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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 19h

uh, ok. i guess i got blocked for it, as did apparently anyone else who didn't full-throatedly endorse the guy's thinking. and sure, use social media how you want. that's cool but damn, some of the thinnest-skinned people in the universe are white male academics who face any question at all

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I very much like that distinction. Might borrow it from time to time. Models are much easier to make than theories. And pass through the dissemination process with less difficulty.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

It seems baffling to me that people are conflating models and theory. Statistical analyses are for describing patterns in the data. Theory means giving possible reasons those patterns are there. Surely that's obvious but then I see people saying LLMs can tell us things about language development...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/10/2026

Yes! And I want to invite you both to write about these as a general invitation because I really think more psychologists should be saying this! Our version:

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 19h

segregation. a term denoting a series of policies limiting a minority or marginalized demographic's ability to participate in the majority's public life. in the US, this is mostly associated with racial segregation efforts, such as making black people use different bathrooms than white people

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 20h

well i certainly won't be voting for biden in this election, i can tell you that much!

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 20h

can the modern democratic party stop campaigning on being pro-segregationist? because that's what this is. everyone knows it. most people are disgusted by it. and the ones who aren't will NEVER FUCKING VOTE FOR YOU ANYWAY

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erin @dracula3d.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

stealing this

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 23h

gotta love it when an evolutionary psychologist has the gall to say they know more about genetics and anthropology than those silly geneticists and anthropologists do psychology has a major white supremacy problem in the field to deal with, a lot it coming from evolutionary psychology

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 23h

"primary" is probably the important word there. there can be, in fact there are, multiple reasons for social interactions, including the exchange of goods/services, even if those additional reasons are not the primary reason

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

RFK Jr is conducting unethical medical experiments on black babies because he views black people as beneath lab rats.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the most charitable interpretation i can give is that he has a different ranking of priorities of issues to care about when it comes to acknowledging and confronting politically motivated violence. which is fine. but why post about it? why not get involved in leftist orgs to argue your priorities.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it's all the more strange to read that sentiment coming from, of all things, a historian. isn't history pretty replete with examples of political movements, even ones we generally view favorably with the benefit of hindsight, not exactly having a perfectly coherent ideology?

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

like, legit, in the united states i wish "the left" (vaguely defined) cared more about fighting structural and institutional ableism than they currently seem to (imo!). but i don't find it baffling that, given the finiteness of life, "the left" has other priorities that are *also* worth addressing

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

leaving aside how vague and undefined "substantial portions" is, why does it matter? there's lots of things going on in the world worth condemning. people live finite lives, resulting in filtering. shouldn't we be glad they're condemning some things worth condemning rather than not caring at all?

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

...an undo influence in something like the court system. a seance would never be allowed in a court room, for a victim's statement especially but the shiny new gadget, accessible on devices that so many carry with them? that's just enough of a change for more people to fall for a very old scam

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they were also physically bound, operating out of their home or a shop. thus, even though they were in the community, it still required effort to patronize them to receive that false hope and validate one's magical thinking and societies have developed various inoculations against them to avoid...

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i liken this kind of thing to a modern technologically mediated version of a seance, but in fact it is far worse than the traditional grifters of supernatural fantasy could ever have dreamed old school mediums had finite time and attention, limiting how many people they could sell false hope to

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What an interesting thing to block me over!

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

50,000 lines what the ever-loving hell

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

hilariously, i do. my bedside table has 3 drawers top drawer is random useful things like small tools and spare batteries middle drawer is my rock/gemstone/mineral collection. both my primary and my spare rocks bottom drawer is miscellaneous stationary and my ti-82 calculator for some reason

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

in recognition of the passing of dennis hastert, let's all brush up on PedoCon Theory, the most vindicated theory about modern conservative politics www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory

The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Replication as a rhetorical device is a terrible use of scientific resources. We need more curiosity, better methodology, and sounder theoretical grounding in metascience. This shtick of trying to have the last word on everything with poor methodology is going to turn it into a degenerate literature

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it's another element of "pygmalion displacement", as described in this wonderful paper by Erscoi et al philpapers.org/rec/ERSPDW

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

a lot of what gen-AI is marketed and advertised as doing is putting a masculine coating on something feminine-coded there's a strange line that's being walked in the AI sex cult sphere: an appreciation for feminine-coded stuff, but a revulsion that it is feminine. thus, a desire to make it manly

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the AI-generated victim statement and the judge's reaction to it is a piece of evidence i use to argue that generative AI is masculinizing a lot of paranormal beliefs that are traditionally feminine-coded it's a fucking seance. the court allowed it because it's computers and not a crystal ball

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i had to look up the exact wording of the quote, but de beauvoir's "the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed" is relevant. and was written back in the 1940s. sighhhh

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this dude's lawyer is going to have a lot of headaches if/when he's ever under investigation or on trial for anything

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

they're willing to endure it on the promise that they will, in due time, get to be the ones to inflict it on others

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FantasyAnime @fantasyanime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Anniversary to Secret of Mana on SNES in North America! 🎂🥳🎉 Anyone else remember getting lost in this game for an entire afternoon? Exploring the world, leveling up weapons, and telling yourself "just one more area."

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ever since i first played it, this has remained my all time favorite video game. problems aside, i just adore this game from top to bottom

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

dems are still too busy continuing to make hasan piker as a bogeyman really lets us know what the democratic party establishment's values are

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

enjoyed the episode very much and it covered a lot of great aspects of the AI industry and cult. i especially loved when emily talked about the importance of valuing our social relations and communities as beyond just words we say. "the words aren't the work" is a heck of a quote

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ah fantastic! i was just about to add in a follow-up post that i hoped that element would be discussed

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there would still be rejection of the term and concept in the industry and fandom if the paper was authored by only men, of course, but the apoplexy around the term just wouldn't exist

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i look forward to giving the podcast a listen for discussion of brian's specific theory, but some of the reason for the tantrums thrown in response to that phrase is that the paper was authored by women and both the AI industry and the AI fandom notoriously hate women

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's a nice thing to remember that everything about speedrunning is arbitrary and any leaderboard doesn't matter unless you want it to matter so, yea. probably gonna stop using SRC now

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

well, the podracing game is the best star wars console game (best star wars game overall is jedi knights 2), so i guess we have to let this one slide

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Every single mom chat I’m in is talking about this story. Many of the women are noting: Their husbands hadn’t even heard about this story. The mens’ group chats aren’t blowing up on it. It’s not all over their feeds. I resent this, too.” SAME

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

white people hate that non-whites can do healthy nationalism better than white people can

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

every single thing about the conservative ideology is built on the premise that "everyone owes me everything while i owe no one anything" sometimes, like in this video, that expresses itself more explicitly than other times. and it reveals how embarrassingly pathetic conservatism truly is

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

how hard is it for there to be a social media site that isn't run by openly racist and transphobic assholes? goddamn

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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