Weatherwax
@witchabroad.bsky.social
book lover. language aficionado. bobbyknucklehead.
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So I have developed a theory on the US surveillance industry and the people who work in it...
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So I have developed a theory on the US surveillance industry and the people who work in it...
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Summarizing the content can’t tell you how the paper fits into the overall scope of the field, how the author uses evidence, or whether the paper makes convincing arguments! It’s just a summary! There’s no critical evaluation, and that’s the core of engagement with the material
How is that not useful? The summary tells you whether the paper is worth your time to actually read. If you find that it is, then sure no time save since you read it in depth anyway. If you decided not to, then that’s a big time save.
December 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Summarizing the content can’t tell you how the paper fits into the overall scope of the field, how the author uses evidence, or whether the paper makes convincing arguments! It’s just a summary! There’s no critical evaluation, and that’s the core of engagement with the material
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(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
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Turns out that if you want to actually know stuff, at some point you’re going to have to do the work yourself, or you’re just cosplaying expertise. It’s selling a shortcut that is at best a simulacrum of knowledge.
December 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Turns out that if you want to actually know stuff, at some point you’re going to have to do the work yourself, or you’re just cosplaying expertise. It’s selling a shortcut that is at best a simulacrum of knowledge.
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I was thinking of getting a second one, but that's way out of my price range
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I was thinking of getting a second one, but that's way out of my price range
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techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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I think the least successful appeal to authority I regularly see is folks on social media declaring, "I have a degree in [subject]."
It's a self-undermining boast, because if 'a degree' meant an advanced degree (esp a PhD), you'd say that. So it just means, 'I have a BA in [subject]' which, cool.
It's a self-undermining boast, because if 'a degree' meant an advanced degree (esp a PhD), you'd say that. So it just means, 'I have a BA in [subject]' which, cool.
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I think the least successful appeal to authority I regularly see is folks on social media declaring, "I have a degree in [subject]."
It's a self-undermining boast, because if 'a degree' meant an advanced degree (esp a PhD), you'd say that. So it just means, 'I have a BA in [subject]' which, cool.
It's a self-undermining boast, because if 'a degree' meant an advanced degree (esp a PhD), you'd say that. So it just means, 'I have a BA in [subject]' which, cool.
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Teacher with medium-length hair talking to students at desks.] TEACHER: Modern physics rests on three main pillars: General relativity, which describes very massive objects, (2) TEACHER: quantum mechanics, which describes very small objects, (3) TEACHER: and hyperacute interdynamics, which describes objects 10-30cm in size and 200-700g in mass. (4) STUDENT [from off-panel]: That last one seems kind of limited. TEACHER: Yeah, but over its domain, it’s *really* precise. Absolutely *nails* squirrels and grapefruit. Someday we hope to unify it with the other two.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiafobst5ppqa3jchutqacu7lzalrmtw3djlf5oprwn57fzzrfpv4y@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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The results for Australia are a bit depressing tbh. After a start similar to NZ in 2020-21, the impact in late-2021-22 was more than twice as severe as in NZ. NZ skipped 2 big waves by keeping their quarantine going until Feb-April 2022.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The results for Australia are a bit depressing tbh. After a start similar to NZ in 2020-21, the impact in late-2021-22 was more than twice as severe as in NZ. NZ skipped 2 big waves by keeping their quarantine going until Feb-April 2022.
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"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
the kind of post nobody my age wants to see
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
the kind of post nobody my age wants to see
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A good summary of many of the lies told by people like Wes Streeting and the rest of the political far right about puberty blockers.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
Six lies transphobes tell about puberty blockers - debunked
Ahead of the NHS PATHWAYs puberty blockers trial, PinkNews debunks six lies commonly told about puberty blockers.
www.thepinknews.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A good summary of many of the lies told by people like Wes Streeting and the rest of the political far right about puberty blockers.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
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You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
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Masculinity (masculinities, really) is worthy of study and understanding insofar as it explains why people do what they do and what effects it has; crises of masculinity (which are constantly occurring) are not an excuse for misogyny and self-pity
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Masculinity (masculinities, really) is worthy of study and understanding insofar as it explains why people do what they do and what effects it has; crises of masculinity (which are constantly occurring) are not an excuse for misogyny and self-pity
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But also maybe they should ruin his life?
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
Larry Summers is 70. Firing him is not ruining his life.
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
But also maybe they should ruin his life?
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
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Walter Johnson wrote one of the very best books on slavery in the antebellum South (Soul by Soul, highly recommend), and it's nice to see his fastball still has this kind of movement
"'I’m not sure what we’ve learned from it all,' Walter Johnson, a professor of History and African and African American Studies, wrote in a statement. 'I think Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.'"
Professor Johnson knows wassup.
Professor Johnson knows wassup.
Harvard Faculty Disturbed by Revelations of Summers’ ‘Cozy Friendship’ With Epstein | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche of emails showing a close yearslong correspondence between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, reop...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Walter Johnson wrote one of the very best books on slavery in the antebellum South (Soul by Soul, highly recommend), and it's nice to see his fastball still has this kind of movement
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Let's see... a one on one sport prone to fluke results that generates enormous revenue but transfers almost none of it to increasingly anonymous athletes in a global environment of rapid gambling expansion. Maybe you could write a better formula for fight fixing but I sure couldn't.
Unconfirmed: FBI Flags Over 100 UFC Fights as Fight Fixing Allegations Engulf Vegas 110
Unconfirmed: FBI Flags Over 100 UFC Fights As Fight Fixing Allegations Engulf Vegas 110
A featherweight bout at UFC Vegas 110 on November 1 has triggered concerns about betting integrity and prompted major sportsbooks to issue refunds following
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November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Let's see... a one on one sport prone to fluke results that generates enormous revenue but transfers almost none of it to increasingly anonymous athletes in a global environment of rapid gambling expansion. Maybe you could write a better formula for fight fixing but I sure couldn't.
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![Comic. Scatter chart with Emperor Palpatine character age on Y axis and Ian McDiarmid age during filming on X axis. Plot with descending arrow beginning from Return of the Jedi (emperor age 90, McDiarmid age 40) → Revenge of the Sith, Attack of the Clones, and The Phantom Menace (emperor age 50-70, McDiarmid age 50-60) → The Rise of Skywalker (cloned body, undefined age) with a gradient vertical line (McDiarmid age over 70) → Now (emperor age under 10, McDiarmid age over 80). [caption] To continue the trend, they should make a Star Wars movie where 81-year-old Ian McDiarmid plays the emperor as a toddler.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiddygrn45rhv3aktvxlsoc5e62uxrb2fxeojgauoe5i4j52l4rn7q@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
hell yeah ❤️🔥
A good friend has submitted this brilliant model of the library from Buffy to Lego Ideas. I’d be very grateful for your help in getting her to 5k supporters: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Library | LEGO® Ideas
"Sunnydale High isn't really like other high schools. A lot of weird stuff happens here." Buffy the Vampire Slayer first exploded onto our TV screens in the lat…
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October 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
hell yeah ❤️🔥
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My fellow whites please be better than this, we are not beating the allegations.
October 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My fellow whites please be better than this, we are not beating the allegations.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Biblically accurate sleep paralysis demon: business-casual Khabib in the corner of my room whispering, "How you can tap, you go sleep."
September 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Biblically accurate sleep paralysis demon: business-casual Khabib in the corner of my room whispering, "How you can tap, you go sleep."