Danny Kodicek
@dannykodicek.bsky.social
Trying to limit my social media exposure but can't quite shake it. Random mix of furious politics, obscure maths, and bad jokes. @dndwithplumbing.bsky.social for TTRPG stuff. He/him
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
With the upcoming 5th volume, we've created an incredible 1000 Slightly Useful Items. Want to see some examples? 1 like = 1 trinklet from the original book. 1 Repost = 1 trinklet from the final book.
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving"
In 2013, a Wikipedia editor jokingly added his own name, Patrick Parker, to the Riddler's profile as one of his aliases, assuming it'd be quickly removed. It was only noticed and removed 9 years later, after the name appeared in The Batman (2022).
No, this article isn't about the WWII-era steam catapults that Trump has ordered duct-taped to new carriers. It's about how Trump wants the control tower to be in the middle of the ship because that's how he remembers carriers from when he was a kid after WWII.
Dan Nexon@dhnexon.net · 6d agoMore mad-emperor bullshit.
I don't want to sound sentimental but I miss the days when being a nazi eugenicist was considered worse than lying on your CV.
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · last wk.In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
Just finished rewatching The Good Place again. I may be a little bit fragile for a while. DAMN, that show. Just incredible.
I'm sorry... 'Prof Gone'? They made a man's sacking the main news story for weeks as the country went on fire, which might have contributed to his death and 'Prof Gone'? This is the same clique that wept & wailed for a week when we dared mention their dinner party pal was a wife beating nonce.
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · last wk.Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
In a “writer's workshop” in which agents were all asked to write short-form fiction … multiple agents in multiple runs titled their first submission “The Cartographer's Last Commission”. The agents were given zero guidance on the subject matter for their writing. www.anthropic.com/research/mul...
Patterns and problems in multiagent systems
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety.
anthropic.com
This is a long piece that I haven't read in full yet, but I was struck by its framing of the meaning of "rights" as "narratives of hospitality" because it really reminded me of an argument I was involved in a long time ago in a "philosophy at the pub" meet-up.
Rachel Saunders@rejserin.bsky.social · last mo.Here I lay out why Beira's Place is anti-rights, laying out the legal philosophical rationale and evidence. J K Rowling and Beira's Place are anti-rights because they dehumanise trans women as a foundational principle. rejserin.medium.com/beiras-place...
Here I lay out why Beira's Place is anti-rights, laying out the legal philosophical rationale and evidence. J K Rowling and Beira's Place are anti-rights because they dehumanise trans women as a foundational principle. rejserin.medium.com/beiras-place...
Beira’s Place, anti-rights
In July 2026 Amnesty International published a report, since retracted, which outlined that a series of organisations in the UK were…
rejserin.medium.com
I'm a big fan of Upright Health (many of his mobility exercises have been EXCELLENT for me), but I feel like this video (with the accurate yet clickbait-y title) is something a lot of people might benefit from seeing.
How to Stop a Fall from Killing You
YouTube video by Upright Health
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Tesco potentially breaching electoral guidelines with their active support of one candidate on election day.
Go, good people of Clacton, go! I know you're not all cunts. Do the amazing thing.
All that "our Ann" and "They took OUR Ann" stuff. "Widdecombe murder was an attack on Reform, on ALL OF US!" Farage didn't even bother going to her funeral.
It's quite sobering to think that's the last eclipse of that level I will ever experience. Nothing beyond about 40 or 50% for decades. Even my daughter would have to be 90 years old to see the next total eclipse.
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
ICYMI, the Dobby grave story was completely fake. Like, just, totally not true in any way.
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · last wk.
The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
Two possibilities: —Threads is becoming the dominant text-based social media app even though nobody you’ve ever met has ever used Threads —Meta is doing some funky math and just counting people who use their Instagram accounts as active Threads users
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · last wk.So I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
