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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Have the courage to be bad at what you’re doing because that’s how you get good at what you’re doing. AI is fool’s gold because it promises you the ability to produce something good without getting good. You don’t believe in getting good at this thing. That’s why people don’t respect your output.

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But I rarely intentionally go to music at all for this purpose. I get a dose of hymns Sundays, and I'll listen to whatever's on around me, but it takes quite a bit for me to go looking for music. Even the humming is something I more find myself (helpfully) doing than decide on.

I more often find myself humming or whistling, often hymns. These might "match," initially, but they often and purposely do so in a way that goes on to answer and develop the emotion, so that it matches throughout only because my emotions give it uptake and change with it.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I rarely listen for this purpose, but when I do, either a) the music matches in that it mainly just expresses the existing emotion or b) especially with some orchestral stuff, the music doesn't clearly do either--I'd be hard pressed to state the music's emotion beyond, maybe, "a big one."

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Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

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There is some awkwardness... I might want disconnected panes to just go away and not be placeable. I also had a little trouble figuring out how to rectify when I overlapped. But I'm not sure what a solution there is.

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Thanks for the count by tens to fifty. Helps me stop.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026

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If your menu is slop, I'm gonna assume from here on out that your food is, too.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

So, presumably long-press on mobile, then. That was my guess.

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

Having completed all of them: Interaction seems fine. Realized I could draw boxes by accident. Not sure how the thing where I can mark squares to not fill works exactly or how I did whatever that was.

Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

Not completely alone. Sunbeam is with her. ...this may explain something about that relationship.

Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 01/10/2026

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“The AI Pascal’s Wager” ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.h… > On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".

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The AI Pascal’s Wager

The AI Pascal’s Wager par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fucking barbaric. If I didn't already oppose the death penalty on grounds there is no way to make the process equitable and error-free, I would oppose it on grounds of it being state-backed torture.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million

"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

unbeknownst to Smith, Jones brought iced coffee to the interview

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

Reminds me of BL's "grad students behaving badly" charge in ways that don't look good.

Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

Only if the additional stimuli are actually relevant to the task. I cannot typically read more actively by smelling a book. So, too, I cannot typically better follow your argument by watching your facial expressions.

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My department is hiring for a TT position in philosophy of technology! The job ad is pretty self-explanatory, but I will emphasis that this need not mean working on ai, we’re very open to other kinds of tech! I am also happy to answer any questions anyone might have! philjobs.org/job/show/32281

philjobs.org

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology, San Jose State University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology, San Jose State University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Which, I suppose I need to note, is not a defect on our part.

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like some people missed a significant point of the "explain how to make a pb&j sandwich in a way a computer could follow" exercise. a) we presuppose background knowledge and don't think in code-ready units, b) we'll leave out contingency plans and find it even harder to make those explicit.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/09/2026

May all scammers of every variety, targeting any and all demographics of creator, go to hell at once and be boiled in a large vat :) then eaten by demons :) with oyster crackers :)

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's academic job posting bugaboo: your job posting should list the actual salary range, in numbers (even if it sucks) and the actual teaching load, in numbers (even if it is heavy).

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

I would believe this was an updated version of an actual quote. That or he responds "No, Paul was, 1 Tim 1:15."

Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Maybe not my finest quality, but I take more than a little offense at the whole "i respect scientific but not philosophical expertise". I do judge you for thinking that, tbh

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

Being the bearer of good news and couching it as being "the only child in the room"?

Brian Irvine @brianirvine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Meltdown golden rule DO NOT ADD ANY FURTHER STIMULI

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

This sounds like "It's just a tool" with the valence altered.

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com · 05/09/2026

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Ben Bush @gumbybush.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026

I do both. So, CT. Entirely possible it's by way of the English Veggietales accents or something, actually.