is the opposite. Students will learn from real-world practitioners and intellectuals; including founders (Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Jensen Huang), investors (Elad Gil, Daniel Gross), and professors (Agnes Callard, Tyler Cowen), among hundreds of others. The Academy is the educational experience I wish I had.

In 1984, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a paper about how the average student who received one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery techniques performed better than 98% of the control group. For generations, this was viewed as unrealistic to implement even if it produced the best outcomes.

At the Academy, we will be able to locate any tutor on any topic that a student desires.

Take an aspiring filmmaker or producer. The standard path offers them film theory courses, peer workshops, and the occasional visiting filmmaker; everything past that takes meticulous networking and luck. The very entrepreneurial type will find ways to invite prominent speakers to speak and meticulous networking to reach the right people. At the Academy, they will learn the business from the people who run it and their next creative project will have notes from award-winning filmmakers.

Take a young founder. Yes, there is endless content online; you can watch a video on any skill. But content is not coaching. The Academy will provide dedicated, experienced coaches and mentors who know your company and psychology. Students can workshop issues with prominent leaders in technology who host sessions on campus. Every generation of entrepreneurs has had mentors in their corner. Ours will too.

Take …
2548683
Reposted by Jason Miller
Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots and found that three produced full summaries of news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets with links and quotes. www.euronews.com/2026/09/23/a...
euronews.com
AI serves up content from Russia's sanctioned state outlets, RSF finds
Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots by requesting news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets, and found that three produced full summaries with links and quotes, somet...
02418
Reposted by Jason Miller
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Writing centers should be championed, not dissolved... Colleges are racing to outspend each other with new AI-focused programming. But individualized, human support for student learning should not be sacrificed on the altar of these ambitions." (by Lizzie Hutton, Miami U Ohio's WC director)
cincinnati.com
AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion
Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.
25830
Reposted by Jason Miller
The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23/09/2026
"Only in Portland," USA Today writes about a nominee for best independent coffee shop. mrf.lu/2SMtv
092
Reposted by Jason Miller
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
US military upgrades the Maven system. “Human-directed” and “human-in-the-loop” are such wiggle words. Does it matter if the human decision-maker has no way to verify what is going on inside the system? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike
The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.
253
Reposted by Jason Miller
Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump’s entire UNGA speech is full of statements that are dumb, dangerous, offensive, or all three, but top of the list is his threat to completely annihilate Iran. I lived through the 80s. I’m mostly immune to nuclear threats. But this has got me twitchy. I’m not confident there are any adults left
5279
Reposted by Jason Miller
Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 22/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong
2182
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can could try to react to the tardy bewilderment over dubious stereotypes that were formed to shame you for “performing your gender wrong” or you can share your Mighty Huntress being totally adorable. Choose wisely.
Photo of my cat (mighty huntress!) sniffing a sunflower.
000
Reposted by Jason Miller
pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
250 donations away now 🫡
07425
Reposted by Jason Miller
WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
641684638
Reposted by Jason Miller
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shy away from em-dashes because of genAI? I've always used em-dashes in my writing. Fuck it. I'm doubling down and increasing the number of em-dashes I use in my writing.
9443
Reposted by Jason Miller
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The problems these grading machines solve: grading fast, more, and cheap, are quite different from the problems writing instructors, writing tutors, writing center solve: developing ideas, human conversation, learning.
36124
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously." --Schwarz, 1983. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
en.wikipedia.org
Poe's law - Wikipedia
000
Reposted by Jason Miller
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 19/09/2026
The Vanderbilt Report complex perfectly encapsulates this phenomenon: academic celebrities attacking solid scholarship by completely misrepresenting it, and then blaming scholarship for academia’s demise.
25917
Reposted by Jason Miller
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
91318414
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The fourth amendment is twice the amendment the second amendment will ever be!”
000
Reposted by Jason Miller
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Inside you are two wolves: one wishes to write a quick snarky headline and the other chimes in with "actually, it's much more nuanced than that" and begins to write a 2000-word blog post.
812816
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It took this long?
000
Reposted by Jason Miller
scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The new AI captchas are really something ᵛⁱᵃ ˣᴷᶜᴰ
This image is XKCD #2228: "Machine Learning Captcha" by Randall Munroe, which satirizes how verification tests might exploit human fear and judgment during a hypothetical robot takeover.

text:
TO PROVE YOU'RE A HUMAN, CLICK ON ALL THE PHOTOS THAT SHOW PLACES YOU WOULD RUN FOR SHELTER DURING A ROBOT UPRISING.
620656
Reposted by Jason Miller
Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
orlandosentinel.com
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
9555432157
Reposted by Jason Miller
Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you're a parent of a kid with health issues who can't get their Covid shot through Vaccines for Children right now please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com
05533
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've been saying this since 2017, but--as Vonnegut predicted in Player Piano--I somehow have not stopped. 😭🤖
020
Reposted by Jason Miller
TinkeringTailorTom-Dread is no longer Existential @tinkeringtailortom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is so that they can spend as much time as possible hiding from angry voters in their home districts so they don't have to defend Trump's failed policies.
2123
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Verhoeven's early example of Poe's law has come full circle with Verhoeven asserting his uncertainty regarding the self-awareness of the current administration... 🙃
000
Reposted by Jason Miller
PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"It's the same story time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead." - @bcmerchant.bsky.social
0316
Reposted by Jason Miller
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians
14624
Reposted by Jason Miller
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The real reason I spend so much time at the circus school is that I have been slowly developing an immunity to clowns. This allows me to continue to do tech policy.
1342665
Reposted by Jason Miller
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"We caution counsel that, while Al has no Rule 11 obligations, the attorney who relies on it does." 😬
0123
Reposted by Jason Miller
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We never punished the people who authorized torture and the last 20+ years of our politics are a consequence of that.
152010449
Reposted by Jason Miller
404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
404media.co
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
6319120
Reposted by Jason Miller
Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)
8867042534
Reposted by Jason Miller
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another really fun part is that apparently LLM/AI has substantially enhanced semi-autonomous & adaptive cyber operations, fraud, hacking, & weaponry capabilities for all levels of actors & that horse seems pretty important out the barn but we’re yapping about bioweapons for “some” reason instead.
static.klipy.com
Elmo I Don't Know Idk
ALT: Elmo I Don't Know Idk
13211
Reposted by Jason Miller
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*
122976643
Reposted by Jason Miller
Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope this Ishmael finds you whale
332506548
Reposted by Jason Miller
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
pcmag.com
Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.
321053495
Reposted by Jason Miller
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them—and prepare for that. OpenAI didn't. They built a model, removed the safeguards, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making. mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...
8288111
Reposted by Jason Miller
lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
A chart showing the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, comparing states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with those that did not. At the start of the chart, in 2014, the rate is higher in states with abortion bans, but the rates in the two groups of states are not far apart. The rate increases in both groups of states, but the climb is much steeper in states that banned abortion.
10296164