The trailer looks… bad, but ‘someone got a proper budget to make a high concept dystopian(?) romcom(?)’ rules

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h ago

i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

i do get the handwringing about how academia relates to the public, but fundamentally, any proposal that involves academics not saying what they earnestly believe, even and especially when it is at variance from public opinion is a nonstarter for me

start calling it "epistemic momentum", confusion abated

inspiring how quickly bsky can pivot from the result of an election to lecturing everyone else about the correct reaction to have to that result

is that even a common phrase? i've literally never heard it lol

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2h ago

If I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

omg I found the picture ❤️

ECP@ecppdx.bsky.social · 16h ago

Years ago I coined the milleneuve, which is a unit to measure how horrible the sky color is based on Villeneuve films. Blade Runner 2049 is around 900mn. Today is around 250 I'd say. (It's a very scientific scale.)

It’s true I like when athletes say good things and dislike when they say bad things. Very hypocritical of me

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6h ago

Aaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D

new bsky thing i don't recall seeing before is people getting mad at reporters for using dynamic terms like 'momentum', 'coming back', 'closing the gap', etc. to describe vote counting

a lot of people forget how good high speed wireless internet was in the mid-80s

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Tonight we find out whether Michigan voters are bluesky posters or bluesky replyers

joker: how about a magic trick? i’m gonna make this pencil disappear (pencil falls over and joker slams the guys head into the table) joker: hold on let me set up the pencil again you jiggled the table

The jacked community needs more representation in congress.

as returns come in, some crucial michigan context i was able to exclusively provide 👇

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 19h ago

Every time I see a pic of him in a thumbnail on a news story about aipac or whatever I’m like ‘how come nobody is ever talking about how Abdul is kinda jacked? I don’t get it…’

suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile

Sometimes journals take too long. Has anyone else noticed this?

this is the funniest thing i've ever seen

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h ago

Oh my god I think I found the video.

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h ago

okay, new version of the trolley problem: a trolley is moving at a normal speed towards five people. those people see the trolley and have plenty of time to get out of the way. BUT on the other track... one person also sees and has plenty of time. everything is gonna be fine. what do you do?

Don't ask why I'm this deep into my camera roll (I am extremely jet lagged) but it's given me an opportunity to repost this now nearly decade-old classic.

i mean, yes. we are supposing that. for sure

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · yesterday

One reason I don’t like the trolley problem is because are we supposing people can’t get out of the way

He always looks skinny in pictures, so unless there are others for scale he looks tall. However, and I say this as a Person Of Shortness myself, he *writes like* a short man.

Either freakishly tall or incredibly short. There’s no way someone of a normal height wrote the Tractatus.

We must imagine Wittgenstein tall.

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · yesterday

i was surprised that the answer is 5'6", btw

finding two rationalist guys, one of whom thinks it's 66% likely we're in a simulation, and another of whom thinks it's 72% likely we're living in a simulation and arbitraging them

without looking it up: in your mind is wittgenstein tall or short? (i need POLLS)

Here’s a very nerdy point but if you buy the reasoning that putatively gets you to ‘it’s likely we’re living in a simulation’, the same reasoning completely swamps that likelihood with Boltzmann brains is it’s actually ~0% we’re in a simulation by your lights

m-dash spotted. telltale sign of AI

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d ago

my unfinished paper draft watching me start a new paper