@venerablebidet.bsky.social
Irreverent and irrelevant academic, whacker of the thunderbroom
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idk i just feel like AI automation is going to benefit one very specific income bracket tremendously and leave everyone else in the dust but hey maybe three ghosts will intervene on christmas eve or something
August 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
idk i just feel like AI automation is going to benefit one very specific income bracket tremendously and leave everyone else in the dust but hey maybe three ghosts will intervene on christmas eve or something
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GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait
CEO Sam Altman said using the chatbot will be like talking with a doctorate-level expert in any topic.
www.wsj.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.
I’m concerned about what these Brazilian tariffs will do the price of waxing.
July 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I’m concerned about what these Brazilian tariffs will do the price of waxing.
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64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.
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Congratulations to Riley Gaines on retroactively still not medaling in the 200 free in 2022.
July 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Congratulations to Riley Gaines on retroactively still not medaling in the 200 free in 2022.
Khameni killed the Lindbergh Baby
BREAKING: Iranian State TV has said: "Tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."
June 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Khameni killed the Lindbergh Baby
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Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.
June 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.
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They should also append to end of each article, “this paper is owned by a man who gave at least $1 million dollars to Donald Trump”
June 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
They should also append to end of each article, “this paper is owned by a man who gave at least $1 million dollars to Donald Trump”
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JD Vance somewhere stressfucking his couch
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
JD Vance somewhere stressfucking his couch
Exactly.
The real issue is that states have largely de-funded their public universities. But yes, let's continue focusing on the Ivies (which have <70k total undergrads across 8 schools).
The reason why this article is so bad is that the only argument it marshals against international students is a fallacy. There isn’t a fixed set of slots for people to compete for, given by nature. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...
June 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Exactly.
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I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
May 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
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I’m concerned for the safety of Rumeysa Ozturk because of the character and personality of the people who support Donald Trump.
May 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’m concerned for the safety of Rumeysa Ozturk because of the character and personality of the people who support Donald Trump.
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the median voter: the president has a big lever in his office which makes things expensive
me, an idiot: actually inflation is the result of macroeconomic forces
me, an idiot: actually inflation is the result of macroeconomic forces
May 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
the median voter: the president has a big lever in his office which makes things expensive
me, an idiot: actually inflation is the result of macroeconomic forces
me, an idiot: actually inflation is the result of macroeconomic forces
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I may have context for this! Last night WPBT in Palm Beach broadcast the 1979 Clint Eastwood film "Escape from Alcatraz."
May 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I may have context for this! Last night WPBT in Palm Beach broadcast the 1979 Clint Eastwood film "Escape from Alcatraz."
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It’s a difficult time for young men, growing up in a culture that no longer provides them with strong role models like Robert Wadlow, the fat biker twins, or the Indian guy with the long fingernails
May 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It’s a difficult time for young men, growing up in a culture that no longer provides them with strong role models like Robert Wadlow, the fat biker twins, or the Indian guy with the long fingernails
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you know, we research whether the baby stroller has all the features and amenities we like, not whether it will kill the baby
4/ He promotes what sociologists call "intensive parenting," as a superior way to ensure kids are safe. That's a time/labor-intensive & stressful form of parenting many US *mothers* feel pressured to follow due to cultural norms/expectations around mothers as primary caregivers.
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April 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you know, we research whether the baby stroller has all the features and amenities we like, not whether it will kill the baby
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Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
April 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
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Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis
Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis
Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis
Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis
Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
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Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
April 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
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Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
April 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
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DHS secretary Kristi Noem, wearing a $50,000 Rolex, talks about arresting dirtbags while aiming rifle muzzle dangerously close to ICE officer's head
April 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
DHS secretary Kristi Noem, wearing a $50,000 Rolex, talks about arresting dirtbags while aiming rifle muzzle dangerously close to ICE officer's head