josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 16hPeople often read the gospels together and assume univocality, but in reality they disagree on many important points. For example, Mark believed in dark matter, but Luke skipped over his account of the bullet galaxies because he believed in MOND. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Transubstantiation is a funny word. It's trans + substantiation, which has 3 s's. But transubstantiation only has 2. This is a paradox. The reason for this is that although the accident of transubstantiation has 2 s's, the substance of the word has 3. 010
Reposted by @josephzander.bsky.socialScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 27/09/2026Knives Out but Benoit Blanc is investigating a murder at SlutCon 1416814
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Frog put the code in Rust. "There," he said. "Now our code will be safe." "But we can make an unsafe block," said Google. "That is true," said Frog. 110
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm seeing Grok adverts on YouTube where they say you can give a Grok agent a wallet and send it to buy things for you. Hmm. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think it's fine for an airline pilot to be a furry so long as their fursona is a bird. (Ostriches and penguins excepted.) 032
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I don't understand why Americans weigh with pounds instead of dollars. Maybe it's because dollars sounds like more. A median American man is 200 pounds, which is 264 dollars. 011
Reposted by @josephzander.bsky.socialGrace @gracekind.net · 23/09/2026New animation from Opus 5.5! 6649884
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We often talk about how maths research provides practical benefits that can't be forseen. Maths being the first field to grapple with high-quality AI research isn't a problem, it's going to develop methods to deal with it other fields will learn from. 010
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Me reading debates about AI intelligence on bluesky 020
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you think generative AIs are bad for mathematics, imagine what they'll be like for medical research. If anyone in an Alzheimer's research group mentions the gist of what they're doing any asshole could burn a few million tokens to work out how they're faking their results. 011
Reposted by @josephzander.bsky.socialTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Narnia books as Isekai Manga 2235581276
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I always assumed they had a contract with the musician. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you share your thoughts about a novel before finishing it you may be made to look foolish. That is why I am grateful for the discretion of my friends. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Got a new theory of biological sex. Female is when you look better in photos than in person. Male is when you look worse. Enby, about the same. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I know exactly how the succubus feels. I get all kinds of disgusting comments when I go out in my favourite shirt. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In Dungeons and Dragons, Warlocks use dark energy to create force rays; which push people further away from them proportionally to how far away they are. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Thinking about getting into conspiracy theories. What's a good starter epiphany? 100
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Journalism professors be like "if you use an adverb I will kill you ruthlessly." 010
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What do you suppose the academics of the Unseen University call globalisation? Discography? 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The stigmatisation of smoking has been a disaster for trans women. It would be so much easier for them to voice train to pass as a smoker. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Noology where all humans are one person travelling forwards and backwards in time. Evil people are the ones travelling forwards in time, good people are the ones travelling backwards, because human nature always tends towards evil. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The superintelligent human preserving AI must stop the midwit AI from launching the nukes "in the simulation". 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026On this website we discuss ethical philosophy through Harry Potter fanfiction, right? 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If a beggar has trouble getting money, they should ask a professor for advice. Imagine if the powers honed in the red queen race with grant committees were unleashed upon the streets. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Change my view," I said to the optician. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I feel like these goals are at odds. How do you organise a global pause in AI development if you can't get white nationalists to buy into it? 020
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026They found a way to breed triffids from apple trees. Soon they bred an army of them. They called it the core corps. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Smuggling Canadian beer to America: disguise it as milk. Smuggling American milk to Canada: disguise it as beer. Smuggling Strongbow: drink it, then piss it out when you get there. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I always thought of Fielder as an outrage comedian in the same vein as Sasha Baron-Cohen. It's brave for him to take on someone more outrageous than he could ever hope to be. 000
Reposted by @josephzander.bsky.socialMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 05/09/2026It's wild how people just wanna sanewash the NYC DSA as if they didn't literally post this shit. 37824
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Thought I'd give this quiz a try, despite not being American. This one bothers me - I'd use "traffic circle" and "roundabout" noninterchangeably. 210
Reposted by @josephzander.bsky.socialRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces. 1329166
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The two funniest kinds of humour are implying something chaste is sexual, and implying something sexual is chaste. 100
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Men can't be feminist. They can be feminer, but never the superlative. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Terra Invicta has me wondering: if aliens showed up in the solar system, without communicating and with apparently hostile intent, what effect would that have on the stock market? @nlrg.bsky.social @maiamindel.bsky.social 010
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My shirt turned pink in the washing machine. It made me feel unmanly, so I went to the dentist and asked them to do something without anaesthetic. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Taking down this statue is deeply homophobic. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Just read Asimov's The Key. Incredible. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Economists with physics envy be like: absolute zero or comparative zero? 010
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I've seen American alternate histories where their revolution failed, they tend to go along the lines of British America being a dictatorship where apple pie is illegal. There should be a Canadian equivalent where they got annexed by the USA and hockey is illegal. 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hume was a great philosopher who taught us what it means to be a person. That is why we take the word "human" from him. 010
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Imagine the pain of people who already have their rebuttals ready but have to wait another 6 1/2 hours to post them. 000
Reposted by @josephzander.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I’d propose the opposite of this: sortition. Choose the House of Lords by random lot. Everyone chosen gets to serve for four years, and be addressed as Lord for the rest of their lives. Let’s do the same for the Senate hole we’re at it, minus the honorific. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...marginalrevolution.comTowards a New House of Lords - Marginal REVOLUTIONIn Britain, the House of Lords was traditionally dominated by hereditary peers–a right bequeathed by the monarch, sometimes in ancient times, to sit in the House of Lords that was transmitted generati... 10568
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Since American football is about picking up the ball and running with it, they should call soccer "handball". 000
josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The sin against the holy spirit in Matthew 12 is amputation. If you are missing a limb God will never forgive you. That's why he doesn't heal amputees. 000
