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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 · 5h

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

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1h

I believe that's called being a switch.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 2h

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 · 1h

Per word.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1h

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

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1h

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

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 3h

Frying brains online

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1h

*Stares at headline in gay Marxist*

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1h

I'm now picturing Miles in navy pants.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

Here come the "ageism" comments. 🙄

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 3h

WOW the audacity.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

From: Go to Mars. No sexbots.

To: Go to Mars? No, sexbots!

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 5h

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

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 8h

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 6h

*Holding you gently* I believe you PT.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 6h

I've found they are pretty tame if there's lots of rotten apples for them to feed on in my backyard, as if they're drunk, also kind of like retired Brits in Spain probably.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 6h

*Me noticing the conspicuous absence of text/print* He's right but I don't have to like it.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 9h

"I have a gym bro, he lives in Canada."

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 9h

All of them.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 10h

yeah but that's what it takes to develop a new gender synthesis.