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Stijn Masschelein

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Researcher and lecturer in management accounting at the University of Western Australia. Working on a textbook. Team R. Owned by one cat.

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 47m
I subscribe to 500 Songs because: a) it's a truly great piece of 20th century social history writing b) getting to watch A Quality Autistic Creative Project playing out in real time that makes me feel more comfortable in my own inability to predict the length or frequency of my own creative output.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 2h
I think what this does get though is that AI is part of the boss/exec backlash that consumed tech leaders after MeToo and Work From Home. It's another way for them to assume more control of workers and the industry.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 2h
There's a truth to this, but I think collapsing it to "Bossism" is wrong. It's just really hard to understand illegible tasks and tacit knowledge in general - that's what those adjectives *mean*.
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 9h
This does only make sense for individual EU members if the others do it as well. Which means they’ll have to negotiate it with the EU who can then be blocked by a single member. Feature not a bug this time around.
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 11h
I once shocked a table of academics by saying the best thing that could happen to my big paper is that someone would replicate it better and nobody would have to cite me anymore. I did not understand their confusion. What I am saying is that there were signs a long time ago.
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's happened to crude oil flows from the Middle East since the US war on Iran began? 🛢️ Has Iran effectively choked off the Strait of Hormuz? Or is the Strait now basically open as the US claims? & what's happened to other exit routes? Here's a helpful way of visualising it...📊 👇1/8
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Add your fess: b3ta.com/addfess
My wife and I did a "message in a bottle" in 1999 for our son to find. We dated it 1956 and from another continent. We planted the bottle on the beach but then couldn't find it. 3 weeks later it was front page news in our local newspaper. We didn't own up.

Fesshole GOLD from 11th June 2021
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 18/09/2026
Today on Bluesky we celebrate Jev, the LLM that attaches probabilities to every decision and we condone the rationalists, philosophers who attach probabilities to everything.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026
stone cold classic
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 17/09/2026
For the modern batshit definition of conservative, Cerebus. For the older, more reality-compatible definition, the collected works of the Kinks 1964-74. Or It's A Wonderful Life.
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 17/09/2026
It would be kinda cool to develop some kind of DeGroot network model where research practices and research results spread through social networks of researchers and how that affects individual quality and total network research quality.
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 16/09/2026
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026
I mean that's just normal. You check things and make sure they're correct and have experts review them and so on. You edit, you extend, you simplify. It's research. Solving the N-S conjecture on Sunday and publishing the proof on Monday is weird.
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 16/09/2026
🙁
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026
This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the next two-ish weeks are the Chess Olympiad, a kind of weird event where national teams compete for an overall trophy. each nation fields a team of four which, each day, plays another nation, with the winner of each match-up being whichever one won more of the 4 games.
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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An alternative take on AI doomerism which fits a standard model incompetence theory of humanity
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 14/09/2026
This fits my innovation vs maintenance pet peeve
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 14/09/2026
The EU using its historical advantage again to grab territory.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 13/09/2026
But this comes back around to why I do support the statement Tao et al made. I like it more than the Leiden Declaration, because it doesn’t pretend it can regulate or limit change. It explains why we value knowledge-creation in the first place, and says “whatever comes next must do this too.”
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026
I guess that's enough yelling online for a Saturday, here's a meme. I'm going go gambol in the fields and frolic in the buttercups or some shit.
a scene of someone pitching a tent near a vista, caption reads:
Treat your body like a data center
consume as much water and literature as possible
upset local city councils with your existence
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 11/09/2026
Something interesting in Ruben's experience, in the Navier-Stokes saga, and basically all of open-source now is that the AI generated solutions are badly written for a human assessor. You would think that the large *language* models could do one more round of revisions to get the language clear.
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026
A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 08/09/2026
After years of youthful exuberance, causal inference people are quietly turning into grumpy biostatisticians like @statsepi.bsky.social
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Ahmed Walid @ahmed-walid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How Club Brugge, AZ and Red Bull Salzburg have become the new exporters of talent in Europe. Piece on how these three clubs broke the oligopoly of the Netherlands and Portugal’s big three selling talent into the top five European leagues. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/athletic/755...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is very interesting - a blog by a mathematician who was working on a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem on finding out that Anthropic has done it in 11 days. It is interesting because it does not concede the field, but says what it does / doesn't do xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...
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FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.m…
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Why do companies spend so much money and time on meetings? New NBER paper says its because they work. (NBER website doesn't seem to have a working page for the paper yet)
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finding sturt desert peas 😀
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Wile E. Coyote - VICTORIOUS! @actorcoyote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A coyote paw holding up a sign that says "It is NOT me (I'm not Warner Bros affiliated) but the thread is true and amazing!"
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Al Overview
Quentin Tarantino and the Grand Theft
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Auto series share a strong creative overlap in tone, style, and direct pop-culture connections.
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Online classes are: a) the modality MOST vulnerable to agentic AI, b) the MOST labor-intensive in terms of faculty-to-student ratios, and c) taught by instructors with the MOST precarious employment. We need to keep this in mind when urging instructors to "teach with intentionality"
Screenshot of MIT report on AI and teaching.
2.5. Teach with intentionality
Most classes taught at MIT will require careful review and, in many cases, substantial adaptation to survive an encounter with Al without serious disruption. Al will undermine the pedagogical assumptions that guided the choice of content, the methods of instruction, and the ways of assessing student performance.
In short, it's time to reflect deeply and extensively on what we teach and how we teach it. Future class structures, assessments, and policies must be built with high intention and a clear sense of purpose, not merely tweaked in reaction to the immediate realities of Al. This does not mean, however, that every course must change in the same way.
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ᵀᴴᴱᴍ̴ᴇ̵ᴏ̵ᴡ̷ᴄ̶ʜ̸ᴇ̴ᴍ̶ɪ̵s̵ᴛ̶ ̵ @catpope.gay · 26/08/2026
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A very instructive story in an essay about Potentiality by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben who explains that to say ‘I can’ (potentiality is derived from the Latin word potere / can) is the most difficult and onerous statement you can make. I like this very much.
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mgayultra @mgayultra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i want everyone with a teeny bit of finance background to think about what it means financially for a company if they had ten billion dollars of something, they depreciated it over 5 years and it turns out its useful lifetime is at least 10
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i want to get vulnerable for a sec and talk about my experience with the GLP-1 as someone who had an alcohol addiction. now, at the time i started taking it, i didn't really get cravings anymore except under extreme stress (even then they were very brief). the GLP-1 eliminated my cravings 100%. BUT
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 25/08/2026
Masterclass in communication. "I am fully aware of the other thing, but this is not what my message is about".
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On this day in 2018. Kieran @kjhealy.co ‘s obituary will include the MacArthur essay and “Fuck Nuance,” but for a particular niche audience of connoisseurs, this is his masterpiece.
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Most US voters would be alarmed if they learned that leading Silicon Valley AI figures: 1) think AGI (artificial general intelligence, the idea that AI that can do any cognitive task a human can, making it a substitute for humans) is coming in the next few years and this is a very good thing, 1/
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 24/08/2026
I have more and more started to think about these kind of movements (see also occupy wall street, anti-globalization, tea party) as some wisdom of the crowd signal. The diagnosis and policy might be wrong but there is a signal.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Little Giuseppe Mamdani.
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 23/08/2026
Seems relevant again.
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Stonking piece of writing on the subject here. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
years ago me and Ms. Moreno talked about how this came together and it was the greatest www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
“The contrast is outrageous! There’s this sex bomb in front, and this, this creature—I don’t know what else to call him—this fuzzy, violent, nasty creature in back who only got pleasure out of making people and other Muppets unhappy. A creature of impulse, let’s put it that way. And when I watch myself—’cause I’m usually so critical—but when I watch myself, I just laugh at me. What I love about it is that my character’s trying so hard to be sexy and sultry. And this horrible creature in back of me is acting up. [Laughter] See? I can’t stop laughing. It tickles me to death.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
dear everyone: updates should never change my settings they should especially never change my autoplay settings
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Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 21/08/2026
Niccolo, you make it sound like a bad thing.
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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Look guys, it's the server that runs manuscript central! 😎
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