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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 14h

More nuanced take than most. The process vs product valuation axis continues to have explanatory power
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 1d

I should've read the screenshots first; there's an entirely different discussion going on there

Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 1d

Interesting, I think it makes me uncomfortable for exactly that reason. In the same way I don't entirely trust people who must kick rocks. It's not about the rock at all

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 2d

This meeting could have been a lasertag event

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in understanding how young humans think about social relationships? I am reading PhD applications this year! **Please note**, that Harvard now requires the GRE. More information here: www.ashleyjthomas.com/workwithme

WANT TO WORK WITH ME? | Mysite

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Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · 4d

I'm a bit late to the game on this, but I finally read it and if you haven't done so, do check it out. It is a very thoughtfully kind (yet incisive) examination of where a lot of people on the left are right now, with Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates serving as rhetorical poles of sorts.

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 4d

Whoa

When you’re scared you get tunnel vision. If everything’s malleable, potential or imaginary future harms start to seem equivalent to concrete harm, even violence, being inflicted today. You start to equate things that aren’t equal. And you lose sight of your power. This, I would argue, is more likely to lead to fatalism and surrender than Coates’s approach.

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 6d

The decline in basic quality of clothes you can buy is such a downer. Every piece of clothing I haven't worn to threads was either bought in the last two years or in the 90s

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 6d

We could also embrace our future -- teeth are facial exoskeleton anchors

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 8d

The one redeeming feature of university IRB panels is how they only let you collect data if you pay with a piece of your soul

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 8d

Top 1 episode in the franchise for me!

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 8d

Happy Darmok Day to all who celebrate

Bill Joseph @authorbilljoseph.com · 8d

34 years ago. One of the greats! #startrek

An image from Trek News. On this day, September 30, 1991, Star Trek: TNG “Darmok” aired for the first time. The image shows Jean-Luc Picard and the Tamarian Dathon standing side by side, armed with knives, ready to fight the beast.

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 9d

It doesn't just portend -- the statistical observation is that the situation *is already worse* than your limited sample of it

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 11d

Speaks to a need for formalism that's weaker but easier to understand

Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 11d

The agnostics though 🥹

P(I think Jesus will return | I don't know if Jesus exists) ≈ 8%

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 12d

Fourth panel: "was your prior on the null 0%?"

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 13d

You could consider a career in blogging

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 13d

The less charitable version of this argument is that if you want to be an influential statistician, you need to be strong both formally and rhetorically, but to be an influential metascientist you only need the latter

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 14d

With the recent formation of the Bayesian Social Science chapter of ISBA, this is a good year for math psych folks to attend the ISBA World Meeting

International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social · 14d

Proposals for contributed talks & posters are now being accepted for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting! The world meeting will take place in Nagoya, Japan between 28 June and 3 July, 2026. Proposals may be submitted here: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...

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Tom Faulkenberry @tomfaulkenberry.bsky.social · 15d

Come join our new PhD program in Experimental Psychology at Tarleton State University! am recruiting a PhD student to start in Fall 2026! Reach out to me if you are interested...would love to chat

Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology – Degrees & Programs

programs.tarleton.edu

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 15d

I don't usually read his blog but the catty email at the end was worth it lol

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 15d

😄

I speak of course now only about the Disney corporation, and not about the heroic Disney Adults whose combined capitalist ferver has restored Jimmy Kimmel to the air as of today. Also, let us all hope this is the weirdest footnote I will ever have to write.

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 16d

Let's hope Kimmel didn't accept the new academia\.edu user agreement