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@nmohlmann

English prof (autobiography, the paranormal, colonial Virginia) & south coast vaporwave

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Do like world governments understand that if all countries opened their borders to all citizens of this planet, which we all clearly are without the need for identification, cuz we're alive human people here on Earth, that we'd naturally figure out an even distribution of where we wanna live?

07.03.2026 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 79 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Prof. Kustov, Prof. Kustov. . .[runs after him]. . .is it *empirically* disagreeing with someone when you show no sign of having read a pretty well-known book but instead rely on a far-right blog post when calling it โ€œbadโ€ and โ€œoutdatedโ€?

bsky.app/profile/swed...

07.03.2026 14:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Itโ€™s called the Claude Scholarcode Flood 4.08, check my GitHub page. I warn you, academics, if youโ€™re not jumping into the stream today you will be a worse social scientist starting yesterday going into oblivion tomorrow. There is just no way around it. My flood will catch you and sweep you away. 1/

07.03.2026 20:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pretenders to the Throne of God Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller returns to a world steeped in magic โ€“ and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and 'perfโ€ฆ

Finished @aptshadow.bsky.social's Pretenders to the Throne of God.

My favourite fantasy series by a margin, always creative, moving and full of heart and empathy.

How to classify it? Weird fiction's Andor?

Not sure. But, misery and wickedness, it's damn good.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pretender...

07.03.2026 15:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 31 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

When will we be spared from having to see this man?

07.03.2026 17:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 517 ๐Ÿ” 57 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meet Wall Streetโ€™s baby-faced new finance bros โ€” they flash $10K Rolex watches, wear Celine suits and say life in NYC costs too much Their stocks are up.

I don't share NYP articles but this is too ridiculous not to share.

"Meet Wall Streetโ€™s baby-faced new finance bros โ€” they flash $10K Rolex watches, wear Celine suits and say life in NYC costs too much"

nypost.com/2026/03/04/l...

07.03.2026 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 111 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Six people legally living in the US and legally traveling for work were disappeared by the US government and the only reason we knew about it was because one woman was family friends with a county commissioner and her cell phone pinged to two detention centers.

07.03.2026 19:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 479 ๐Ÿ” 231 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Like a lot of things rich guys believe and fund, the AI consciousness thing is in part driven by a desire to abscond from the responsibility of what they've made. It also explains why so many of them think we're in a simulation. Doesn't matter if everybody died if we're all just 1s and 0s baby!

07.03.2026 20:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 786 ๐Ÿ” 132 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

I hope you C19ers are ready because I am working on the HOTTEST, the SPICIEST, the WILDEST take on water power monopolies in Massachusetts from 1820-1840.

07.03.2026 19:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

07.03.2026 18:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2244 ๐Ÿ” 454 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

as a parent of playground-aged kids i can name a dozen places exactly like this within a few miles of my house, off the top of my head. they are nostalgic for something that is literally everywhere and they would rather hurt everyone than go check.

07.03.2026 18:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 52 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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07.03.2026 18:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh my god the only thing missing is jingling keys and him laughing and clapping like an infant

07.03.2026 18:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1122 ๐Ÿ” 193 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER 
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE ON THE STREET WHEN NANCY SEES THE NEW BOY AT SCHOOL WALKING BY

NANCY: HELLO, ERIC

SLUGGO:GET LOST 

ERIC: NANCY- - - HOW CAN YOU ABIDE THAT UNCOUTH VULGARIAN ?- - HE'S SUCH A LUDICROUS MISANTHROPE

P2-
NANCY:I WISH YOU KNEW
BIG WORDS LIKE THAT

SLUGGO: I KNOW PLENTY OF BIG WORDS

P3-SLUGGO HAS HIS ARMS UP IN THE AIR 

SLUGGO:

UPHOLSTERER
MASSACHUSETTS KINDERGARTEN FRANKFURTER DELICATESSEN
LIVERWURST

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE ON THE STREET WHEN NANCY SEES THE NEW BOY AT SCHOOL WALKING BY NANCY: HELLO, ERIC SLUGGO:GET LOST ERIC: NANCY- - - HOW CAN YOU ABIDE THAT UNCOUTH VULGARIAN ?- - HE'S SUCH A LUDICROUS MISANTHROPE P2- NANCY:I WISH YOU KNEW BIG WORDS LIKE THAT SLUGGO: I KNOW PLENTY OF BIG WORDS P3-SLUGGO HAS HIS ARMS UP IN THE AIR SLUGGO: UPHOLSTERER MASSACHUSETTS KINDERGARTEN FRANKFURTER DELICATESSEN LIVERWURST

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 06,1962

07.03.2026 19:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 378 ๐Ÿ” 53 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

This is absolutely horrendous!

04.03.2026 15:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Right Wing is motivated by an arrested development where they become dependent on authoritarian adults to rule over them and then, in adulthood, are desperate to find dictators to step in to replace those adults and allow them the freedom of unfreedom and to functionally remain children.

07.03.2026 18:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 156 ๐Ÿ” 38 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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NYU cancels live school graduation speakers - Washington Square News Graduation speakers will no longer give live remarks at school-based ceremonies and must instead record their statements for a video, in compliance with a policy NYU is rolling out this year. The tran...

they are this afraid of people advocating for humane behavior
nyunews.com/news/2026/03...

07.03.2026 19:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 210 ๐Ÿ” 69 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".

07.03.2026 15:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1224 ๐Ÿ” 118 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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'An Iranian missile landed on him': Sky News speaks to son of expat who died in United Arab Emirates Saleh Ahmed, 55, was delivering drinking water when he was fatally struck by debris after a missile attack on the first day of the war. His son tells Sky News he does not believe his father knew the c...

Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.

"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under ยฃ500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

07.03.2026 13:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 410 ๐Ÿ” 209 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

We are not born to inherit the Earth, as so many of our theocratic zealots would have you believe, but rather as merely Americans, or British, or Chinese or Filipino. We are locked, by birth, into the smallest of conceivable boundaries, including those of language, art, food, and landscape. Poverty!

07.03.2026 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

07.03.2026 15:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 12160 ๐Ÿ” 3810 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69 ๐Ÿ“Œ 88
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Trump blocks FBI terror threat alert linked to Iran war Top Trump officials ordered it placed on hold over concerns that it could show the domestic risk of the war and further erode public support.

hang on to your butts, the trump regime is trying to pull the dumbest and most obvious 9/11 of all time

07.03.2026 18:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 104 ๐Ÿ” 33 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

07.03.2026 14:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2446 ๐Ÿ” 992 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
Why Language Models Hallucinate. A paper released by OpenAI in September of 2025.

Why Language Models Hallucinate. A paper released by OpenAI in September of 2025.

Back in September, OpenAI released a paper showing that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. It's how the system fundamentally works. Which means there is no "fix."

07.03.2026 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 71 ๐Ÿ” 35 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

It can't be fixed because language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they come upon uncertainty, it doesn't trigger a flag or an "I don't know." Instead, the LLMs guess.

That guess is also not flagged to the user. So it is presented in complete confidence.

07.03.2026 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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07.03.2026 17:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 867 ๐Ÿ” 87 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Lindsey Graham pulled Trump into a war lmao

07.03.2026 18:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 346 ๐Ÿ” 43 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Everything changed when the blfire nation attacked

07.03.2026 06:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

2026, man

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

06.03.2026 19:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1397 ๐Ÿ” 263 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 146 ๐Ÿ“Œ 99
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January 2021 was the deadliest month of the pandemic. 3000 Americans died daily, 95,000 in total.

And Prasad was *mocking* people for avoiding COVID.

Shame on anyone who treated him as a good faith actor or serious thinker.

Letโ€™s be honest about his record.

07.03.2026 03:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 227 ๐Ÿ” 62 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3