philosophers always want to reduce the world to fundamental physics but they need to stop at chemistry. Past that is pervert stuff

My dad asked what I thought about psychology and I gave a long talk about its epistemic structure and the harm it has caused. but actually he was asking if i should get a therapist

one of the reasons I love lichen is because it shows the power and value of interdependence

ICYMI!

the mass murder of Olivia Nuzzi’s career (????????????????)

Israel is expecting floods but appears to have never heard of sandbags and every illustrative photo of past floods looks like this

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

i am working with the moon on a plan to conquer the sun

i will be looking at the moon for the next couple minutes if you guys want to look at the same time

remember that your ring doorbell starts using face recognition on every face it sees today :)

I get so many ads for this :(

Every year make cranberry chutney with the most random measurements. Everything has to be very precise to suit “a bag” of cranberries

Tocqueville has an oddly Hegelian conception of the advent of modernity but I don't think he ever explicitly cites Hegel anywhere? Is this just one of those cases of "in-the-air"-ness of Hegel or is this real?

once I was so hungry rushing to a class and desperately looking for something I could quickly grab to eat and I saw a bird in a bush and thought “food”

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

To simplify: the thing that made American higher-ed unique was the institutional organization around education as a PUBLIC GOOD, rather than as an elite training ground, or job training. This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.

What is with this website and strangers informing me of the premise of my own tweets

Thank you!!

Neighbor lady today: there is a cat chasing your dog

Vasily Leonidovich Khudyakov Born (1983) Russian “February lace” Oil on canvas, 23.6 W x 27.6 H x 0.8 Private Collection.

Maybe it’s time to rehabilitate Nixon. Breaking into the DNC is very funny.

Can't remember which one of you gave me this

I keep having feelings about LLMs that are like Everyone should be shot. everyone… in the… world ?

Remember when someone asked Biden how many genders there are and he said “At least three”

Fodor is widely credited as the foundational figure in cognitive science, by cognitive scientists. But everything he says about it—the science of propositional attitudes???—is imaginary. It was simply never happening. He made it up? I have no fucking idea

What is a good english translation of Antigone

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

continental👎 philosophers are like THAT [ blah blah différance lonng sentence queering around] analytic👍 philosophers are like THIS [constant fucking emotional problems about objectivity since 1885]

The anger I feel at the briefest memory of this would flash boil all the oceans of the world

Imagine me as an analytic philosopher slowly realizing that Israel is killing tons of people but only pretending to defeat its enemies. I think postmodern people figured these phenomena out long ago but idk because for no particular reason I was doing substructural logic

Brianna Wu becoming a Blanchard propagandist in… 2024? 2025? makes me fucking depressed

[transly] feel what now?

"Are transgender people any different from those people who claim to be transracial? This is a question that can only be answered by me, here in my armchair."

Analytic philosophers cannot identify an empirical question for their fucking lives and it makes me so depressed. Why are people trans—empirical. Literally everything about how we understand language—empirical!! please stop trying to intuit how the mind WORKS i am going to cry

There’s still no evidence that Trump knows what a dog is or does

we are in your walls

Napoleon was like “Hello Europe”

Gorbie knows “sit,” “down,” “shake,” “high five,” “other,” “leave it,” “watch,” which is looking in my eyes while i move a treat around to right. She moves her ears when Looking On Purpose and its very cute. she’s generalized this for a treat on the left as staring with equal purpose at the treat

I love Gorbie so much but Gorbie ignores me. She walks in my room and doesn’t even look at me! Until she personally decides it is time for obligatory daily fetch and trick routines!! for ball returns she charges treats

Why do scanned pdfs sometimes go from 7 mb to 70 mb when I delete one page

The way analytic philosophers take however an issue is first conceptualized as immovable goalposts, never consider an alternative, and just toggle parameters within it til kingdom come makes me fucking depressed

The secret third cilantro gene (tastes like soap and we like it)

It’s so fun to read Israeli hagiography about their Supreme Court, a jewel in the crown of Israel, shaped by legal genius and former chief justice Aharon Barak, and then read his jurisprudence: “[5 arguments for p] Thus, not p,” and “p. I changed my mind.”

The IDF’s mechanism for “investigating” its own war crimes is going very badly

How do you know a vampire's sick? By his coffin

in st. Louis the “trick or treat” concept is that children get candy in exchange for JOKES. and I post them 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Why don’t ghosts bother telling lies? You can see right through them! 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

everything I'm seeing about this is apocalyptic. is anyone on here fundraising around this already / know the best Jamaican orgs to support atm? abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Probably because of all the betrayal if I had to guess