RIP to everyone banned by the mods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the mods

I think about this comic all the time.

Reading Brusatte's "The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs", and his account of the extinction of the dinosaurs has me shook. How can I feel so much about something that happens 65 million years ago?

I want to be able to enjoy an at least decent modern standard of living. That means some amount of emissions until the green energy transition is complete. Which is why I politically support making that transition happen as fast as possible.

should've made it 10 theses on feuerbach wtf is 11

Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you

Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians

Call me a member of the 16th century German aristocracy, the way I'm lookin to crush this burgher

Going to the theater, dressed up fancy. Including black leather shoes I haven't worn in years. They squeak like clown shoes. Now I'm a fancy clown

I read Viking Congress, and for a split second I had a beautiful picture in my mind

John Adams as a poster is just Will Stancil

hello secret service agents browsing my profile have you read discworld

Do you want a job in Vienna? Here you go: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

poster's mindset

I'm in Lyme Regis next month, so I'm gonna be extremely normal about this

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

These fools are about to be absolutely fuckass mad, just infuriated and offended beyond all belie, when they find out that truth does not consist in a proposition corresponding to facts but rather is a disquotational device used for blind ascriptions.

A three way fight between medievalist conservatives, bureaucratic enlightenment modernisers, and Romantic idealists results in a compromise no one quite wanted but also is drives a huge portion of innovation and technical advance in the modern world. Fascinating! asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...

18th-century Chinese silver figurine depicting -checks notes- A lion

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos start each day with a gratitude list—@petridishes.bsky.social imagines it goes something like this:

Nice to see that philosophers complained about each other's style at least as far back as Socrates and Heraclit - and with much the same arguments, too

for whatever it's worth: there are style differences between analytics and continentals but also differences in what subjects have been taken seriously in both traditions of philosophy and if you ask me a lot of people are using the first to defend views they won't admit about the second

I see there's an analytic vs continental thing blowing up on Substack and: no. No we are not doing this. It is not 1998 anymore. Searle's dead, Derrida's dead, we're not doing this anymore. Go get a sandwich and look at a pigeon.

My reaction to this is basically the same that I have to all these very opinionated "Analytical philosophy is bad" books and posts. Just as these will never stop me from reading a single analytic paper I'm interested in, this will not stop me from reading (and enjoying) Spivak or Foucault

This was a fun exercise. For the non-philosophers, here's a thread briefly describing the ridiculous views that we philosophers are pretty sure we could find seven experts to agree to. If you read one of them and think "What?!? I must be misunderstanding" you probably aren't.

Fellow nerds of #PhilSky rejoice!

Omg, the Astronauts of Artemis II asking to name one of the moon craters Carroll broke me

I never really cared about space, but everything around Artemis II just inspires all the best emotions. I guess I was really starved of feeling genuinely good about humanity for once

I love how philosophy coded this is: Vienna justfied some shitty traffic-planning by citing "studies", but when pressed to publish the studies the answer is that there is nothing to be published that has "the desired form of a study". So I guess one just has to guess the concept to use beforehand?

Hab ein Schreiben der Stadt Wien (MA18) bekommen, Ergebnis wie erwartet. Relevantes Zitat: "Im Sinne der Bestimmungen des IFG können die begehrten Informationen leider nicht mitgeteilt werden, weil sie in der begehrten Form “Untersuchungen” nicht vorliegen." 🤡

Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan may have been found

I'm so close to buying the complete works of Plato, even though i) I have no time to read them, ii) they would be a huge distraction from my actual projects, iii) I already have too many books I don't read, and iv) I really need to read some other things right now. And yet they call to me

Our current world definitely makes me have a new look on history. I always liked "rationalising" explanations ("See, Varus was totally reasonable, when he..."), and now I'm just not so sure anymore. Maybe they were all just stupid

david graeber:

Hm, tempting

one of the most common reactions I see to Graeber's books is 'I liked most of it, but when I got to [thing the reader knows about] it was obvious crap.' the secret here is that it's *all* crap.

I think this mostly shows I am old. What even are some of the new ones? Why is there a teapot? Why is there just an ordinary toucan among them?

Damn, @theatlantic.com has like 5 pieces out today putting a spin on the Iran war. None of them are outright supporting it, but all are obviosuly meant to facilitate support on some level. It would be much less brazen if there was at least one article that's like "No, we should stop this."

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

I wrote an abstract; it's supposed to be 700 words long; it's 1000 words long; now I am suffering

I did not think it possible, but Andy Serkis' audiobook of Lord of the Rings has made me love the books even more, and in all new ways. For once, I think I never have really appreciated all the songs properly before. It's magical!