L.D. Burnett
@ldburnett.bsky.social
born and raised and flourishing in California’s Great Central Valley
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A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker.
A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.
You are not using AI; AI is using you.
Stop it.
A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.
You are not using AI; AI is using you.
Stop it.
never thought i would be looking forward to a major surgery but i need relief from this pain and it cant come soon enough. my god.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
never thought i would be looking forward to a major surgery but i need relief from this pain and it cant come soon enough. my god.
it was a real financial sacrifice for my parents to buy us the World Book Encyclopedia set in 1978. They paid in installments, and their investment in our future paid great dividends for me and all my siblings. A real treasure.
Whose internet was this in the 80s?
Who had something similar?
Who had something similar?
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
it was a real financial sacrifice for my parents to buy us the World Book Encyclopedia set in 1978. They paid in installments, and their investment in our future paid great dividends for me and all my siblings. A real treasure.
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A really important point. You can't "solve"misinformation without understanding the ways beliefs function as identity markers more than attempts to represent reality accurately gone awry.
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 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A really important point. You can't "solve"misinformation without understanding the ways beliefs function as identity markers more than attempts to represent reality accurately gone awry.
this is AI crap. you’re not a fan of history if you post AI crap.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
this is AI crap. you’re not a fan of history if you post AI crap.
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If professors were to start academic misconduct proceedings with the university for each student who submits AI work, the system would collapse under the weight.
Where do we even go from here?
I have about 150 students over 4 sections and not a single one is a history major. This is a core class.
Where do we even go from here?
I have about 150 students over 4 sections and not a single one is a history major. This is a core class.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If professors were to start academic misconduct proceedings with the university for each student who submits AI work, the system would collapse under the weight.
Where do we even go from here?
I have about 150 students over 4 sections and not a single one is a history major. This is a core class.
Where do we even go from here?
I have about 150 students over 4 sections and not a single one is a history major. This is a core class.
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I'm drowning in students' AI-generated work. Unfortunately, the class I'm teaching (online) requires three essays to meet state requirements so I can't just re-imagine those assignments to make them AI-proof. But there's also discussion posts and there's a lot of AI there too.
I hate it.
I hate it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm drowning in students' AI-generated work. Unfortunately, the class I'm teaching (online) requires three essays to meet state requirements so I can't just re-imagine those assignments to make them AI-proof. But there's also discussion posts and there's a lot of AI there too.
I hate it.
I hate it.
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You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.
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Hi. I wrote my dissertation on philosophy of science. I continue to teach a PhilSci seminar each year.
That is NEVER how science has been practiced.
"Science is criticism and argument" is just three helpings of "teach the debate" horseshit in a trenchcoat.
That is NEVER how science has been practiced.
"Science is criticism and argument" is just three helpings of "teach the debate" horseshit in a trenchcoat.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hi. I wrote my dissertation on philosophy of science. I continue to teach a PhilSci seminar each year.
That is NEVER how science has been practiced.
"Science is criticism and argument" is just three helpings of "teach the debate" horseshit in a trenchcoat.
That is NEVER how science has been practiced.
"Science is criticism and argument" is just three helpings of "teach the debate" horseshit in a trenchcoat.
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!!!!!! 🔥
Also giving this at Stanford: this is what we call
TAKIN' IT TO THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also giving this at Stanford: this is what we call
TAKIN' IT TO THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was asked to supply a title for my December talk at Stanford. I've settled on: "Nobody Wants This: Please Stop Ruining Everything."
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
!!!!!! 🔥
Also giving this at Stanford: this is what we call
TAKIN' IT TO THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also giving this at Stanford: this is what we call
TAKIN' IT TO THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was asked to supply a title for my December talk at Stanford. I've settled on: "Nobody Wants This: Please Stop Ruining Everything."
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I was asked to supply a title for my December talk at Stanford. I've settled on: "Nobody Wants This: Please Stop Ruining Everything."
I canceled our YouTube tv subscription and switched to Fubo. So far so good.
Scoop: While Bob Iger has publicly remained silent about Disney's standoff with YouTube TV—which has left millions without "Monday Night Football," "Good Morning America," and other programs—he candidly addressed the matter with ABC staff.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/disney-you...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/disney-you...
Inside Disney's YouTube Deadlock
Disney’s standoff with YouTube TV has left millions in the dark—and while Bob Iger hasn’t spoken publicly about it, Status has learned he candidly discussed the blackout in private with staffers at AB...
www.status.news
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I canceled our YouTube tv subscription and switched to Fubo. So far so good.
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The desert got an aurora tonight. We got a well-deserved timeline cleanse.
Palm Springs, CA
Palm Springs, CA
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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now where was I...
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
now where was I...
I have taken to blocking accounts that post AI ”art”
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I have taken to blocking accounts that post AI ”art”
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Today, we honor and thank all who have served in the United States Armed Forces.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today, we honor and thank all who have served in the United States Armed Forces.
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USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food
www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...
USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food
The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food
www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...
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Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
this is the best worst football game i’ve ever seen
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
this is the best worst football game i’ve ever seen
gotta be the weather
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
gotta be the weather
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Government, taxes, & regulation are good actually
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Government, taxes, & regulation are good actually
brought a fever home from detroit :(
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
brought a fever home from detroit :(
i needn’t have scrambled to find a new streaming service in time to watch this football game. they are stinking it up to high heaven tonight
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
i needn’t have scrambled to find a new streaming service in time to watch this football game. they are stinking it up to high heaven tonight
my grandma called my mom to tell her this show would be airing and my mom had it on the tv for me from episode 1.
we used to be a proper country
we used to be a proper country
On this day in 1969, the greatest television show of all time, Sesame Street, premiered. Here’s a story that I wrote about the show (and public television) last year. Seems more relevant than ever: www.eriereader.com/article/how-...
#history #skystorians #sesamestreet
#history #skystorians #sesamestreet
How to Get to Sesame Street: The History and Future of Public Television
Despite touching lives beyond count, value of children's programming still needs spelled out
www.eriereader.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
my grandma called my mom to tell her this show would be airing and my mom had it on the tv for me from episode 1.
we used to be a proper country
we used to be a proper country
that jonas brothers commercial reminded me of the utterly bizarre musical interlude in the middle of a playoff baseball game
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
that jonas brothers commercial reminded me of the utterly bizarre musical interlude in the middle of a playoff baseball game
Earth has not any thing to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky…
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky…
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Earth has not any thing to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky…
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky…