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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Being forced to sit through almost 2 hours of an AI security training that is itself AI-generated. We’re so unbelievably cooked.

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Religion and structural collapse

Why everyone is wrong about religious decline

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Once again: Levinas was right about the relationship between fascism and liberalism

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I also remember the birthday party scene from Signs being the first time I felt truly unsettled by a movie on a deep, almost existential level.

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How many elder millennials were traumatized by that one scene from Ernest Scared Stupid? (If you’ve seen it, I guarantee you know *exactly* what I’m talking about.)

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I watched Jaws with my aunt when I was 7 or 8. For months afterward I was terrified that a shark was going to make its way to the Gulf of Mexico, up the freshwater Mississippi River to one of its minor tributaries, then travel 3 miles over land to come crashing through my bedroom window and eat me.

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really kinda sucks that, across the globe, we don’t have majorities of voters who think far right authoritarianism is bad If I had to sum it up it seems like 40% of voters are anti authoritarian 40% of voters are pro authoritarian 20% of voters just want cheap burgers

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Look, I completely agree that Trump voters should be shamed mercilessly. But we should also acknowledge that they’re wearing that dunce cap because they put it on themselves, not because of any shrewd political strategy from the Dems

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I just realized that one of my pastor friends has been the head of every congregation he’s been part of for the past 10 years, and that strikes me as unhealthy. It seems like every pastor should have to (or get to) be part of a church where they’re not the ones calling the shots all the time.

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Waaaait a minute is the Hi I’m High lady an Episcopalian? ⚓️ 📕 🕯️

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Franciscans are losers, btw. Benedictines for life, bro

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This is why I don’t have a lot of hope for us even after Trump is gone. The deficit balloons under the GOP; we replace them with Dems who implement austerity measures; Americans are extremely averse to sacrifice, so we vote GOP in the next election cycle. Rinse, lather, repeat.

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Semper aut discere, aut docere, aut scribere dulce habui. It has always been my delight to learn, or to teach, or to write. —Bede the Venerable

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whatever the decent thing might be in any given situation, Trump is always certain to do the opposite. Every. single. time.

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Broke: humans can think, machines can’t Woke: both humans and machines can think Bespoke: neither humans nor machines can think

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Okay, fine. I’ll play The Witcher 3.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s always fun to dunk on The Atlantic’s aloofness, but this is also a perspective that I first heard sincerely expressed by blue collar folks in my rural MO town almost 20 years ago.

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I think people are wasting a lot of cycles on whether AI is conscious or intelligent when really we’re trying to figure out if it’s human, and it isn’t

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Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh man. I did this last Friday, and Saturday I got sick with whatever abomination that’s still hounding me a week later.

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“I will, with God’s help.”

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Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, absolutely. I teach around 70 students per semester, never get to be in an actual classroom with any of them, and I work a non-academic full-time job on top of all that. I would love the luxury of being able to have in-depth conversation and oral exams for my students. But that ain’t happening.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My main thought with this article is really need AI takes from outside elite liberal arts schools bubble. “Just have in-depth searching conversations w/ your handful of students and then give each 45 min oral exams!” This has no relevance to most professors or students at most schools in the country

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Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As opposed to kinda paschal lamb

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Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I stopped using AI detection after all of two (2) semesters. To be honest, the easiest way to tell if students used generative AI is when 10 out of a class of 35 submit writing that includes the exact same oddly-phrased opinion that ultimately doesn’t have anything to do with the initial question

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Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One conviction which I’ve come to see as equally true across several facets of life (religion, politics, family/social dynamics, etc): Rejection of a belief system is not itself a belief system.

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9 games that really clicked with me

Dark Souls
Hollow Knight
Inside
Portal
What Remains of Edith Finches
Untitled Goose Game
Inscryption
Gorogoa
Hades

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Unsurprisingly, Sen. Eric Schmitt is a profoundly stupid person.

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9 games that really clicked with me

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