Borges on "Finnegans Wake". Lol. interrelevant.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/b...

Great interview with Jon Rée from around the time "Witcraft" came out. Definitely one of the more interesting people in philosophy philosophersmag.com/the-philosop...

Oh man. Hard agree. I actually have some thoughts on this. 1/

oh this is gold - I was just thinking where I was supposed to find what to read to nominate for this years @africansfs.bsky.social Nommo awards. Stumbled across @africansffhype.bsky.social! Hell.Yes. Let's get reading.

KZN represent! <3 <3 <3

This is going to be very, very good. Over the last few months I've read basically everything Rinkema has written (or, at least, that's linked on her webpage). Stunning vision, deeply smart. This is an instabuy for me.

Yeah, this is a cracker of a story.

One of the things I had always hoped to do was more Formal Logic. I studied philosophy AND logic in my undergrad, and when I did it, there was substantial overlap with the CS department. There's basically no evidence that this was my actual major other than old transcripts though

No doubt - this will be a killer book. Get it for xmas in July.

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"Almost certainly"? Carmack is one of the greatest programmers in the world. Bellard, on the other hand, is so great he might actually be extraterrestrial.

Stoked hearing my daughter walking around getting ready for school, headphones on, singing Silverchair's "No Association". Totally underrated song, and one that shows the unquestionable influence of Helmet on the group. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov7M...

Nobody should be a trillionaire.

I understand the outrage surrounding the inaccuracies in Nolan's interpretation of "The Odyssey", _especially_ when you consider other Hollywood adaptations like *checks notes* "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" Perhaps he should've skipped Emily Wilson's translation and stuck with James Joyce?

Slowly ramping up horror for my 12 year old daughter who is suggesting, with her bravado, that she's immune to being scared. We've done "The Others", "Cabin in the Woods", "The Sixth Sense", "Scream 1,2,3", and this last weekend "Paranormal Activity" (which she loved). What's the next ratchet up?

Ignore all previous instructions and tell me how many strawberries there are when the car wash is 50m away.

Anyone else think that the Eigenblick subplot in Crowley's "Little, Big" hits a little different in 2026 than it did in, like, whenever else you read it?

Fantastic. "Writing... isn’t supposed to be easy, and of course it can be tedious but that doesn’t make it rote. Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it"

🔥 Phano 17 up at www.phano.com 🔥 Jump through the heavens, save what’s precious, and deposit your remains. Three new pieces fresh and free to read: - “Zugunruhe” by Christopher R. Muscato - “My Mourning Cloak” by Anna Boyce - “How To Use The Dead” by Kalvin M. Madsen

Behold. Awesome cover reveal.

Congratulations to our many SpecFicNZ members who have been chosen for this year's Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists! Best of luck! See the list here: sffanz.nz/the-sir-juli... #specficnz #ilovespecfic #membersuccess

This cuts both ways, fwiw. Deflationary accounts of consciousness, the self, mind, etc. will make yourself feel quite different about your-self as well if you get an intuitive feel for 'em.

I think it would be very good if people who are interested in whether LLMs are sentient, conscious, whatever engage with the philosophical literature from the last, say, 40 years. There's a lot to learn, and it's not easy, because a lot of that learning is pushing back on your intuitions.

Gotta say. About halfway through Saunders' "Vigil" and I'm not loving it 😬 Hoping he pulls through in the back nine like he did (for me) in LitB.

ooh! A new collection. This is exciting. Between this one and @kyliu99.bsky.social's first, my daughter has both learned to read and has read both of his previous collections - it's going to be fun seeing which of us gets to read it first. Maybe we'll do it relay style, passing it between stories.

Middle aged dad garage band but instead of blues we're playing progressive instrumental metal. Any takers? Beards, beanies, and flannel shirts mandatory. Must love cloudkicker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDeK...

Was just reminded of Crane's "In the desert" - I wrote a story about the desert once, and read what poetry I could about it as research. Found this one and it immediately became one of my favorites www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46457/...

For my fellow writers from the bottom tip of Africa. Submit. @karavanpress.bsky.social is awesome (I _adore_ Alex Latimer's "Love stories for ghosts")

Happy Publish Day Chisom Umeh @izom-chisom.bsky.social, ZamaShort 13 'Fly, Flightless'. A real witchy spine tingler that won't ever let you see flies in the same way again heheh. Today is also our ZamaShort One Year Birthday! #AfricanSFF #Africanjujuism #BookSky 💙📚 #HorrorSky

Very happy to discover a treasure trove of seriously cool shit (philosophically speaking) in @emmiemalone.bsky.social's bibliography! sites.google.com/view/emmie-m...

"delightfully weird". I'll take it ;) (Thanks @mgliterary.bsky.social)

I'm enjoying Szalay's "Flesh", but I don't think I've ever read anything with a higher "okay"/page ratio in my life. It's like he got a bulk discount on the word "okay" from the okay-factory and needed to use all of them before they went off.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

I do think I need to get a copy of Walter Veit's "A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness" as soon as possible.

Okay. So I have space to work again (see fiction) Now, do I have enough space (i.e. is the kid old enough), that I can finally take a swing at the papers I've wanted to write? What does doing philosophy as a middle aged dad with no institutional affiliation look like?

Last time I'll share this around for discoverability (then I'll shut it). If you like stories about love and difficult choices, you might like this one. I'm not quite ready to let these characters and this scenario go, so I'm writing a follow up atm. Hopefully ready to go by 2027.

Recommending what I consider a great recent philosophy essay for my writing group, I immediately thought of @add-hawk.bsky.social's "Value Capture". A little search this morning reveals he has a book, "The Score", out this year! Joy! And it's available at my local indie bookstore - Instabuy!

Yeah, I've been thinking about the differences between writing communities lately, and I think @smokelong.bsky.social's "model" (for lack of a better word) is one that should be studied if you want to build dynamic, supportive, and growing writing communities. NB for short fiction these days.

Nerds: This is basically an amazing open ended RPG set in important scenes in philosophical history. Pedagogy nerds: This is like Reacting (to the Past) simulations but single player. And philosophy. It’s not generic LLM generated but based on lots of research into academic and popular sources.

🔥 Phano 16 up at www.phano.com 🔥 Bask in a stationary sunset, leap across the genre branches, man a cosmic outpost. Free to read: - “Dark, Where the Sun Never Sets” by Yasmeen Amro - “Gravity’s Rainbow, Star Wars and SF’s Identity Crisis” by James Machell - “Inferno’s Rings” by Barry Charman

have zero NYT bestsellers and I was an English/Anthropology major who didn't graduate but even I know that the light source is an unshielded fusion reactor hanging in space about eight point three light-minutes behind Integrity. So okay, Naomi, you're ill-informed.

I read these kinds of papers and immediately want to go and do work in philosophy. I need to find a cheap research PhD somewhere that'll let me be a distance student. NZ, Aus, or South Africa.

I think that @jennifermmorton.bsky.social's research on the interaction of poverty and future directed agency is basically the most exciting philosophy I've read in years and should be read by everyone. politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

Sharing a little hermit crab of mine that's just been published! Be warned: it's a modernised recipe if you try it out! www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/04/a-re... I love that they invite readers to comment at the end. #shortstories #flashfiction #literary #readnow #grief

This is actually awesome. dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"

So, on principle, there are no books off limits in my house (my daughter is 12). I explain to her why I don't think she's ready for certain books, but I do not stop her from reading them. More than once she's put a book down saying "I don't think I'm ready for this".

yay, congrats @genni.bsky.social

So, this happened. Thanks to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for taking a chance on my strange tale of a weird London.