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

went to the university Christmas concert mainly for the murals

this is as bad as it sounds

i worked briefly at OU and I'm sure glad I don't anymore!* (*solidarity with those still there)

the OU situation is another example of an employer just utterly failing their employee when given the slightest pressure obviously an orchestrated fiasco, and folding here wins nothing (a lesson no other institution will learn) this response is somehow more embarrassing than the original essay

ok just one month to go before we confirm whether 2025 was a failure or not

i know it's been said many many times before but how is outlook soooooooooo bad

sleeping cuties

not good not good not good

i encourage my friends (only my friends. no enemies) to apply to this workshop in Lillehammer, where ski lessons are part of the package. I further encourage my friends to get their abstracts accepted, come to Norway, and spend a little extra time visiting me in Oslo philevents.org/event/show/1...

dare we take guesses at who might replace him? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...

at London Heathrow and the shower I had in the lounge is sufficient evidence to prove the UK is poised to make the miraculous comeback on the global stage

extremely solid sculpture garden in new orleans

I thoroughly enjoyed this fun new entry into the campus novel genre, about an academic couples' unraveling marriage, presented in the form of an MFA thesis. and for the real freaks out there, it includes a brief mention of our fav chaotic U Chicago philosophy professor

you heard it here first folks: new orleans is a pretty good city

the obvious winner

if you look close you can see the @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social drop

fyi

at Heathrow for a few hours, stop by and say hello

Larry Summers? the Open AI board member?

remember moocs?

for those keeping track. I first gave a talk with this title in 2022 (in Pittsburgh, woot). gave up on it for a couple years. but I'm bringing it back (with substantial revisions) bc the people demand it

will i be flying to new orleans for the #ppesociety meeting later this week? only time will tell. but if i do, catch me talking about ghost work / click work / whatever you want to call it at the philosophy of work session with mark satta and chris bousquet

im supposed to fly to the US later this week and tbh the timing is starting to seem not ideal

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

reading the actual texts chatgpt produces in this story and they are *chilling* edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

seems bad: "images of the women flayed, decapitated or fed into a wood chipper, was seemingly enabled—and given a visceral realism—by generative artificial intelligence. In some of the images, Ms. Roper was wearing a blue floral dress that she does, in fact, own." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

this @404media.co article by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social does a great job laying out the sloppy future social media is barreling towards. and includes this amazingly ambiguous, dead-inside, genAI 'family' showing their support for 'the blue team' at the world series www.404media.co/the-future-o...

no one knows how microwaves work and if they say 'it excites the water molecules' they're a just using more words to say they don't know

this is why I left toronto for the sports powerhouse of oslo

not now monkeys carrying hepatitis c, herpes, and covid

this is good and if y'all knew your Canadian history you'd like and subscribe

because it's 2015

woke up in Europe and baseball still going on. these two things aren't supposed to be mix

for the first time in idk how long, I've moved into a new apartment and don't have any plans to leave. weird feelings over here