"The Switch is so old," you all said. "I need better graphics," you demanded. "Wah wah," you cried. And now, you sit here before Slippy Toad, the slippiest he's ever been, slippier than a fucking banana peel under a kart wheel, all thanks to the raw power of the Nintendo Switch 2—and you reject him?

how have I called a kind of speech act an "undertaking," and only just realized that that makes the speaker "the undertaker"

“AI will exacerbate a widening divide in US #HigherEducation [so] that small numbers of elite students will have access to a more traditional, largely tech-free liberal arts education, while everyone else has a ‘degraded, soulless form of vocational training administered by AI instructors’” #GenAI

I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"

I can't compete with this.

Coming up tomorrow! Registration open and free to attend!

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be. The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

oh word, other academics would have designed the assignment and graded it differently? wow, that changes everything

Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...

“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

he's right and he's right to say it

We printed the first batch of the zine today! And of course we made the cover in 13 different colors 🌈 #beingtransinphilosophy

APA member Colin Marshall coauthored this ‪@us.theconversation.com‬ piece on empathy and why it should be considered a strength. theconversation.com/empathy-can-...

The FBI is seeking to criminally investigate gender affirming care providers, even in blue states with shield law protections. www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-om...

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

Donald Trump said he'd abolish the Department of Education, and that's exactly what he's doing. If you send your kids to public school, Trump is sending you a clear message: he doesn’t care about you.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

it is the moral duty of every person to protect as many as we possibly can from this fucking monster. anything less than the most we can do is unacceptable. whatever power you have, use it

I'm giving my first lecture for the year tomorrow at this event on queer feminist translation, affect & decoloniality. Glad I can be there all day to absorb & listen & learn. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/events/2025/queer-feminist-translation-affect-and-decoloniality

Third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are among the best little readers in the nation. For nearly 20 years, the elementary schools in this economically depressed area have produced better readers than some of the wealthiest places in the country. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...

Philosophers: At least one thing in America doesn't suck. The Central APA (starting tomorrow) is looking really good. Lots of innovative sessions, a smooth online platform, and a bunch of great people involved. Please consider tuning in - several sessions are free and open to the public.

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Philosophers: Please get your department to host a Watch Party for the Central APA! A great way to build community and watch live philosophy in chaotic times.

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

Skrmetti oral arguments live thread. First question is from Justice Thomas asks why it's not an age based classification rather than sex based classification.

Let's talk about how to report on right-wingers without amplifying their hateful rhetoric. Far-right extremists count on YOU to spread their messages for them. Here's a thread of resources. 1) The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators

Daily reminder that Kathy Stock is a C-tier philosopher whose entire body of work can be reduced to a justification for transphobia at any cost.

The soft animal of my body yearns for more microplastics

people on bluesky are way too self-congratulating about the ~community~ here when simply most of the posts aren't good. very few bangers here. mostly barren

welcome all the new users! pull up a virtual chair and join the conversation! now here's a condescendingly obvious set of suggestions and also some rules i made up for using the site. the only point of this is to say im above you in the hierarchy. im your posting supervisor

real indictment of the seattle pizza scene that whole foods hot bar easily makes the top 20%

inventing a new personality for bluesky like a kid going to college out of state

People following you here who followed you on twitter feels very “in every timeline, in every universe, I will find you and love you.”

it’s so cool that now we have two apps that don’t really work

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