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One thing I miss about smoking? The loitering. My friends and I could really loiter when we smoked. Once we got a ticket!

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held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sounds like something a bot would say

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It reminds me of when gun control opponents treat the arcana of firearms technology as the cost of admission to conversations about preventing mass shootings

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I often work with faculty in other disciplines on issues related to teaching writing. This helps me understand why professors in Education seem so ready to accept the logic of AI technology and to bring it into their classrooms

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This explains a lot. When discussing AI agents with other faculty it’s the folks teaching in fields tasked with producing bureaucratic subjects (Business, Education) that have been the first to bring AI into their classrooms.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did you factor in the teenagers?

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mary worth is lit @wilburwurthless.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I made lots of money trading* on sports that I can now buy a new water pipe** used specifically for tobacco*** at the local smoke shop

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI? In this political economy?

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No, he’s trying to get the oligarchs to support his bid for President

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026

The US higher education system is not equipped to correct for the effects of systemic injustice and underfunding at the high school, middle school, and elementary school levels.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A lot of people seem to think that reason, intelligence, and consciousness are widely agreed upon terms for well understood phenomena. Either that or they’re just sloppy thinkers.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And it’s a world where all of these discussions follow from a dimly remembered intro to philosophy course as narrated over bong hits by the kid who didn’t do the reading

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“American Intelligence “ (AI) is sitting right there. Dude has truly lost a step

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Of course not, but concepts like lock in and path dependence can take you pretty far

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The analogy I find most useful is the historical roll out of the automobile, the history of which has genuinely clarifying similarities to the roll out of AI

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh so when Marion Cotillard does it it’s impressive but when a made up cartoon lady does it because she glitches out while being interviewed by a ham sandwich it’s no longer cool ok

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You can compare the addictive properties of social media to cigarettes, but I’ve never enjoyed using social media as much as I enjoyed smoking cigarettes

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Occasional reminder that pedagogy should be eccentric and calibrated to the uniquely bizarre access you have managed to cobble together in order to crack open a complicated form of understanding.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I call dibs on the formula for the grease they use to slick the pans

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sometimes the semiotic square articulates a relation of concepts that are synthesized in things; sometimes it articulates a relation among things that resolve as concepts. How can it be both? Because the semiotic square is a cootie catcher

Jameson's version of a semiotic square from Nostromo. Abstract terms duplicate character names and general categories

Krauss's version of a semiotic square to grapple with minimalism

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/09/2026

It's not hard to understand why appeals to the "center" (which just means the right wing) come at the cost of votes on the left. This seems baffling to many of the "political strategy" minds on here whose apparent plan is to have their cake and eat it

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Are you talking about a comics order or voting?

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m wouldn’t be surprised if that happens, or if an actual lawyer does a final pass for accuracy. My point was just that. as in other fields, AI “labor” is commonly propped up by poorly paid human labor

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But my experience is second hand. I have a lot of students who intern at firms between undergrad and law school

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is when you use the original AI: Anonymous Intern

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fortunately there’s usually a poorly paid intern to do this

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For people just joining us, here's what's happening. AI types sold a bunch of B2B snake oil to C suites who forced it on employees. The promises they made haven't come true and now they're pivoting to a protection racket trying to scare those same idiots who believed the first set of lies

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good catch… there’s some Werner Roth in there too

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Telling students they can use AI sometimes and for certain things makes as much sense as telling students in a health class that unprotected sex is fine so long as it’s “just the tip”

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s so well established that brainstorming and outlining are central to the learning process and successful writing outcomes that I feel gaslit when people tell my students that they can just outsource it

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s like you were there

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In my hometown there was a moral panic about teenagers hanging out in the creekside tunnels. “What could they possibly be up to?”’ People just hate teenagers

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They store their toenail clippings in the velvet bag

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I should mention that I realize im coming across adversarially here and I apologize. I suspect we agree on a decent percentage of this stuff

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes, because it has been trained and harnessed by people to do this. Shorthand descriptions that elide this fact muddy our understanding of what’s actually at stake in these arguments

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I guess I’m working from the idea that allowing a key term like reason to just float around and mean whatever in an ongoing debate about the relationship between people and technology isn’t going to end well

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Because if you think your LLM is reasoning you either have an exceedingly narrow definition of reasoning or you don’t understand how LLMs work.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s not metaphysical. We know what reasoning is when LLMs do it, and it’s basically stochastic. This can look like reasoning but it isn’t. And that’s an important distinction if we’re comparing what they do to what humans do

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So you agree that what llms do isn’t reasoning?

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Note the qualifier “if a person was doing it.” Note that a person is not doing it.

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