Brought 5 new students to our local weekly colloquium! 🤩 They were all interested in attending the next one!

my kids are still young but this is basically our strategy. even video games are something that we first and foremost play together, as a family, in the living room.

"Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty." Charlie Kirk

"Only when I write do I feel well. Then I forget all of life’s vexations, all its sufferings, then I am wrapped in thought and am happy. If I stop for a few days, right away I become ill, overwhelmed and troubled; my head feels heavy and burdened." - Søren Kierkegaard

GOP: We oppose knowledge! US universities: to take a stand here would be to fail to be politically neutral!!

So excited to be heading back into the classroom tomorrow morning! 🤩

Had a really fun weekend at the worlds celebration event. Ended up with first place playing my favourite deck Sky Striker. Got to finish the game by attacking a card I got my mother to sign. Great way to end the ygo season this year! Excited for next year! 😎

"The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” - Thomas Paine

Do they see it yet? How absurd their own leader is? No?

Gordon Marino’s introduction to ‘The Quotable Kierkegaard’ is such a fantastic love letter/intro to Kierkegaard/Kierkegaardian thought. I keep returning to it, and underlining something new, or keep having a new idea.

I can’t believe this isn’t satire.

AI “thinks” in the same way a mirror looks at you

Getting more into Žižek recently. Here is an awesome clip of him speaking on Eurocentrism. I feel like a lot of what Žižek says here can also be applied to different issues as well. That is, the thought process behind what eurocentrism really is and how we operate in EC. youtu.be/A6OrQUt7v8U?...

Speaking with friends, seeing online discourse, and reading more historical accounts from 1920’s-1940’s. Feels like we are in a similar era right now. Makes sense why the Trump administration has targeted the removal of funding for education at all levels. Feel like a doomsayer writing this. 🫠

I’ve been stranded in the airport for around 14 hours now. 1 cancellation, 1 flight change, and now onto the 3rd delay. It’s quite apt that the only book I brought with me to the airport was Kafka’s ‘The Castle.’

"There is but little time then I shall have won then all the strife will instantly have vanished then I can rest in petal-strewn halls and ceaselessly to my Jesus speak."

I want to co-sign everything @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social says here. If I were confident enough to make predictions, my prediction would be: LLMs will accelerate the trend towards a night-and-day distinction between very expensive, high quality education and cheap, worthless fake education.

Season 2 episode 6 of windbreaker really making me cry while getting my infusion…what an amazing episode.

"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony." -Søren Kierkegaard

Sick to my stomach seeing what is happening between India & Pakistan. This last year has been anxiety-inducing to say the least.

Happy 212th birthday Kierkegaard! Tillykke med fødselsdagen! #philsky

The Canadian election result shows that the 2024 US election might have gone very differently if American voters could somehow have known in advance what it would be like to have Donald Trump as president

Happy birthday Kant 🥳 @kylefoster.bsky.social #philsky

Weather is nice enough to skateboard again 🥰

Why tf did I start thinking about how The Minecraft Movie actually has Nietzschean themes sprinkled throughout… Wasn’t actually a bad movie tbh. Was a good ‘bad film’

“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.” - W. E. B. Du Bois

Feeling absolutely nauseated reading some of my own writing from high school. Who was I? Thankfully, I’ve evolved.

A mere 14 1/2 years after starting the podcast, we have finally gotten to Descartes! We kick off a mini-series on him today with a look at his life and works: www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-li... #philsky #descartes #earlymodern #podcast #philosophy

“At any moment reflection is capable of explaining everything quite differently and allowing one some way of escape.” - Søren Kierkegaard

Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.

I have now made 5 different people think The Onion’s videos are real.

is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?

we believe we are special and we simply are not

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

Might be too soon. But here’s the summer plan/goal -Continue learning Danish for an hour a day. -Study logic for an hour a day -Practice some new skateboard tricks or workout for an hour a day. -Read books related to my thesis 2-3 hours a day. That leaves 10 hours of free time a day 😁👍

🔓 Another #openaccess milestone! We're proud to announce that a further 37 journals in our DG20 Subscribe to Open portfolio have flipped to open access, making all 58 participating journals – and approximately 2,300 research articles – freely available to the global scholarly community now.

just highlighting text with my FIFTH HIGHLIGHTER COLOR - the guy who sits beside me in my kant class

If I sit still enough, and engage as little as possible; I’ll look like I understand everything being discussed - the guy who sits beside me in my Kant class

This piece by Pablo Stefanoni explains the connections between DOGE and Milei's Department of Deregulation - some direct, some indirect - I'm begging people in the US to read it www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Incredible that Kant could only think of three things to critique

The future isn’t over yet.

“This is precisely the basis of art, and most clearly that of poetry and the graphic arts. The highest manner of intuiting, as we find it in an artist’s view, is this kind of apprehension of a new type of stationary or mobile appearance of man and nature.” - Hermann von Helmholtz

“Philosophy’s main task is to respond to the soul’s cry; to make sense of and thereby free ourselves from the hold of our griefs and fears.” -Epictetus