Reposted by professional misunderstanderJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Shot / chaser 361661211 1.7K
Reposted by professional misunderstanderterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026In general I do not understand people who like the American health insurance system. If a corporation makes me get on the phone and gives me several pieces of contradictory information to fulfill its contractual obligations to me it deserves to be liquidated 4746 74
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Conditional and indirect effects of age of first exposure on PTSD symptoms: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26427886/ "Findings provide support suggesting the particular potency of early trauma on regulatory response systems." 010 1
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Physical and psychological long-term outcome after traumatic brain injury in children and adult patients: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Differential sensitivity of children and adults to chemical toxicity: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12202057/ 110 1
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Long term mental health trajectories after disasters: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Children report significantly higher depressive and anxiety symptoms than adults after disasters." 110 1
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Results from the global psychotrauma screen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "Compared to adulthood, trauma exposure in early childhood predicted significantly greater symptom burden, particularly for C-PTSD, dissociation, self-organization disturbances, depression and self-harm." 110 1
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026why/how does it seem unclear? Here are some sources that evidence the claim (multiple posts in subsequent thread): 110 1
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026this is me btw if you even care 000 0
Reposted by professional misunderstanderIndiscreet Function @homotopic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I think Urquhart's claim is somewhat true for the US too. there is a discrepancy between trans people as threats (overwhelmingly focused on trans women and girls) and trans people as victims of doctors/wokeness/"gender ideology" (often focused on trans men and boys) 41127 112
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/20262) being that a child is viewed as having less ability to cope with and survive/recover from various harms that an adult can withstand more readily. So it is not so much "innocence" and moral stain but rather with the degree of harm actually suffered. 130 3
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I think this is more often explained by 1) the view that because the younger has more life left to live, they are worse off for having missed out on it than the older person. This is often an explicit point people raise concerning the tragedy of young adults, adolescents and children dying. And 2) 130 3
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Hope it's okay to come in here and ask, when you say it makes you 'morally uncomfortable', do you mean: 1) You find the moral character of people with the opposite intuition to be suspect? 2) Or do you mean it makes you doubt your own intuition? 3) Something else? 110 1
Reposted by professional misunderstander☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 11/10/2026In a way, Zelensky is the true Weltgeist on horseback of the 21st century, dismantling two evil great powers in the East and West. 3352 35
Reposted by professional misunderstanderrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026there is no leftist literature as embarrassing as the "anticorruption is bourgeois and you have to understand that the politics of the working class are inherently patrimonial" literature which followed Lavo Jato and PT's total failure to do literally anything to reform. 839343 393
Reposted by professional misunderstanderJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic. 352362391 2.4K
Reposted by professional misunderstanderren faire @lathrys.at · 01/10/2026in the unlikely circumstance i ever find myself on a jury in a capital punishment state and know this is the incompetent fuckery that will ensue i’m pushing for nullification, no questions, idgaf 0111 11
Reposted by professional misunderstanderBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026she asked to be hanged precisely because she was afraid of a botched lethal injection. jesus christ 14712121 712
Reposted by professional misunderstanderWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 453861923 3.9K
Reposted by professional misunderstanderMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"The average SNAP benefit across the U.S. is about $6.25 per person per day, or roughly $190 per month, according to FRAC. That isn't enough to cover a typical meal in about 99% of U.S. counties, according to a 2025 analysis from the nonpartisan Urban Institute." 311338 113
Reposted by professional misunderstanderMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"About 5.2 million Americans like Covelli have lost SNAP benefits since the OBBBA was enacted..."cbsnews.comMillions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said. 117990 179
Reposted by professional misunderstanderJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Staggered at the number of supposedly intelligent, right-thinking people who still think they are immune to X’s powers. Boromirism. 521826 218
Reposted by professional misunderstanderKPD Max von Sydnow @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"The method of force which hides itself in secrecy is a method as old as humanity. The kind of thing that men are afraid or ashamed to do openly, and by day, they accomplish secretly, masked and at night." 0205 20
Reposted by professional misunderstanderMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. 298145762856 14.6K
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ok since i associate your account with uma now, i now have the idea in my head of an umamusume version of 86… which, i am not sure would wor, but… I hope it would be cute 000 0
Reposted by professional misunderstanderMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"They just need to budget better" is such a good (in that it is a useful cudgel) critique. Like virtually no one *actually* budgets. 4953 95
Reposted by professional misunderstanderMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That's right. www.governing.com/archive/col-...governing.comWhat the Poor Don’t Need: Financial Literacy TrainingOne state's plan to require people kicked off Medicaid to take a course on personal finance addresses a problem that doesn't exist. 411012 110
Reposted by professional misunderstanderjourneyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 01/02/2026The psycho pedophile regime who kidnaps and kills us is polling unfavorably 92573441 2.6K
Reposted by professional misunderstanderAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 692279729554 28K
Reposted by professional misunderstanderLuke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They didn’t go fucking rogue, they were put in a leaky box and given bad instructionsnytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department, Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission. 1340799 407
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not sure I agree with this or the subsequent emphasis on hubris as the climactic/integral theme. I think Frank and HoC's most defining theme is cynicism/abuse, not hubris. IMO it would be more compelling if such a world-ending event resulted from failure to trust in an honest, good faith character. 000 0
Reposted by professional misunderstanderMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026there’s specifically like a strain of anti anti americanism on here which is weirdly apologetic about 19th century expansionism for no reason other than reflexive contrarianism 1321 32
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It could range from like, nuclear explosions from fusion, to, say, merely pushing the matter aside as with a kinetic impact - but from which direction, and does it arrive totally simultaneous or piecemeal even if it’s in the blink of an ey? 110 1
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Actually one of my biggest unanswered questions when it comes to fictional time machines is just that: what happens to the matter occupying the destination space? How does the time-traveling object physically affect its immediate destination upon arrival? 210 2
Reposted by professional misunderstanderghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026if you are merely a dilettante that’s not cutting it. gotta be a camp-out-for-the-premiere, platinum tier bigot to care more about 8th grade sports than $8 diesel 442728 427
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i mean there’s no such thing as absolute position in space or moment in time; time is just another extension of space, and all spacetime is just like, relative metrics between two points, so there’s not like a “this point in space, 1000 years ago” 160 6
Reposted by professional misunderstander𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026i love kinesins but the one that really blows my mind is ATP synthase. it's an evolved biological rotor?? how can one ever recover from learning this exists 512730 127
Reposted by professional misunderstanderghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026there's nobody on Bluesky you *have* to argue with. just saying. you can just opt to not do that if you don't think you'd get anything out of the experience. 85119182 1.2K
Reposted by professional misunderstanderBig Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The more I think about it the more Klein saying he’s “agnostic to the possibility of human extinction” sort of annoys me. Like maybe develop an opinion, any opinion on this, the entire motivation of the AI doom conversation, before writing an opinion piece endorsing the pro doom side 31094 109
Reposted by professional misunderstandercathodeCorpse @cathodecorpse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026yeah that's a big one lmao. heard more than once "we don't need open borders, we won't have a country anymore. what we should do is, if you show up, have no record and can work, we just let you in, no fees" 4351 35
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Very hard choices In general, I have a very intense preference for super moralistic, choices-matter type RPGs, but I wanted to give some diversity and also show more of my gaming history so I selected somewhat different types of games too 000 0
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I honestly have no idea how to clarify and apply the concepts of consent, autonomy, patienthood, etc., to LLMs. It is genuinely difficult for me even to imagine hypothetically how that is to be done; so if someone believes LLMs to be "alive", why do they have no reservations about their use? 021 2
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am pretty partial to your view; something that I have often wondered is where all the discussions of moral patienthood for AI are among AI boosters / AI philosophizers who commonly attribute 'consciousness', 'self-awareness', sapience and sentience to LLMs with staggering confidence. 220 2
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026See here: bsky.app/profile/jord... 000 0
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026you are conflating very different subjects here The point of contention is not about the moral propriety of the act. this is a dispute about legal definitions Everyone can agree the war and the strike was morally bad 230 3
Reposted by professional misunderstanderlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Trump probably didn't help himself by promising to lower nominal prices before launching wars and tariffs. But also I kinda do think Will is fundamentally right that voters no longer being willing to accept nominal price raises is... gonna be a huge problem for everyone going forward? Weird to deny! 4643335 433
Reposted by professional misunderstander☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Wild how good that book is. Neville is really the first historian to take Anna seriously as an intellectual in the classical tradition. Trying to figure out why her style is so melodramatic and complex (for really interesting reasons, it turns out) compared to "women are jealous and hysterical" 2174 17
Reposted by professional misunderstandercccantú @ccantu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The inflation rate is one thing, but you should be thinking about the cumulative figure when trying to understand why the general perception is so sticky. We've seen prices increase 30% over the last six years. An equivalent increase happened over the prior 14 years. That explains a lot to me. 121 2
professional misunderstander @leo-pruessner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think a question or a claim can be worthy of consideration even if / when it happens to be put forward by some people for cynical reasons. Regarding (2.) - momentarily I will take this for granted in order to say that *not confirming* is distinct from *denying* the possibility that LLMs can think. 010 1
