Guess you can do this with the other bots as well... Generally, don't upload any pictures—neither of your children, nor of yourself or others! There’s only two pics of me on the internet and, for related reasons, I decided to play an anonymous account on BlueSky.

WUT?! Who can publish 499 articles a year, let alone write them? (And who's this lazy one w/ only 276?)

Hm, interesting.⁣ 𝐎𝐡, & 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲!⁣ ⁣ (via @anitaleirfall.bsky.social; seen this @johnmdudley.bsky.social?):

Here, btw, is Max #Tegmark in 𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴. 𝘙𝘦𝘷. 𝘌 61 (2000), 4194, calculating neural decoherence rates & disagreeing w/ suggestions by Roger #Penrose et al that the brain acts as sort of a quantum computer & that quantum coherence is related to #consciousness in a fundamental way #PhilSky #PhilSci:

Leafing through a couple of books in another matter, I just learnt from the wonderful Mr Russell that #Yahoo is a noun...:

Disquieting paper from the 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴, Helsinki/FIN,⁣ on #Russia operations to destabilize #Svalbard & threatening all #Arctic, Dec 2025. By @kariagam.bsky.social, @stianbones.bsky.social (both UiT #Tromsø) & @thomasnilsen.bsky.social (ed. @thebarentsobserver.com):

Right up there... #NFP

Actually don't recall Dummett positing "that Frege created logic & analytic philosophy out of nothing," which would have been stupid, o/c. Only thing I take away from this rather boring Lemanski paper is why Alexander Frege might have named his son Gottlob... (via some RT @anitaleirfall.bsky.social)

Hell yeah!! (WSJ piece is shit, tho):

While sick in bed last 2 weeks, I ventured knee-deep into the morass of the Intellectual Dark Web, #IDW, & found it hard to discern who's who & what particular conspiracy they're on—esp since they all seem to agree that traditional logic is bad, but otherwise are mostly shooting against each other.

Not that big of a deal yet. Watch the gray zone, tho, next couple days/weeks (~6.500): #SPX #ES_F #AI #techbubble #Nvidia $NVDA Q3 earnings tonite: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/b...

Was recently waiting in an ophthalmologist practice (no pun!) 'reading' the German edition of #Vogue: Every second page a full-page ad. Then was wondering whether you actually have to pay for it & checked the cover: Yup, € 9.00, if I recall correctly. That's quite a business model... #Fashion

My favorite sign of the day so far

#Trump #Tariffs vs. #China #RareEarth export restrictions Sure, likely a #Taco situation, but just in case it's not, will we see a revival of the old contraband trade? Adam Smith, 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, Bk I, ch xi, in his digressions on Gold & Silver, wrote at some length abt it to give us an idea 😉

And the Prize goes to: Joel #MOKYR, Philippe #AGHION, Peter #HOWITT

Folks not too impressed in the European session, one hour in: #spx #es_f | #trump #china #tariffs

Lotta things you might not know! I, for instance, didn't know that Kristofferson's “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose” was inspired by the final scene of Fellini’s 𝘓𝘢 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘢 after Zampanò had abandoned Gelsomina while she was sleeping... (via @anitaleirfall.bsky.social)

Looks like whatever the #Fed says (higher #inflation with lower #employment, which is a rather unusual situation) or does (25 bps interest rate cut), stock punters are driving the markets from all-time high to all-time high: #SPX, #ES_F

That was close: "On the right, there was a surge in support for the populist Progress party – especially among young men – in what has been described by some as 'the Maga-fication' of Norwegian politics." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... #Norway #Norge

Just learnt from Kurt Flasch, 𝘋𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘮 𝘔𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳, 4th ed. 2020, 549 (magnificent book, btw, for those who read German), that we find the idea of animal ratiocination even in Buridan's (1301- ~1360) 𝘋𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢-Commentary (RT via @anitaleirfall.bsky.social):

Madam Curie's Nobel Prize speech in 1911 Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium&polonium&for isolating pure radium. This was her 2nd Nobel Prize; she’d previously shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics w/Pierre Curie&Henri Becquerel youtu.be/yyWzaowsibI?...

Nice conversation @pkrugman.bsky.social & @adamposen.bsky.social, which I've missed in July:

This is beginning to look like right out of the playbook of Carl Schmitt: 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐯𝐞𝐫ä𝐧 𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐰𝐞𝐫 ü𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐭 (sovereign is the one who decides on the state of emergency); 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦: 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘒𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘻𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘩𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘦𝘳ä𝘯𝘪𝘵ä𝘵, 1922, ch. 1 (via @cavandy.bsky.social):

There are two camps in #AGI: (1) It'll become more intelligent than us, & perhaps conscious & sentient. (2) It'll never become more intelligent than us, or conscious, or sentient. I'm somewhat in a 3rd camp: #AI may lead to a manifest disillusionment re our intelligence, consciousness, & sentience.

Perhaps a good opportunity to remind ourselves that each tweet or Bluesky post has a carbon footprint, too:

'With declining #permafrost & "[w]hen there's little snow & it's warm, rocks come loose & we get a lot of rockfall." This led to many commercial expeditions having been aborted in the #Karakoram Mountains this season—eg, on #K2, just some 30 kms away.' Laura #Dahlmeier #Mountaineering #ClimateChange

The Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel was only 26 when he died, but he changed mathematics forever. youtu.be/vi40JiRG7bQ?... #Abel #mathematics #PhilSky #PhilSci

There were these wise guys who said #democracy dies in darkness; they were the first to cave. Instead, it all happens in broad daylight, demonstrating how child's play it is to abolish democracy if its enemies are only bold enough & its defenders too weak.

There's apparently a somewhat new branch in the #ontology business: #SocialOntology. Haven't been able to figure out yet what the difference is to social #constructivism, #conventionalism, and all that, but am prepared for some funny overlap.

Nonlinearity of #Aging:

I don't read fiction myself, but I'm certainly familiar with some of the films that have been made from her stories. And somehow this piece about her last days captivated me, which I just read via today's @theguardian.com Long-Read: Patricia #Highsmith #Literature #LitSky: @yalereview.bsky.social

Interesting; when I grew up, which is some time ago, neither milk nor coffee counted as good hydrating beverages (via @hex720.net via @peark.es):

#Descartes' cogito was the departure point for #Enlightenment #philosophy; the Cartesian #Dualism is only a side problem that could have easily been solved by D. himself. No need for #Husserl #phenomenology; or #embodiment & all the other funny stuff so en vogue today #PhilSky #PhilSci #CogSci

Remember #Trump at his last #G7 in #Canada...? La Malbaie (Charlevoix), Québec, pic June 9, 2018:

One thing for non-native English speakers to not understand the lyrics of famous US rock songs, another when misapplied by the US Right: Are they really this stupid? Or is it part of their overall endeavor in what #Nietzsche called the 𝘜𝘮𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦? #FortunateSon; via @jenonymous.bsky.social:

Looks like a 'buy the panic gap-down in regional wars'-situation in the European session so far: #Israel #Iran #ES_F

Oh boy, they're apparently still talking about #substance, as if #Russell, #Carnap, #Quine, Donald #Davidson never 'existed' ;-) Admittedly only scrolled thru it while out for lunch, but even for a quick lunch read it's a waste of time: #Ontology #PhilSky

Very good! Although, 3% seems quite a bit lower than what was discussed before, if I recall correctly from the #Tromsø news sites earlier this year: #Norge #Norway

Maybe think of the #EU #Taxonomy, too, when watching this instructive video about #greenwashing: