Do any of you know an even easier one

🎶 Please don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them 🎶

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

I think if I was too poor/overworked to make music in a more traditional way I'd be insulted by the idea that Suno was a suitable substitute, but I guess whether people are out there experiencing the familiar joys of artistic self-expression via Suno is a factual question I don't know the answer to

Same, same. Occasionally, I see criticism of people who haven’t used the PDC for a lit review and I just throw my hands in the air.

i'm going to start trying to use fahrenheit and celsius in my daily life so i can understand temperatures wherever i am. today it's 40 degrees fahrenheit, which means it's 4 degrees celsius. hopefully it will always be this easy

You know you've made it as an author when no one will properly edit you, and your books are now shit.

I am now on version eight of this stupid paper. I have reached the point where there is barely a single paragraph of the original paper left in the current one. I don't think any of the original argument has survived. I have a much better idea of what I think now.

I've lots of complaints about analytic philosophy (c.f. my blog posts about it being a failing research programme!) but I always need to be clear that my objections to it are absolutely not in the "be clear about your argument structure and the conditions under which your claims would be true" part.

Remembering a throwaway comment a streamer made a while ago that's stuck with me as a fundamental distinction: there are those gamers who think of story as reward for gameplay ("why else am I doing this?"), and those who think that story gets in the way of the more important thing (gameplay)

I never thought anything could make me consider going back to a tube TV. However,

Watching the Olympic team skeleton and apparently they do the start differently from in the individual event and it means that the commentators spend most of their time in this one talking about false start penalties and reaction times

It's so weird hearing people talk about AI agents like they're real

used to be there were honorable jobs in Miami, like "strip mall plastic surgeon" and "anticommunist radio host". now everything is Fraud

I think the fact that genAI will have ruined all our lives within the decade has made some people on here lose sight of the fact that if used sensibly it can sometimes be useful

people want a Zelda movie to be "what if Ocarina of Time was LotR" when what it should be is an 80-minute anime OVA released in the early 90's with the weirdest plot you've ever seen and at least one original character who was so endearing that it physically hurts they aren't in any of the games

Apparently three of the world's ten richest people are Waltons now www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

So is the idea of those garbage disposal devices Americans have in their kitchen sinks that it's hard to prevent a bit of food waste going down the sink and when it does it's best to have it chopped up, or is it that down the sink is as good a place as any for food waste as long as it's chopped up

The sass of the person writing the minute by minute on England v Scotland is to be admired

based on my wife’s reaction to Swarovski Shrek, this is the last time i’ll do a $750 bit

oh, two is the only even prime? golly! three is the only threeven prime. five is the only fiven prime. pretty cool!

Stephen Bush? The guy who always rants about the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series?

Maybe it's because I don't have kids but I'm not sure there are that many words that are neither so hip that I don't hear them at all (like mogging) nor so square that I happily use them myself (like maxxing)

I'm not sure it's very responsible for a pollster to ask a question that's ambiguous between 'do you dislike Putin' and 'are you a racist'

ok muting because some people still haven't processed their feelings from the one time they met an annoying vegan 20 years ago

The "would you date" question and the "how easy or difficult to date" question not only have different numbers but don't even put the leaders in the same order; what's that about www.ipsos.com/en-uk/left-o...

I've nearly finished my second Jack Reacher book and I think one problem Child hasn't really solved is that Reacher only respects people who are similar enough to him that it's hard to keep track of who's saying which half of the dialogue

Dawson's favorite director and 44,000 others push James Van Der Beek fundraiser toward $2.3 million

I think there comes a point where firing more people over your own mistakes just makes them seem like bigger mistakes that you ought to be resigning over yourself

What kinds of philosophers attract cults of the personality and why? Is it some kinda personality disposition of people who go into the humanities? Does being like this about Wittgenstein or Marx or Heidegger make you more like this for political leaders, is it related to authoritarian personality?

Frank Zappa is a confusing figure because he was right about a lot of stuff extremely wrong about a lot of stuff and generally annoying but damn the music hits

I've just reviewed my 51st Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Phrenology is deeply embedded in our culture. We consider blockheads as dumb and eggheads as smart. When a student is a dunce, we remedy the problem with a tapering cap.

I'd forgotten about this gorgeous beatless version of 'Missing'

it really gets my goat that people are dragging Anthropic for employing philosophers. like, what did you think those guys (gend neutral) were for

The idea that a lot of people's jobs are like this now is quite mysterious to me; I'm so out of touch

Every now and then I see a post and think ‘oh no, you don’t do your thinking with those concepts do you? Those are posting concepts, not thinking concepts’ and I think this tracks a meaningful distinction.

With things of which we cannot speak You're best advised to shut your beak

Unfortunately it sounds like they're buying electricity from coal plants rather than actual coal, so not all of these positive effects should be expected, but the general principle is sound and we should encourage billionaires to commission gigantic equestrian statues of themselves made of coal

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Definitely John Green. Here is his video talking about signing 200,000 copies of Turtles All The Way Down. youtu.be/ltg6QU2sW00 He signed more for the next book, but didn't do a Q&A about it

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Leeds now above spurs but Leeds are in a relegation fight but spurs are not ???

well well well its not so easy to find football execs that don’t suck shit, huh?

Looked at Damion Searls' 2024 Tractatus translation in a bookshop today and it translates the first line as — and this will shock you — "The world is everything there is"

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

- So, professor, AI is like which past technological revolution? The printing press? Electricity? - Are you familiar with Tamagotchi?