A Dog, 1912 #expressionism #franzmarc

Really happy that mine and Keith Crome’s article on #AI and Plagiarism has been published in @futurehumanities.bsky.social in open access. We argue that focus on policing students conduct misses the more profound challenge to our assessments from #GenAI onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

As an English person should I write “temporalising” instead of “temporalizing”, or should I give in and use the zeds because I’ve only ever seen it written by Americans?

“Time is an illusion, daylight savings time doubly so.” (with apologies to Douglas Adams). #DaylightSavingsTime

Whenever a new book arrives it seems ludicrous that I have to go back to work tomorrow, rather than reading the book.

William Vanderson, 1936 'The swan was named Leila and belonged to a Mrs. Watson of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. According to Mrs. Watson, Leila could open doors and acted as a guard dog'

open.substack.com/pub/goingalo... I had a crack at late-Heidegger. I have questions…

This just magically arrived for my birthday. I am seriously considering calling in sick next week because I need to read this immediately! 🐾

When a book is really, really good I read all the footnotes.

Heidegger on the space race.

The only thing I am certain about is that I bought some books this year. Still some space for 2026.

A few pages into Ponderings, I suddenly realised: this is Heidegger on Twitter.

I went to see a “listening ear” today (South East coast of England). It was built in the 1920s and designed to provide early warning of enemy aircraft by amplifying the sound.

This year’s Christmas presents.

A milkwoman on her morning round, Belgium Donald Macleish, ca. 1922.

It Was Meant to Be Great But It’s Horrible: Christmas with Uncle Malcolm and the King Mob.

So far, Pluribus seems very similar to Ancillary Justice.

On whether Heidegger had a dog 🐕

I found Van Gogh’s boots in London.

Derrida keeps breaking Zotero. I can reference anyone else but whenever it’s Derrida, it breaks.

Not bad!

Enough for a month in the Alps? I’m terrified I’ll leave the books I need at home.

I wrote a thing about Heidegger and animals: open.substack.com/pub/goingalo...

Evelyn De Morgan

I’ve now done all the Welsh on Duolingo and I still can’t speak Welsh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Rae has grudgingly admitted that whilst she has access to beings, she does not apprehend them as beings.

“….everything depends upon correctly grasping the obvious…” (FCM). Easier said than done!

“…truth is not in objects, but also not in subjects, and so it comes up with a third realm of meaning, an invention that is no less doubtful than medieval speculation about angels.” BPP

I’m just going to ignore what is happening today and continue reading about the “is”.

I look forward to the summer and then once it’s here I remember I’m a better person in the winter.

Viktor Kolář. viktorkolar.com

“Your literature review should be 5,000 to 10,000 words.” 25,000 words later… 😐

“…whenever common sense is taken to be philosophy’s highest court of appeal, philosophy must become suspicious…The demands and standards of common sense have no right to claim any validity or to represent any authority in regard to what philosophy is and what it is not.” BPP

Birthday gifts!

A good start to Christmas.

Starting on this today!

Found in Krell’s Daimon Life.

The best of welcomes at Arrivals.

What modern psychology would consider to be “good” is, I suspect, some kind of peak average everydayness where Dasein feels fully at home. I suspect this is why my non-philosopher friends tend to say things like “all the philosophy will make you go mad”. It does the opposite, of course.

Are there any vegetarians in West Virginia? I have been visiting and I am wasting away after 4 days. Help!

This, at the start of The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics is rather funny but seems out of character for Heidegger. Maybe he’d just had a particularly strong coffee.