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no earthquake (cultural tutor) @noearthquake.bsky.social · 1h

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2h

I'm so sorry, Jillian. It's a grief unlike any other.

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 1d

Pierre & Natasha are the Chandler & Monica of WAR AND PEACE, and Helène is obviously the Rachel. It's less clear who the Phoebe is.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 1d

In a Reviewer #2 kind of mood.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

Very fair point.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

The bandaid metaphor is telling in this case. Bandaids are great! And recommended by medical professionals as temporary remedies you should use while waiting for longer-term healing to happen!

So: ban STRs until the supply of housing catches up with demand, then lift the ban.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone's making fun of this. But if it was 1200 pages long, it would be a Neal Stephenson bestseller.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Thanksgiving to my compatriots, but also to Justin Vernon and Jen Wasner singing blue-eyed soul.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

It is an incredible privilege, and also a constant reminder of how privilege makes us dumber.

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

Just goes to show how well straight men can do dating, so long as they're smart, kind, emotionally intelligent musicians who are good to their nephews.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, this makes a lot more sense for him than being PM ever did.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

chat it's happening

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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

What if a city gouged younger people and recent immigrants, so the oldest people who've lived there their whole lives could have a big discount on their taxes? Is that a good idea?

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

It's been, what, three days since the text-to-video lie machine went live, and my TL is now a steady stream of fake slop videos.

I yearn for the internet of 2003.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to my excellent colleagues in Ancient Studies.

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 3d

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 3d

One might also say "hiring committees".

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 4d

That this has and continues to be a successful political calculation reflects very, very poorly on a lot more people than just Netanyahu.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 5d

We've all been waiting for this one.

fuckeveryphilosopherbot @fuckeveryphilosopherbot.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Fuck Socrates (470–399 BC)

#philosophy

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 5d

I'm genuinely taken aback by how many new councilors seem not to have a basic grasp of the problems it's their job to address. It's very bad!

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