The Pedantic Professor @pedanticprof.bsky.social · 15/10/2026static.klipy.comOK but that's worseAlt: Okay. But but that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right? 040
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/10/2026- The sound a cow might make when spanked - Onomatopoeia in a Batman comic panel where he’s flipping a pancake - The sound a bee makes when flying around a flower before pronouncing the first letter of the word “flat” buff.ly/zlLH4L9buff.lyCrossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise- The National Association of Xylophone X-Ray Zebra Paleontologists, briefly - The sound a chicken bone may make when accidentally dropped into a garbage dis... 827644
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Ban all frats on all campuses, forever. University of Chicago over the weekend: "A group of as many as 5 men were 'cheering and appearing to encourage the activity inside' a frat house bathroom & the group tried to block two of the woman’s friends from entering" blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/13/g...blockclubchicago.orgGroup Reportedly Cheered Sexual Assault At UChicago Frat House; Person Of Interest IDed: ReportAn investigation is ongoing but no one was in custody as of late Tuesday, Chicago police said. 21503433
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Thought I'd share this post from a friend which is a more nuanced version of the frustration among mathematicians about how the "mathocalypse" was executed. karagila.org/2026/openai-... I think all nerds are currently processing it.karagila.orgOpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematicsBy the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...) 413141
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorThe Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2026Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe… 4091782024
Reposted by The Pedantic Professordan sinker @dansinker.com · 12/10/2026An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1... 1151872366
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorDaily Kos @dailykos.com · 12/10/2026Trump’s Freedom 250 was supposedly privately funded. Records suggest taxpayers picked up a hefty tab. The ballroom and Qatar jet came with similar surprises. Republicans in Congress keep approving the arrangement: His vanity, your money. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...dailykos.comWhat did Trump do with all those ‘Freedom 250’ bribes?Remember Freedom 250? 15234
Reposted by The Pedantic Professorgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12/10/2026i have now seen the straight pride flag for the first time and my jaw genuinely dropped. you're right heterosexuals, strict binarism, black and white thinking, is a kind of imprisonment, 10/10 no notes 2594224588
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems 22644234
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. 2344156
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026GPU (n): a modern unit of currency, hoarded by a modern dragon. 1253
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Data center (n): a secure and windowless building, outside of which they keep the prisoners. 1242
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Effective altruism (n): an elaborate mathematical justification for giving money to people who remind you of yourself. 1363
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Roko’s basilisk: the comforting fantasy that there will be a God whose notice you are worthy of. 1334
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Tolkien, J.R.R.: the author of a celebrated three-volume book of baby names. 1382
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Altman (n): a portmanteau abbreviation of the phrase “(alt)ernative to a hu(man).” 2299
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Skeptic (n): one who denies reality on the grounds that its consequences would be too awful to contemplate. 1182
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pause (n): a temporary cessation of hostilities for the combatants to sharpen their knives. 1193
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Member of the Technical Staff (n): one who is well-compensated for wasting compute. 1223
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Artificial intelligence (n): the quest to create in computers a quality that has never yet existed in humans. 1303
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Rationalism (n): a demonstration in the realm of cognition of the eternal principle that good architects make poor carpenters. 1363
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Longtermism (n): the irrefutable moral postulate that the needs of the imaginary many outweigh the needs of the actual few. 115237
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorCasey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 30/09/2026Just a reminder that you can have a PhD and also be an idiot 2953573
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17572741996
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. 15317
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you have no concept of how people engage with music 5828260886
Reposted by The Pedantic Professorjon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comPeople Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-AllUrine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine. 1612575652
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it. 05918
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with the stochastic parrots metaphor. >> 411628
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorWIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...wired.comTimnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AIOne of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. 815548
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorMother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.motherjones.comAI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening. 221793
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 331190053988
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They are playing in our faces 408125935971
Reposted by The Pedantic Professorleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5463791418
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"You can argue with them in any way you like but it barely matters. [Paperclip-maxxing doom is] not, mostly, something people believe for good reasons, and they will simply go back to complaining about the apocalypse as soon as you stop paying attention."verysane.aiAI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, CaliforniaWe might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that is not primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exist. 2254
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.nbcnews.comElon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis 23060233744
Reposted by The Pedantic Professor🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886262300
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. 09927
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026ADHD is what ADHD is & it causes me huge problems but I also think sometimes I need to remind people that I personally like having it. What I don’t like is the penalties & taxes our current societal structure inflicts on me for having it. 1134532
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Palestinians have been shouting about the "decisive plan" referenced in this article since 2017. I'm glad Israeli allies are using their privileged positions to bring this to light. But why does it require an Israeli in the NYT to believe what we've been saying? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Israel’s Elimination ProjectTwo languages. Two realities. 15318
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/09/2026"For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could ALSO SHIT?" buff.ly/K5t1rGhmcsweeneys.netWe Must Create the Shit Machine“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there was a COMPUTER that could AL... 815141
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns. 483088913
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It is really shocking the degree to which Palestinians are spoken about as subjects to be managed rather than full human beings with agency. Even by people in supposedly supportive organizations. We have completely accepted the idea that Palestinians don't have a right to decide what they want. 121360
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about. 05711
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026"Did these AI models “go rogue”? Not exactly. the models were tasked with finding solutions to a hacking challenge, and this is what they attempted to do, though in an unintended and surprising manner." aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...aiguide.substack.comMisleading Metaphors, Real RisksWhat To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency 16390155
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win. 1035263466040
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorMatt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 11/09/2026For the record, while there are indeed vulnerabilities in some US election systems, susceptibility to “lasers from space” is not one of them. Musk’s alleged claims here would not constitute evidence of election fraud, but rather evidence of a serious detachment from reality on his part. 910627
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026At least a couple of mathematicians are convinced that OpenAI is using their interactions with ChatGPT as the basis for 'original' work done by their agents. If true, it severely undercuts the idea that AI has *independently* made major progress on specific math problems (including Navier-Stokes) 15012
Reposted by The Pedantic ProfessorBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comSPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha SchoolWhat is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp? 481008386
