farm kid → cognitive science & computer science at UC Berkeley → computational law. Founder of CitationClerk.com?s=b Political philosophy with a thin veneer of software engineering. Guest speaker at Dartmouth, Stanford, SF, NYC, London, and Australia.https://blacksky.community/profile/katelynsills.comhttps://blacksky.community/profile/katelynsills.com/post/3mwbyrge4t22v !! the scapegoat isn't scapegoating [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Sep 2026 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:wlnye2inqqyh2onzpr2qo5mh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbyrge4t22vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/katelynsills.com/post/3mwbvbsg7os2vyou can do AI transcription completely locally if it's something sensitive! [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Sep 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:wlnye2inqqyh2onzpr2qo5mh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbvbsg7os2vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/katelynsills.com/post/3mw7mvt44f22oThese are incredibly idiosyncratic definitions of "think" and "understand." Saying that thinking or understanding requires being an embodied living organism (among other requirements) is just clear cope. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Sep 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:wlnye2inqqyh2onzpr2qo5mh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7mvt44f22ohttps://blacksky.community/profile/katelynsills.com/post/3mw76aeetwc24Considering that his father William Rees-Mogg wrote the reactionary tech Bible, The Sovereign Individual, this is a huge defection [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Sep 2026 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:wlnye2inqqyh2onzpr2qo5mh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw76aeetwc24https://blacksky.community/profile/katelynsills.com/post/3mw4l5q4ut22tIn college, I took an intensive philosophy writing class for philosophy majors only. I had been a teenage political blogger and so in one of my first papers, I gleefully destroyed™ an argument by Spinoza. Then I got the paper back. I asked my GSI why I had been marked down so badly.22 Sep 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:wlnye2inqqyh2onzpr2qo5mh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4l5q4ut22t