Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
I teach philosophy at Purdue. My opinions are my own and don't represent my employer
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Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
· Oct 31
I wrote a book that I'm proud of: www.amazon.com/Lockes-Image...
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
The current Earl of Sandwich is married to an American (the Countess of Sandwich) who studied computer science at Indiana University
Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The current Earl of Sandwich is married to an American (the Countess of Sandwich) who studied computer science at Indiana University
A self-portrait painted after van Honthorst's portrait
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A self-portrait painted after van Honthorst's portrait
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Aren't you supposed to call "I got it"?
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Aren't you supposed to call "I got it"?
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Halloween from
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Halloween from
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
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Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”
Once people decided that vaccines didn't work, all bets were off, and any combination of beliefs was possible
The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Once people decided that vaccines didn't work, all bets were off, and any combination of beliefs was possible
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Him: where are all the coffee filters?
Me:
Me:
June 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Him: where are all the coffee filters?
Me:
Me:
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Just found out Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman. This is why I have trust issues
April 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Just found out Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman. This is why I have trust issues
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Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."
(It wasn't until Jeff and Ann VanderMeer were working on their anthology The Weird that I learned that "onions" is a typo. Either Jeff or Ann mentioned to me that Barker asked them to fix the typo that had haunted the story in countless reprintings, incl in their own earlier antho The New Weird.)
October 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."
Have you heard the one about the infinitude of death?
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Have you heard the one about the infinitude of death?
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I’m a blood-pumping organ at heart.
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’m a blood-pumping organ at heart.
We’re planning a conference on associationism and its history, and we're calling for papers. Let me or Javi Gomez-Lavin @jglavin.bsky.social know if you’re interested philevents.org/event/show/1...
Third Meeting of the Association Association
The Association Association is a group of philosophers working on the history and current applications of associationist ideas about the nature of the mind, including the range of ...
philevents.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We’re planning a conference on associationism and its history, and we're calling for papers. Let me or Javi Gomez-Lavin @jglavin.bsky.social know if you’re interested philevents.org/event/show/1...
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can I come over to your house and do this
October 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
can I come over to your house and do this
The species relativity of color
Tigers are ambush predators. In dense green jungles, they stalk silently and invisibly on padded feet, leaping only when it's too late for the prey animal to escape.
So why the heck are they bright orange?
Let's talk about the tiger's camouflaged pajamas.
(📷: Dave Pearson)
So why the heck are they bright orange?
Let's talk about the tiger's camouflaged pajamas.
(📷: Dave Pearson)
October 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The species relativity of color
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There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.
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If I have time to make signs for No Kings tomorrow, they're just going to be lines from the Declaration of Independence cataloguing George III's offenses that match things Trump has done.
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If I have time to make signs for No Kings tomorrow, they're just going to be lines from the Declaration of Independence cataloguing George III's offenses that match things Trump has done.
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I built an AI model that writes haunting sci-fi novels in which a vast and unknowable alien other produces seemingly-real replicas of your lost loved ones, just as you remember them but also hollow, since we cannot know the alien other if we do not know ourselves. I call the model 'Stanislaw LLM'
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I built an AI model that writes haunting sci-fi novels in which a vast and unknowable alien other produces seemingly-real replicas of your lost loved ones, just as you remember them but also hollow, since we cannot know the alien other if we do not know ourselves. I call the model 'Stanislaw LLM'
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Step 1: refuse to draw any distinction between "phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking".
#philosophy #c17
#philosophy #c17
October 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Step 1: refuse to draw any distinction between "phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking".
#philosophy #c17
#philosophy #c17
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There she blows!- there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!
October 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
There she blows!- there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!