Lyla looking a bit like an Escher staircase amid regal nonchalance moments #russianblue

Of all the AIs, when I need a laugh, Claude rises to the occasion.

Wide angle shots of ponies can be disconcerting

High quality Bladerunner trolling in the Topsham Brewery gents.

I have been responding to a few more cat posts recently. Having never lived with a cat until the age of 60 when my son left his beautiful girl with us to go travelling, I have become a late life besotted convert. Here’s Lyla helping me work #russianblue

Epistemologically-apt pets: goldfish, parakeets, budgies and (speak no evil) monkeys. Affectively-apt pets: poodles, killifish and Persian cats. Philosophical questions abound on the back cover of this pet care series from the 70s #philsky

I gave in + wrote my first substack. A longish philosophy of technology piece re my relationship with a closed-loop insulin pump... and why (I think) it needs a new category beyond those from Ihde, Verbeek and De Preester. In short, it has a contract out on me. adewebb.substack.com/p/in-the-loo...

The day 2 + 3 line ups at Woodstock always leave me stunned when I look at my poster. Every act elevated to the stratosphere by history and nostalgia, maybe, but… wow. #woodstock

I find it extraordinary that for one of the most watched and important tennis matches of the US Open that #skysports don’t have anyone listening to the sound mix of what’s going out live. Commentators mixed so low it’s impossible to hear them over crowd noise #usopen

There’s a degree of irony in the syntactic mangling in the first sentence of Section 2 of the Cambridge Elements ‘The Philosophy of Linguistics’ 🧐

Some lovely #cloudporn above Devon this evening

Perfect music and cat #russianblue #thebluenile

@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social Ah, the irony… 😂

Sometimes Paul Ricoeur writes sentences so good that they warrant all 4 of my marks: a post-it tag, three ticks, a key and messy underlining. #philsky

Holidaying at Killarney on the west coast of Ireland. Don’t think I’ve ever taken a more wholesome photo.

We are entering the era of hegemonic vectorization #LLMs

The use of the quotation marks on signs and menus has always fascinated me philosophically. The sort of thing Davidson would have enjoyed. Are the “ … “ conveying a proxy for the staff or is the menu itself speaking to me? Why did the author choose them? 👀 #philsky

From the excellent Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway this makes my day: "I am Mr Titwhistle," the thin gentlemen says. "And this is Mr Cummerbund. Those are our actual names, I'm afraid. Life is capricious. If you should feel the urge at any time to chuckle, we're both quite big enough to share the joke."

Thomas Kuhn, Kevin Spacey… separated at birth?

Lyla’s resting place choices confuse and intrigue top mathematicians #russianblue

Full Alice-in-Wonderland down a rabbit hole yesterday. Today I’m suspecting my foot shouldn’t look like this…

Gary Larson illustrating how we naturally treat the contents of a frame (book, cartoon, film) as a fictional world with its own rules. The aesthetician Edward Bullough argued we must insert appropriate psychical distance to put the contents out of gear with everyday life + appreciate aesthetically

Academic etiquette question: does an author use ‘he’ when describing a pejorative thought experiment subject? ‘he was too prejudiced to notice’. The author always uses ‘she’ in neutral or positive contexts. Is this an unwritten rule? Use ‘she’ as the generic except in negative contexts? #philsky

Foucault had it right about kings. Those who exercise cruel regal powers leave those they rule over in no doubt who to blame when the tide turns. Ultimately, they pay for their acts by slightly blunting the axe with their sacral vertebrae.

Lyla has scratched her cardboard scratchmat with indents that match her body shape. I kid you not. Russian Blue cardboard bed sculpting is this summer’s new craze clearly.

The new crop of local kits are soooo adorable. Used a long lens to capture this moment of Devon bun concentration #bunnies

Was tricky playing two hours of jazz outdoors in 30c yesterday pm. My little band opened the Reigate Music Festival… an audience member snapped the three of us desperately huddled to catch some coolness from our singer’s USB fan.

Lyla in serious art critic mode this morning. #russianblue

Tempted to give people writing about AI-knowledge an epistemological beard trim with Occam’s razor.

As Reese’s makes headway in ensuring everything smaller than a fist contains peanut butter, I join my cardiologist and addiction counsellor in wishing that Reese hadn’t had this idea.

Nervous encounter with a passive-aggressive pencil left on the table in a coffee shop. I (like everyone else) worked around it like it was infectious.

Out on my bike and this prompted thoughts of @petemandik.bsky.social

Confession: for years I thought the word ‘ballache’ was a French word pronounced like ‘panache’ 🙄

Wow. Alice Oswald is a sublime poet. How have I left discovering her until now??? Memorial goes directly, viscerally, and beautifully into my most treasured poetry books. Have just bought most of her oeuvre on finishing it. #poetry #aliceoswald

The Secret on Bullshit: Drive your Plow Over the Bones of Umberto Eco #adjacentbookwisdom

This is an actual need and why Kagi supports the Small Web: kagi.com/smallweb/ You can also filter your search through the "Small Web" lens to surface only results from these sources:

Pretty proud to be a 60 year old Type 1 diabetic (since 1984) and managed to top an average of over 100 miles on the bike per week this month ☺️

Russian Blue reclining leans of our time #russianblue

One of our best ever pre-summer weeks on the solar front. 0.4Mwh produced, only 3.7Kwh drawn *from* the grid and just shy of 100Kwh exported *to* the grid. The whole house, EV, borehole, filtration and sewage powered from the sun 🌞 😃 #solar #sustainability

Ah, children. Soothing balm to the soul… 🙄

Interesting assertion of syncretism by Thomas Kuhn by Steve Fuller in ‘Kuhn vs Popper’. Any views, #philsci? @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social

The incongruity police have been called to my hotel.

Quite proud of being a 60 year old type 1 diabetic who can still cycle 500 miles in three weeks after not much training for the whole of a wet and windy Devon winter. #type1

Barthes on Einstein’s brain is quite exquisite 😌. #barthes #philsky #semiology

Barthes on Einstein’s brain is quite exquisite 😌. #barthes #philsky #semiology

My daughter is passionate about reading & fiction. She’s doing a survey (with a tiny incentive) on book selection but also DNFs (Why people start but don’t finish some books). If anyone has 5 mins spare, participation would be hugely appreciated #fiction #books 🙏🏻 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...?

My sister’s poodle Herb and his matching cushion 😂

Judgment, thy name is Lyla #russianblue #censoriouscats

‘I Trawl the Megahertz’ by Prefab Sprout affects me profoundly every time I listen. It’s a 22 minute slow epic of musical narration devised by Paddy McAloon while temporarily blin, finding catharsis by surfing AM radio stations & writing down the snippets he loved. open.spotify.com/track/5SrrNj...