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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 2h

more like robbing paul to pay bob

needed just to service this debt. It's not surprising, then, that UChicago has hollowed itself out by repeatedly robbing Peter to pay Paul. (It is somewhat more

Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 4h

or Rayo's On the Brink of Paradox.

I figure some convex combination of those two is right for anyone.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 18h

If visa processes your chatgpt payment after this then it’s just obviously anti competitive / market fixing for them to refuse to process indie artist porn comics

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve seen so many Ns

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely blame Covid, on the basis of this raw correlation. I guess my intense hatred of the phenomenon drives out my methodological scruples.

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, I’m leaving Baton Rouge today

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

People say that Swifties who are convinced she's a lesbian are gen z QAnon but in reality their tortured and convoluted interpretations of plain language using baffling and irrelevant secondary sources reveal gaylors not as gen z qanon but as the gen z federalist society

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 1d

I see people are being 100% normal about this one.

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 1d

No book is good enough to read with fake deckle edges.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 1d

Geuss’s Changing the Subject

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 2d

I continue to believe the correct orthography is “virtue” signaling, since the people who say this do not believe that what is being signaled is in fact virtuous.

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds more like a very helpful cat.

Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 2d

My actual question for @nytimes.com isn’t how they decide which individual studies to cover, but why they cover individual studies at all.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 2d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 2d

Or comics.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 3d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 3d

panel for our newest comics critic, peter thiel

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 3d

Taylor can only dream of Whitney’s charisma as a performer.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 3d

it’s October 11th, which means that nine years ago this little essay went live … did it change my life? yes, and most definitely not how I expected.

so let that be a lesson for you this Coming Out Day: whatever you think the future holds, it does not. life comes at you, for worse and for better.

One Hundred and Sixty Four Days

Part 1 of an ongoing series. Follow up with Part 2 here . If you like my writing, please consider a donation to my Patreon . It’...

whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 4d

Monster as metaphor is peak middlebrow imo

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 5d

Wonder what that would do to the value of my copy of Egalitarian Perspectives—I picked up a copy inscribed by Glenn at a secondhand bookstore in New Orleans a few years ago.

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 5d

If I were the social planner, the next Nobel Prize in Economics would be awarded to Samuel Bowles, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer. Their work is foundational to the modern study of inequality, addressing normative and positive dimensions of inequality with profound insight.

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent list, not least for including Mannix.

(gift link)

Opinion | These Are the 10 Old Television Series Every Kid Needs to Watch

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 5d

Immediately tracking this one down.

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 5d

tested this and got a brilliant piece of sycophancy

Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 5d

I do know of one Dean search that ended with the search chair as Dean.

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