Illiberalism Studies Program

@illsp.bsky.social

New piece! @richardhayton.com on the rise of Reform UK as well as its influence on, and symbiotic relationship with, the Conservative Party.

˗ˋ,✦︎ The Rabbit Follower ✦︎ˎˊ˗ (Commissions Open!)

@therabbitfollower.bsky.social

✨SAVE THE DATE: APRIL, 24TH 2026✨

🐇WHERE: www.twitch.tv/therabbitfol...

🕰️WHEN: 6PM EST

☕WHAT: A very important debutante tea party. We'll drink, we'll chat, we'll partake in the arts.

See you there.💖

#vtuber #vtubing #vtuberdebut

Keh-Kuan Sun

@kehsun.bsky.social

The independence axiom is what makes expected utility work: normatively clean, mathematically elegant. Problem? People violate it systematically. We've known this since 1953. Many non-EU models relax it through prob weighting. We take a different route. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13823

noori

@4fish003.bsky.social

i like the word pulchritude. reminds me of izar. which is also called pulcherrima. which reminds me of that one message i sent to a friend where it was nine images long about her lore. kinda funny, since when it’s my time to shine about character lore in conversations, it tends to be very long.

afuyeas

@afuyeas.bsky.social

What I'm gathering from this guy's comment section is that a lot of people confuse politeness with deference. The opposite of "polite" isn't "casual" which he explains very well https://youtu.be/PUj6DhVKBYM?is=BjZPrRRYLEuqwtUY?...

MIT Press

@mitpress.bsky.social

"As machines grow more powerful, society will become increasingly effective at shaping the world, while individuals who never learned to think deeply will be easier to manipulate. 'This is why,' Koch says, 'reflective self-consciousness is our lodestar — the guiding star of the human mind.'"

Idle-Minded

@idle-minded.bsky.social

my April fools joke that would piss off people would be to open comms to more than a single whimsical slot at a time.
the submission form would be a rickroll because I'm cringe and old.
you're all lucky this requires too much effort for me to actually do.

Tippy

@tiptoe39.bsky.social

Philly suffers from a surfeit of Travises.

Paradise Lost

@paradise-lost.bsky.social

With narrow search; and with
inspection deep
Considered every creature,
which of all
Most opportune might serve his
wiles; and found
The Serpent subtlest beast of
all the field.
Him after long debate,
irresolute

IX, 83-87

Ed Abbey Bot

@abbeybot.bsky.social

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

#Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey