Conservatives during the English Civil War were absolutely furious that Quakers wouldn’t stop using thee/thou pronouns for everyone.

Do we think this real? Or is it true but not really real? Hegelian marries/frustrates physicist www.reddit.com/r/badphiloso...

Cut it out.

A little paper on whether awareness of facts differs from factual knowledge (if that interests you; if it doesn't, fair enough). Includes a little twist on the fake barn cases and should annoy all the right philosophers of perception. philpapers.org/rec/LITCFA-2

Does anyone know what the reference format for SEP is? They give examples but not a name. If you're using something like Zotero to manage references, it would be quite easy to get the formatting right if we knew what they used. I'm manually switching periods to commas and there are thousands.

I've not been following the more technical discussions of the miners puzzle, but I'm really enjoying this discussion by Jennifer Carr on the subjective 'ought'. philpapers.org/rec/CARSO-5

Odd request. Need a copy of the faculty lists from the 2021 Gourmet Report. Existing links broken. The draft faculty list from 19 August 2021 or 18 September 2021 would be incredible. Feel like someone has a draft in dropbox or an email to the editors somewhere. leiterreports.com/2021/08/21/d...

Frustrated by this paper. I think that if you're going to talk about excuses vs. justifications, you maybe don't get either for saying some 1/8th baked thing critical of someone and then saying, 'well, more to say here probably, but don't want to get drawn in'. Well, then don't.

how bout clayton lil john and he thinks a reason is a fact that says 'YEAH!'

epistemology is cringe

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

To be fair, it might literally be true that most of the humans who have ever lived would not have earned a perfect score on this test.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Is PhilPapers submit a paper function not functioning?

I'm on the team that doesn't care that much about ballrooms when we're seeing a string of extra judicial killings take place on the high seas. And damn the media orgs that label the videos of these killings as hitting drug boats. There's been no evidence that that's what these boats are.

10th boat blown up in the Caribbean. 6 people dead this time. Not a single arrest made. Not an ounce recovered. Not a shred of evidence provided.

This is a really nice example that illustrates how feeding an audience truth is often an artful way of spreading disinformation. (Don't ask me how standard theories of disinformation get the case right. I don't think that they do. Hoping the refs say 'yes' soon, so I can say more here.)

Pleased to see that this is out because it tackles a question that keeps us all up at night: if we're looking after 100 kids, we're certain 99 of them did something wrong, and we seem to have individualised evidence to believe each kid is guilty, what do we do? www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...

Let them eat shitposts and ballrooms

This is such an insane thing to say.

yeah this is the actual thing, there are smart right wing people but they're fucking making money somewhere because the non-financial rewards of academia are less important to them.

The US government: Well, we might have zip-tied children and/or shot them with rubber bullets, but not the young ones! (not a joke or an exaggeration)

I dedicate this post to the formidable @annabower.bsky.social

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Love that the press can get Trump to say that he hasn't ruled out a pardon for Maxwell, but can we combine this with a question about a posthumous pardon for Epstein? I'd love to hear his thoughts on why he's not ruling out one while being pressed on the other.

To be clear — although they aren’t officially saying why he is stepping down… Admiral Holsey had reportedly “raised concerns” about Trump/Hegseth blowing up boats in international waters they claimed had drugs on them

I gave up on dreams of med school because I struggled with Calculus at 17.

started / going

I buy the lottery ticket in order to lose. So while I may lack theoretical knowledge that I lost, I have secure practical knowledge that I’m a loser.

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Deserves to be watched and shared. Rank cruelty and aggression.

I love Ben, but I couldn't let this sentence slide: "There’s also plenty of productive cross-fertilization. Slavoj Žižek is interested in Saul Kripke"

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

One day, you'll wake up really sick and you know you won't leave the bed for days. And a few days later, you'll wonder why you didn't come up with a list of things to watch when you are suffering through a flu, cold, etc. Just a reminder that it's best to have that list before, not after.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Guessing that Trump has lost all interest in Venezuela now

I didn't even know about the Homeless Industrial Complex

They had nothing to do with MAGA, they were definitely antifa, and I had to pardon them because they were patriots.

Tidal is cheaper than Apple Music & they pay artists more. And the sound quality is SO MUCH BETTER. I actually laughed out loud when I played a track on Tidal and then on Spotify: the difference is that noticeable. Also v easy to import playlists from Spotify.

We probably haven't figured out what Heidegger said yet.

We've definitely figured out what Locke said by now.

Have we figured out what Kant said yet?

My hypothesis is that all the people who say that the 2nd amendment is there to protect freedom and guard against tyranny are in an epistemic bubble and just don't know about Portland and Chicago.

This is extremely irrational and a huge waste of resources. Like most means testing, it explodes administrative costs and restricts care in the name of policing imagined crimes of access. It’s loony and we just need to start saying it.

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Bought tickets to see a musical about the life of this man. "This is democracy manifest!" "What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?" www.google.com/search?q=suc...

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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.