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D. J. Hicks

@danhicks.bsky.social

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philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · Nov 30

This is a thread to illustrate the nuclear block. I'm going to reply with a throwaway account, then block it, and screenshot the results from my alt account.

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 14m

Except when we think N=1 means "always everywhere and necessarily" instead of "maybe approximately never"

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 44m

Haven't been to the post office in ages; surely someone needs a #sciart artologica.etsy.com

various science themed ink and watercolor paintings

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 35m

ferocious vampire fangs!

D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 1h

The Jag Cat needs to get ready for Jagoween! #Caturday

A black cat with a green and white radio collar hanging out on some patio furniture

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 1h

Using hype and shitty metaphors to summarize the instructions to stop using hype and shitty metaphors

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pa28 🇨🇦 @pa28.bsky.social · 3h

One of the most revealing aspects of this output is that after all your careful training, rather than demonstrating the mastery of that training while describing it, the AI reverted to the design mode of middle school student who just discovered a thesaurus.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 6h

Twice in 24 hours I've blocked journalists with 10k+ follower counts for uncritically reposting AI-generated video. Different videos. Look, I understand we are facing an unprecedented threat of realistic AI fabrications. That only makes it more pressing to verify sources, especially as a JOURNALIST.

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 1h

Aw I hope you get an actionable diagnosis and he feels better soon

D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 2h

This thread gave me flashbacks to that shitty "AI reduces critical thinking" paper like six months ago

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 3h

If you make a mistake a post genAI bullshit and then take it down once someone points it out to you, that's fair.

If you don't acknowledge your mistake & refuse to take down the post, that's what the block button is for. The stakes are too high right now. Spreading disinfo is not okay.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

it is frustrating how much space NYT gives to people with nothing worthwhile to say

just an uninteresting man with stale, despicable views talking to a lazy man with no intellectual curiosity

like wow, a white Christian nationalist? is he just like the other ones? is he wearing a suit? fascinating

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 13h

Oh no, they see it pretty clearly

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 1d

speak of the fish and he appears

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, laying on the arm of a gray recliner chair. He looks up at the camera with a relaxed expression. His back paws and one front paw are tucked towards his body.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 16h

If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky

Scientific Humanisms (Chapter 5) - Science and Humanism

Science and Humanism - October 2025

www.cambridge.org

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 20h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 15h

"Needs more cocaine"

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 15h

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 16h

Saw a v good therapy rabbit today name Mopsy and she was LARGE.

Brown and white long eared rabbit in blanket

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 16h

This is basically the argument I make indirectly to my students, and IME it's *extremely* persuasive fairy-shrimp.netlify.app/readings/fir...

Two essays on writing first drafts – Science, Technology, and Ethics

fairy-shrimp.netlify.app

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 16h

So the former confederate states are thinking of a new accreditation agency for higher education. Is there any reporting on the existing accreditors and how they're doing with Trump and McMahon?

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 16h

Asking as someone who's been to New York exactly once, for 30 hours

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 16h

So what was the right answer?

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 17h

People need to read Ruth Schwarz Cowan's classic book:
hss.sas.upenn.edu/content/more...

More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave | HSS | Arts & Sciences

In this classic work of women’s history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to hous...

hss.sas.upenn.edu

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