Eric Linus Kaplan
@ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social
Podcast "Terrifying Questions and How not to be Terrified by Them" -- book"Does Santa Exist?" -- tv shows-- Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Big Bang Theory, Malcom in the Middle, Krapopolis &c.! blog ericlinuskaplan.wordpress.com He/Him
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Cat quote of the night
1-28-26
“If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards.”
- William Gibson
#CatQuoteOfTheNight
#MenWithCats
1-28-26
“If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards.”
- William Gibson
#CatQuoteOfTheNight
#MenWithCats
January 29, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Cat quote of the night
1-28-26
“If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards.”
- William Gibson
#CatQuoteOfTheNight
#MenWithCats
1-28-26
“If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards.”
- William Gibson
#CatQuoteOfTheNight
#MenWithCats
-what part of associating with the child rapist do you regret -- the people criticizing you part or the raping children part?
-Oh the first! It's why I lied about it. The second part I liked a lot -- that's why I associated with a child rapist. Sorry - I thought that was clear.
-Oh the first! It's why I lied about it. The second part I liked a lot -- that's why I associated with a child rapist. Sorry - I thought that was clear.
February 1, 2026 at 6:19 AM
-what part of associating with the child rapist do you regret -- the people criticizing you part or the raping children part?
-Oh the first! It's why I lied about it. The second part I liked a lot -- that's why I associated with a child rapist. Sorry - I thought that was clear.
-Oh the first! It's why I lied about it. The second part I liked a lot -- that's why I associated with a child rapist. Sorry - I thought that was clear.
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G's visit to her cousins got her back into the habit of reading/being read to while crocheting, so we picked up where we'd left off in A Swiftly Tilting Planet. After finishing it, we've moved on to A Wind in the Door -- which I read just over 120 pages of out loud today.
August 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
G's visit to her cousins got her back into the habit of reading/being read to while crocheting, so we picked up where we'd left off in A Swiftly Tilting Planet. After finishing it, we've moved on to A Wind in the Door -- which I read just over 120 pages of out loud today.
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I really loved A Wind in the Door, I must’ve read it like a dozen times as a kid, but I was trying to summarize it for Tina and could barely recall what the plot was.
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I really loved A Wind in the Door, I must’ve read it like a dozen times as a kid, but I was trying to summarize it for Tina and could barely recall what the plot was.
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I'm in the middle of America, América by Greg Grandin. A timely book about the influence Latin America has had on the United States. An excellent companion to American Nations by Colin Woodard that explores the distinct cultures that shaped North America. The past affects the present.
what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?
January 27, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I'm in the middle of America, América by Greg Grandin. A timely book about the influence Latin America has had on the United States. An excellent companion to American Nations by Colin Woodard that explores the distinct cultures that shaped North America. The past affects the present.
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Jacobo Grinberg, el psicólogo mexicano que desapareció, presuntamente, por descubrir “la matrix”💀👇
http://dlvr.it/TGKk3x
http://dlvr.it/TGKk3x
Jacobo Grinberg, el psicólogo mexicano que desapareció, presuntamente, por descubrir "la matrix" • ENTER.CO
¿La ciencia tiene algún punto en común con la espiritualidad? Jacobo Grinberg creía que sí, algo que, presuntamente, le costó la vida
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November 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Jacobo Grinberg, el psicólogo mexicano que desapareció, presuntamente, por descubrir “la matrix”💀👇
http://dlvr.it/TGKk3x
http://dlvr.it/TGKk3x
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Okay, I'm not one to post here just to blow my own horn. But I've been ramping up my writing time in the last little while, and I have to say, this new novel... it's really coming together. It's *working*. And that's a great feeling! I am trying very hard to get it out this year. #amwriting
January 31, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Okay, I'm not one to post here just to blow my own horn. But I've been ramping up my writing time in the last little while, and I have to say, this new novel... it's really coming together. It's *working*. And that's a great feeling! I am trying very hard to get it out this year. #amwriting
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Just finished up a two-hour online discussion of my new paper on Hegel’s Theory of Rational Proof. I got a lot of great feedback and some very helpful criticism!
Best of all, I'm coming out of this discussion with a greater sense of philosophical community than I have had for some time.
#philsky
Best of all, I'm coming out of this discussion with a greater sense of philosophical community than I have had for some time.
#philsky
📢📢 New Article 📢📢
"Hegel's Theory of Rational Proof"
Published in Hegel Bulletin
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Big thanks to @schuringa.bsky.social and @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social for all the help along the way - and for putting up with all of my pesky emails!
"Hegel's Theory of Rational Proof"
Published in Hegel Bulletin
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Big thanks to @schuringa.bsky.social and @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social for all the help along the way - and for putting up with all of my pesky emails!
Hegel’s Theory of Rational Proof | Hegel Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Hegel’s Theory of Rational Proof
www.cambridge.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Just finished up a two-hour online discussion of my new paper on Hegel’s Theory of Rational Proof. I got a lot of great feedback and some very helpful criticism!
Best of all, I'm coming out of this discussion with a greater sense of philosophical community than I have had for some time.
#philsky
Best of all, I'm coming out of this discussion with a greater sense of philosophical community than I have had for some time.
#philsky
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Oh my god this is so funny, Tal is so good
TODAY: @swordsjew.bsky.social on the Obligatory Heterosexual Interludes of cinema. "She is there to kiss and evaporate, thereby dispersing the mists of gay passion that might otherwise have gathered and precipitated into action." flaminghydra.com/r/2eaecda2?m...
This guy’s in love with you
Tal Lavin watches some movies
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January 29, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Oh my god this is so funny, Tal is so good
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The omnibus of the last two books of The Videssos Cycle is called THE VIDESSOS CYCLE: VOLUME TWO. I'm sure this amazes you as much s it did me when I first saw it.
www.amazon.com/Videssos-Cyc...
www.amazon.com/Videssos-Cyc...
Videssos Cycle: Volume Two: Legion of Videssos and Swords of the Legion (The Videssos Cycle Book 2) - Kindle edition by Turtledove, Harry. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Videssos Cycle: Volume Two: Legion of Videssos and Swords of the Legion (The Videssos Cycle Book 2) - Kindle edition by Turtledove, Harry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Videssos Cycle: Volume Two: Legion of Videssos and Swords of the Legion (The Videssos Cycle Book 2).
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November 9, 2024 at 4:50 PM
The omnibus of the last two books of The Videssos Cycle is called THE VIDESSOS CYCLE: VOLUME TWO. I'm sure this amazes you as much s it did me when I first saw it.
www.amazon.com/Videssos-Cyc...
www.amazon.com/Videssos-Cyc...
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Since I do have some working historians looking here, I'll also point you toward my translation of THE CHRONICLE OF THEOPHANES, the best surviving source for Byzantium in the 7th and 8th centuries. If that's what you need...
www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Th...
www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Th...
The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) (The Middle Ages Series): Turtledove, Harry, Turtledove, Harry: 9780812211283: Amazon.com: Books
The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) (The Middle Ages Series) [Turtledove, Harry, Turtledove, Harry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) (The Middle Ages Series)
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October 20, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Since I do have some working historians looking here, I'll also point you toward my translation of THE CHRONICLE OF THEOPHANES, the best surviving source for Byzantium in the 7th and 8th centuries. If that's what you need...
www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Th...
www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Th...
“We are not personalists, we are partisans of principles and not of men!”
― Emiliano Zapata, Manifiestos (Historia)
― Emiliano Zapata, Manifiestos (Historia)
January 29, 2026 at 8:38 PM
“We are not personalists, we are partisans of principles and not of men!”
― Emiliano Zapata, Manifiestos (Historia)
― Emiliano Zapata, Manifiestos (Historia)
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Wound Fever 1889
January 29, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Wound Fever 1889
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Really excited that Joniece Abbott-Pratt, who narrated my first book The Disordered Cosmos, is also narrating The Edge of Space-Time. I'm lucky that she chose to work on the project!!
If you're not familiar with her work, you should go to @libro.fm and look through all the books she's narrated.
If you're not familiar with her work, you should go to @libro.fm and look through all the books she's narrated.
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Really excited that Joniece Abbott-Pratt, who narrated my first book The Disordered Cosmos, is also narrating The Edge of Space-Time. I'm lucky that she chose to work on the project!!
If you're not familiar with her work, you should go to @libro.fm and look through all the books she's narrated.
If you're not familiar with her work, you should go to @libro.fm and look through all the books she's narrated.
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The study of biology has taught me that some of the biggest innovations and the coolest collaborations (i.e. symbiosis) in the history of living systems happened during times that were dangerous and uncertain. Just mentioning that in case you know someone living in dangerous and uncertain times.
January 29, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The study of biology has taught me that some of the biggest innovations and the coolest collaborations (i.e. symbiosis) in the history of living systems happened during times that were dangerous and uncertain. Just mentioning that in case you know someone living in dangerous and uncertain times.
"the Bison of God?! Seriously -- I mean -- what on earth--?!!"
"No no no. The bi Son of God."
"Ohhh! Okay, good -- got it! Carry on!"
"No no no. The bi Son of God."
"Ohhh! Okay, good -- got it! Carry on!"
January 29, 2026 at 11:29 AM
"the Bison of God?! Seriously -- I mean -- what on earth--?!!"
"No no no. The bi Son of God."
"Ohhh! Okay, good -- got it! Carry on!"
"No no no. The bi Son of God."
"Ohhh! Okay, good -- got it! Carry on!"
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Which is why, out of all the horrible things happening in the world right now, I think ChatGPT might be one of the worst, because it will cut an entire generation off from any understanding of what language is & how it works, rendering it into 'prompts', weird Silicon Valley magic spells.
January 26, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Which is why, out of all the horrible things happening in the world right now, I think ChatGPT might be one of the worst, because it will cut an entire generation off from any understanding of what language is & how it works, rendering it into 'prompts', weird Silicon Valley magic spells.
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we call our cat Harold Pinter because of his long paws!!! also he had an affair with Joan Bakewell
January 27, 2026 at 3:11 PM
we call our cat Harold Pinter because of his long paws!!! also he had an affair with Joan Bakewell
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Alice (1988)
Written and directed by Jan Svankmajer
Based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - BOTD in 1832
Written and directed by Jan Svankmajer
Based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - BOTD in 1832
January 27, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Alice (1988)
Written and directed by Jan Svankmajer
Based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - BOTD in 1832
Written and directed by Jan Svankmajer
Based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - BOTD in 1832
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The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...
January 28, 2026 at 3:17 PM
The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...
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Attending mandatory Star Fleet hr sensitivity training cos I said "well that's not very mummy Captain of you" upon learning of Janeway personally executing Tuvix for the crime of existing contrary to her will.
January 28, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Attending mandatory Star Fleet hr sensitivity training cos I said "well that's not very mummy Captain of you" upon learning of Janeway personally executing Tuvix for the crime of existing contrary to her will.
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It's weird when people talk about long-duration energy storage in terms of hours. "100-hour battery," etc. To make a 100-hour battery, just throttle the power output of an already-existing battery. Ta-da! It runs for a week.
IMO, the metrics that matter are kWh cost and self-dissipation rate.
IMO, the metrics that matter are kWh cost and self-dissipation rate.
January 28, 2026 at 8:48 PM
It's weird when people talk about long-duration energy storage in terms of hours. "100-hour battery," etc. To make a 100-hour battery, just throttle the power output of an already-existing battery. Ta-da! It runs for a week.
IMO, the metrics that matter are kWh cost and self-dissipation rate.
IMO, the metrics that matter are kWh cost and self-dissipation rate.
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Another fine day discussing romance in the 'Falling in Love with Love' class!
I love the different areas of interest and expertise that people bring to the discussions.
So many different ways of approaching the texts!
This week was Pride and Prejudice, what a great one to dive into!
I love the different areas of interest and expertise that people bring to the discussions.
So many different ways of approaching the texts!
This week was Pride and Prejudice, what a great one to dive into!
January 28, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Another fine day discussing romance in the 'Falling in Love with Love' class!
I love the different areas of interest and expertise that people bring to the discussions.
So many different ways of approaching the texts!
This week was Pride and Prejudice, what a great one to dive into!
I love the different areas of interest and expertise that people bring to the discussions.
So many different ways of approaching the texts!
This week was Pride and Prejudice, what a great one to dive into!
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My culture is not your costume
Grindcore is the new hustle culture ft.trib.al/Yq5N8YC | opinion
Grindcore is the new hustle culture
In Silicon Valley, long hours have fused with a monastic male wellness aesthetic
ft.trib.al
January 29, 2026 at 3:36 AM
My culture is not your costume
A potentially habitable new planet has been discovered 146 light-years away – but it may be -70C
BRING LAYERS
BRING LAYERS
January 29, 2026 at 10:49 AM
A potentially habitable new planet has been discovered 146 light-years away – but it may be -70C
BRING LAYERS
BRING LAYERS