Stephanie Patridge
@stephaniepatridge.bsky.social
Just a plain old philosopher—aesthetics and status, games and play, humor and joking around. I am a moral project. Mad columbus crew fan. Typos are my jam
Iowa, live; Columbus, born; Seattle, soul
“Great things start in little rooms” —André 3000
Iowa, live; Columbus, born; Seattle, soul
“Great things start in little rooms” —André 3000
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I'm blocking any account that isn't clearly isn't linked to a person or organization that I can independently verify, or is a spreader of misinformation or one who is primarily looking only for impact. Art bots and cat bot--totally welcome!
Ummm…this makes him sound like a hero.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Ummm…this makes him sound like a hero.
Wait, flikr is still alive and kicking?
huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
It is real:
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Wait, flikr is still alive and kicking?
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huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
It is real:
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
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November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
this is super exciting —still of course we are limited in our inferences but so much better than y/n or likert scale questions. Bring on the more qualitative!
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
this is super exciting —still of course we are limited in our inferences but so much better than y/n or likert scale questions. Bring on the more qualitative!
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Page One in Iowa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Page One in Iowa.
The more I learn about the ant world smh
This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen
Scientists capture a unique—and gruesome—example of matricide in the animal kingdom
www.science.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The more I learn about the ant world smh
This is my adopted city
“Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions… The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year, paying for it with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1”
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is my adopted city
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
Putting this out there for those who have an interest
board game enthusiasts of bluesky, what are your top 10 board games of all time
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Putting this out there for those who have an interest
scratch gender —typo
excellent thread on heartening (cross educational “divide”) trends on racial and gender resentment. Worth your time.
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
scratch gender —typo
excellent thread on heartening (cross educational “divide”) trends on racial and gender resentment. Worth your time.
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
excellent thread on heartening (cross educational “divide”) trends on racial and gender resentment. Worth your time.
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
To be clear, the GM preferential treatment is bad, but when I hear that incarcerated folks get to do yoga and pet puppies, I’m having a hard time seeing why we wouldn’t want this for all (most?) of them. Certainly we care about mental health, amirite?
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
To be clear, the GM preferential treatment is bad, but when I hear that incarcerated folks get to do yoga and pet puppies, I’m having a hard time seeing why we wouldn’t want this for all (most?) of them. Certainly we care about mental health, amirite?
There is ample evidence that we ceded this power to professional admins because we didn’t want to do it. The question is how to get it back
There was a time when universities and colleges had their administrators promoted from the faculty and subsequently return to the faculty. My undergrad alma mater's president was a faculty member. Higher Ed isn't the private sector: we don't need professional admins moving from one place to another.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
There is ample evidence that we ceded this power to professional admins because we didn’t want to do it. The question is how to get it back
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
get your Bob Ross on!
More than 30 years after his death, the work of Bob Ross continues to engage viewers. https://to.pbs.org/49Hzu96
Auction of Bob Ross paintings aims to fill funding gaps for public broadcasting
More than 30 years after his death, the work of artist and public television icon Bob Ross continues to engage audiences across the world. When Congress rescinded $1.1 billion allocated for public bro...
to.pbs.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
get your Bob Ross on!
This is an excellent piece—I am going to have my students read it in my cultural heritage and human rights class next semester.
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is an excellent piece—I am going to have my students read it in my cultural heritage and human rights class next semester.
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I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
100%
Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
100%
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This has a real "Mueller report will save us" feel to it. We already know he's a rapist. I am very concerned that there won't be anything (couldn't be anything) that would break through to the cult.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This has a real "Mueller report will save us" feel to it. We already know he's a rapist. I am very concerned that there won't be anything (couldn't be anything) that would break through to the cult.
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Those of us who are generally afraid to fly, are like...wait, wha? I knew it...
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Those of us who are generally afraid to fly, are like...wait, wha? I knew it...