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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 8h

Does anybody have a starter pack with just the good accounts?

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 9h

Me wrapping up the final lecture of the semester in PHL246: Probability & Inductive Logic:

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 9h

Anyway this changes little about the fact that capitalism must be destroyed and socialism must be built. Thank you

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 9h

For some reason Krist Novoselic was always standing in the back of their shows with a camcorder, guess he just wanted to support underappreciated local bands after Nirvana ended

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 9h

These guys had a song in a scene of the Tank Girl movie but it didn't make the soundtrack, and they played Conan once in its very early days, but they never really made it out of Seattle. Loved their live shows though, real formative stuff for teenage Jonathan

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 9h

iykyk

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 10h

I think this may not be 100% accurate

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

At its core, the obsession with robots, rocket ships, Martian colonies and artificial intelligence has always been less about economics or human advancement and more about incels creating safe spaces for unlimited sex with beautiful android women while they relegate chads to beta status.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

OpenAI CEO announces they will soon allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content.

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe—just maybe—he doesn't need to be doing all that?

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 19h

"Psychoanalytic theory helps illuminate what’s changed" uhhh

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

newrepublic.com

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

None of my "come get me" notes are surviving into the time travel era. This could mean bad news for us all, poor note placement, or perhaps the future simply doesn't want me.

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody actually likes poetry, they just like the idea of liking it

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 2d

Short stories aren't worth it

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 2d

botw ass babbling brook and tree stump

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 2d

River Meavy near Norsworthy bridge a couple of weeks ago. #Dartmoor #Devon #Autumn #photography #river

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 2d

If my inbox is any indication there are literally dozens of purported solutions to the problem of induction standing ready to be refuted, if only we would fund the humanities properly

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 2d

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 2d

(pointing to a chair) econometrics

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 3d

So do we think it was the hate that was pretty or the machine

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 3d

I use a Mac because it just works, like an adult

Spookbringer @smellbringer.bsky.social · 3d

Well the problem is that Windows is actively working to shove adware BS down peoples throat. That's what's making the Linux devotees louder than before.

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 3d

I WANT YOUR SKULLLLLLS
I NEED YOUR SKULLLLLLS

Katy Perry looking like Danzig with the hairdo

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3d

Most diagnoses of “academia” (and many subfields) are actually just English PhDs yelling at each other about stuff in English departments

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 5d

I can't believe decades of promoting the best donor-fellaters in the land didn't somehow also select for good values and integrity

Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 5d

University governance is broken, and it’s breaking people.

University governance and associated regulatory structures assume the most powerful senior office holders will behave in accordance with the high standards benefiting their station.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 5d

COWBOY IN MULHOLLAND DRIVE: you’ll see me more one more time if you do good, twice if you do bad
GUY WITH ADHD: okay, just… okay… it’s just that I worry I’ll, like, lose track of how many times I’ve seen you and that’s gonna be just, just *so* bad for my anxiety

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 5d

Can't think of anything I love more than configuring neovim

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 6d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social · 6d

Idk if Hasan shocked his dog but thanks to that clip going around I do know now how he talks and I figure he's probably going to hell for that anyway

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 6d

Of course Garrison Keillor did the Riyadh Comedy Festival 🙄

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 6d

Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.

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