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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events

@tim-knittel.com
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• Founder of Distilled-Living.com • 🦋 @distilled-living.com • Adjunct Professor of Bourbon Studies at Midway University • Official Bourbon Ambassador of Churchill Downs

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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 25/06/2026
I hereby request that all laws and regulations in the future be written as parsable computer code with explicit phrase delineations and flow-control statements instead of single pages being allowed to be one long run-on sentence with virtually no ability to track dependent clauses. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 25/06/2026
I spent almost an hour parsing the new CFR regulations for agave spirits due to a comma existing in one section but not in another despite nearly identical language otherwise, plus the sheer volume of "If ..." with only an implied "then ..", which places the "then" differently based on the commas!
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 13/06/2026
And mine
Soft boiled egg in a metal cocktail jigger with a cup of coffee and salt grinder, outside, morning
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 15/05/2026
Is "vibe entrepreneurship" already a phrase? Because assuming the market wants what you're selling merely because it vibed good to you personally to build it seems endemic.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 14/05/2026
That’s a word. How do you define it?
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 13/05/2026
Simple. Resource allocation constraints. Religion solved a major scaling problem of resource acquisition and allocation over the Dunbar threshold. We live under the inertia of that to this day.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 11/05/2026
Thanks, I look forward to reviewing them in detail.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 10/05/2026
Can you send me any links? I'd be interested to review exactly what you're seeing.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 10/05/2026
That's not their experience with it, nor mine watching them and working with them. I'm open to changing my mind but that seems an extraordinarily sweeping generalization of all disabled people.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 10/05/2026
It's not sympathy for billionaires, its sympathy for my students. I'm not letting hate towards specific individuals get in the way of that.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 10/05/2026
I am open to having my mind changed, but also I've read some of the original papers describing the underlying mathematics and I know how it works. Knowing how it works and seeing it help disabled students ... I'd struggle to take it away. AI isn't a monolith. I'm fine with boycotting specific AIs.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 10/05/2026
In my experience, nearly the entirety of the modern educational apparatus agrees with them.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 10/05/2026
As a teenager, my dad insisted on teaching me how to change the oil in my car, because "knowing the process matters". Hours later, obvious that the process required specialized training and equipment, we paid to have it done. Which processes matter to learn is not universal to all processes.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 10/05/2026
Several of my students have reported success in using AI to help them compensate for their disabilities with expressing themselves. Used correctly, that would seem to translate to fiction, too. AI is merely a tool, and can be used for good or ill.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 08/05/2026
Also, the more specific the better, even if it's confusing. Vagueness in the intro means nothing is communicated to the reader (except that there might not be more communicated ever); specificity means at least the story is going somewhere, even if it's going to be a bit before context arrives.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 07/05/2026
Moden physics hasn't figured out yet that all of material reality is just how discrete structures interact, evolve and undergo phase transitions under spacial geometry constraints.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 04/05/2026
So good, thanks for sharing. I personally use AAA: - is it Accurate to what we can observe and measure? - is it Applicable to things we want to do? - is it Aligned with other generally-accepted models?
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 03/05/2026
If the Chinese speaker's perspective is that the room understands or thinks, why must that be contested rather than allowed to be permissible?
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 03/05/2026
If we set aside "understanding" and "thinking" and allow algorithmic processing as cognition, then cognition is the default process from cellular homeostasis to central nervous systems to consciousness to AI, and what of that counts as understanding or thinking can be left to opinion.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 28/04/2026
Seems like all Searle proved is that we don't yet have a sufficiently robust definition of "understanding" and "intelligence" to even have a debate? Feels like an epistemological problem rather than an ontological one.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 28/04/2026
Quantum microtubule substrates in the brain permits extremely rapid formation and collapse of vast quantities of waveforms which induces true indeterminacy at scale; current AI systems are fully deterministic.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 27/04/2026
I am planting this flag now, today: The entire edifice of modern theoretical physics is built on the demand that reality conform to chalk marks on a blackboard despite overwhelming evidence that reality does not and has not ever acquiesced to such a demand.
From Wikipedia: The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe, Ceci n'est pas une pipe and The Wind and the Song.[ It is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The painting shows an image of a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (pronounced [sə.si ne paz‿yn pip], French for "This is not a pipe".)
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 27/04/2026
Rolling into Derby week, aka a weeklong Bourbon holiday for a 2-minute horse race, so having a martini in preparation. 3:1, split base, extra dirty, shaken til it begged for mercy Credit to @hilarybaumann.com for the cute bow ties
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 26/04/2026
Can confirm. Picked up pack of poles with note "missing pole". Picked up random pole lying nearby. Random pole had note reading, "Not this pole." Nodded sagely, put down random pole.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 26/04/2026
If I can't enter your venue because of the signature scent you put in the lobby, it's not accommodating to people with disabilities.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 26/04/2026
Better-than-average article, except that it limits disabilities to mobility, perception and mental/behavioral: "Truly inclusive accessibility ... accommodates ... individuals with physical disabilities to people with autism or dementia." Environmental sensitives are disabilities, too.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 23/04/2026
Thank you for this. Due to my increasing chemical sensitivities, physical books are becoming progressively more off-limits.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 23/04/2026
I’ll look into them
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 23/04/2026
Your coffee is ready ☕️
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 23/04/2026
Anybody working on single sign on via self-hosted PDS with MFA? Just curious. @hilarybaumann.com
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 16/04/2026
So, like, the Linux kernel, then?
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 16/04/2026
Seriously though, you used intelligence as load-bearing in your argument without defining it sufficiently, which is an epistemology 101 fail. If AI could be or not be intelligent, what is the definition of intelligence that allows proof or falsification?
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 16/04/2026
😂 Except: I have a definition that does all that.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 16/04/2026
Please define intelligence in a way that includes humans, excludes current-gen AI, explains the Chinese room operating successfully, and lets Mary have a difference between knowing about red and seeing it.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 26/03/2026
Enforcement is also directly related to the ability to apply actual sufficient punishment to induce compliance. A fine as punishment, for example, is often non-deference for a rich person and is absolutely integrated into business decisions as a cost weighed against benefits of breaking the law.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 18/03/2026
Please expand on 'unanchored' for those of us not economists.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 17/03/2026
I am interested to learn more and would like more information on this concept. I'm not dyslexic (although I am disabled in other ways) and I think extremely outside the box, and I'm always looking for other people who also do.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 06/03/2026
I've shared a virtual stage with Sir Mix-a-Lot, been selected to handle the follow-up tasting after a keynote by Matthew McConaughey for his Bourbon brand and even been selected as the alternate presenter for Jimmy Russell, but - Kermit the Frog?!
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 06/03/2026
Listening to yesterday's KEXP's Drive Time for the second time today, and l have a new life goal: intro track by Kermit the Frog. I mean, how did Evie get that? 😲
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 03/03/2026
So, yeah, I’m definitely presenting at a Bourbon industry conference, clearly. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 03/03/2026
My graphic designer, @hilarybaumann.com : “I have accomplished doom & gloom!” Me, thinking about my presentation: awesome.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 18/02/2026
I would like to at least collect them into a smaller number of locations …
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 18/02/2026
Well, that’s annoying. Just found two more media samples and a gift sample in the garage. I swear they’re like Pokémon around the house.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 18/02/2026
In my defense, I left two bottles of vermouth in the office. (As one does)
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 28/12/2025
Yep, definitely can confirm.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 27/12/2025
Wasn't there, can confirm.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 20/12/2025
Full liqueur. Took me a minute to realize the abv is under 40%. It’s likely a very, very young whiskey a lot of sugar plus very artificial flavorings. If it was otherwise, that would be loudly proclaimed on the label.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 18/12/2025
Only three people in the audience actually ‘know’, though, and the rest are nodding along ‘knowingly’ in fear.
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 23/11/2025
Current mood:
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Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events @tim-knittel.com · 17/08/2025
Turning off Memories has made a substantial improvement for me.
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