John Gosland
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Wannabe Mathematician in Kentucky
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Think my time with BlueSky has sadly come to an end. Snapchat: JohnGosland Much love yall! Trans Rights, Human Rights, fight fascism where and when you can! Take care of yourselves! đ€
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Think my time with BlueSky has sadly come to an end. Snapchat: JohnGosland Much love yall! Trans Rights, Human Rights, fight fascism where and when you can! Take care of yourselves! đ€
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Patrick Delahanty
9 months ago
I remember wanting a Pac-Man lunchbox. Not sure it existed at the time. Settled for Dukes of Hazzard. Boy, that didnât age well. A decade and a half later, I got an MST3K lunchbox when I was buying any MST3K merch I could get my hands on. Still have it (unused) in a box somewhere.
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SE Gyges
3 months ago
the mixture of grandiose tech prophecy with childish wish fulfillment is so common. the things you care about are not cosmically important. he who lurks between the stars has never thought about them and never will
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SE Gyges
3 months ago
jeffrey epstein donated to and supported enough science that there are entire lines of research that were apparently pursued largely because he liked them. one of them is evo psych
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Philosophy Now
9 months ago
INTRODUCING - Our February/March 2025 Issue (Issue 166)
philosophynow.org
Issue 166 has a theme of political philosophy. It has a few things to say about the extremely divided and divisive state of politics at the moment and much more. As always, it is a riot of ideas.
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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada
8 months ago
Happy 4-year anniversary of the MacKinnon helmet throw
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Aidan McGlynn
8 months ago
New Element by Charlotte Sabourin on Kant on Marriage, a topic that's long been of interest to feminist philosophers thanks to the work of Barbara Herman and others - free to download for the next couple of weeks
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Kant on Marriage
Cambridge Core - Philosophy Texts - Kant on Marriage
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/kant-on-marriage/4DEC47FD3EDCDE9E6BC38DD03BFD3361
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)
8 months ago
Almost 4,000 years ago during an era we call the Old Babylonian period, a student formed a round tablet out of clay and drew a circle on it for a math assignment. The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (â 3).
#HappyPiDay
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Patton Oswalt
9 months ago
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Quest 64 Official
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Dan Greene
9 months ago
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, youâre operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one youâre willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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Judith Butler, philosopher: âIf you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logicâ
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAĂS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-15/judith-butler-philosopher-if-you-sacrifice-a-minority-like-trans-people-you-are-operating-within-a-fascist-logic.html
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen
9 months ago
Via
@zlz.bsky.social
on X: "The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt. If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service.
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Boze the Library Owl
10 months ago
The part of George Orwellâs 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels âwithout any human intervention.â The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
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Justin
10 months ago
Liberté, Egalité, Gritté
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Rémy Demichelis
10 months ago
I completely forgot to tell you that my paper published in The Conversation (France) has been translated in English an is available on
#arXiv
. đ "The Hermeneutic Turn of AI: Are Machines Capable of Interpreting?"
#PhilSci
#PhilSky
#LLM
arxiv.org/abs/2411.12517
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The Hermeneutic Turn of AI: Are Machines Capable of Interpreting?
This article aims to demonstrate how the approach to computing is being disrupted by deep learning (artificial neural networks), not only in terms of techniques but also in our interactions with machi...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12517
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AutAd
10 months ago
Ich feier erst wenn wir der AFD, der CDU, der FDP und dem BSW die Prozentpunkte runterjagen. Wenn Merz zurĂŒcktritt. Wenn wir Nazis wieder das FĂŒrchten lehren. Wenn die Presse endlich Klartext redet und nicht beschönigt. Wenn ein Wechsel zur konstruktiven Migrationspolitik stattfindet.
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Ben Sparks
10 months ago
I am unreasonably proud of combining several obsessions in one animation. An impossible tribar (aka a Penrose Triangle) level 4 fractal (Sierpinski Triangle), in 3D GeoGebra, with dynamic lighting (using the dot product).
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λ³đČ
10 months ago
Using the Heat equation with non-linear diffusion to restore art.
ima.org.uk/15927/fillin...
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Filling in the Gaps: The Hidden Role of Mathematics in Art Restoration
One of the greatest challenges of art restoration is that once an art conservator has decided to use a particular set of colours or techniques, then the
https://ima.org.uk/15927/filling-in-the-gaps-the-hidden-role-of-mathematics-in-art-restoration/
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austin_walker
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ArtButMakeItSports
10 months ago
Quarrel over a Lost Game, by Gillis van Tilborgh the Younger, mid 17th c, đž via @SpokedZ
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Hockey Images That Precede Unfortunate Events
11 months ago
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Jessamyn Dukes
10 months ago
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Ïle Ormsby
10 months ago
Even if something is very much like calculus, you are not allowed to describe it as âcalculussyâ.
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Jonathan Birch
11 months ago
I love philosophical dialogues, so I wrote one. It stars Credulus, who thinks consciousness can be attributed to other animals without scientific evidence; Skepticus, a critic with behaviourist leanings; and Moderus, who sees a middle path in the science of animal minds.
philpapers.org/rec/BIRWIA-3
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Jonathan Birch, Why Is Animal Consciousness Controversial? A Trialogue - PhilPapers
A conversation between three characters: Credulus, who thinks conscious mental states can and should be attributed to other animals without any need for scientific inquiry; Skepticus, a critic with be...
https://philpapers.org/rec/BIRWIA-3
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Aysha
11 months ago
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
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SmaMan
11 months ago
There's a small program you can download here to do it, but if you're not comfortable with that, they show which entries they're editing so you can do it yourself if you'd rather.
www.elevenforum.com/t/completely...
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Completely Disable and Remove Copilot in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to completely disable the Windows Copilot preview feature and remove Copilot from the taskbar, Windows Search, and Microsoft Edge for all users in Windows 11 and Window...
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/completely-disable-and-remove-copilot-in-windows-11.23264/
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Berna Devezer
11 months ago
As an aside, to everyone who comments on this with "we use stats all the time and we don't understand it": *vaguely gesturing at the current state of scientific literature* Exactly!
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Daniel Litt
11 months ago
I've recently been talking a bit about how difficult it is to carefully check even well-written mathematics. I want to try to explain something about this by telling the story of some errors in the literature that (in part) led to the two papers below. 1/n
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Eryk Salvaggio
11 months ago
More support for the âthese systems work for critically engaged expert usersâ pile (which is a problem when the systems are used by students developing that expertise).
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Disney Prime Video + á”á”Êłá”á”Êž
11 months ago
As the year comes to a close, we remember some of those once precious to us that we lost in 2024.
#RestInPeace
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FáȘáą á©áȘNá áȘáF
11 months ago
All I'm saying is Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz has more confirmed kills than Willy Wonka.
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Grumpy Philosopher
11 months ago
Really losing my sense of humour over over-hyped, unethical AI products undermining the entire global education system & research infrastructure, & then being told we must now change everything to accommodate that crappy AI. All so sociopathic billionaire techbros can make yet more money.
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Jacobin Magazin
11 months ago
»Die proletarischen Frauen griffen auch zu Mitteln wie Streiks oder Demonstrationen, wĂ€hrend die bĂŒrgerlichen Frauen eher Petitionen schrieben«, sagt der Herausgeber der Anthologie »Feministische Internationale« Vincent Streichhahn im Interview.
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Frauen ihrer Klasse
FĂŒr das Recht auf Abtreibung, gegen die Ausbeutung von Frauen, gegen Antifeminismus in den eigenen Reihen kĂ€mpften Sozialistinnen, Arbeiterinnen und Kommunistinnen weltweit schon vor ĂŒber hundert Jahren. Ihre politische Ambition und ihr utopischer Gestaltungswille sind eine Inspiration fĂŒr die KĂ€mpfe von heute.
https://jacobin.de/artikel/feministische-internationale-feminismus-abtreibungsrecht-arbeiterbewegung-proletarische-frauenbewegung
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Dr. Jim Getz @ PAXU
11 months ago
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
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More Perfect Union
11 months ago
BREAKING: The Teamsters are dramatically escalating their strike and taking it to Amazonâs largest NYC warehouse. Beginning at midnight tonight they will picket the massive facility with 5,500 workers. JFK8 on Staten Island is the first unionized Amazon warehouse.
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skĂĄld
11 months ago
civ vii goal: im going to launch a nuke as Harriet Tubman
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Existential Comics
11 months ago
"Living well is the best revenge"? Oh yeah? Well it just so happens that my idea of "living well" is wreaking fiery vengeance on those who've wronged me. So there.
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More Perfect Union
11 months ago
BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
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Bruno J. Navarro
11 months ago
âOnce you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, youâre operating within a fascist logic,â they said. âThat means there might be a second one youâre willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?â
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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/18/judith-butler-interview-el-pais-gender-trans/
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λ³đČ
12 months ago
"using Bayes rule doesnât make one a Bayesian"
purl.stanford.edu/cc704rc9513
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Mike Duncan
11 months ago
This is literally the story of my life
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