Ms. Rachel is an absolute hero. She’s gotten so much abuse for her extremely compassionate, humane - and in my opinion, common sense - views on children being hurt and killed in Gaza. But she’s not letting that silence her. Bless you Ms. R.  @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

This person's colleagues aren't being very nice

Big if true aeon.co/essays/philo...

‘Homo’s voelen zich misschien veilig in Tel Aviv, maar daar houdt het zowat op’: joodse auteur Deborah Feldman maakt komaf met de hypocrisie

This passage felt low value to me, too. archive.ph/N1Il7

@jerusalem.bsky.social this could he a good topic for Good On Paper: Safety paradoxes, why do ppl feel unsafe in safe environments and why do safety rules lead to risky behaviors? There’s some literature on these questions

Random flashback naar de dag dat Trouw dacht dat ze dit moesten publiceren

Pretty sweet deal yalereview.org/article/burr...

👀 philosophersmag.com/imperfect-pa...

@mirthe.bsky.social Als jullie bij de Avondshow weer eens een item over AI en de slechte leesvaardigheid van de NL scholier doen, check dit bizarre aanbod van de bibliotheken in Nederland: schrijven met chatgpt

the rest of history is just going to be billionaires throwing little tantrums while half the population thinks it’s the coolest thing ever because they believe the pinnacle of human achievement is to be an extremely powerful baby

One person's modus ponens is another person's modus tollens. I'll take the latter! philarchive.org/rec/AVNTBB

This silly Shape Rotator argument has been applied to literature by SBF (‘Shakespeare wasn’t that good’) and even philosophy (‘the classics are overrated’), but it remains a silly argument.

Those crazy mathematicians are up to it again...https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-easy-sounding-problem-yields-numbers-too-big-for-our-universe-20231204/

!jazbot whereamI

Nice job for the New York Times fact-checkers!

Juicy longread about academic scams. The umpteenth scam among social psychologists/behavioral economists who work at business schools. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Is something wrong with the letter spacing on Bluesky or am i imagining things

It is a scientific fact that no song has ever slapped harder than the 1977 Sesame Street funk/jazz Caribbean-infused banger "Pinball Number Count" by Walt Kraemer, Ed Bogas and The Pointer Sisters