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! 🖤

I remember wanting a Pac-Man lunchbox. Not sure it existed at the time. Settled for Dukes of Hazzard. Boy, that didn’t 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.

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

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

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.

Happy 4-year anniversary of the MacKinnon helmet throw

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

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 (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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.

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

Liberté, Egalité, Gritté

I completely forgot to tell you that my paper published in The Conversation (France) has been translated in English an is available on #arXiv. 👉 "The Hermeneutic Turn of AI: Are Machines Capable of Interpreting?" #PhilSci #PhilSky #LLM arxiv.org/abs/2411.12517

Ich feier erst wenn wir der AFD, der CDU, der FDP und dem BSW die Prozentpunkte runterjagen. Wenn Merz zurücktritt. Wenn wir Nazis wieder das Fürchten lehren. Wenn die Presse endlich Klartext redet und nicht beschönigt. Wenn ein Wechsel zur konstruktiven Migrationspolitik stattfindet.

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).

Using the Heat equation with non-linear diffusion to restore art. ima.org.uk/15927/fillin...

Quarrel over a Lost Game, by Gillis van Tilborgh the Younger, mid 17th c, 📸 via @SpokedZ

Even if something is very much like calculus, you are not allowed to describe it as “calculussy”.

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

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

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...

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!

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

More support for the “these systems work for critically engaged expert users” pile (which is a problem when the systems are used by students developing that expertise).

As the year comes to a close, we remember some of those once precious to us that we lost in 2024. #RestInPeace

All I'm saying is Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz has more confirmed kills than Willy Wonka.

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.

»Die proletarischen Frauen griffen auch zu Mitteln wie Streiks oder Demonstrationen, während die bürgerlichen Frauen eher Petitionen schrieben«, sagt der Herausgeber der Anthologie »Feministische Internationale« Vincent Streichhahn im Interview.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.

BREAKING: The Teamsters are dramatically escalating their strike and taking it to Amazon’s 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.

civ vii goal: im going to launch a nuke as Harriet Tubman

"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.

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.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

"using Bayes rule doesn’t make one a Bayesian" purl.stanford.edu/cc704rc9513

This is literally the story of my life