Hey #philsky I'm helping to organize the Guide for New Chairs workshop for the APA this year. I'm looking for people who have served or are serving as department chair to be panelists. Not a heavy lift, just a zoom session in early-ish August. Volunteer or rat out your friends!

God, I love using Google slides to make a presentation because now I have to close a little window offering AI help that appears for EVERY new slide I make.

Colleges will under-hire, expend zero time or resources to expand a major, and sink money into expensive boondoggle programs that send students into other pathways and then turn around and say the market has spoken so they’re shutting down a major.

Lmao now google docs shoves its Gemini Clippy in your face immediately as you write

Fine, fine, I'll order the toddler

I wrote about how ASMR videos might be revealing how little we experience physical affection The Hidden Sadness of ASMR Videos | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...

Reminder: Voting is open for APA divisional officers and a new board member-at-large. All regular, emeritus, and graduate student members of the association affiliated with one of the three divisions are eligible to vote. Voting closes May 20. www.apaonline.org/news/725648/...

Does anyone know if there is a searchable database of Lorde's work? Maybe @calebw.bsky.social knows this information??

I think the notion of "limited cognitive resources" has been expanded too far and to our detriment. "Cognitive resources" includes a lot of things. Not all of them are not like a water reservoir where the boundaries are fixed. We can enlarge them. We appeal to limitation to justify being lazy.

Every time a platform updates its look, it's worse. Why is it always worse?

Me: I just think Billionaires: Ew gross why

[Sade voice 🎵]

The problem with getting Sour Patch Kids is that you want more Sour Patch Kids.

Right after 9/11 a version of Count of Monte Cristo came out, but because everyone was convinced that the entire country was suffering too much trauma, they changed the ending to a happy one.

The morning so far

this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang

I wrote about how AI discourse is mostly about feelings. Come for the Rorschach test, stay for the 17th century microscope debate www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...

Just to be clear: Kristi is a dear friend of mine. But, if you honestly think that you know everything there is to know about the A&M situation, God help you. You've never been department chair.

If you haven't checked out the new edited volume that @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com has put together, you should! Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny

Just a quick reminder to all the undergrads out there: your former professors love hearing from you! I heard from two of my alumni today and I just love it.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

I was interviewed by the Swarthmore Bulletin about AI. magazine.swarthmore.edu/issue/fall-2...

"Do you have time to....?" No. I'm chair. I don't have time to do anything. I have negative time. I'm in time debt.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Big ups to @lucyrandall802.bsky.social who 100% saved me from writing a terrible conclusion in my second book.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

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#Philsky Check out this great volume edited by @cliffordsosis.bsky.social. It's full of weird philosophy, including a chapter by me where I defend Kant's views about lying. Use the discount code 25SMA3 to get 20%off!

Frederick Douglass literally risked his life to learn how to read and you turkeys are asking AI to summarize a news article for you because you can't be bothered???

I will never apologize for a post

The Standard interviewed me about people being driven insane by ChatGPT. This is my new thing. www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ch...

After ChatGPT users demanded to have the "friendly" version reinstated, I decided it was time to think a little bit about why we're looking for friendship in a chatbot in the first place www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...

We have a communal pot, bought with department discretionary funds. We can buy coffee as an office supply, but sometimes people bring in a bag to share. The coffee drinkers take turns making pots. It's a good system.

Going back to my roots* *writing my papers in Garamond

After ChatGPT users demanded to have the "friendly" version reinstated, I decided it was time to think a little bit about why we're looking for friendship in a chatbot in the first place www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...

The downfall has been foretold by many signs, but surely one of them is displaying the estimated reading time of news articles.

Phlogiston didn't fail, it was failed.

Please tell me that listening to enough black/death metal will get me through being department chair. I don't care if it's a lie, just let me believe it.

One of the things I love is that I am a literal poster child for the NHC fellowships.

Four days and counting to the new Blackbraid album. I know you are as excited as I am.

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

See, the problem with email is that, when you email someone, they email you back. Then you have another email to read. Has anyone looked into this problem?

ChatGPT psychosis is real. Philosopher Krista Thomason (NHC Fellow, 2021–22) explores how our emotional needs can lead to psychological distress when interacting with AI.

The National Humanities Center welcomes fellowship applications from faculty engaged in advanced #humanities research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Help us spread the word about this exciting opportunity.

I'm glad to see that OpenAI is taking my advice to be more attentive to the way our emotions interact with ChatGPT (at least I hope so?) www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...

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Philosophers (and academics) who are journal editors and organizers of conferences/workshops and such: are you receiving fewer submissions from women? I am organizing a thing and so far I am noticing a not-good trend?? #philsky

What are the chances there's a fellowship I can get that will let me work in a remote monastery for at least a year?

Wrote about what's really going on when you talk to an AI assistant