Where we send you if we catch you inferring future events on the basis of resemblance to past occurrences. Or, at least, where we've sent people so far.

In the hallmark movies where the lady goes back home from the big city, they never talk about the game she must play pretending that the ethnic food in the small town is anywhere near as good as her family thinks it is. Just grimacing while eating mid Thai food.

PHILOSOPHERS: Here’s a fun holiday diversion! What cuisines do you think are over or underrated? THE SAME PHILOSOPHERS, 15 MINUTES LATER: Yes, but what is the *nature* of authenticity? We are *tremendous* fun at parties.

Indonesian food is phenomenal and its a travesty you basically can only get it in Indonesia or the Netherlands

Indonesian is absolute god tier cuisine, and I wish it were easier to get in the US.

Over-rated: French Under-rated (globally): Mexican Under-rated (US): Ethiopian

Overrated: Italian Underrated Globally: Mexican Underrated in US: Authentic Chinese

Time to start a bluesky Christmas fight: Most over-rated and under-rated cuisine? For me: Over-rated: French Under-rated (globally): Mexican Under-rated (US specifically): Indonesian

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

Newly published: "Interview with Christian List", in Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social), Conversations on Rational Choice, @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025, philpapers.org/archive/LISI...

i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year

At this point I expect to start seeing people post "Hey, check out this classic video of Rick Astley singing 'Never Gonna Give You Up'" and linking to a copy of 60 Minutes

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

More people are going to watch the banned 60 minutes episode recorded by that dude's phone than have watched 60 minutes in the last decade.

YouTube link for however long it lasts. Note it is just the first 13 minutes or so.

60 Minutes Inside CECOT segment

I'm doing work for [well known tech company] and [European country known for its bureaucracy]. Tech company "wins" the most tedious paperwork hands down.

WHOOPS

Read my new book: _"Kansas City is moving to Kansas" and other strange sentences about Kansas geography_

This paper for example: people who are toxic on political subreddits are also toxic on subreddits that have nothing to do with politics

I don’t have an opinion on this specific question, but at the very least, many scientists have come and left Bluesky after they were attacked by unhinged extremists I vividly remember an economist sharing a thread about his work about AI in higher education and he was destroyed immediately 1/2

I am frustrated by the anti-AI obsession on this place. I understand people are annoyed by AI being imposed on us for trivial things and by the AI uber alles discourse but it really feels like older people complaining about a new technology.

I've often wondered why so many academic scientists want large labs (i.e., numerous graduate students, postdocs, etc). Today it occurred to me that we learn how to run a lab from our own advisors and statistically, at least, tend model our labs on theirs. (1/2)

Look at the netherlands destroy their universities, which were widely admired throughout europe. (it's not just the USA!)

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Fun fact: Phillip Aries mentions a consilium to allegedly be the first to prohibit suicide, not putting any reference. Everybody cites him. For my master's thesis, I tried to find out about it. Found nothing (didn't dig too deep, but still).

I agree. The tech is only highlighting existing issues. Publishing, reviewing, citations as proxy indicators of quality: all of this is a mess and anybody paying attention knows it. LLMs are just exploiting what is already there

Here's my thoughts about the fake citation thing. First, it's not really that new. I've seen citations in papers and not been able to track them down before. What's more, there are tons and tons of citations to real papers which claim they say things that they definitely don't say.

It's so weird how LLMs just flip a switch in some people's heads so they completely lose track of the verification/generation distinction

#PhilJobs 2x 3-year #Postdoc Fellowships in Geneva Symmetry Group (part of Philosophy Dept) @ University of Geneva. Candidates must have a track record in independent research in philosophy of physics #philsci Dossier sent to Prof. Christian Wüthrich @ [email protected] by 20 January 2026

reminds me of the climb I've been working on

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It’s fascinating. The notion that your economic challenges are real, and should be addressed, but are not greater than economic challenges of various times in the past really bothers some people. This has to be the worst economy ever. As if 20th century ads and sitcoms were the common experience.

Americans in their 20s and 30s may not feel that they’re richer than their equivalents 60 years ago, but they’re objectively wrong. It’s fascinating how important it is to some people not to say “I’m struggling, it’s hard” or “I need help”—objectively true—but to instead insist they have it worse.

If we should ban any technology that gets misused, I have some bad news about the Internet

our upcoming AAAI paper on cooperative game theory in multi-winner voting, via an automated reasoning approach (using not satisfiability but mixed-integer linear programming); led by Emin Berker and Emanuel Tewolde! arxiv.org/abs/2512.16895

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Hey, it's actually pronounced "jaslight" You've been saying it wrong this whole time.

calling for the ban all travel from Europe because of a single murderous Voyager who crossed the Atlantic from Portugal is poetry

This is a great line, I want to start using this

Behold! men living in garage, which has a mouth open towards the light; here they have been watching football from their childhood, and have their guacamole chained before them so it cannot move. Above and behind them a fluorescent beer signs are blazing. ...

I am always frustrated by how credulous people are when someone says "I didn't get this academic job because..." If you are the candidate, you have sooooo little information about the decision. The story you tell others is 99% cope and maybe 1% truth (if that).

A researcher whose home burned down in the Palisades fire is using computer simulations to try to design a fire-proof Palisades: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @nohaggerty.bsky.social

I think this pretty well summarizes what drew me to analytic philosophy

it was probably a mistake teaching him to read

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