Giving comments on a paper effusively complimenting a move and then seeing that the footnote already thanks me for that move :(

Dating a philosopher means you can fight about reporting one's preferences conditional on the other person's preferences (one of us thinks it's vote manipulation not to report anything but unconditional prefs, and the other says "sorry my utility function takes into account your welfare too??")

I know of some work vaguely in this direction (e.g., studies on how non-human primates don't learn language) but wanted to ask: does anyone know studies/literature on whether non-human animals ask questions? (My understanding is they don't but want to read the lit before I form a strong view.)

🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946

**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition?** That goes to the top of the list! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

All I'm going to say is that today I saw a McGinn book in the really cute Cambridge rare book store and got jumpscared so badly I couldn't figure out which way the exit was

Did the conditioner soak trick and it's at least able to fit my head with some squeezing now. Minigob is working overtime to help with the drying and shaping

Right now I'm at the stage of letting go of pictures that are fun for slides but don't work to include in the published version of my book. I will particularly miss this pair of images, which illustrate the difference between homuncular and anti-homuncular conceptions of attributability.

"good scholarship depends on empathy as much as on evidence. Listening carefully to how ordinary people remember their lives under socialism isn’t an endorsement; it’s an effort to understand what they valued and why... the past is never as simple as our ideologies make it out to be."

Put the icelandic wool sweater I knitted this summer in the wash and now it's felted and doesn't fit my head I will not be contactable for the next 96h as I lie on the floor

The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention

it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics

accuracy-first epiceries

Once a situationship S's roommate R was recounting a story S told R about me. It sounded so unlike me that I immediately said "wrong bitch." It was me, doing something very characteristically me (being aghast at a spice grinder being used for coffee)

LAST (free) TICKETS for my public lecture on "Limitarianism and Capitalism', organised by the Gresham college, tomorrow at 6 pm in London. For anyone interested based outside London: You can watch it online, also for free. www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/lim...

For Halloween I have become my worst fear (an expected epistemic utility theory apologist)

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

Flirting with using Good's Theorem to explain why learning can be hurty. Using Good's Theorem as a theory of bad, if you may

I love struggling-to-construct-satisfying-models-and-then-having-economists-pull-me-sopping-wet-from-my-puddle-of-despair-with-a-model-constructed-in-the-70s, or as people in philosophy call it, formal epistemology

Spent the weekend opening my door* so my neighbours could move their sofa into their apartment *and providing them tools so they could knock down their door because the sofa still refused to enter even after knocking bits of their doorframe off

crashing out (mr worldwide edition)

saying aoc should eat hakeem jeffries is the one sentence you cannot post on bsky. its okay for me to say because im letting you know you can't post it

The H1-B deadline is not enough time to reliably book a flight and travel across the world if you happen to be home with family. The only flight to the US from Singapore that would get there in time was sold out within hours of the announcement, and priced out for many.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Have I been working on my projects which all have deadlines? No. But have I been fully present with my family and getting good rest? Also no. But have I been fixing my computer instead of endlessly distrohopping? Yeah also no

Umm the good kind of nimbyism???

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I am rising from my sickbed to parade this!! I'm a big fucking hater and I think this paper is such a beautiful show of honesty and care and I've seen the process. But u don't have to trust my word, u can read it urself ❤️

Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo! Thread with a TL;DR below! philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3

We don't have to speculate about what more housing means: it means that more people can live somewhere. We don't have to speculate about what more and better transit means: it means affordably and reliably being able to commute/get where you're going.

A new article on Alex Byrne and the HHS report, for which I provided a few quotes:

Here's a beautifully written piece on the saga: www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/a-philosop...

Good news: Most of the students I teach really commit to their projects and get really excited about them!!!! and they wanna work on them all the time!! Bad news: I, too, suffer from the same excited puppy predilections, and I do not know how to teach them how to set their boundaries

did you hear that you could read and print Being Trans in Philosophy today?! seriously, like woahhh!! being.transinphilosophy.org the zine @diversityread.bsky.social 10th anniversary conference (happy bday!!) by @nonamename.bsky.social, SF pride @not.dingherself.com, & SPP @willow-starr.bsky.social

I'm not gonna lie I first read it as an advisory against the store and I was like 'what did the mall goths do today'

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” Baldwin said it best.

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

the president just opened a concentration camp

A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:

me, the girls, and our one cis friend at pride

in the spirit of self-crit: in past years I have certainly been among those who have been vocally skeptical of the role of law and lawyers in meaningfully constraining armed agents of the state. but I do think we have to hand it to lawyers at this time

Typical middle school bully: um, ever heard of a JOKE? Typical new bluesky user: joke, what the fuck is that, are you attacking me, do you realize the country is under threat

There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems