Welp we’ve awakened Shelob now

As a philosopher I come from a rich tradition of being annoying af

Love Chicago and it's famous The Bean

This is the same daughter that saw a bus for sale and asked “Can we get a bus?” I asked what for and she said “To house all of the corgis we’re going to get.”

My 11yo, who got pet tortoises this year, said “When I’m older I’m gonna get a tattoo that says ‘Live, Laugh, Love, Tortoise.’”

The only candidate to publicly endorse an okay Kelly design [top left] won his race tonight. Will the establishment learn anything from this?

I spent literally *forever* trying to walk to this building, but still never made it there.

Don’t wanna brag but Gavin Newsom has *personally* texted me like 5 times now asking for my support for prop 50. It’s like come on G-dog:

Geology is, almost by definition, the study of material history. Therefore, we should move all Marxist studies to the Earth Sciences department.

You mean former Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University Jason Stanley? The details are, apparently, important to include. WWFjUPoPaYUJSD

In trying times, I like to ask myself WWJD—what would Jason (Stanley) do?

I have a weak spot for McDonald’s Monopoly. Junk food and gambling rolled into one?

Be smart about your daylight saving. Put it into a high yield account or even a mutual fund.

Wow. Just wow. Incredible.

It’s wild how many lies my parents told me as a kid—“Santa is real,” “The tooth fairy is real,” “You’re a smart, handsome, and talented young man.”

Someone just tried to trick or treat at our house at 10:30pm. They rang our doorbell. I was in bed. Our porch light was off (but we accidentally left a living room light on that you can see through the front door). The weirdest part. It was a mom and her 8yo. Not teenagers.

$5/week adds up to $260/year. You could save $26,000 in just 100 years. That’s almost a down payment on a house!

me & my shitpost

Can someone help me out? I've been in a coma for the last 5 years. Are my NFTs worth billions now? Or just hundreds of millions?

Good morning. It’s another great day to be the value of a bound variable.

[moments after creating my AI digital clone] ME: alright clone, do my chores CLONE-ME: no US: my god, it worked

I Zeno way for the ball to ever make it!

Sorry but it’s true what they say about baseball: there’s no action. For in order for the ball to reach the batter, it must reach halfway to the batter. But in order to get there it must reach halfway to halfway, etc etc.

I’m an idealist about my “check engine” light being on. If I don’t observe it, it doesn’t exist.

Both a dream and a nightmare

Do scientists ever get tired of being wrong? Why not just get acquainted with the Forms and draw conclusions a priori like a real truth-seeker?

“I am… confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am placed in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster, who not being able to mingle and unite in society, has been… left utterly abandoned and disconsolate.” -Hume And they say philosophy has no practical impact.

True. I had a few thousand followers there and I made the absolute dumbest philosophy jokes. I haven’t hit 1k here and something about this place makes it harder to just do jokes.

Facts. It’s why, as an introvert, when I give 2 or 3 back to back hour+ long performances, I feel like I need a nap. In addition to prep time I need recovery time.

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Higher-order truths about chmonstitutional law

Fine. I’ll do it. I’ll get into an argument with Trump about who has the easier life so I can Freaky Friday my soul into his body and undo all of this.

"I believe, in the next couple of decades, there will be millions of people living in space. That's how fast this is going to accelerate.” -Bezos These are not serious people.

““The value of art is… how much would you risk to be in its presence?” Beautifully put. AI companies know this which is why they know the only way they’ll succeed is by flooding the market with cheap slop. People won’t pay much for it so they try to make up for that with volume.

“If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that’s on them.” Ah yes, the Bart Simpson defense.

This looks cool but I’m still grumpy they rejected my paper titled “It’s not a board game unless it takes you 45 minutes to explain the rules”

Have you ever noticed that AI often uses periods at the ends of sentences? Whenever I see a sentence ending in a period, that’s an immediate red flag that it was written by AI.

The last words of Michelangelo Buonarroti at 89 are said to have been, “Ancora imparo" or, "I am still learning." It’s particular mantra of mine…or the guiding thread of my entire life I suppose.

’It’s not the job of the judiciary to check the constitutionality of the executive‘s actions’ is certainly a take.

It‘s so cool that we get to keep learning stuff our entire lives. Every day I can read about a new topic and I won’t ever run out of things to study.

My 13yo needs braces. There goes my retirement.

Just a reminder that I will be hosting a shadow conference of nativists (the Language of Thought League of Thinkers (LoT LoT)) at the same time and place

We use “beautiful“ to describe both visual and auditory experiences. But can “gorgeous“ be used to describe sound? It sounds wrong to my ear.

Ain't no rule says a autobot can't play basketball

I think I've figured out why this Canvas outage is taking so long. They have robots trying to fix a spaceship instead of people trying to fix the servers. Wrong priorities.

The Trump effigy is “unconscionable.” I can’t remember, what did Mike Johnson say about these—including the one shared by Trump?

Trying to be a good teacher as a conflict-avoidant people-pleaser is hard because being a good teacher and making everyone happy inevitably come apart. Often you simply can’t do both. (Apropos of nothing my last name starts with H.)

Although Moore’s Open Question Argument doesn’t work as-is, it’s on to something.

No kings includes aragorn