Scott Maybell
Grad student in Oxford, researching the political demonology of octopuses and other cephalopods.
Formerly: Salt Lake City Public Service, Arizona Court Mediator, University of Utah, University of Edinburgh
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- "I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
- “You have to deceive your company.” Danganronpa and Hundred Line creator Kazutaka Kodaka shares advice for getting even the most unhinged projects greenlit automaton-media.com/en/news/you-...
- good grief
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- Can we talk about the software industry's weird refusal to use the word "no"? DELETE EVERY FILE YOU'VE EVER CREATED? "YES / NOT NOW" DO YOU WANT US TO SEND RUDE EMAILS TO YOUR MUM? "YES / MAYBE LATER" THERE'S A MAN BEHIND YOU WITH A RED-HOT POKER "GOT IT"
- I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
- We should try lottocracy! Lottocracy.org
- We should try lottocracy! Lottocracy.org
- Hey man that's just straight up racism
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- Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!
- Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL
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- was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read
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- I know the lootbox Bobby kotick Epstein email is wild but microtransactions go all the way back to arcade machines which required quarters to continue playing. lootboxes were not invented by Activision gatcha mechanics preexisted that shit by years. Please believe in the existence of history
- The epstein files reveal the bourgeoisie acting AS A CLASS, which is to say, sharing ideas, cultural touchstones and social circles. But they do not invent economic conditions out of idle conversations, they are idiots repeating what they hear from their underlings and colleagues, please im begging
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- Went tidepooling today. Saw the best octopus.
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- goodbye White Settlement, hello "Racialized-as-white Settlement"
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- we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
- Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
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- My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
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- This is an amazing ad 😻
- On her livestream tonight, #IL09 candidate Kat Abughazaleh teased what appears to be a new 60-second-long campaign ad
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- "There was an immense relatability in watching even a very capable person realize that a terrible outcome was beyond their ability to change." - new from @susanapolo.bsky.social, on grief, Dragon Age, and trying to change the world. www.mothership.blog/dragon-age-g...
- williamson's recent offensive review in NDPR reminded me of his attack against Stich, knobe, nichols, me, and other experimental philosophers, years ago: We were "philosophy-hating philosophers" (I wish we would have had more support from our colleagues back then)
- You know, I think a lot of us who have been loud on the left for decades have been imperfect—lord knows I get shit wrong all the time—but we were right about fascism's festering, about how it was being cultivated, and broadly about what was at stake. It doesn't feel Good, but it really is something
- This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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- One for the history books
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- Shooting mothers, nurses, while arresting priests and toddlers - this is what comes of that. Their terror campaign is completely backfiring on them. People aren't backing down, they're just getting enraged and radicalised.
- YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...
- Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
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- I just thought everyone should see this
- This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
- Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
