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Postdoc appreciation week is over, so please, STOP appreciating postdocs. They will get some more appreciation next year

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love to watch nfl football, a league in which zero teams appear to be good at football

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Simple insertion ruins the iambic pentameter. The F-bomb being monosyllabic is not an iamb (but could be a part of one “Ah F..k”), and F-ing, while it has two syllables, has the wrong stress pattern: / u not u /

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I don’t think bill ackman giving a race scientist a million dollars is going to save the academy

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it's true, i've been lying about not having heard a random country song for clout. it makes people think i'm very cool. but the intrepid journalists at rolling stone saw through my ruse

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Patrick Skeels @baslogic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh it’s the Before trilogy by like a thousand miles

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This may be true for many but not for me. As the protagonist of reality, everything is about me. I'm never off-topic. I'm just getting people on-topic.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

sorry but i really don't think the reason people are rude dipshits on social media is because they are not reading enough high quality fiction

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you believe the computational theory of mind, the artificial minds debate is like 'what if a *computer* could be.............. a computer'

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Some of you will already know this, but the distinction between things and stuff is about to be huge in empirically informed philosophy of mind

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/09/2026

Read this during undergrad and can still quote it from memory lol

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As a hiring manager, one of the most important things for me is to find something completely unrelated to the candidate's ability or the role I'm supposed to be hiring for and make a snap decision based on that because I hate doing my job and in fact plan on going home early as usual

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what's that? people who make hiring decisions sometimes have idiosyncratic and opaque preferences, and you won't get the job if you so happen to not align with their sometimes stupid and unknowable principles? damn, that's crazy

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sure, it's embarrassing to bring an iced coffee to an interview, but that's nothing compared to what i did one time: bringing your personality

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one thing to say more generally is that in loose labor markets, prospective employers wind up sorta looking for ways to eliminate qualified candidates (because there's too many and a decision needs to be made), so as a job seeker you want to eliminate job-irrelevant ways of standing out

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just realized this guy *also* did Ren Faire

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naturally, i assume everyone else assesses tv shows in the exact way that i do. now to take a big sip of coffee and open the new york times...

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my sense of the norms in academia is people would be more worried about a job candidate who didn't bring coffee to the interview

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Wokeness is a religion and that’s good because religion is a really core source of meaning and community and we need to put that back at the center of society

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Thinking that only agents can be biased is a real obstacle to recognizing and addressing a lot of the ways that society is unfair, and I’d rather not reify that way of thinking in the language we use to talk about LLMs

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not a lawyer, but my sense is most lawyers will tell you not to write 'i am intending to do all of the elements of defamation per se rn'. they *hate* when the other guy's lawyer can quote that on page 1 of their brief

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It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible

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Gonna start prefacing q&a contributions with ‘this is more of a question than a comment…’

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Find it bleakly funny that tomer describes ‘sure, cheating may personally benefit you, but it is wrong’ as ‘starry-eyed’

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we've always had the secret hack of 'cheating'. You could, in principle, pay a qualified human to fully write your materials for you. If you see what's wrong with that, apply that reasoning to using genAI for this. If you see nothing wrong with that, I don't know what to tell you.

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i mean, i know, people are sick of this guy, and i am sorry. but this is an insanely funny thing to say when you are on a several day warpath picking a fight with experts about their area of expertise

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bravely not invested in the mask policy of a lesbian bar in a state i don't live in

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my personal fav genre of stancil reply is 'no, will, you don't understand. i'm a big fan. i love when you epically own those dumbass leftists with your reasonable-ass liberalism, but in this case you are being manifestly ignorant and incurious and belligerent. please reconsider!'

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tfw your former boss gets married to your ex-wife

MIke Budenholzer, looking distressed that his former boss is marrying his ex-wife

MIke Budenholzer, looking like he can't believe that his boss is marrying his ex-wife

MIke Budenholzer, looking resigned to the fact that his former boss is marrying his ex-wife

MIke Budenholzer, looking disgusted that his boss is marrying his ex-wife

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Why don’t experts in a field I don’t understand intuitively grok the crude and idiosyncratic way of categorizing views I just made up in my head and didnt explain? I don’t fucking get it

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