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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 2h

Same goes for “civility.” It’s not simply an uncomplicated, obvious good. Who’s deploying the concept, how is it being defined, to what ends? I’m not saying that “civility” efforts may not be well-intentioned or have good outcomes, just that, like “interfaith,” it doesn’t get an automatic pass.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 4h

Much of the current rush of “civility” trainings and workshops boils down to “you must be civil to (translation: accommodate and not point out the devastating flaws and evils of) our position and agenda”

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14h

After all, it is the thought that counts.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15h

Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:

Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 15h

Guess what, all of Joe’s hand-wringing fury at Bibi, tactically leaked to the press, didn’t amount to a hill of beans. As with every other recent potus who’s spun the same tired narrative. Now, what have we here? A Biden official on a self-justifying, history re-writing book tour? How right on cue.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 16h

It’s apparently gonna now really suck to be working in any area where there are orders, reservations, bookings, etc. If the muse/dots/little red crab commercials have their way, these idiotic “agents” are going to be, apparently calling, ordering, booking, and probably making a muddle of things

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 17h

Good 🧵 FWIW, interest in pseudo-scientific “proofs” of scriptural things is an area of overlap among some Christians & Muslims. Among such Muslims - who also have the Noah story in the Quran & in the qassas al-anbiya (tales of the prophets) genre - such “finds” are also tantalizing. Compare…

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 18h

What do you mean, of course it “wood” survive that long!

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 20h

This looks fantastic: “Dr Mara Nicosia will explore the education of Syriac Christian intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq, and the role they played in carrying Greek science and philosophy into Arabic” 🗃️

iis.ac.uk

History of Syriac Intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq | The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Join IIS on 7 October 2026 for an online IHTLS lecture about history of Syriac intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq were educated and rose to prominence.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 23h

Can’t count how many times I’ve had conversations where I feel compelled to reveal that “no, my academic book sales do not meaningfully supplement my income.”

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sister Helen Prejean @sisterhelen.org has been right about this all along

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As computer programmers have long said: PIPO. Piss in, piss out.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just read this. So many stunning details, assumptions, leaps of logic reported here it boggles the mind. To the extent the reporting is accurate, there’s a tremendously muddled naïveté among those in charge of making claude, the mechanistic product of a profit seeking company, “good” or “moral.”

nytimes.com

Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Worth emphasizing that there are several layers of nuts here. If Smith had gone to an NBA game in Atlanta, that wouldn’t indicate he’d met with Willis. (Why would anyone go to the trouble, rather than just having a phone call?) And if he had met with Willis… that wouldn’t be any sort of scandal.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Striking how often pro-AI arguments always require like 10 different caveats. "What if AI was well regulated, trained on non-stolen data, not made by companies run by sociopaths, was didn't harm the environment, made discoveries that were verified beyond the statements of PR reps? What then?"

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Nicolas Addington @naddington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guys I’ve been holding out on you — we got kittens like a month ago and I haven’t posted any pictures.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

👇👇 (and even... rather forcefully/coercively "conforming you to tech's version of what it even means to be human")

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s tempting to say that all these AI pushers and boosters should’ve taken more humanities classes. But the fact is, we are indeed talking “basic” or lowest common denominator morality (and logic) here. They do know better, but they’re in too deep to care.

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Chris Edelson @chrisedelson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just saw headline on CNBC: "AI breaches--who's responsible?" Um, maybe the companies and people who created the AI that caused the breaches? Why is it so hard to engage in basic moral reasoning?

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A. Cosmographer @acosmographer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm actually so mad about the meta wonderbread cuddle toy and the gummy-bear agents. That shit isn't accidental. For a platform that's rife with exploitation schemes? We truly do not hate these people enough.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is horrifying. How anyone can look at this rationally and think that this is good? Here’s just one of many sketchy lines: “The more you work together, the more your dot learns your preferences, how you think, and what good looks like to you.”

openai.com

Introducing dots

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m surprised he didn’t name it “Super America”

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yup yup yup. Ad campaigns always, only emphasize “nice” innocent uses. Cuddly mascots are meant to reinforce this. But at heart, these products are deeply dystopian. A perfect tool not just for the lazy, not just for propagandists, but also for malicious bad actors of every kind.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He’s naming more things than Adam.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are bundles of limitations requiring others to care for and watch out for us. This applies even to work with hughly technical dimensions.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's weird is the apparent assumption that task lists can be turned over to bots. (1) tacit knowledge (2) if work requires coordination with others, you need to be in the loop to be considerate of them, and draw on what they know.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not sure where the discourse started, but I agree that reducing our messy, flesh & blood, complex, glorious human lives to a series of “tasks” to get done (which an AI agent can supposedly do for you to give you more time for… what exactly?) is just one more example of big tech’s dehumanizing trend.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is welcome. How terms are defined, and deciding who counts as x,y,z matter. Few categories in the realm of global religion are as subject to skewed and reductionistic use as "evangelical"

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Summer Zeev @summerzeev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me driving 61 mph in the right lane of the 55-limit interstate, everyone blowing by me at 79. Can't square that with the incessant bitching about the price of gas.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Americans: the price of gas! Also Americans: if you don’t floor it from every stop sign and stoplight, I will tailgate you and lose my temper. (it wastes gas to floor it from a stopped position, so to save some money, you better believe I’m going to start out slowly)

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In which a student journalist, editor of this student newspaper’s opinion section (the same student newspaper that broke the story to begin with), calls for the entirely justified firing of Dartmouth’s Provost Plagiarism…

thedartmouth.com

Moyse: Fire Provost Santiago Schnell

Reporting has provided ample evidence of Provost Schnell’s inexcusable actions,   which are symptomatic of broader problems with the administration’s fetishization of AI.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OpenAI has been “grossly negligent in the design, marketing, sale…, and distribution of their ChatGPT product…, failed to warn Floridians of ChatGPT’s dangers, fraudulently misrepresented the safety of ChatGPT, and created a public nuisance by releasing ChatGPT in Florida without proper safeguards…”

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A student wrote this in an email to me today: “I do not like ai and would not be caught dead using it!” (😁)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible, start on pg 1 (11 of the pdf) “Defendants are the creators of ChatGPT, an [AI] chatbot…Unfortunately, in designing and releasing ChatGPT and its underlying AI models onto an unsuspecting world, Defendants failed to properly assess or disclose the risks their AI poses to ordinary humans”

myfloridalegal.com

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s reminiscent of the desperate, flailing attacks on Mamdani before he won the New York mayoral election. Let’s hope Michigan follow the lead of NYC voters.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I agree, but I’ll take it if they will just first read my syllabus’s carefully curated “Author, pgs 1-3, 7-8, 12-15, 19-20.”

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Ireland’s players wore black armbands at the game…in support of Palestinians killed during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Irish players also bowed their heads during Israel’s national anthem... Ireland’s captain, Dara O’Shea,… pledged to donate all of his earnings from the match to aid Gaza.”

aljazeera.com

Ireland defeats Israel in controversial UEFA Nations League match

Ireland's players wore black armbands in support of Palestine, bowed their heads, and refused pre-match handshakes.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2026

Floods and landslides kill at least 56 people in India, 12 in Nepal aje.news/hlfmnw

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A student wrote this in an email to me today: “I do not like ai and would not be caught dead using it!” (😁)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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