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Odium Symposium @odiumsymposium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our new episode is out for all listeners! Helen and Sarah look at Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel. The two discuss the weaponization of antisemitism and the self-importance of writing a book with so many twitter screenshots.

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25. The Y Word | Odium Symposium

Helen and Sarah look at Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel. The two discuss the weaponization of antisemitism, the self-importance of writing

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 22h

I wish I could make a bunch of money by copy-pasting every time I got into an argument on social media and calling that a book.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone probably said something like "Left and right. Ah yes. The two genders." and they got so mad they all decided to be enbies.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, yeah. Me not having heard a song does usually say more about me than about the song. For instance, it says about me that I didn't listen to that son. Though I guess it says about the song that it wasn't listened to by me, so maybe it says an equal amount about both.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just do a shot for shot remake of the 7 samurais with jedis instead of samurais you cowards! Seriously, it would be so easy!

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's ridiculous. It's clearly the homonculous inside that's angry.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is a part of me that likes how Stargate just kind of cuts to credit right after the climax of the episode. "We ran out of run time. We're sure you can fill in the falling action and resolution yourself. Toodaloo!"

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm confused by the claim that using agentic language to talk about LLMs somehow undermines the responsibility of companies for their actions. Even if you literally believed the LLMs are people, we do hold companies responsible for the actions of their agents! That's a whole legal doctrine.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Time for some experimental archeology on dating apps.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Look, let's clear this up. Machines cannot move, carry things or perform arithmetic because those are evolved capabilities of embodied living organisms embedded in the physical and social world and machines aren't that. Don't make it harder than it is.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new character arrived on Stargate and I was like "Who is Temu Jason Momoa?" Followed by "Actually Temu Jason Momoa is pretty hot." Then "OMG That's just Jason Momoa!"

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Half of math is discovering the beautiful regularities of the universe and the other half is noticing some property and finding out there are exactly 73 other objects which have that property and they all come out of the nightmares of Cthulhu.

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Gary Hoppenworth @garytho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It turns out someone posted a third polyhedron with this property to arxiv a week ago lol arxiv.org/pdf/2609.177...

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm trying to understand the mind of someone who thinks one guy being assassinated is worse than a military junta taking over the country. Like, you know a lot of people would die if that happened right?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

incredible

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My hot take is that it's actually fine to treat KSA like this.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Couldn't they honor his legacy in some other way. By like, also dying while hated by the world?

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's always so funny to me how much people hate trade deficit because a trade deficit means we print little pieces of paper and people give us stuff we want in exchange for the little pieces of paper. And now we don't even have to print the pieces of paper anymore. Best deal ever!

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

suspect Effective Altruism is kinda like New Atheism where the loudest voices who the movement gets identified with go crazy, but most people who were involved in the movement remain normal and keep doing good stuff

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is definitely bullshit. There is overlap, but you can look at the primary funders in the EA community. That's GiveWell which does exclusively global health and poverty and Coefficient Giving which funds global health charities to the tune of hundreds of millions. Hardly Yud's priorities.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People used to at least send their thoughts and prayers. This mf is like "I have thoughts and you can't have them."

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 14/09/2026

"But you have to, I won my appeal at dating court"

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On the topic of essay questions, I'd like to assign this to all academics: "The clever man is objectively conditioned by the fear that if he does not unfailingly affirm the nonexistent superiority of the word over force, that superiority will once again be taken from him by force" (p. 68). Discuss.

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josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The flame we carry can't melt steel beams.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not fond of the Philippines. The US healthcare system sucks, but at least they don't hold you prisoner in the hospital if you can't pay the bill.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

i'm sorry that you've been in a coma since 2015, but i am afraid that i have to inform you that they are the ones teaching _us_ this lesson, not the ones who might learn it from us

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hijacker: Everyone stop talking. I am armed and I am taking control of this plane. Guy from the Netherlands: Wow, in Netherlands we just purchase a plane if we want one. But typically we will bike somewhere Guy who has been to Japan once: In Japan planes are rarely hijacked. It's a cultural taboo

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Securities and Exchange Commission is getting involved in the dating market now?

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brendan 🇵🇸 @ohiolandmarks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"we saw you from across the bar and really dig the shape of your caucasoid skull"

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whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the absolute worst possible "we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe" that could ever happen to a person

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Canadian healthcare system is so woke that if you get into a car crash they automatically transition you.

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Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

another Discourse Denial of Service post

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"She should get that looked at." - My partner without even knowing the prompt.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I bet Starfleet's workplace safety officer is constantly trying to ban all non-essential uses of the Holodeck.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't know what the plan is for the NYC grocery stores. But the argument that markets are better at means testing access to resources is asinine.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yeah, I'm cherry picking. But I insist. Republicans win on crime and immigration because *nobody* wants diet racism. If you want to win you have to either go full racist (don't) or present a genuinely different perspective on those issues.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Mayor Mamdani showing us what we will not be able to have after the revolution.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is not bigotry or people being bad at math. This is what happens when you ask people to answer questions they don't care about and have no reason to try to get right. Numbers are just vibes.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

a not insignificant aspect of my overall worldview is pretty well captured by this tumblr exchange

kimbbearly:
why dont humans have a specific noise that means "there are bees here lets leave immediately" why are elephants more advanced than us

thebaconsandwichofregret:
we do have a specific noise, it sounds like this:
"there are bees here lets leave immediately"

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

(((They))) want to steal your precious bodily fluids.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's kind of stunning how quickly mainstream rhetoric in the US went from "Israel is the greatest ally to the US ever" to "Mossad is running global pedophile rings," without enough of a stop at "Israel is an ethnonationalist country doing normal but very bad ethnonationalism" in between.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I can read to the end of the sentence and note that having a gay guy do the war crimes is not actual progress and that focusing on it is a distraction from more important things.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Having mandatory national service as part of your platform would be insane. Your opponent would just run endless attack ads saying that you want to enslave peoples' children. (Also, it's stupid and evil as a policy)

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

They've automated your mistress explaining your wife to you.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Profoundly cursed Facebook ad

FB post from AI slop vendor "Are We Good": She's been telling you. You've been missing it. arewegood plugs into iMessage on your Mac and shows you what she actually needs — from the texts she already sent.

AI slop photo of a befuddled guy looking out the window at a stack of printed out text messages?

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