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Jason Miller

@euthydemus.bsky.social
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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

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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 54m
But when you put it *that* way, I do see this as a valuable safeguard to keep children and the emotionally-under-regulated away from the dangerous dangerous hallucination-spawning unreality machine. 🤔🤷 (#OnlyHalfJoking, and I will continue to use Those Words against my misbehaving devices.)
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 7h
“Cheating senior citizens out of their savings is bad enough, but the threat to society goes much deeper. Already, on social media platforms like X, conversations between real humans are increasingly peppered with AI-generated posts.” nautil.us/creating-fak...
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Creating Fake People is a Terrible Idea - Nautilus
So why is a company pursuing digital avatars with such gusto?
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 16h
This problem has been fixed. (#joke, but...)
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doom the dark ages revelations cyberdemon glory kill
Alt: doom the dark ages revelations cyberdemon glory kill
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Umbrage, however, will be taken -- there's always plenty of umbrage for everybody to take some.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"AI is going to help government transparency by making it easier to file public records requests!" "Oh no." techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/a...
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AI agents are flooding public services with new requests | TechCrunch
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's a smoldering shame upon this nation that we came out of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic without deciding national healthcare was a necessity.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There’s “a default stance of protecting the company and not really thinking about the broader consequences of that.” nymag.com/intelligence...
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What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World?
Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Lord Farquaad: Some May Die Meme
Alt: Big Farq-"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"-uaad Energy here.
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The first time is also the second, third, fourth… (#OnlyHalfJoking)
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
While most corporate employees in charge of product features are rather anonymous, I was able to find the PM running the software to "enhance" digital photography... 😬🤷
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Joker: Let's Put a Smile on That Face
Alt: Joker: Let's Put a Smile on That Face
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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before the organizations building AI can teach a superintelligence to treat humanity well, they’ll need to remember how to do it themselves."
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m less than 100 Portland donors from reaching the final tier of Small Donor Elections, and we have to get there before October 13th to qualify! If you or a member of your household support us but haven’t donated yet, now is the time, even $5 goes a long way 💙 secure.actblue.com/donate/angel...
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Donate to Angelita Morillo for Portland City Council in District 3!
Help give Portland the progressive leadership we deserve!
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do you know how evil you have to be to convince an internet full of atheists to go, "Hell yeah, Pope! You tell them about real people!"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNBC on the September jobs report: "A bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see two month revisions down 60,000 ... average hourly earnings -- this is a big miss. Big, big miss. We were expecting up three tenth. This comes in at one tenth."
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My department (Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam) is offering a brand new MA in Digital Investigations, focusing on digital methods and OSINT relevant to journalism and human rights investigations. It looks very exciting! www.uva.nl/shared-conte...
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Master Digital Investigations (Media Studies)
The Master's in Digital Investigations trains you in contemporary methods and techniques for public-interest investigations in fields including journalism, public policy and advocacy.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this actually seems like the *exact right image* to accompany the text
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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EVs, DOGE recap, Trust in Government
Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · September 25 · 55m
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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/...
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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...
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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?)
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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/...
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet he's still a coward, trying to equivocate villainy to goodness; odd move for somebody who's previously trotted out the antichrist. Has he perhaps noticed that he misread the sides on the moral board and is now trying to rationalize that position? 🤷 (Assigned reading: Goethe, Faust pt 2.)
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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
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This sounds like they're going to use their spare AI compute to automate social engineering phishing attacks? 🤔
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Ugh, I feel like this level of brazen commercialism has really caused people to lose sight of the true meaning of The Purge. #ReasonForTheSeason” (#Joke, but…)
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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.
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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.
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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
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@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 …
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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...
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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...
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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)
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AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion
Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23/09/2026
"Only in Portland," USA Today writes about a nominee for best independent coffee shop. mrf.lu/2SMtv
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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...
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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.
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I had a very similarly disturbing conversation with a student back when he was trying to pick a fight with North Korea (first term). 🫣
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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
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 22/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong
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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.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
250 donations away now 🫡
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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-...
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Somebody's looking at all of the folks trying to create their preferred dystopias and thinking "Hey, nobody's doing 12 Monkeys yet... that's not right!" (#OnlyHalfJoking, ☠️; see also www.imdb.com/title/tt0114... )
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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.
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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.
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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
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Poe's law - Wikipedia
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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.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The fourth amendment is twice the amendment the second amendment will ever be!”
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