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preston lennon @jplennon630.bsky.social · 1d

best evidence yet for ai mentality

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 3d

Josh McDaniels crying and playing “I drove all night” while driving south to rescue Bill in that car with the dog ears from Dumb and Dumber

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preston lennon @jplennon630.bsky.social · 3d

oh no!

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 4d

Me, hitting snooze on my alarm one more time, trying to keep the world at bay for another few minutes

Trevor Lawrence laying down behind the line of scrimmage

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 9d

i don't think there's a particularly strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and being a productive writer, but i do think there's a very strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and producing guides to productive writing

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506 Sports @506sports.bsky.social · 11d

just in: Eric Collins, of Hornets and "OH NO! DISASTER!" fame, is making his NFL debut this week calling Dolphins-Panthers for FOX.

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Sally McSpooky 👻 @sallymcsurly.bsky.social · 14d

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.

Here are some of his beautiful shots.

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UDHCMH @udhcmh.bsky.social · 16d

Sep 25 in University District History: First Waterbeds-n-Stuff opens at 2185 N High St. Supplying those who partake and those who par-tay. In 1972.

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preston lennon @jplennon630.bsky.social · 17d

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19d

A guy on tik tok onside kicks into random things

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 19d

New publication forthcoming in BBS, co-authored with John Krakauer: a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's groundbreaking target article.

We critique widespread assumptions in cognitive neuroscience about the role of internal models in implicit cognition. (1/7)

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 22d

Here’s something I don’t think anyone has ever said before: they are slinging it in this Rutgers-Iowa game

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 22d

whatever happens tonight in Iowa vs. Rutgers stays in Iowa vs. Rutgers, okay

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 22d

remarkable to me that philosophers could look around the world right now and conclude that the best use of their time was to write public arguments against trans inclusion. how must the world look to render that reasonable? truly remarkable

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preston lennon @jplennon630.bsky.social · 24d

cool

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 26d

Obama brought us to this place in 2011, and then he handed off the keys to our terrifying drone bombing infrastructure to Trump en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_a...

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 28d

This Georgia–Tennessee game is, as far as I can recall, the first time I can do my ‘this is a showdown between two philosophers in each department’ but with [buddy from grad school] and [buddy from postdoc], so that’s fun!

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Grok turned him in to Jared Goff.

Bunt Gunderson: Stock Market Expert @birdrespecter.bsky.social · Sep 11

The greatest minds in history are on the case

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Punished Dog With a Gofundme @muleskinnerpress.net · Sep 11

Hate to say it but Steph Curry's public embrace of the Bay Area's worse qualities was the beginning of the NBA swag crisis

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · Sep 10

If you’re scandalized by kawhi getting a bunch of money to do nothing, wait until you hear about my postdoc

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · Sep 10

A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure.

The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Sep 10

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not
made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

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preston lennon @jplennon630.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · Sep 9

can’t make it to the USMNT game tonight but hope everyone who attends learns that columbus kicks ass and then never tells anyone that it kicks ass so they leave me alone

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