Wishing you and yours a robust ontology in 2026.

3yo: “Dad there is a sound makin’ noise”.

Dude, belief is one of my top five attitudes. Maybe even top three. An all-timer, for sure.

True story for the job market folks: Last year, my only job offer went to my spam folder, and I didn’t find out until about 48hrs after I had received it. Check your spam folder.

Your email does not find me any way in particular, because it does not find me at all. You missed.

inference to the sexiest explanation (assductive inference)

Slayer-Kinney

We often use “iff” for “if and only iff” but it would be less confusing if we said “iaoi” (ee-ah-wi).

Hapax Legumenon: when there is only one peanut left in the can of mixed nuts.

New Logical Connective for Christmas: Only if and if Just like iff but backwards.

The real treasure was the social epistemology we learned along the way.

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

nice try dork im still not gonna watch 60 minutes

Simply Having A wonderful

This is the sort of thing I’d expect to see in a lingering shot in Children of Men, or mentioned by a tertiary character in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

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

dont give up on your dreams because with enough persistence you can get like two or three people at your local interested in playing marvel vs. capcom infinite

Thankful for the truly expert level combat sports analysis taking place on bluesky dot app.

The Ghost In The Shell PS1 game is in fact my favorite PS1 release, its secretly a banger detroit/japan techno comp disguised as a video game and the associated graphic design was peak

Absolum kicks ass.

The Thieliological argument against the existence of God: P1) If God existed then Peter Thiel would not have the ridiculous haircut. P2) Peter Thiel DOES have the ridiculous haircut. C) God does not exist

Even Xi?

God created LLMs so we don't have to read On What Matters

When Peter Thiel makes an argument it’s call the Thieliological Argument.

Tracy Morgan: you got Deepak Chopra and Li Hongzhi?? Jack: no, better, the ninth most-read Times opinion columnist and the seven-time winner of Best Hair in academia Tracy: that’s too bad cuz Li still owes me fora year of opening for Shen Yun

When I take an indiscriminate and unnecessary risk, I refer to it as a “gambit”. I immediately appear smarter, even when it doesn’t work out. This is crucial, as my gambits often do not work out.

Even the most forgiving appeals to contextually supplied quantifier domain restriction are *buckling* under the weight of ``Everyone" in this title.

Currently down 8.8 lbs and I'm beginning to have dreams about carbohydrates. The youtube algorithm is now showing me shorts about Japanese candy.

When I was in high school my dad hated Seth Rogan and the movies he was in. He complained that he always played the same idiot stoner. Anyway, Rogan is now Donkey Kong and Napoleon and I think that is some real monkey’s paw shit for my dad.

Amy Sedaris will return as Jerri Blank in ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’

“Mixed tape”

The idea that "Frege created logic and analytic philosophy out of nothing” leaves something out: his dad (who was a German Idealist!)

To the search committee at Oxford University, I am applying for the position of Wykam Professor of Logic. Allow me to explain how I meet or exceed all of the stated requirements…

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

No

Epistemic PATernalism: a knows that p iff PAT believes that p I support this view because it makes epistemology about me.

Epistemology ⋂ Gaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQJ...

Today I referred to the protagonist of the Disney film Frozen as “Frozalina or whatever” My daughter did not find this funny and corrected me sternly. I have been made to understand that the character’s name is “Princess Anna” and I would like to publicly apologize.

Really not looking forward to any of the forthcoming arguments against nativism based on who Noam has associated with. I already reject associationism so these won’t be convincing.

Post from a different era in my life

I am tired.

Last Night's Dream: My dept required that I participate in a tag team wrestling match. One of my opponents was Brock Lesnar. My partner was the cute girl from my early 20s who had a crush on me, but I never pursued. We won the match, but my contract was not renewed. Dreams are meaningless for sure.

Don't pretend you understand Guilty Gear if you weren't raised Catholic

Buy me Bonestorm or go to Hell!

As a decent, God-fearing, semantic externalist, I think that recent uses of the word “positivism” are nothing short of barbaric.

philosophers be like

yeah but they are bullshit when you are in 2nd place in mario kart.

Noticing that my level of social media activity is positively correlated with how much grading I am doing and negatively correlated with how much writing I am doing.