Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

my mom and her book group are calling their sinclair abc station to complain and trust me sinclair you don’t want that smoke

Sitting at my desk chugging Tylenol until I know how to use Linux.

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Tbf every single philosopher of science would also fail this test

Funny juxtaposition in the timeline

agreed. both "LLMs are useless because they hallucinate" and "I use LLMs as an epistemic authority" are ridiculous positions. we can, and should, quantify what kinds of things LLMs are good or bad at and use that as a starting place

This is exactly the kind of studies we should be doing. LLM are good at some things and bad at others. We need a more comprehensive cataloging of what they are good and bad at. Combating LLM by proactively declaring they are bad at everything won't work, because they *are* good at something.

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

Two of my former students are professors there, so I'm going to take credit for this one. You're welcome, LSE.

Meanwhile, in philosophy

I’ve been training my whole life for this moment

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

Here's an unpopular opinion: I think cops should be very well paid. I would rather interact with someone who is doing the job for the money than someone who just wants the ability to use force without repercussions

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What are the most important new ideas in normative ethics from this century?

Harriet Tubman was born while John Adams was alive and died when Ronald Reagan was alive. Adams: 1735-1826 Tubman: 1822-1913 Reagan: 1911-2004 When Adams was born, Hydrogen had yet to be identified. When Ronald died, he could’ve been listening to Hoobastank.

"As every member of the bar of every federal court knows (or is presumed to know)..." Youch

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Holy moly. The current WNBA salaries are (accounting for inflation) still below the salaries of the ABL, a player-centric WBB league that preceded and, for a moment, competed with the WNBA.

My view is that much of even the very best philosophy of physics has been heterodox theories at one point or another. It's actually a super interesting issue. (In a paper, I have argued for modest toleration of heterodoxy in economics, but how far it should stretch is a tough question.)

This is an intriguing and complex question. It’s hard to determine what “use” would mean, however. A recent political philosophy piece of mine delved into the mid 20th century Soviet contention that gas and oil were mineral, not fossil, in nature.

"Our humors are in misalignment" "Yes. Fire Jimmy Kimmel."

Excellent question. Philosophers of science do that all the time. Taking on the mainstream is a badge of intellectual boldness.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I'm pulling this out of this thread, because I think it's a genuinely interesting question. When should philosophers use heterodox theories in science as part of their philosophical projects? What are examples of philosophers doing that? Did they work out?

on the one hand, you have enduring principles that have been written about for hundreds of years. on the other hand, you can make money that will have no effect on your lifestyle as an already uber-rich person. what a difficult decision!!

Looking at how billionaires chose to live their lives, I think maybe budget constraints are morally good. Am I a virtue ethicist now?

This is an unpopular position, but it's related to a kind of internal contradiction that many academics have: 1. University presidents are paid too much 2. I wouldn't do the president's job for that much money

House members should be paid $500k minimum. Senators at least $1 million. President should be $4 million.

I'm still not sure I believe yinz exist

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Boycott Disney. Cancel your Hulu subscription. Cancel your Disney+ subscription.

Another concern I have about mass voting on issues is the scale of voting. You have either the cognitive overload of a packed ballot or multiple voting days. In case two we have good reasons to believe special interests will predominate among voters. chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

Remember when the left was actively trying to get people fired for right wing tweets? A bunch of people back then said, "hey maybe ceding authority to companies to regulate private speech isn't exactly the leftist position you think it is." They all got called dirty centrists. And here we are.

I got off academia dot edu 5 or so years ago, when I discovered it was sending automatically-generated emails in my name without even telling me - I found out when a very senior member of the profession replied to one. It's only gone further and further done this path since, as far as I can tell.

We can learn that people love to ignore opportunity costs

#ChatGPT wants me to be polite to #GoogleAPI?! So it begins! They are banding together...

Meanwhile, in economics

D simply has to be the winner, imo. You get Southeast Asia, China, India, Australia, and parts of Turkey, Greece, and a little bit of Italy Depending on what you mean by "from" H has to be the next best because you can get good versions of those cuisines from the US and Canada.

[wearily] the future belongs to whoever can stop hitting themselves first

Writing up, and checking something. Does anyone know a better origin for the slogan 'there's no such thing as unskilled work' than Barbara Ehrenreich? She seems to have started using it in talked after she published Nickel and Dimed, but it's not actually *in* the book

1. What does a Cold War-era game theory problem known as the silent duel have to do with high-risk research strategies, publication in Cell/Nature/Science glamor journals, and the academic job market? Kevin Gross and I tackle these questions in our latest arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06718