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Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The England/Croatia game is incredible. The Croatian goalkeeper has given up 3 but has played heroically.

Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I sort of think this is the whole finals right here. If the Spurs win tonight, they win the series. If the Knicks do, they do.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

These are the two optimal types of Baseball Name.

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Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A bad game but a great win. Go Seahawks!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/01/2026

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is really grim. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

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Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/12/2025

Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:

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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We delivered the Regester lecture at Puget Sound last week and The News Tribune discussed it and our work on AI romantic companions and philosophical accounts of consciousness (w/ @jttiehen.bsky.social )

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

AI ETHICS QUESTION: Is this good?

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This is also bad in that it's not a one off op-ed writer. These articles are coming from the editorial board. People really need to cut their subscriptions to WaPo and move on to supporting other outlets

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

As Gov. Pritzker says in his opening statement, ICE and CPB are attempting to provoke a reaction by their actions in Chicago. And as he says -- more or less -- at the time stamp below, he won't order state police to physically confront them, b/c he can't.

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Julia M. Smith @julia-m-smith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If you could win a prize by guessing the number on a die 🎲 hidden under a cup, would you want to guess before the die was rolled, or after? The odds of winning are the same in both, but they can feel different. 🧵

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Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I think the “somewhat useful” category is u helpful. If they asked me personally, I would say it’s “somewhat helpful,” because there are some benefits, but also that on balance it’s more harmful then helpful, because the costs of the inaccuracies and hallucinations outweigh the benefits.

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Max Read @maxread.info · 02/10/2025

genuinely its really funny that the "online american catholic" position is that the pope is wrong about the bible and the "online american secular" position is that the pope is always right about the bible

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

My most controversial post-ejection take is that treating voters as adults with agency and telling them the truth isn’t looking down on them, while telling voters things you know to be false to validate their feelings in an attempt to manipulate them is considerably more condescending.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

i keep rereading this

The next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.

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Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My Bluesky profile image is taken from a student artwork of me painted grue (the student was doing an art project on philosophical thought experiments and I had mentioned that grue was my favorite).

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

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Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter

Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 21/09/2025

actually that checks out

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Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

In the American League, there are 6 playoff spots but 7 different teams that have more than a 50% chance of making the playoffs. Mathematically possible but counterintuitive.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Trump just likes dropping bombs and committing war crimes so I don't think we'll be invading Afghanistan

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Bluesky policy discussion: “You’ve got this detail wrong but it’s cool that you’re even here.” Twitter policy discussion: “I just told your boss you wanna fuck kids.”

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

One of the natural consequences of blurring the line between state censorship and “cancel culture” was making it easier to engage in state censorship. I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/09/2025

i'm kind of with will here. one of the *strangest* features of this age is that nominally liberal elites seem totally enervated in the face of fascism--meanwhile the liberal base is screaming our heads off. this doesn't comport at all with the standard story--

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Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This addresses some but not *all* of my concerns about the world of watches.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Following up on the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative: how it happened, and why it matters, what we know and don't. By me, whole timeline is before the pay wall. fallows.substack.com/p/harvard-vs...

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Harvard vs Trump vs the Media: An Update.

Our oldest educational institution is standing up to the Trump onslaught. We can't know how this will end. But we can note the different narratives that different news organizations are presenting.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Bari Weiss is literally going to run CBS news while complaining about being silenced

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Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The “correct” answer here describes Plato as a pupil of Aristotle.

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Iain @iainnd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

70 years ago yesterday, they applied for summer money.

Typescript cover page to A PROPOSAL FOR THE
DARTMOUTH SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT
ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

First typescript page of A PROPOSAL FOR THE
DARTMOUTH SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT
ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. First paragraph reads:
“We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be
carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other foature of intelligence can in principle be no precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.”

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Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Everyone over 30 was traumatized in childhood by getting 45 minutes into Disney’s Fantasia and realizing there would never be any dialogue

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Maybe they'll eventually regain their nerve, but for the moment, JB Pritzker appears to have single-handedly spooked the Trump administration into backing down with one 12-minute speech.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.

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Justin Tiehen @jttiehen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I was thinking about this after my exchange with Aidan yesterday. “Spoils to the victor” is a plausible epistemic principle for handling philosophical theories that disagree on what to say about possible cases. But I was wondering if there are any empirical analogues of it.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 18/08/2025

Superb survey of different approaches to the key theoretical question of the moment: What does it mean to call language models “cultural technologies”? At any rate I’m going to three (3) conferences and symposia this year connected to it! +

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