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@tylerhower.bsky.social
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Some guy Dogs, philosophy, books, house music, opera, musicals, theater, gym, (there's a conclusion to be drawn), horror, a few other things ND, OSU, now teach at a liberal arts school Hoosier living in southernmost California Etiam si omnes ego non

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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trialing 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.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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.
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As 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
Special logo to celebrate 500 episodes
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DGM @notredale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jack Lemon with a broccoli cut and iced coffee
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 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.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The time to rise has been enraged.
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reminder he was an opera singer not a pipe fitter.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm just hearing, much to my surprise, that much of SV/AI/EA/"Rationalist" culture is rapey.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This 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.
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the 1600s you could write treatises for your friends as a gift. But friends don’t want treatises anymore
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No, 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.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tonight Asylum (1972). Getting a lot of Robert Bloch.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That 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.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Driving 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.
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Aidan 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 elevator
youtu.be
OK Go - White Knuckles - Official Video
YouTube video by OK Go
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I 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
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Man, I am tired of summer.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There'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.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This 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.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does 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.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tonight The House That Dripped Blood (1970).
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is all Jekyll pretending to have nothing to do with Hyde.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So, 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.com
OpenAI’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.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bene Gesserit: "Put your righte hande yn the box" Me [figuringe out wher to put my iced coffee]
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
historically accurate massachusetts content
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whether it’s lesbian bars or iced coffee, more people need to mind their own business.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't understand the Markwayne story. I know lots of guys who live with men they met at the gym.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thinking about insignificance and uselessness (laudatory).
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
some pilots are part of the furry community
An illustration of the Ralph Lauren Polo bear dressed up as a pilot and standing in front of a red airplane. The text says "Polo Aviator by Ralph Lauren."
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watching Burnt Offerings (1976). The season is spooky.
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thinking 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
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A model, no matter how good, is not the thing or system modeled. It is a kind of explanatory tool.
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David 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.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Forensic pathologist Darin Wolfe says that he only finds water in the lungs in about 5% of the drowning autopsies he does.
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We 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
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It didn’t go rogue. There are people responsible for what happens.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A super fun part of how we live now: worrying every time your foreign-born American citizen other half travels.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
They are constantly telling us who they are. In this regard, we should believe them.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My 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.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I somehow never knew about Jeb Bush's connection to Medicare fraud. That Florida GOP, man.
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Start the Gonzo discourse: www.popsci.com/science/what...
popsci.com
What 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?)
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s unjust to treat friends as mere acquaintances. It’s (at a minimum) equally unjust to treat mere acquaintances as friends.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I 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.
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just turn it off then
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Addams Family Values is on and I’m expected to go to bed.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, 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.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/09/2026
Mm-hm.
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 22/09/2026
Hear me out… KOLCHAK VS THE EVIL DEAD
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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you want an insurance death spiral? Because kicking off the healthy people is how you get an insurance death spiral.
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bro, 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)
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