Friends fear he's had to look up something on this diagram again.

I was behind George C. Scott at the DMV

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Two things can be true. That's the first one. You're gonna want to choose the second wisely. Actually, hold up. Now up to thr... aww dammit.

Lion Albrecht Dürer (Albertina, Vienna)

The authentic sounds of musical instruments used in ancient times 🎶 #saturdayvibe 📹 Bilimtüel

An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.

Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL

people keep telling me that llm hallucinations are decreasing, but I'm slightly concerned about a few of the women philosophers represented here

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

I suppose it's tedious for me to argue about whether or not something is weird, but it's worth noting that Poincaré would've found it weird. Here's him talking about Hilbert's program, from 1913. Wonder what he would've thought of today's "logic piano" !

why’s it called ‘trepanation’ and not ‘skullduggery’ ha ha words, amirite

Five College Classes: Stuart England Uncertainty and heuristics Minds and machines Real analysis Ancient Philosophy

"In this essay I will" - spoilers - over-confident - rigid, boring "In this essay I *might*" - creates suspense - nonchalant - adventurous, fun

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Writing something about ML and the Infinite Monkey Theorem and found this which made me laugh.

ages ago, when i had an ongoing beef with a real unhinged neoconfederate, he went to the trouble of finding out where my family cemetery plot is. he drove there & desecrated their graves. he went to all that trouble but didn't bother to find out the bones in some of those old graves were on his side

The River Rouge, which sounds fancier than it is

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

There's a session on Locke and Tyranny this evening at 7 at the Eastern APA. Holly Brewer will speak on Locke’s experience with tyranny and his reaction to it, Dan Layman on how a American revolutionary used Locke's analysis of tyranny, and Viacheslav Zahorodniuk on the Soviet reception of Locke

i hope this email finds whewell

Poor handwriting as a mark of status

Jupiter and the Moon just now. [Astronomer for scale]

If grok started spamming twitter with demands that Musk be arrested for producing child porn, that would be something interesting

Actions speak louder than words, especially if the action is playing the tuba.

Merry Christmas to all who are looking forward to sitting down with new books (and to everyone else too)!

Frohe Weihnachten to all the deadpan absurdists out there.

michael stipe: stand in the place where you live santa: ok michael stipe: now face north santa: fuck you

Self-fashioning

Over the last two weeks I helped research & write this amicus brief in the Hemani case before the Supreme Court. It considers whether habitual drug users have unlimited 2nd amendment rights to purchase, own, & use weapons, rights that should overturn a federal law, & that an an appeals court upheld

Eating a tangerine just to peel something

What's the most effective thing a person can to fend off war with Venezuela?

Watching Spinal Tap II for Rob Reiner. He was a good person who did good things

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.

me: if one is not free, all are not free cashier: *confused* no you have to buy the first one to get the second free one me: this is a travesty

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An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

Here’s an adorable pig-shaped rattle from ancient Ur

I'm trying to make a list of all the PhD programs in philosophy with (TT/tenured) faculty seriously working in AI ethics. (Think about prospective graduate students looking for supervisors in AI ethics.) What's missing? Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Florida, Georgia, Purdue? (plz share)

Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?

We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes. Why? Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism. Really? Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.

Self-authorship

Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...

Three ravens aren't black www.audubon.org/news/rare-al...

Revealed preference works in both directions