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Curtis

@soccurt.bsky.social

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Overly caffeinated prof in SW Ontario. Liberal socialist and limitarianist. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 17h

Holding out for soy tarts. I want more protein AND to be gayer.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 7h

Don't forget about gas prices!

Marge, standing next to Bart and Homer, asks, "What kind of mileage does it get?"

Rainier Wolfcastle, sitting in his massive Hummer / SUV monstrosity, says, "1 highway, 0 city."

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 7h

2026: Internet is AI human centipede.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 7h

Well puffed rice but it's kind of meh. Some sad kid of organic co-op parents probably gets popped quinoa too.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 8h

Proving tonight that I'm "regularly looking up slang the youths use" years old.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

the prophecy is fulfilled

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10h

Today I learned about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-...

Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 10h

Those beavers are *massive*, just absolute units.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 10h

lolsob I make a grammar joke and I have poor editing in my post.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 10h

"I have a question."
"Sure Nick, shoot."
"Why this sentence lack parallelism?"

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 12h

And cute enough to convince you to get wet while you hold an umbrella up so they will go pee in the rain.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13h

Once again struck by how many prominent "heterodox" thinkers split off and create their own institutions not because of academic censoriousness but because no one who closely examines their methodology can possibly take them seriously.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 13h

Just gonna leave this here.

In survey data, LGBT young people report consistently worse mental health than heterosexual young people.
Whether this is because LGBT causes mental illness (i.e. the minority stress or anomie hypotheses), or because
mental illness causes individuals to be LGBT is beyond the scope of this work.2

Footnote 2: Meyer, I. H. (1995). "Minority stress and mental health in gay men." Journal of health and social behavior: 38-56; Michael Bailey, J.
(2020). "The Minority Stress Model Deserves Reconsideration, Not Just Extension." Archives of Sexual Behavior 49(7): 2265-2268.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

In other news, low income earners would like more income.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

Should we be letting him near any social science at all?

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 13h

"centre for heterodox social science" sounds like something i 'd make up to do a sokal hoax

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 14h

Frying brains online

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

*Stares at headline in gay Marxist*

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

I'm now picturing Miles in navy pants.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 14h

This is hilarious because the MAHA wing has turned anti-seed oil, and if there's something that America farming has a surfeit of, it's seeds (soy, corn) for oil.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 14h

And rather than doing that, it generated two paragraphs that are lists (5-6 drawbacks and advantages in each round of output). Interestingly, this seems to go along with inability to properly respond to prompts where I say things like "be specific and detailed."

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 14h

I'm curious why ChatGPT responds to count-based prompts badly. The only thing I use it for is to generate comparisons of assignments, discussions, etc. I used it to check output it would generate for a discussion that included the instructions "one benefit" and "one drawback" in two paragraphs.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 15h

Here come the "ageism" comments. 🙄

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 15h

WOW the audacity.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 15h

I also love how many supplements are spiked with prescription drugs. Big example are "natural" ED treatments that actually contain generic Viagra.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 15h

From: Go to Mars. No sexbots.

To: Go to Mars? No, sexbots!

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 17h

Get in losers, we're doing the Bean New Deal.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 17h

Holding out for soy tarts. I want more protein AND to be gayer.

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