Americans will roll their eyes at European data protection laws, only to live like this for 3.5 of every 4 years

A thread of Charlie Kelly being an aspirational Daoist figure

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

My semi-informed take on why pro-AI academics are so flabbergasted by anti-AI folk is that pro-AI academics are all flaming consequentialists used to being around others flaming consequentialists and so are befuddled by how much anti-AI discourse has been motivated by virtue theory

My philosophy pet peeve is terms of art with too many suffixes/morphemes, like epistemological instead of epistemic or hermeneutical injustice instead of hermeneutic injustice

We are delighted to announce that our journal has published its first article!🎉🍾 Read it here: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xp...

Just found out some (Microsoft-based?) email accounts just haven't been getting emails from my personal Gmail account. Not even in spam. Have sent a fair number of job applications and inquiries with that account over the last six months. Very cool. I definitely don't want to scream.

My biggest act of middle aged rebellion is removing the UTM link from the end of a URL when sharing it so that the brand won't know where that share originated from.

Instead of tv debates, have candidates lead teams in live-streamed crisis simulations

Something I find fascinating at a meta level is philosophers' puzzlement over descriptive generics like "ducks lay eggs". If you think language is captured by formal logic, they are sooo weird (male ducks don't lay eggs!) but other academics seem largely bewildered that this is a topic of study

I'm going to start introducing Americanisms with "We had a saying in the Old Country"

Humanities jobs in the UK are like "we are looking for someone to teach advanced Husserlian feminism and contemporary critical lawn theory. 0.3 FTE for 7 months. We may ask you to be head of department"

Celsius-stans are always like "Unlike Fahrenheit, the scale based on something principled," as if the one objectively correct way to measure temperature is in reference to a particular molecule's phase change.

Thread: Choose your fighter, UK cycle route edition. First up: Flat Road

Very happy to invite you to the third online talk in our series. Next Thursday, 11th June, 4pm CET, Pascale Willemsen and Lucien Baumgartner. Everyone welcome! Link: uzh.zoom.us/j/6510778643... Meeting-ID: 651 0778 6432 Kenncode: 235823

Thread: Choose your fighter, UK cycle route edition. First up: Flat Road

Given OneDrive only has 4GB of free storage, it does not seem like a coincidence that GitHub Desktop clones repositories to a OneDrive directory by default

An experiment before you run it vs when you write it up in a paper

Job Hunting in January vs Job Hunting in June.

There must be something very wrong with me because I cant seem to resist being nosey when I spot something like this on the map 😆

Great excuse to introduce y'all to the greatest public epistemology project, Conspiracy Road Trip The premise is that expert after expert explains to a group of conspiracy theorists why their theories are bunk Across the series only 1 person changed their mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ByW...

my review of Nich Shea's new concepts book

My go-to cure for writers block used to be sitting in a cafe with a laptop, drinking coffee until my eyes jiggled. It never produced good writing, but it produced something for me to work with. I’ve since stopped drinking caffeine, so … anyone have any suggestions?

Re: epistemic paranoia, the epistemic state in which someone has no idea if they are talking to or reading something from another human being or a language model

Oops, I wrote a thoughtful 1600-word review anyways

This is certainly one of the better academic scam emails I've gotten, but the sender apparently doesn't realize that every philosophy editorial office in the world is far too desperate to require this

That genre of video games where the game's 15+ year old game engine absolutely creaks with old age, but the developers still gave it their all

Anyone happen to know of works where people earnestly argue AI is intelligent in this way?

Anyone happen to know of works where people earnestly argue AI is intelligent in this way?

I realize I'm very late to the party, but hear me out: Chidi Anagonye's character is commentary on the gap between what philosophy promises to be and what philosophy actually is. 1/

Been tempted more and more to go to the cinema, but live at the edge of civilization. The only cinema within half an hour only has one screen and judging by their next 2 weeks of programming, I'm clearly not in their target demographic.

I realize I'm very late to the party, but hear me out: Chidi Anagonye's character is commentary on the gap between what philosophy promises to be and what philosophy actually is. 1/

My US liberal arts philosophy education was aggressively eclectic - I read as much Dewey and non-philosophers as I did Kripke or Russel - and I’m a better, more curious philosopher for it. It’s taken me a while to come to grips with the fact that this is very much not the norm elsewhere.

Every time someone tries to drag some weird regional pizza, I am like, I would eat the shit out of that, I do not care, it is some combination of bread, molten cheese, sauce, and meat. It is all good as hell.

Made chilli and somehow managed to simultaneously undercook and burn it

What some academics inexplicably think readers are looking for when they write review articles and chapters in handbooks

There’s something futile about raising objections when reviewing philosophy papers. 90% of the time all that will happen is that the author will think of some good-enough response and put it in a footnote.

Producers for old tv westerns would have literally murdered someone for the Volume. Need a new location? Throw down a dozen rocks from the Unreal Engine Marketplace and film a 5 episode arc in an afternoon.

For those who want the full experience: isspisstracker.com

Team, we are officially in the "extract wealth from customers" stage of enshittification. Expect attempts at platform lock-in next

Bulgaria's win is an important augury of pop music to come: We've finally broken free of the tyranny of early DAWs and tempo changes are back on the menu www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eltg...

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

I only learned my partner was unfamiliar with William's "This is just to say" until she asked me this morning why I had sent her gibberish the night before

Bicycling tip: if you think it's time to replace your shift cables, don't keep riding on them until one frays apart in your shifter. This is my life now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z6C...

Replace the Research Excellence Framework (which costs universities something like £500 million to prepare each cycle) with an excel sheet of every academic's google scholar profile.

New publication came out today. It's a short reply to a piece by Jimmy Alfonso Licon from me, @hikemix.bsky.social and James Humphries in Philosophy and Technology. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PhilTech #LLMs #Bullshit

Name this cycle of humanities scholarship: 1) Academic 1 introduces a specific concept for a specific lit 2) A loose version of the concept is useful in a broader context, and is used in talks and papers 4) Academic 2, critical of the loose use, complains that no one reads original works anymore

Thrilled to share this Philosophy Bites #podcast on #Prophecy, or the philosophy of predictions. I started listening to Philosophy Bites as a philosophy undergraduate... Honoured to have had this conversation with @nigelwarburton.bsky.social . Check it out! philosophybites.com/podcast/cari...

Does anyone have experience putting in an MC fellowship in philosophy with an industry placement? Would like to hear what works and what doesn't. Plus I'm a bit skeptical I could convince an industry partner to host an applied philosopher of language

If the right person in Silicon Valley sees this, within 6 months tech bros will be wearing heat sinks on their head to prevent "thermal throttling"