TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trialing deleting the app from my phone, with an eye to less use—I don't have my laptop all the time—and maybe adding it to the pile with Facebook, X, and Instagram. That probably won't happen, but if I disappear, it did. I'm in a paring down kind of mood. 5190
Reposted by THThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I know he’s not terribly Quiet but David French is gonna be the template for this type. Even at this late date his distaste for Trump is well outweighed by the idea of not retaining just about everything Trump managed to do, especially via capture of the judiciary. 1637640
Reposted by THPeter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As of today the original #HoPWAG series has reached 500 episodes! Thanks to all who have listened and the many who have supported the series over the years, not least all the interview guests. #philsky #podcast #philosophy 69026
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The upside of paying $6.80 for gas? I’m going to so many fewer things. If public transport isn’t convenient (and they just upped prices, too), it’s gonna be me staying in my cell. 2140
Reposted by THJean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Reminder he was an opera singer not a pipe fitter. 5304
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm just hearing, much to my surprise, that much of SV/AI/EA/"Rationalist" culture is rapey. 030
Reposted by TH"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind. 15812139
Reposted by THworms cited @christa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In the 1600s you could write treatises for your friends as a gift. But friends don’t want treatises anymore 1834552
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No, the fascists aren’t secretly gay. When you say that shit, you aren’t some super-ally. You’re just scapegoating. Read up on Paragraph 175. 0170
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That talent search Eliezer talks about? We had it when I was in junior high, too. And, man, it didn’t prove anything about anyone’s specialness. Nope. 010
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Driving home from dinner with Mom and thinking about the nihilism—and hunger for significance—of how we live now. These are unrelated, to be clear. 170
Reposted by THAidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Did you know in the video for Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity they kept the floor still and..." look mate no one cares, OK GO got little dogs to go up and down a bookcase like they had a little elevatoryoutu.beOK Go - White Knuckles - Official VideoYouTube video by OK Go 1123
Reposted by THOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one 201212207
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There's a lot that can be said about the Cornell situation, but one thing is that colleges and universities should have no relationship at all with residential Greek organizations. 180
Reposted by THBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage. 5823312
Reposted by THCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5742871168
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is all Jekyll pretending to have nothing to do with Hyde. 050
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So, you seize it, impound all funds, shut it down, and hold Altman, et al, for trial. This isn’t hard. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission. 1153
Reposted by THChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bene Gesserit: "Put your righte hande yn the box" Me [figuringe out wher to put my iced coffee] 1461394
Reposted by THMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026historically accurate massachusetts content 12366102
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Whether it’s lesbian bars or iced coffee, more people need to mind their own business. 4293
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't understand the Markwayne story. I know lots of guys who live with men they met at the gym. 170
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thinking about insignificance and uselessness (laudatory). 140
Reposted by THderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026some pilots are part of the furry community 745258590
Reposted by THnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thinking that only agents can be biased is a real obstacle to recognizing and addressing a lot of the ways that society is unfair, and I’d rather not reify that way of thinking in the language we use to talk about LLMs 4708
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A model, no matter how good, is not the thing or system modeled. It is a kind of explanatory tool. 020
Reposted by THDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“That’s right: We can no longer have towering, absurdly hirsute, functionally deranged drainpipes made from bears murdered with medieval weaponry on the heads of our rigidly immobile palace guards, because of Woke.” Amazing. Read the footnotes. 48223
Reposted by THLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Forensic pathologist Darin Wolfe says that he only finds water in the lungs in about 5% of the drowning autopsies he does. 76614
Reposted by THWe Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026'The Name of the Rose' was released on this day 40 years ago! (September 24, 1986) Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Starring Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Michael Lonsdale, William Hickey, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Valentina Vargas, and Ron Perlman. #OTD #OnThisDay 6463273
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It didn’t go rogue. There are people responsible for what happens. 2102
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A super fun part of how we live now: worrying every time your foreign-born American citizen other half travels. 3161
Reposted by THHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026They are constantly telling us who they are. In this regard, we should believe them. 56220
Reposted by THNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My hot take on the NYT list of the century's top 100 TV shows is that I wish the biggest newspaper in the United States was investing more in serious arts criticism and less in listicles. 71358
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I somehow never knew about Jeb Bush's connection to Medicare fraud. That Florida GOP, man. 160
Reposted by TH[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Start the Gonzo discourse: www.popsci.com/science/what...popsci.comWhat kind of animal is Gonzo? What kind of animal is Gonzo? The Muppets won't say, so we asked biologists.Gonzo’s most distinct feature is also his most baffling: his beak. (Or is it a nose?) 4121
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s unjust to treat friends as mere acquaintances. It’s (at a minimum) equally unjust to treat mere acquaintances as friends. 150
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think a lot of the kind of philosophy I most enjoy reading and engaging with and doing is a kind of intellectual history, history of ideas, or pseudo-genealogy. There's obviously something broken about me. 040
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Addams Family Values is on and I’m expected to go to bed. 3181
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So, my uni has this humanities center that has semester long series of speakers. Today, an archaeologist, a biologist, and a philosopher spoke, with a focus on mind, in the series On Being Human. Real intellectual community kind of stuff. 3100
Reposted by THDr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Do you want an insurance death spiral? Because kicking off the healthy people is how you get an insurance death spiral. 2258
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Bro, you are getting way too close to me at the gym in what I can only imagine you think is some signal of masculine dominance. Can you imagine what else it might signal? (typo fixed) 1120