extremely extremely sad to join the chorus of people on here who lost a pet. sweet little Maki, I miss her so much already

big news day! oh what's that? oh no no no. I meant that today in Oslo we had BOTH a little earthquake and a dog race

i swear ResearchGate is negging me

found this little wax seal kit at a local loppemarked. lemme know if you want to receive some guaranteed untampered correspondence

not sure this is the best but I like it

I don't mean to be mean, but if this person (asking this Q on a philosophy blog) is actually asking whether they should do adjunct work to improve their chances on the philosophy job market, their PhD program has utterly failed them

center alignment for a whole essay? are you psychotic?

I have read and enjoyed ben lerner's Transcription. and so can you

but what's the second I in AIIbirds stand for?

i mean, what do you expect from a kid named avuncular?

[pulls up a chair, sits down backwards on it] you know who else did something cool after 3 days??

I have a new paper coming out on conceptual abandonment: philpapers.org/rec/SHIDFP-2. Abandonment is a ubiquitous strategy in the history of philosophy – philosophers have advocated getting rid of folk psychological concepts, the concept of harm, the concept of democracy, among many others.

going to a concert tonight like it's 2019 again

maybe one day i'll come to terms with emoji reacts to emails in outlook, but today is not that day

there's a lot of reasons to hate andy weir. chief among them his attempts at humour

lately the chumbucket ads I've been seeing on local news pages keep featuring (ai generated?) stock images of old dudes in marine uniforms, usually screaming

tromsø

it remains amazing that Trump somehow managed to pick two completely different sorts of dorks to be his vp

having just been to Exeter for a workshop on social AI, I can attest that it'd be a solid place on those topics for a couple years

more of this bs in Canada's future as carney hollows out the federal bureaucracy

personally, I love that the thing about airports that makes me go 'unbelievable!' is not the miracle of flight but the price of 8 pieces of sushi

heading to Tromsø, aka the Paris of the north. got any tips?

I agree it's fun to make fun of them when they say stupid shit. but you really don't have have to riff on (or pay any attention to!) the billionaire weirdos in our midst

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

this is so ghoulish and disgusting

this mfer just bombed a girls school

why?

sorry this is all my fault. I've been listening to rock the casbah on repeat for days

carney's davos speech was 6 weeks ago. lol. lmao even

flu! on weekend!

Remove THINGS and convert to OTHER THINGS

my leftist take on AI is that you don't always need to take the bait

me, this morning: my plan for today is to buckle down and just power through my emails. me, after 1 email: oy, need new plan

maybe everything isn't so terrible. for example, eduroam has been working consistently for me lately

been waiting for the day @jamellebouie.net would come for stalnaker www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

another data point in favour of never taking a big tech company at their word www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...

honestly, i'm just curious: who does this appeal to?

but but but .. i moved to norway to get away from US politics!

sick for the 2nd time in 2 weeks. might as well give up on 2026

y'all know you don't get points for predicting the next bad thing to happen, right? just say shit is bad and get on with the work

via spite and incredulity, sure, but I'll take it

wait. are fisherman's friend conscious?

misread 'tenor' as 'terror'

re recent job market discourse: what even is a cover letter? there is substantial disagreement about not only the need to 'tailor' (also itself incredibly ambiguous), but also length, structure, content, formality and even paper size.

thanks. i hate it

Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/ This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.

just saw this on linkedin and now I'm having an aneurysm

good reading for anyone thinking about the philosophy of journalism

I have a new paper coming out in Inquiry called ‘The Perils of Epistemic Idealism': philpapers.org/rec/SHITPO-40. I argue that especially in applied, political work, philosophers have a tendency to assume that political harms are primarily a product of false beliefs and misguided concepts.

little known fact but these ResearchGate emails save thousands of lives every year