The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship #philsky philosophynow.org/issues/171/T...

This start to 2026 looks like extra time for the nefarious 2025.

Following firsthand what is going on in Venezuela. I have family and friends there.

2026 is off to a promising start. Already booking orders for manuscript copyediting for top philosophy journals. Most importantly, the content is truly thought-provoking.

"To contribute to a field of knowledge, you need to accurately survey the landscape, sniff out what’s fishy and demonstrate why it’s rotten. Large language models have trouble on all three counts." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...

Gentle reminder of the fundamentals for 2026: mental acceptance that something is the case is not equivalent to something being the case, or that must be the case.

Chocolate and pistachio nougat with coffee feels perfectly fitting now.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!!! 🥂

You'd have missed the learning and growing experience of each step. Climbing symbolizes that achieving high goals isn't easy. Achieving success requires significant effort and perseverance.

I've significantly reduced my list of things for 2026. Focussing on my best self, letting go of things I can't control, setting boundaries, and choosing what sparks joy.

Leaving 2025 behind

I had a dream so vivid last night that I woke up exhausted.

Tableware by Salvador Dalí designed in 1957. Ideal for tomorrow. Surely impressive to your guests.

There are no pure cultures aeon.co/essays/there...

2026

An article I'm reading quotes Rousseau as saying that freedom is not doing what you want, but rather not doing what you don't want. I don't know, it sounds more like something Sartre would have said.

Aristoteles dixit.

Remembering when many of us moved here, hoping to find a bit of the old Twitter vibe.

Someone saying there is no center, only peripheries.

Starting to worry about the huge number of so-called astrologers, fortune tellers, and psychics who are saying that my zodiac sign is going to be very successful in 2026. If that happens, then they would be telling the truth even when they're lying or lying but telling the truth.

Semiotic paradox alert!

Pluribus is becoming more complex in a fascinating way.

Beware

Free online from 17th December 2025 - 31st December 2025 Kant on Respect (Achtung) #philsky #ethics #respect #Kant www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Adopting a festive, Xmas mindset towards the manuscript I'm peer reviewing

Echoes of the past. People whom I didn't know anything about for a year and who didn't respond to my last messages are suddenly showing up awkwardly with the same introductory line: "It's been a while since we last talked/met." 😮

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence arxiv.org/pdf/2512.194...

Watched Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. The good: somehow a critique of the excesses of a culture of technology. The bad: a villain that seems taken out of a cartoon. The impossible: villains only get what they deserve in movies.

I shouldn't have eaten that extra piece of chocolate and dulce de leche cake. No regrets, however.

Interesting

Espero que sigamos soñando y luchando por buenas razones. Por sueños y razones que respeten sensibilidades y creen espacios inclusivos, seguros, alentadores. Espero que tengan paz, salud, amor y felicidad. ¡Felices Fiestas! 🫶🎉

I hope we keep dreaming and fighting for good reasons. For dreams and reasons that respect sensibilities and create inclusive, safe, encouraging spaces. I hope you have peace, health, love, and happiness. Happy holidays to you all! 🎄✨️

"Grievance politics offers coherence, energy and a sense of belonging. But it does so by centring life around perpetual opposition. Its psychological and existential satisfactions are real, but profoundly damaging." #philsky #politicalphilosophy aeon.co/essays/what-...

How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

'Madness is thinking past the point when thinking starts to hurt'. (SkyShowtime's The Iris Affair)

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

Scientists should listen to philosophers more: correlation is not causation. New research shows fMRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies. neurosciencenews.com/fmri-neural-...

'...we aim to offer an alternative way of thinking about consciousness, one grounded in a more accurate understanding of the operations and computational principles exhibited by evolved biological systems'. #consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

No quiero poner una nota más pesimista todavía, pero la realidad es que, si bien hemos disfrutado de cierto progreso en el tema de la democratización del la ciencia, y del campo académico en general, ha sido y es muy limitado. Lo es particularmente para los no angloparlantes. Ahora los ChatGpts y

Doors Look at those robust hinges. “That is to say, the questions that we raise and our doubts depend on the fact that some propositions are exempt from doubt, are as it were like hinges on which those turn.” Wittgenstein St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland

Tense calm in the air.

Glad to see that some people can still find happiness in little things, like realizing that the days will be longer starting today.

Proliferation of fraudulent cases resulting from the irresponsible use of LLMs, which fosters a so-called ecosystem of fake research and jeopardizes human knowledge, can be seen as a new version of intellectual akratic agency—acting in bad faith against one's best judgment and practices. #academy

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The Peace Window - Chapel of Cordeliers, Sarrebourg Marc Chagall viewed stained glass as a "transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world," a way to transmit transcendence and inner light through vibrant color.

Empirical observation—Those who are fast-skilled at typing on smartphones with two thumbs are not as accomplished at typing with all fingers on a computer without looking at the keyboard, and vice versa.

Centuries devoted to the debate on whether universal values exist or not, when we had a more accurate and practical concept available: common sensibilities.

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#philsky #ethics

Promptism is so post-post-postmodern: the cognitive shift from "think-first" to "prompt-first."