Devin
@dervine7.bsky.social
philosophy ph.d. student (philosophy of language primarily), amongst other things. they/he
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dudes rock
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
dudes rock
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one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
this problem will be solved when one day I write my own logic textbook that has the obviously best notation & approach
Here is a bit of a puzzle: Why are there so many different Logic textbooks?
Formal Logic (TFL + FOL, nothing meta) seems like one of those things that we should be able to standardize and success in teaching is more clearly measurable compared to other philosophical subjects. Yet…
Formal Logic (TFL + FOL, nothing meta) seems like one of those things that we should be able to standardize and success in teaching is more clearly measurable compared to other philosophical subjects. Yet…
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
this problem will be solved when one day I write my own logic textbook that has the obviously best notation & approach
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ok, say I’m looking at ACA marketplace plans rn, is the tax credit I’m seeing the enhanced one that’s going away and if so how would I figure out what I would actually pay?
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
ok, say I’m looking at ACA marketplace plans rn, is the tax credit I’m seeing the enhanced one that’s going away and if so how would I figure out what I would actually pay?
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we have this zany idea that you should use quotation marks to indicate which parts of the text are being quoted from another source, and not put stuff that's a part of your writing and not being quoted in there, because that is confusing
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
we have this zany idea that you should use quotation marks to indicate which parts of the text are being quoted from another source, and not put stuff that's a part of your writing and not being quoted in there, because that is confusing
I genuinely struggle to comprehend why someone would think the punctuation should go inside the quotation marks. your sentence is now ill-formed! it doesn’t have a period at the end!
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I genuinely struggle to comprehend why someone would think the punctuation should go inside the quotation marks. your sentence is now ill-formed! it doesn’t have a period at the end!
ridiculous that reversing the rotation of your ceiling fan helps you stay warm, looney-toons-ass logic
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
ridiculous that reversing the rotation of your ceiling fan helps you stay warm, looney-toons-ass logic
ok, say I’m looking at ACA marketplace plans rn, is the tax credit I’m seeing the enhanced one that’s going away and if so how would I figure out what I would actually pay?
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
ok, say I’m looking at ACA marketplace plans rn, is the tax credit I’m seeing the enhanced one that’s going away and if so how would I figure out what I would actually pay?
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I'm thinking of starting a philosophy journal with a 100% rejection rate. It will be the most prestigious journal of all time.
Not sure how I feel about Ergo not allowing major revisions decisions for papers tbh
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm thinking of starting a philosophy journal with a 100% rejection rate. It will be the most prestigious journal of all time.
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Good morning and happy Sunday 🐴 🥰
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Good morning and happy Sunday 🐴 🥰
genuinely cannot for the life of me figure out what is supposed to be the sign that any of these men are reading performatively other than that they’re in public
I've been reading in public all my life purely for the pleasure of reading and long before The Independent existed... they can fuck off with this kind of pearl-clutching, mocking, attempt to make me feel bad about it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
genuinely cannot for the life of me figure out what is supposed to be the sign that any of these men are reading performatively other than that they’re in public
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I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life
I think the lesson here isn’t that the Democrats are or aren’t trying to do such-and-such it’s that there’s no such entity as “the Democrats”
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think the lesson here isn’t that the Democrats are or aren’t trying to do such-and-such it’s that there’s no such entity as “the Democrats”
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the problem with attributing any kind of collective intentionality to the Dems is that, unlike the GOP, they’re really bad at controlling their members
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
the problem with attributing any kind of collective intentionality to the Dems is that, unlike the GOP, they’re really bad at controlling their members
sorta looks to me like the Dem leadership was genuinely committed to keeping the shutdown going until they had an ACA deal but a handful of people broke ranks
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
sorta looks to me like the Dem leadership was genuinely committed to keeping the shutdown going until they had an ACA deal but a handful of people broke ranks
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there's a third year who's really smart and I like a lot. but he's smart in a really goofy way. everything he knows is from directly learning about it. like I asked if knew about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and he said yes but didn't know there was a song about it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
there's a third year who's really smart and I like a lot. but he's smart in a really goofy way. everything he knows is from directly learning about it. like I asked if knew about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and he said yes but didn't know there was a song about it.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
people go on about the evolutionary roots of tribalism but it seems to me that, especially compared to other species, what’s most striking about humans is how crazily friendly they are towards strangers
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
people go on about the evolutionary roots of tribalism but it seems to me that, especially compared to other species, what’s most striking about humans is how crazily friendly they are towards strangers
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one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
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Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic:
"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic:
"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
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i think we actually should force everyone who owns an island to make us a movie and if we dont like it the island is forfeit
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
i think we actually should force everyone who owns an island to make us a movie and if we dont like it the island is forfeit
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