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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Calling it now: as more and more people come to associate thick-framed glasses with AI, surveillance and voyeurism, expect very thin frames to become the dominant style

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Could somebody — I don’t know, just any journalist — please ask “Which religions?”

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing about ChatGPT is that it will give you a solution that seems to match what you ask for, even if one does not exist. As a math teacher I see this all the time: "Give an example of .... [describes something impossible, but not obviously so]." It's incapable of saying "There isn't one."

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the other hand, "I couldn't pump my own gas because my ZIP code is 07305" is perfectly sensible and normal . . . . (it's in New Jersey, get it?)

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Literally in both the Torah and the Code of Hammurabi! The owner is liable for any damages caused by his beasts. This is what we call a “solved problem”

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can only assume that the reason nobody engaged with this post 3 days ago is that you are all antisemitic

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Authoritarian ruler threatens neighboring country with annexation --> neighbor seeks alliance with friendly European powers for self-defense --> authoritarian proclaims that very alliance to a hostile act of aggression --> ... Trump-Canada-EU is following the exact same script as Putin-Ukraine-NATO

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Internet HR guy: "Now, can you please read this item that you posted to Bluesky on the day before Yom Kippur?" Me: "It says 'Kittel Up, motherf***ers." HR guy: "And can you explain why that's not, in your opinion, offensive?" Me: "The three asterisks stand for the letters A-S-T."

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look, if he's not Michael Moran and he doesn't have MM's backstory and he doesn't have the history with Liz and he didn't kill Gargunza or Johnny Bates and his daughter isn't Winter then he's *not Miracleman*, I don't care what costume and powers he has

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

MURDER BY DEATH walked so that CLUE could run

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@jordanmorris.bsky.social @mattlieb.bsky.social Loved the latest Free With Ads on CLUE. Can confirm that in the original theatrical release you'd get only one ending (and didn't know which one)

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI Safety is primarily about a rice-based dish from the Valencian Community in Spain. Google "Paella Chart" (but don't say I didn't warn you)

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 17/09/2026

80% of AI news at this point consists of a company announcing “we wrote a computer virus” then there’s something about the apocalypse or regulation, then the next news story is like “we wrote another computer virus.”

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does nobody but me remember sending people "gifts" on Facebook? It has *always* been popular to "buy", "sell" and "send" things that don't actually exist in any real way

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm increasingly seeing high school classrooms where there are no textbooks -- the only materials teacher use are worksheets that they download from places like Math Medic and Flamingo Math. Are other math educators seeing the same thing? #matheducation #secondarymath

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I know a lot of people are laughing at this but you have to understand that a central tenet of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was that people were "recovering" memories of having been forced by daycare providers to perform sexual acts with animals. Kash believes this was all true!

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What do you mean "now"? We've been saying this for *decades*

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

speaking only for myself, I would prefer not to have 3 billion birds in my yard

An Ad: "3 Billion Birds Are Gone. This Small Change Brings Them Back to Your Yard"

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I never really thought about it this way before but it's true, 9/11 really was kind of like an attack on America

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/09/2026

i don't care what the issue is, if your election opponent is running millions of dollars in ads about one single issue, you cannot, under any circumstances, say that your opponent is right about the issue.

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here on the ground at @umich.edu the really amazing thing is that every single student I have spoken with agrees that Western Michigan was robbed and explicitly doesn’t want this tainted “win” on our record

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m sorry but this is “The Lost Years of Merlin” erasure and it will not stand

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a great example of how not to ask questions. Don’t ask “Are you doing A to cause B?” because that allows for the answer “We’re not trying to cause B.” Just ask “Are you doing A” — a yes or no answer— and save the “why” part for a follow up

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A friend of mine pointed out that if "Lake Ontario" is now "Lake America", then the mnemonic HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) becomes SHAME. Seems apt.

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every once in a while I feel sad that nobody has ever tried to use a honey pot to entrap me in a compromising situation. Feel like I'm running out of opportunities for a life-ruining scandal

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 20/08/2026

things are cooked, the centre cannot even; the world has entered its anarchy era

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My only comment about "Woke 1" is that sometime in 2019, during an outbreak of "are Jews white?" discourse on Twitter, I posted "When my parents left Detroit for the suburbs in 1976 they knew exactly which side of White Flight they were on" and someone replied to me with "damn, you woke af"

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Every time Ben Shapiro opens his mouth it's a chilul hashem. He's living proof that you can wrap a pesel in a beged torah, but it's still avodah zarah

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@doktorzoom.bsky.social I hate to be a math pedant, but then again it is literally my job to be one, so: The issue here is not that they "didn't change the denominator". They *did* change the denominator (from 827 to 127). The problem is that did not also change the *numerator* at the same time

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

MAGA 1 was crazy! To secure any meaningful position in Republican politics required pretending that Donald Trump was an ethical person who never sexually assaulted anyone or did anything racist, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, and that the Jan. 6 insurrection was righteous.

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This thing about Miller using Trump's favorite songs to calm the insane president down is literally the story of David and Saul from the Book of Samuel

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

To clarify, if your lifestyle makes it difficult to engage with books you should not use an LLM, but you should also not let others shame you. What you *should* do is start listening to the Reading Glasses podcast on @maximumfun.org with hosts @breagrant.bsky.social and @malloryomeara.bsky.social

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Brea Grant (@breagrant.bsky.social)

(She/Her) Writer/Director 12 Hour Shift/Torn Hearts/Lucky/Reading Glasses #wgastrong

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@99pi.org so you’re saying that the water bottle that was supposed to fill itself by collecting moisture from the air but never came to market was…. vaporware?

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Asking a question about DC continuity inevitably makes the asker sound like a raving lunatic, exhibit 1,426:

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Can someone who has kept up with DC continuity please let me know if Verity Pennyworth (Alfred's daughter, recently introduced) and Julia Remarque (Alfred's daughter, Pre-Crisis, reintroduced as Julia Pennyworth in the New 52 reboot) exist in the same continuity?

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is very very field dependent. In Math and Math Ed publications in journals are extremely important, but nobody cares if you write a book.

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I understood the phrase "ethical romantasy" to mean that the *characters* behave ethically -- not as a description of the readers and writers

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Abdul el-Sayad: I love all my Jewish brothers and sisters, and my criticism of AIPAC and Israel doesn't change that Abdul el-Sayad supporter: Actually there are too many Jewish voices in Michigan politics

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

But apart from that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As we all know, the only proper way to say this is “Im yirtzeh hashem”

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hey friends, if you can take a minute and block / report this antisemite it would be a service to all of Bluesky

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've seen enough. I'm calling the Ann Arbor Mayoral Democratic Primary race for Yousef Rabhi.

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