Aristotle themed track workout loading

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Going into an induction week where my job is to welcome a thousand undergraduate students in various configurations, in some cases multiple times.

I’m unaware of a single philosopher that dropped out of presenting at HTLGI London. Great job sharing the stage with Curtis Yarvin, everyone. Yay. You did it.

remarkable to me that philosophers could look around the world right now and conclude that the best use of their time was to write public arguments against trans inclusion. how must the world look to render that reasonable? truly remarkable

None of these nerds have been anywhere near any kind of sports dailynous.com/2025/09/19/p...

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

BOL! BOL! BOL! BOL! #worldathletics

We need to have a serious conversation about LLMs being used to exploit people with dyslexia (Peter Kyle is dyslexic)

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

I just saw this advert where a scientist prompts copilot for a metaphor to liven up a presentation, then triumphantly delivers a simile www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDW0...

“Get yourself into my navel”, the journals effectively say, “and then I will gaze at you” www.contralytic.co.uk/conversation...

Are there any good examples of good learning assistance guidance about LLMs and disability?

I just saw this advert where a scientist prompts copilot for a metaphor to liven up a presentation, then triumphantly delivers a simile www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDW0...

I naively thought: let's roughly extrapolate the height at which Mondo Duplantis's pole vault world record series would end. The second derivative turns out to be positive! 😱 #math in the wild #tokyo2025 #worldathletics

Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone should try to win the Tour de France, and Tadej Pogacar should try to qualify in the 400m hurdles #worldathletics

I saw a philosopher do this earlier in the summer and it seems shonky as hell methodology

My university is asking me to view a webpage called ‘power bi’ 🧐

Gutsy run from Innes Fitzgerald in the 5000m heats #worldathletics

Ok here's my translation problem. In the French edition of Capital (which I'm quoting because in the Eng and German this sentence just doesn't make sense), Marx uses the phrase 'prétend colorer'. Wut. Sounds like idiom but I can't find it anywhere. The senses seem to be 'claim', 'assert', 'intend'

Just bumped into Capital translation issues for the first time, and my gosh is that text a mess

If LLMs are the answer, the problem is normally that you’re not employing enough people

There's a decent sized debate in the know-how literature about problems about translation 'know-how' into other languages. I just found this nice paper about the problem this causes in the operationalisation of skill judgements www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

I wasn't expecting a full belly laugh from this podcast

Are there any labour statisticians on here - I have questions for you?

They got us From the ONS skills supply estimates, on a 1(low) to 7(high) scale of average competences in skills

There was a young lady from Riga who went for a ride on a tiger. They came back from the ride with the lady inside and a smile on the face of the tiger.

Of course Paula Radcliffe managed to misgender pronouns for Nikki Hiltz in the 1500m world champs final (5th!!!)

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

Writing up, and checking something. Does anyone know a better origin for the slogan 'there's no such thing as unskilled work' than Barbara Ehrenreich? She seems to have started using it in talked after she published Nickel and Dimed, but it's not actually *in* the book

I feel like if we had a better journalistic culture, we’d be overwhelmed by incredible writing about sportspeople doing bananas things this year (mondo duplantis, Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, Tadej Pogacar, Sydney M-L)

I refuse to emote in response to an email

Sidepoint: don't trust chatgpt to make you a marathon training plan

On Sunday, 100,000 protesters over the war in Gaza came out in Madrid, completely stopping the last stage of the Vuelta (Spanish grand tour) www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/vuelt...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Finally he gets redemption for the Euro XC finish line face plant. Boy done well. youtube.com/shorts/25dcg...

Incredible turn around

This is some of the reason I love running (now, not the reason I got into it). Once you get into good groups, you're basically just chatting for 80% of the run

Incredible finish from Jimmy Gressier in the world champs 10,000 (making up for Les Blues femmes taking a pummelling in the rugby)

Reminder @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI; which explains this thinly sourced excuse of an article that relies on ONE Masters student and OpenAI's International Education Lead countered by measly words of "caution" from ONE university admin.

Because we still lack the appropriate vocabulary to discuss AI, this is the sort of conceptual inconsistencies we end up with. Start coining new AI-specific terms! Embrace "slop"! Correct your friends when they say AI "wrote" something!

My costume for the performative male competition

Reuters remains a strong source for actual coverage of news around the world. They're not perfect, but I appreciate here that they are talking *with* protesters in Nepal instead of only *about* them. They've brought down the government in rejection of being ruled by a super-wealthy elite. 👀

Updated alignment chart: What counts as a #conlang?

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

Just learning about this absolute legend (six time Olympian!!) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat-Och...

real mask off stuff tbh

lol this is a throwback to the golden age of bad articles

Also fairly sure that the output about ethical use of AI in philosophy here dailynous.com/2025/09/10/g... has straightforwardly plagiarised What's the Point of Authors? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...