“President Trump, Brain tumors have no political party, and as President Roosevelt said 85 years ago, “We cannot be a strong nation unless we are a healthy nation.” I ask that you reconsider the suspension of activities at the NIH.” source: @adammarc.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/glioblas...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resumé? Philosopher: well, *you* try explaining how qualia arise from some electrified meat

And they wonder why no one is upset when a health insurance ceo is murdered

tis the season www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwf_...

Hey #philsky! I’m editing a volume of AAPT Studies in Pedagogy on joy and playfulness in teaching. Deadline is Jan 13 and we are accepting both full-length papers and shorter reflections. I’m also open to people being playful with the form/genre itself. Consider submitting! Link to CFP below.

‪I created a starter pack for philosophers (and one or two folks adjacent to philosophy) who are interested in, and contribute to philosophical pedagogy. It's decidedly incomplete for now, so if you don't mind, please help me find folks who work on teaching philosophy! go.bsky.app/RpNe6Gs

Matt Yglesias is such a clown

Everyone wants to talk about "the hard problem of consciousness" but no one seems interested in identifying the psychopath who locked Mary in a black and white room for long enough for her to learn every physical fact about color.

Manipulation Cases in Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Part 1: Cases and Arguments by Gabriel De Marco and Taylor W. Cyr | compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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*brandishing the uncooked Thanksgiving turkey* Behold! A man

I have added quite a few people to my philosophy starter pack If we were mutuals on the other place or if we are mutuals here and you'd like to be added let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb

I made a free will and luck researchers starter pack, so prove you either do or don't have free will by following. Much thanks to @greggdcaruso.bsky.social for the suggested additions, if there's other folks hanging around hit me up and I'll add. go.bsky.app/NwEKdXP

I welcome this fate

Hi new followers. Don't forget to HYDRATE and REST so you can continue to EXPERIENCE existential DREAD

Is it too late to start a petition to call posts on Bluesky “Clouds”? ☁️ ⛅️ 🌧️

The Brave Little Toaster—especially the car junkyard scene. At the time I didn’t have the words, but it made uncomfortable to face ideas about uselessness, waste, and death.

Happy World Philosophy Day! Here’s my favoritest essay from my favoritest philosopher: dilipsimeon.blogspot.com/2012/03/almo...

The morning star *and* the evening star? In this economy?

Algorithms were named after Al Gore, who invented the internet, as we all know

Shared this one last year because it made me laugh, this year it’s a little too on point

For all the AI skeptics, look! Sometimes AI gets things right! fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...

As an American battling a severe illness, this prospect is rather terrifying

Finally someone had the courage to say it

I strongly endorse this message

Well I don’t wanna break any rules

I did a starter pack! It's philosophy people I know from the other place. I may have forgotten some of you, please don't take it personally. If we were mutuals at the other place and I left you out let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb

Watching the results come in and having flashbacks to 2016

This is laughably bad, literally the opposite of his view on free will

My new little book on Neurolaw (part of the CUP Elements Series) is now available free online from 27th February 2024 - 12th March 2024! Download it now for free while you can. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Staying home to prevent the spread of a deadly virus is tyranny. Staying home because nowhere in America is safe from gun violence is freedom.

I don’t care that much about either team in the Super Bowl this year, so as usual, I’ll just be cheering for the team whose victory is most likely to make annoying people sad. So, let’s go Kansas City!!

This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!

I’m getting tired of spam texts

Philosophers: get on it

It took me longer than I care to admit to understand what people were referring to by ‘Stanley Cup’. I was confused but also excited that so many were suddenly so hyped about hockey!

Sooo we still might have a little more time before skynet takes over

How about trying to convince people to vote for Biden by calling them stupid?

New Year’s Resolution: don’t become a billionaire (this is one I should be able to keep!)

This tendency really bothers me in the free will debate. While I ultimately reject free will skepticism, in conversations I often find myself defending it as a plausible view worth considering because people are so prone to strawmanning it.

I was not ready for this kind of harsh truth

List 5 famous people you’ve met, but one is a lie Weird Al Yankovic Ralph Macchio Gina Torres Anderson Cooper Lynda Carter

Kill me now

Listen Sam Seder is cool and this was a good episode and I’m glad it has so many likes and all, but maybe you should also go check another recent MNE episode with a really cool guest (me!) www.youtube.com/live/4cXBUym...

This is fine

I’m upset that this episode already has more likes than the episode I was on, but oh well you should go watch it anyway

Whatever music you happened to like at 17 is the only music that evokes emotions, obviously

I’m not quite 50 yet, but yeah… we’ve been bracing ourselves for this moment

We could feed the world now. We could raise everyone out of poverty now. It’s not our lack of “AI” or “AGI” or scientific prowess that prevents this. It’s our lack of will—some might say, of caring. Sunak should’ve read some Kierkegaard in his PPE program.