Steve

Academic in the beautiful southwest USA, also outdoors, tabletop, and any other hobbies.

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2024-11-08 14:36:47

Good take on US authoritarianism discourse I think
https://bsky.app/profile/filipecampante.bsky.social/post/3laefeqqkux2j

2024-11-08 13:51:26

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@npub1mm3…ft6j you are a cruel person when you believe there are no public goods, that your economic fortune is the consequence of economic merit. It makes you quite susceptible to authoritarianism imho.

2024-11-08 13:50:10

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@npub1mm3…ft6j I understand it more downstream of reaganism and the successful conservative cultural project. We have generations of people who wrongly think their lives are self determined as agents, and it has spread to the entire white middle class.

2024-11-08 13:48:01

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@npub1mm3…ft6j it's interesting because I agree with your assessment to an extent, I but I don't think it's downstream of beating up leftists and repressive foreign policy, no one cares about that imo and those people don't vote anyway.

2024-11-03 04:27:44

so re: this Iowa polling if it isn't just a weird poll bounce, one explanation is people don't really think about a thing like voting till they have to do it, they just report partisanship before that.

2024-10-14 05:14:34

this "strategy," also known as a heinous war crime
https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/113/304/066/611/665/975/original/c2a2ced2e40ece70.jpg

2024-10-14 02:20:22

It is 2024. The federal government can't operate in parts of the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/10/13/federal-officials-nc-temporarily-relocated-amid-report-armed-militia-email-shows/

2024-09-30 15:01:34

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@npub1mm3…ft6j completely plausible!

2024-09-07 15:34:55

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@npub1mm3…ft6j ultimately there's probably a case here where using LLMs that are actually helpful require tasks specific LLMs trained on known material... I wonder if that's where this all shakes out.

2024-09-07 01:48:50

I talk shit but when they do the right headline, worth pointing out too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/06/trump-campaign-remarks-allegations/

2024-09-04 09:10:05

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@npub1mm3…ft6j these motherfuckers really did pour money into a thing to help high school and college students cheat on an assignment that doesn't do anything else well.
Fuck specifically me.

2024-09-01 20:06:07

It's interesting the frame the US media gives this event while Israelis are mostly angry with the far right government for letting it happen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/01/israeli-american-hostage-hersh-goldberg-polin-killed/

2024-08-11 16:01:54

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@npub1mm3…ft6j 7 years in prison

2024-08-08 15:44:30

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@npub1mm3…ft6j thankfully this has not invaded academic discourse. This is tech and business shit.

2024-08-08 15:44:25

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@npub1mm3…ft6j thankfully this has not invaded academic discourse. This is tech abd business shit.

2024-08-06 17:51:50

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@npub1mm3…ft6j our other dogs have been like that

2024-08-06 17:44:02

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@npub1mm3…ft6j peanut hater
https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/112/916/315/206/941/964/original/f1c666826772c71a.jpg

2024-08-06 17:43:31

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@npub1mm3…ft6j yes! One of our dogs doesn't like most plant based stuff period.

2024-08-06 17:18:02

new dog loves peanuts

2024-08-01 23:17:23

ah, we've moved to the media coverage of how Biden isn't tough because he engineered a difficult prisoner exchange discourse.

2024-08-01 03:04:17

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@npub1mm3…ft6j pancreatic cancer increase, a famously no big deal cancer.

2024-07-31 19:03:34

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@npub1mm3…ft6j this fucking dude

2024-07-31 13:28:56

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@npub1mm3…ft6j probably... not how US/NATO forces would approach this

2024-07-31 13:28:37

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@npub1mm3…ft6j probably... not how US forces would approach this

2024-07-31 13:26:38

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@npub1mm3…ft6j western powers always one assassination from defeating terrorist groups completely

2024-07-31 13:00:54

Israeli government pushing for all out interstate war to keep Bibi in power I guess

2024-07-30 02:59:09

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@npub1mm3…ft6j this is one of the nuclear war starter scenarios, hell yeah.

2024-07-29 15:28:53

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@npub1mm3…ft6j truly a societal level problem which is both a fair criticism but also

2024-07-28 12:40:01

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@npub1mm3…ft6j "JD Vance is real racist. We gotta slap a Harris story up too, though..."

2024-07-27 14:18:46

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@npub1mm3…ft6j I tend to agree with you but I don't think we know if it worked with the ignorant American public yet.

2024-07-26 05:10:47

puts finger in the air to assess the breeze
"Having a candidate who will actively campaign against her opponent might be good, actually."

2024-07-14 13:56:05

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@npub1mm3…ft6j this stuff all annoys me. I can care as much as I want, it doesn't create 60 votes in the Senate. Go stare into the face of a member of the GOP base and see how far your bullshit social media scolding gets you.

2024-07-12 22:25:14

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@npub1mm3…ft6j glad I scrolled up, I almost posted 100% the same thing.

2024-07-11 16:20:54

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@npub1mm3…ft6j the hanging chads strike again

2024-07-10 15:09:57

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@npub1mm3…ft6j I was talking to some political scientists last week that project 2025 is the true now we're in it for destroying democracy.

2024-07-09 18:25:14

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@npub1mm3…ft6j now this is where my like PFAS conspiracy theory I think is becoming increasingly true thing comes in.

2024-07-07 10:49:19

there's something incredibly I guess anti-social about heathrow's setup.

2024-07-07 08:07:11

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@npub1mm3…ft6j I was laughing at cologne airport because their dumb airport pastry shop in the terminal had a section in the back where they were actually baking bread.

2024-07-01 07:30:08

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@npub1mm3…ft6j what the fuck

2024-06-29 18:10:04

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@npub1mm3…ft6j the NAS/plex investment not looking so bad

2024-06-27 15:00:35

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@npub1mm3…ft6j yeah, the takes are bad atm.

2024-06-21 15:34:02

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Every word of this is damning

2024-06-21 15:33:51

"The tech giant and its partners say they expect to harness fusion by 2028, an audacious claim that bolsters their promises to transition to green energy but distracts from current reality."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/21/artificial-intelligence-nuclear-fusion-climate/

2024-06-16 22:55:40

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@npub1mm3…ft6j "how can I do the ultra weird thing of running an influencer business without dealing with random aholes?"

2024-06-13 20:23:00

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70% good thing, 22% undecided, 8% against
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/05/13/americans-overwhelmingly-say-access-to-ivf-is-a-good-thing/

2024-06-13 20:21:47

wrap your head around the idea that the GOP Senate caucus can get 45 votes behind opposing the right to IVF with no consequences.

2024-05-31 03:59:32

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@npub1mm3…ft6j this is a good point

2024-05-19 14:24:14

man you can feel how thirsty the media is for four years of Trump outrage coverage money

2024-05-16 22:21:57

it's incredible how shit is just wrong about even normal current stuff on google now because of their llm capture stuff.

2024-05-13 19:55:24

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@npub1mm3…ft6j yeah still no solution for how expensive this is to run besides lighting VC money on fire.

2024-05-08 16:36:22

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@npub1mm3…ft6j technology is not, in fact, a constant progress forward.

2024-05-02 13:31:01

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@npub1mm3…ft6j US states barely fund out of tax revenue now, so it really is a customers business based on tuition. All the incentives align to push everyone except elite schools to a Grand Canyon University model.

2024-05-02 13:18:03

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@npub1mm3…ft6j our new motto, university wide, is "100% career ready."

2024-05-02 13:14:59

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@npub1mm3…ft6j remember, most universities are moving to refocus their graduate degrees on this kind of stuff.

2024-05-01 14:41:55

surreal 2024 thing about campus protests is while police confront the crowd and protestors in their gear, apparently those little food delivery robots drive around confused getting into everyone's way the whole time.

2024-04-30 21:23:14

Got one of these today!
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest

2024-04-30 17:55:36

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@npub1mm3…ft6j all you gotta do is let them camp and protest. Institutional harm would be minimal nuisance at worst

2024-04-22 18:36:26

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@npub1mm3…ft6j late stage America is proudly abd openly building an elderly person grift machine and getting tons of VC money.

2024-04-20 20:01:39

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This is why the GOP tries to turn every program into some elaborate means test. It ruins its efficiency and obfuscates its benefits politically.

2024-04-20 19:57:22

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It seems like an innocent request to attach strings, but not even the US federal government is set up to access even minor information to condition by, much less a city government.

2024-04-20 19:55:50

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The requirement to means test immediately makes any program intractable in the USA. This is a point Matt Bruenig makes all the time.

2024-04-20 19:54:58

I don't want to pick on anyone, I agree with the sentiment. But people way, way overestimate the state capacity of government in the USA.
https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/112/305/294/740/057/824/original/9392af1d84bd3fb2.jpg

2024-04-13 05:56:38

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@npub1mm3…ft6j love to sell blue checks

2024-04-11 14:43:32

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@npub1mm3…ft6j I'm rolling: "Except, oh wait, the AI Pin can’t set an alarm or a timer. It can’t add things to your calendar, either, or tell you what’s already there."

2024-04-10 14:34:54

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@npub1mm3…ft6j don't want to do business where someone could pass a law

2024-04-05 10:02:26

deep in open source world when you're painstakingly correcting bad audiobook tags from ripped audible files

2024-04-04 14:15:00

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@npub1mm3…ft6j this hits on the US military irritation with NATO preparedness

2024-04-02 21:09:05

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@npub1mm3…ft6j yeah, I can't afford it

2024-04-01 17:29:15

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@npub1mm3…ft6j Yeah this is close to pure arbitrage. It's like betting long terms against a ponzi scheme when you see it happen. Easy money.

2024-03-31 15:22:59

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@npub1mm3…ft6j all these guys are so insanely on uppers and people don't really conceptualize them this way. At least people portrayed 80s wall street as comically on cocaine at the time.

2024-03-30 02:53:46

Yeah, I kinda figured
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

2024-03-29 18:46:23

it's funny @npub1mm3…ft6j, I just had NPR Science Friday on and got to hear what a bunch of more modest scientists in a broad variety of fields sound like and, uh, yeah, they ain't going on Joe Rogan with their messaging around their important findings.

2024-03-29 13:17:11

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@npub1mm3…ft6j even most Nobel prize winning successful academics give somewhat boring interviews that can't be condensed into 2 minutes because they sound weasel-ish

2024-03-29 13:15:30

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@npub1mm3…ft6j I would adjust your thread only to switch successful to certain. In my experience, any academic who is certain enough to give great interviews is fucked.

2024-03-27 18:01:09

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@npub1mm3…ft6j oh 100%

2024-03-27 15:29:32

obviously I constantly talk shit about cops, but I do genuinely think the MTA cops who stopped traffic immediately on hearing the ship out of control call is a pretty heroic move.
Yeah, it's their job, but stopping traffic over a busy bridge on something that is probably nothing is a very costly behavior. And we know that policing in general does not encourage precautionary costly behavior that might prevent low risk, high cost events.

2024-03-26 20:24:33

hard not to think about the non-trivial evidence of foreign involvement backing up the craziest people in US politics.
One of the few Krassenstein era grifts that is almost certainly true.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/qatar-newsmax-investment/

2024-03-26 15:33:03

excited for the Supreme Court to make governing impossible by not allowing Congress to delegate responsibility.

2024-03-21 15:40:50

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@npub1mm3…ft6j ha, didn't know about that pivot! Every fucking tech company running the exact same playbook.

2024-03-21 14:41:57

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@npub1mm3…ft6j yeah if it's on YouTube it's a 1 1/2 hour influencer video essay, I'm thinking tik tok

2024-03-21 14:27:42

Awesome, love to explain complicated issues in 30 second snarky videos.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03/21/stopping-birth-control-misinformation/

2024-03-20 15:50:27

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@npub1mm3…ft6j you see S4?

2024-03-20 15:38:18

true detective season 4 definitely falls apart plotwise in the last two eps but remains a real return to form character wise to the virtuoso season 1. Worth a watch.

2024-03-19 16:27:30

great ancient thread someone boosted. I don't teach humanities at university but even I find my students have adopted an incredibly painful pedantic literalism in how they think.
https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/112/123/288/655/133/509/original/8b080bcb51c62408.jpg

2024-03-19 14:14:10

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@npub1mm3…ft6j boy if people randomly gave a shit about my random conference papers I'd be worried:
"It has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in an academic journal."

2024-03-18 14:29:50

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@npub1mm3…ft6j replies outside your mastodon social circle are incredible here since there's no algorithm or protection, just a sea of people angerly screaming into the void at other people who have 0 power.

2024-03-17 00:17:33

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it's founder worship poison, as the OP implicitly keys into, embedded in the common and intellectual classes. It makes meaningful change impossible.

2024-03-17 00:16:01

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You can change your government type. Your degree and nature of federalism. Your electoral system. Only in the USA are these sacrosanct.

2024-03-17 00:15:07

I don't want to dwell on this because I get the fundamental point. But it's a uniquely American view, widely shared only within the USA, that institutions shouldn't/can't be changed.
https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/112/108/138/541/618/504/original/1a4a0577d586b037.jpg

2024-03-12 14:54:01

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@npub1mm3…ft6j @npub1f4k…zueq on one hand this shit sucks and dems should be better on the other it is some sort of era of collective insanity we are all going through

2024-03-12 14:53:44

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@npub1mm3…ft6j @npub1f4k…zueq on one hand this shit sucks on the other it is some sort of era of collective insanity we are all going through

2024-03-09 15:18:44

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@npub1mm3…ft6j Sanders can genuinely take some credit for pushing this window into the acceptable mainstream.

2024-03-08 06:08:59

would genuinely feel fine on Biden if it weren't for this abominable Gaza response

2024-03-05 15:40:38

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Americans have such a short attention span it amazes me how much they love this beaten to death material from a weird old pervert.

2024-03-05 15:38:58

beyond now-concrete plans to end democracy keeping me up at night, I am dreading another 6 month media cycle of Trump.
His bit is SO boring and tired now.

2024-02-21 03:44:07

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-ivf-embryos/
oh no how could this have happened who could have known

2024-02-19 23:18:03

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@npub1mm3…ft6j delightful

2024-02-14 13:46:47

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@npub1mm3…ft6j even without drones cruise missiles and submarines already made this kind of true iirc

2024-02-13 23:47:09

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@npub1mm3…ft6j yeah it took a single year. It's all I see now.

2024-02-08 16:02:36

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@npub1mm3…ft6j too many Sci-Fi Guys in the tech industry.