I like it when you criticize something Trump did on here and a European person is like, "Why aren't you doing anything about it?" Well, I write and report about it every day. I guess I'm supposed to take up arms? Problem with that is, my being dead would make it difficult to keep writing about it.

Australia-Egypt is a great matchup bc a lot of the ancient Egyptian gods made out of 3 animals grafted together are actually naturally occurring animals in Australia

This @allusionistshow.bsky.social mini-series on the Scandinavian translations of Dracula a) is fun as hell and b) highlights some key issues in translating fiction. You have to adapt the source to your target audience (transcreation! equivalence!), but how far is too far???

Wait, was I not allowed to be mad that Trump won?

you wouldn't be having any of these problems if you used linux you'd have different problems entirely

If you haven’t spent time in DC I have to emphasize this is like significantly fewer people than you’d expect to see here on a random Wednesday in July

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

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We should stop asking whether people trust science. Which bit of science should I trust? Particle physics? Research on super conductivity at room temperature by Dias? Etc. What are we really asking? And anyway science is not trustworthy. See my forthcoming book Reasonable Doubt.

Look, I’m sorry, I’m the guy who’s supposed to be reviewing all your philosophy papers. I forgot my Manuscript Central password.

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

A where's Waldo to celebrate freedom 250 😂👇

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Meanwhile, in decision theory

Can't decide if it was smart or dumb of me to come back from Germany yesterday

My new NASA tech memo is finally published! The idea is building a gossip protocol to model radio networks in disaster relief settings using action models, belief revision, and simplicial semantics. ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20...

My favorite was someone complaining about the lack of alt text and a blind person said that having 12 flags and descriptors in your profile is also very annoying because audio program reads them with every response and got BLOCKED by the person woke scolding about alt text.

for non australians, i feel compelled to tell you that in this past week our own racist reanimated corpse, a woman called pauline hanson whom you can think of as our nigel farage, said we need to return to the australia of paul hogan (crocodile dundee) and hogan immediately told her to get fucked

Rosencrantz/Guildenstern ...if Tom Stoppard had any courage

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

Philosophy job at Sheffield (fixed term); please share! #PhilJobs #philsky jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

"watch soccer streamers break down the world cup" well I just watched a guy require an explanation for like 5 min how 1 euro=1.14 USD means that Euro is higher in value so I think I'll pass on the rest of this "broadcast", thanks

Cat names should evolve like avant-garde jazz. By the time of a cat's fifth birthday the name by which it is generally known should have zero resemblance to its original name.

Guys, guys!!! I think I have figured out a solution. I call it "German AC"!

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

shoutout to everyone who recommended Apteka in pittsburgh. one of the best meals i have had this year

Again, I understand why this seems intuitively true - “white people coming in, isn’t that colonialism?” But what’s actually closer to colonialism is maintaining poor urban neighborhoods as concentrated and segregated extractive economies, where predatory economic institutions suction out wealth.

on April 1st, 1964, the United States installed a dictatorship in Brazil, in 1968 we threw a major rally against it, from this rally forward the Junta with the CIA started the most violent years in our recent history that culminating with the 1976 Operation condor. +

The sad fact is I think even this gives them too much credit. Their stated reasons for the cuts have been farcically poorly thought out, or flatly false. They didn't actually do any kinda utility reasoning at all.

"This slight modification to the logic of ground COMPLETELY DESTROYS the singleton set containing Socrates" (2 hours 45 mins)

This. I grew up in a very socially conservative area and our local bus driver (it's a place everyone knows the bus driver) came out and began to transition. She got some abuse. In solidarity... all the farmers road the bus in drag to show they supported her right to live as she wished

It’s kinda amazing because my Bluesky feed at this point is mainly meta-commentary on the AC debate whereas on Reddit people are still debating whether it can ever be moral to use electricity for anything.

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

Our postdoc Bele Wollesen @belewollesen.bsky.social gave an invited commentary at this year’s Wittgenstein Lectures at the University of Bayreuth, which were delivered by Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com under the title "Connected Intelligence: How Our Social Ties Generate Knowledge."

"Cold air in a warm humid room is bad" no it literally is not. The only way temperature hurts you is if you freeze or get heat stroke, which happens to y'all all the time. Heat kills more Europeans than guns kill Americans. www.newsweek.com/europe-heat-...

For real, Germans in particular still hold onto some weird, darn near humours and miasmas ideas about illness. Like, if you don't wear a scarf, you will get a cold because your throat is cold instead of, you know, viruses.

The correct position in the AC Discourse is the Canadian position: AC is good, but Americans turn it up way, way too high. You should not need to carry around a sweater in August for the contingency that you need to go inside a building.

I would just like to highlight this one

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Norwich City council has a state of the art computer delivered (1957).📷 google images

I wrote a book! It's called WHY WE ASK WHY, and it's about the human drive to explain, combining psychology, philosophy, and stories. It will be released on October 6, but it's currently available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble at 25% off with code PREORDER25.

Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912. Helped save this country only to be persecuted by it.

I'm honored and excited to be a keynote at the first APSA

Misogyny is a helluva drug.

So many cyclist deaths begin with a stationary driver blocking the bike lane. The disconnect between cyclists, who see this as a life-threatening reckless action, and drivers, who see this is a minor parking infraction, is what often leads to discord.

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

The only thing I would add: in some places the good food is harder to find than others. There is great food in the US, the UK, and the Netherlands, for example. But it's harder to find than good food in Italy, Australia, or China, for example.

The thing is, if you go to a country and claim ‘food is bad,’ that’s a skill issue. Food is good. All over the world. No need to act superior or nationalistic about it. You just suck at travel.