Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

In underfunded fields, people tend to do their own work. In overfunded fields, people pay others to do everything, including “their” research and writing. It’s not an accident that AI is an overfunded field that grew out of other overfunded fields.

I noticed during the pandemic that people most likely to mask, distance, etc. were those people who were already comfortable with discomfort. They'd learned to grieve, or live with a disability, or been marginalised in some way. The people who didn't know how to process discomfort screamed.

If people are looking for a citation to use but they don’t want to read the work, my 2024 Cambridge UP monograph, Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy, is FOR YOU!!!

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"Pray for President Trump"

Paris has transformed more than 300 streets outside schools into pedestrian-only “garden streets,” replacing traffic and parking with trees, benches and light-coloured paving. Torched buff.ly/ILvaxmw #ShareGoodNewsToo

Wait who's making me the t-shirt that says WIVES SUBMIT in giant letters and then TO TOP-TIER ACADEMIC JOURNALS in smaller ones below it?

The amount of time and energy I spend logging into bespoke "secure" websites to download information that could have been sent to me in the email is just staggering.

Rachel Entrekin ran the Cocodona 250 ultra-ultramarathon — it's actually 253.3 miles — in 56:09:48, 78 minutes ahead of the men's winner. Rachel Entrekin is awesome.

It is a stunning setback after the low seen in recent years. These stories are extra devastating when “we don’t know why” is the common expert quote

and as you start out on your journey of life remember that the biggest threat to your security and well-being is this thing i personally helped bring into the world and continue to profit from and uh wow ok well booing me while i'm speaking is extremely rude do you know who i am

Your partner in crime took away trans kids healthcare and is trying to ban every LGBTQ+ book in the province but doesn't matter if we burn the planet down faster

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

Professional associations like @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social have every right to take neutrality positions, however it's foolish and arrogant of them to selectively police the "neutrality" of their individual members.

In case anyone needs a refresher, the Mueller and Senate Intel probes documented that Trump and his team: - welcomed - received - benefitted from - and lied about Russian campaign campaign assistance, then obstructed the investigation. None of this has been discredited. tinyurl.com/5n8kjymy

To teach Foucault properly you need to teach at least a bit of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. I hope one day to teach a course on Cassirer, Marcuse, and Foucault. We will begin with the second part of Kant’s Conflict of the Faculties.

it also seems like he straight up didn’t disclose 4Q 2025?

On this International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we stand with our LGBTQ+ community and against all hate. Everyone has the right to live as their authentic selves.

As someone who does text-based historical work I don’t think LLMs have no use. But their are trained on corpora and when you “ask them questions” you are actually probing for information about the relevant corpus, not what the corpus purports to be about.

I need to read something that helps me understand how Covid caused people to think “freedom” is when you take no health precautions for yourself or others. Or that health precautions are done out of fear and not out of rational desire for oneself and one’s community to be healthy.

am not sold on the idea that no one will actually need to know anything in The Future because ai will take care of that for us

If the bars shut down in solidarity the entire Montreal economy will collapse.

Humanities and social science profs are finding out how natural scientists treat authorship and we are losing our damn minds.

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

Real America is 50 Seventh Day Adventists in Kansas

BREAKING: WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo, Uganda with over 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths.

So…. Did SNL mic McCartney like that because after 51 years they still don’t know what they are doing or was it because he cannot sing anymore?

Just...stop...voting with them. "What about...?" No "But this law is targeted at..." No "But they'll say we..." They're going to say that ANYWAY

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

Good news: America's over

I assumed the word "million" was accidentally dropped after the subbed note that he was fined "$200" for this but, no, the fine was two hundred dollars. For late disclosures on tens of millions of dollars. A fine of Two. Hundred. Dollars.

Update: Louisiana voters tonight have rejected all five constitutional amendments that were on the ballot today; they were there with the support of the GOP legislature and Gov. Landry.

This is perfectly stated. At least when Liz Cheney went down she didn't go down humiliated trying to pander to the Trumpists in the end. Cassidy left with nothing to be proud of.

Anyone who isn’t livid about this does not understand government

As an extra f-u to the country, the official document, hosted by the Office of Government Ethics, is a low-quality scan with garbled OCR to inhibit quick analysis. His second listed trade is for the iShares Russell 1000 ETF, which is OCR'd as "laha,.,. Tr Russoll 1000 Elf"

BREAKING Bill Cassidy, a physician who abandoned his principles to help pave the way for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become HHS Secretary, has lost his primary race and finished in third place.

This administration, once again, shows unmatched brilliance in its appointments. Who says we aren't winning?

In just one year, Carney has wrecked a decade's worth of progress. The old climate strategy wasn't enough, but rather than strengthen it he dismantled every meaningful policy, stomped on the gas to deliver more fossil fuels, and concentrated power to run roughshod over opposition to his agenda.

The "return on investment" with tenured faculty is having accomplished experts who are experienced teachers there to teach the students. It's sort of a basic point about colleges, you'd think the people on a board of trustees would get that.

Hey, universities, maybe you could try inviting graduation speakers who *aren't* actively hostile to your fundamental mission and basic purpose? Or at the very least, people from industries your faculty isn't suing for intellectual property theft?

I know we keep seeing these stories about Republican officials who are arrested for sex crimes against children, but it's just a string of hundreds of coincidences.

“The badge is a responsibility, not a V.I.P. pass,” said Rob D’Amico, a former F.B.I. special agent and hostage rescue team operator. With Mr. Patel, he said. Astonishing self indulgence and tone deafness.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Brain implosion when a top science and engineering university reduces its grad students by 20%….

The reason presented here makes no sense—why would “return on investment” be a problem in this one specific case, given that they tenured 30 other people? Perhaps there is something about the person or the field that is the actual reason???

Andes Hantavirus presumptive positive in B.C. as per our PHO today We aren't ready for this

One can imagine LW saying this in front of the Circle, and Neurath leaning of over to Carnap and saying “Cambridge philosophers, perhaps….”