Fuck Stilpo (380-330 BC) #philosophy

Air Canada Carry on rules: you may take * 1 standard article * 1 personal article * your coat and small purse * 1 neck- or bowtie * one bag of chewing-gum * 3 coins in denominations of your choice * one micro-fiber cloth (4x4")

Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.

Fuck Heraclides Ponticus (387–312 BC) #philosophy

Expected this to go viral tbh. I guess people don't listen to the Crooners anymore

"Merry Christmas pollachōs legetai". Nat King Cole

Wollt ihr unbefristete Jobs mit anständiger Bezahlung und einem interessanten Profil, ODER wollt ihr in einer Jahresendrundmail an 40k Beschäftigte lesen, dass ihr alle sehr wertgeschätzt werdet? Ihr müsste euch entscheiden. #ichbinhanna

In a recent bargaining session with our union, the Harvard CFO very solemnly informed us that both teaching and research were “money losing” ventures at the University. As if the whole point of a university isn’t converting money into knowledge! The financial reckoning of value is so, so toxic.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Me on the first day I step on a scale after Christmas

'whether LLMs can make “scientific discoveries” is no more interesting a question than whether Galileo’s telescope “really saw.” The better question is whether LLMs can be usefully integrated in the processes by which scientific knowledge gets made, validated, and disseminated.'

Head to head race in this pairing

wie sich Constantin Schreiber auf den Trip zum Bäcker vorbereitet (legal)

Auch in Deutschland werden leider sehr wenige Kinder gegen Influenza geimpft

When I went to university, the rector was not a highly paid nomad, who went from one gig to another. They were just regular professors who were elected to lead the university for a few years. Let's just go back to that system.

📢 New Advance article at HPLA: Wolfgang Lenzen, Paul of Venice’s Disjunction Theses brill.com/view/journal... #philsky

📢 New Advance article at HPLA: Katerina Ierodiakonou, Sextus Empiricus On Simple And Non-Simple Indemonstrables brill.com/view/journal... This is part of the forthcoming special issue "Scepticism and Argument: Sextus Empiricus on Logic", ed. Katerina Ierodiakonou and Máté Veres #philsky

📢 New review at HPLA (Open Access): Ryan M. Brown, Plato’s Moral Realism, written by Gerson, L. P. brill.com/view/journal... #philsky

If it's free you are the product

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What LLMs and its apologets have in common

"Bis Ende März 2023 kamen fast die Hälfte aller weltweiten Verdachtsfälle auf Impfschäden nach Covid19-Impfung aus Deutschland." 🤯

of the influenza vaccine is low (against infection). What is forgotten is the protection from non-communicable diseases. What if you could reduce your risk to heart disease by 40%? What is you could reduce you risk to dementia by at least 10%? That is what vaccines do! 3/10

Am meisten profitieren die Ranking-Agenturen von den Rankings.

Shaved camel art at the Bikaner Camel Festival in India. camelfestival.com

Chaser: "The British government threatened to defund the international criminal court and leave the Rome statute that set it up if it pressed ahead with plans to issue an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, the ICC’s prosecutor has claimed."

Fuck Sydney Shoemaker (born 1931) #philosophy

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

Lobo sagt richtigerweise, dass das Verbot in Aus problematische Dienste wie Messenger und Pornoseiten nicht abdeckt. Vielleicht ist das aber einfach ein Zeichen dafür, dass wir unseren Kindern mit Smartphones Werkzeuge in die Hand geben, die zu mächtig für sie sind. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/net...

CfP for new HPLA special issue: Why and How Do We Study Early Modern Philosophy Today? Guest editors: Laura Georgescu (University of Groningen) and Martin Lenz (FernUniversität in Hagen) @goingloopy.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal...

Perfect analogy by TIME. The same kind of people being paid a shitty loan yet still having to risk their lives, just a few decades apart

Fuck Justinian I (483–565) #philosophy

Always “sorry, I’m over-committed at the moment”, never “do you have anything else I could review for you?”

In its new global ratings report on civic freedoms, the CIVICUS Monitor announced that it has further downgraded Germany’s civic freedom to “Obstructed” – en par with Hungary. Three years ago, Germany's status was "open." monitor.civicus.org/press_releas...

CfP: Why and How Do We Study Early Modern Philosophy Today? (Special Issue)

If you don't want to review something, just press the decline button for god's sake so the editor can move on

Union: hat jemand noch ne Idee, wie man die Gesellschaft weiter spalten könnte? SPD: Vielleicht könnten wir mal wieder Akademiker gegen Arbeiter ausspielen?

was perusing a departmental website, as one does, and this made me lol

Toshiteru Yamaji

Heute im BA Seminar gefragt, wer der Politik folgt und mir sagen kann, was Jens Spahn gerade so umtreibt. Einer von 15 wußte es 😬

For a second I thought this was a Chronicle of Higher Ed article...

Long and absolutely brutal article on AI and the university. Hard to decide what to emphasize... www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Fuck Aristippus the Elder of Cyrene (c. 435-366 BC) #philosophy

When you have trouble organizing your material, always remember Athenaeus.

There was once the idea that children are never the enemy... Now they are threats to be eliminated. And I don't think this will even trigger a tepid condemnation from my government anymore.

Eben noch Klassenröntgenauge, jetzt scharfsinniger Kritiker der politischen Landschaft, davor Vernichter der gesamten Philosophiegeschichte. Gibt es etwas, das Hanno Sauer nicht kann?!

“In letzter Zeit”

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