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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Last minute re-up of this. Deadline is next week!

Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 6h

“We hit a nerve. A lot of people were being affected by this rampant rise in costs and wanted to know what was behind it,” Kim said. “As it happens, private equity has changed a lot of industry landscapes.”

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 6h

Good. Everything PE touches seems to go to crap. The term “private equity” has come to represent “leveraged buyouts…in order to ruthlessly profit maximize and…self-enrich” before dumping the bought-out thing in the trash, and rinsing and repeating.

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‘People are feeling the real impacts’: influencers are targeting private equity with satire and rage

The trillion-dollar industry has taken over social media, inspiring skits and parody raps with millions of views

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

Reminder that regulations are written in tragedy and blood, including modern fire codes. Furthermore, these regulations have worked; we are mich safer/much less at risk of another Great Chicago Fire. Which is why m*ga/doge/vought’s gutting of regulations and regulatory agencies is such a crime.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 10h

By “they” I mean the parents obviously

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 10h

Parents walking around on a campus visit day with their high school seniors and juniors. Passing them by I think, “man, they look old.” Then I remember, that’s exactly the season I’m in (my youngest is a college freshman) and that’s exactly what I look like.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 13h

Well, well, well. So the "most likely" catastrophe will be an infrastructure incident, not some Rube Goldberg plot from a sci-fi movie? huh. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term,
"Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
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10/8/26, 12:14 PM

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

It’s like, exhibits A and B…the very next day. See, folks, this stuff *is* relevant — sadly, in lots of in ways I wish it wasn’t.

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

In class on Wed, I finished up a unit on "Islam and Muslims in the US." I literally ended by calling out/debunking - with facts and data - the Islamophobic scare tactics used by politicians. Then that vile post about Somalis in Minnesota and the Michigan senate debate hit yesterday...

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Dr. Tanya Samman @t-s-sci.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

1. We do not *need* so-called "A.i.". We did just fine (better, in fact) without it, only a few years ago. Remember "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"? 2. Ergo, we do not *need* data centres. Bring the cost of tech back down for everyday users! 3. When the *heck* did "compute" become a noun. 🤦‍♀️

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

Also see this excellent companion website, that tells the story with many interesting details. The fire burned all day on this day in history, Oct 9, 1871. It had finally run its course by Oct 10. 🗃️

wttw.com

The City on Fire | Chicago Stories

On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started in Catherine O’Leary’s barn. No one knows exactly how it started, but everyone knows the result: The Great Chicago Fire. The city burned for more than a day,...

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If we’re fact checking (and most reports I’ve seen seem to be interested only in a both-sides narrative), one set of attacks was simply factual, while the other set was laced with innuendo and falsehoods.

apnews.com

Rogers and El-Sayed trade attacks in combative first Michigan Senate debate

Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed have had their first debate in Michigan’s closely watched U.S. Senate race.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I always chuckle at how Smart managed to get 13 actual dimensions in his “7 Dimensions”. The first 6 are all ____ & ____, for 2 each. (Or maybe there are 11 since one is ____ or ____)

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No, totally. My post was that way because everyone in the replies was like “no duh, of course you eat the skin!”

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Don’t worry, I wrote back nicely. We have covered *a lot* in the past 5 weeks, so I get it. (For the curious, this slide is part of a session on different ways of conceptualizing and defining “religion”)

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Professor, I’m studying for tomorrow’s exam and I can’t find anything anywhere about Smart’s 7 Dimensions.” (It was covered in depth in class and all session slides are posted, including this one)

PowerPoint slide showing Smart’s seven dimensions. Ninian smart, 1927 to 2001, from his book, the world‘s religions.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One can hope that these are terminal convulsions signaling that the end is near

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L'Histoire de Manon @manonatelier.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Chicago Pope gets it.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And to the last point (Olah and team seeming more worried about treatment of Claude than of actual humans), we’ll, here it is: (“extreme cases” - who decides what this means anyway? - for now)

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An imaginary eulogy I wrote for just such a loser dad

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I made a joke a few times that, if political psychology is a thing, and counselling psychology is also a thing, then there should be political counselling psychology. I have offered my (very pricey) services as a political therapist. But I think i need political therapy myself. Politics should...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Editors of journals published by Taylor & Francis - hi! - may be alarmed to learn there is an emerging view T&F will get bought by private equity after Informa announced it's dropping it. And we know what private equity does to its acquisitions. Guts them. As if academic publishing wasn't bad enough

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He doesn’t, though, despite those who have caved to his re-namings. One day, they will all be forgotten.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dude is really thinking he has Adamic powers and prerogatives.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Alrighty time to tackle the 50 emails I’m behind on answering

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently everyone on planet earth already knew this except this guy. Folks, let the guy rejoice in his discovery.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Right. It’s funny how he wants so desperately to be memorialized and remembered, but apart from the real cultists, no one actually loves him for him.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

*follows Update: it’s getting even more flailing and unhinged

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

💯, but I’m not sure many m*ga voters are savvy enough to realize this.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I agree, but some additional thoughts on “busywork”

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But it is a lot better than current twitter

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Schools as “brain gyms” calls to mind this section of my class (a brain gym in its own right) genAI policy:

*The only way to actually get anything out of this course is use your own brain. Dependence on AI to do
your work is basically you robbing yourself of your education. Consider: You wouldn't go to the gym and let
a robot or forklift do the lifts and cardio workout for you, would you? If you did, you wouldn't *actually* be
exercising. It's exactly the same with academic work and your cognitive/intellectual “muscles.” Many
studies (I’m happy to send links) have established a link between AI dependency and cognitive decline.
*The assignments for this course are designed to teach you certain skills and dispositions. These include
learning to read texts closely, to think critically, to situate phenomena in their contexts, to recognize the
complexity of the human heritage/experience, and to articulate yourself in speech and writing. Like
learning to play a musical instrument, these skills and dispositions, to say nothing of mastering the course
content, can only be attained when you do the work yourself

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Public libraries, too

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also libraries. And crossword puzzles.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm on it! bsky.app/profile/ebha...

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Isn’t is obvious that, posthaste, we need to rename all schools, colleges and universities “brain gyms”?

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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He is the least stressed person because he's never had to fly coach on this own airline. I invite him, anytime, to sit next to me (6') in row 37E and tell me he is comfortable and stress free.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 07/10/2026

I once had someone tell me, and I do mean this literally, that LLMs transcend the limits of turing machines and computability because they are not constrained by having to give correct answers

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