Joe Campbell
@philosopherjoe.bsky.social
Retired Professor still writing on skepticism, free will, and David Hume.
Right on right war, part 2:
Groupers are anti-gay but many of them - such as Nick Fuentes - are fine with femboys, "men, usually cisgender, who express themselves with traditionally feminine behaviors." Here is a clip on Groypers and femboys.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ7R...
Groupers are anti-gay but many of them - such as Nick Fuentes - are fine with femboys, "men, usually cisgender, who express themselves with traditionally feminine behaviors." Here is a clip on Groypers and femboys.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ7R...
TRANS PARTNERS ARE COMMON IN GROYPER SUBCULTURES/ALT RIGHT #maga #trump #charliekirk #4chan #lgbtq
YouTube video by Cult College
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September 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Right on right war, part 2:
Groupers are anti-gay but many of them - such as Nick Fuentes - are fine with femboys, "men, usually cisgender, who express themselves with traditionally feminine behaviors." Here is a clip on Groypers and femboys.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ7R...
Groupers are anti-gay but many of them - such as Nick Fuentes - are fine with femboys, "men, usually cisgender, who express themselves with traditionally feminine behaviors." Here is a clip on Groypers and femboys.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ7R...
Right on right war, part 1:
Groypers follow Nick Fuentes and disagree with Kirk in at least two ways: Fuentes is less tolerant of 1/ gays and 2/ Israeli - he is a holocaust denier.
Clip below, but look at the YouTube comments to see the heat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM__...
Groypers follow Nick Fuentes and disagree with Kirk in at least two ways: Fuentes is less tolerant of 1/ gays and 2/ Israeli - he is a holocaust denier.
Clip below, but look at the YouTube comments to see the heat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM__...
Nick Fuentes on His Feud with Charlie Kirk #clips
YouTube video by Jake Shields' Fight Back Podcast
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Right on right war, part 1:
Groypers follow Nick Fuentes and disagree with Kirk in at least two ways: Fuentes is less tolerant of 1/ gays and 2/ Israeli - he is a holocaust denier.
Clip below, but look at the YouTube comments to see the heat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM__...
Groypers follow Nick Fuentes and disagree with Kirk in at least two ways: Fuentes is less tolerant of 1/ gays and 2/ Israeli - he is a holocaust denier.
Clip below, but look at the YouTube comments to see the heat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM__...
A man from Utah grows up Mormon and kills a rightwing political commentator.
When does the left enter the story?
Even surmising a trans lover doesn't do it because if there is a trans lover, she too is from a conservative family in Utah.
When does the left enter the story?
Right on right crime.
When does the left enter the story?
Even surmising a trans lover doesn't do it because if there is a trans lover, she too is from a conservative family in Utah.
When does the left enter the story?
Right on right crime.
September 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A man from Utah grows up Mormon and kills a rightwing political commentator.
When does the left enter the story?
Even surmising a trans lover doesn't do it because if there is a trans lover, she too is from a conservative family in Utah.
When does the left enter the story?
Right on right crime.
When does the left enter the story?
Even surmising a trans lover doesn't do it because if there is a trans lover, she too is from a conservative family in Utah.
When does the left enter the story?
Right on right crime.
I have a draft of my article on Hume on Free Will - really Hume on necessity and liberty. If you are willing to read it and comment, send me your email address in a DM.
February 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I have a draft of my article on Hume on Free Will - really Hume on necessity and liberty. If you are willing to read it and comment, send me your email address in a DM.
Anyone know of work being done on manipulation and explanation - specifically, the application of explanation theory to the manipulation argument?
January 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Anyone know of work being done on manipulation and explanation - specifically, the application of explanation theory to the manipulation argument?
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Looks like the alternatives (who were honestly probably overwhelmed during the big push to leave Substackj) actually do have tools to help, and others have offered as well.
Lots of good links in the thread if you're in a similar boat.
Lots of good links in the thread if you're in a similar boat.
I’m still looking to move my newsletter, but I need some assistance. Substack has an edge here because they have staff that helps set everything up for tech idiots like me.
When I asked for help at alternatives like Ghost and Buttondown, they just pointed me to their DIY page and, ha ha, no.
When I asked for help at alternatives like Ghost and Buttondown, they just pointed me to their DIY page and, ha ha, no.
substack just announced a new enterprise media offering (whatever that means) in partnership with bari weiss’ website “because of its commitment to pursuing high-integrity journalism.”
if you’re still publishing there, it’s time to get the fuck out.
on.substack.com/p/the-new-me...
if you’re still publishing there, it’s time to get the fuck out.
on.substack.com/p/the-new-me...
December 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Looks like the alternatives (who were honestly probably overwhelmed during the big push to leave Substackj) actually do have tools to help, and others have offered as well.
Lots of good links in the thread if you're in a similar boat.
Lots of good links in the thread if you're in a similar boat.
I have no effective way of dealing with DMs. My current strategy is to just say "I don't like to DM, and I'm very old."
Any advice? I'm married, so I'm not here to meet people, but what are the odds that you'll meet a beautiful woman who contacts you via DM on Bluesky, or that it is even a person?
Any advice? I'm married, so I'm not here to meet people, but what are the odds that you'll meet a beautiful woman who contacts you via DM on Bluesky, or that it is even a person?
December 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
I have no effective way of dealing with DMs. My current strategy is to just say "I don't like to DM, and I'm very old."
Any advice? I'm married, so I'm not here to meet people, but what are the odds that you'll meet a beautiful woman who contacts you via DM on Bluesky, or that it is even a person?
Any advice? I'm married, so I'm not here to meet people, but what are the odds that you'll meet a beautiful woman who contacts you via DM on Bluesky, or that it is even a person?
There is a kind of woman who doesn't have any posts, doesn't have a lot of followers but follows a lot of people, likes to ask questions via DM but prefers other venues, is possibly a bot, etc.
Anyway, there are more of these kind of women-bots on Bksy than X.
Anyway, there are more of these kind of women-bots on Bksy than X.
December 15, 2024 at 4:45 PM
There is a kind of woman who doesn't have any posts, doesn't have a lot of followers but follows a lot of people, likes to ask questions via DM but prefers other venues, is possibly a bot, etc.
Anyway, there are more of these kind of women-bots on Bksy than X.
Anyway, there are more of these kind of women-bots on Bksy than X.
The Moorean argument for metaphysics.
Here is metaphysics.
And here is metaphysics.
Therefore, metaphysics is real.
And here is metaphysics.
Therefore, metaphysics is real.
December 10, 2024 at 11:40 PM
The Moorean argument for metaphysics.
I'm turning 66 tomorrow, and as a number 66 is better than 65. 65 is old. When I think of 65 I think of Rubber Soul which is not the best album of the Beatles.
66 is Revolver. Also, a famous US highway. And it just gets better, at least for a while.
67 Sgt. Peppers
68 The White Album
69 Abbey Road
66 is Revolver. Also, a famous US highway. And it just gets better, at least for a while.
67 Sgt. Peppers
68 The White Album
69 Abbey Road
December 7, 2024 at 8:46 PM
I'm turning 66 tomorrow, and as a number 66 is better than 65. 65 is old. When I think of 65 I think of Rubber Soul which is not the best album of the Beatles.
66 is Revolver. Also, a famous US highway. And it just gets better, at least for a while.
67 Sgt. Peppers
68 The White Album
69 Abbey Road
66 is Revolver. Also, a famous US highway. And it just gets better, at least for a while.
67 Sgt. Peppers
68 The White Album
69 Abbey Road
What do you think of this argument?
December 6, 2024 at 8:23 PM
What do you think of this argument?
Anyone working on Hume or the history of free will?
Which arguments for incompatibilism were around when Hume lived? Were there versions of the consequence argument?
I'm particularly interested in arguments starting from assumptions about causal necessity as a kind of tie between material objects.
Which arguments for incompatibilism were around when Hume lived? Were there versions of the consequence argument?
I'm particularly interested in arguments starting from assumptions about causal necessity as a kind of tie between material objects.
December 5, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Anyone working on Hume or the history of free will?
Which arguments for incompatibilism were around when Hume lived? Were there versions of the consequence argument?
I'm particularly interested in arguments starting from assumptions about causal necessity as a kind of tie between material objects.
Which arguments for incompatibilism were around when Hume lived? Were there versions of the consequence argument?
I'm particularly interested in arguments starting from assumptions about causal necessity as a kind of tie between material objects.
Reposted by Joe Campbell
if you told me ten years ago that we would reverse whatever meager climate progress we made so the computer can make shrimp jesus pictures, i probably would have believed that
December 2, 2024 at 2:04 PM
if you told me ten years ago that we would reverse whatever meager climate progress we made so the computer can make shrimp jesus pictures, i probably would have believed that
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The multiverse is unscientific nonsense, argues Harvard's Jacob Barandes. | https://buff.ly/41425Be
“This point merits reiterating: no experiment has ever actually seen an atom in two places at once, let alone a cat being both alive and dead.”
#philsci #multiverse
“This point merits reiterating: no experiment has ever actually seen an atom in two places at once, let alone a cat being both alive and dead.”
#philsci #multiverse
The multiverse is unscientific nonsense | Jacob Barandes
Everyone from physicists like Michio Kaku to Marvel superheroes propagate the idea of the multiverse - an infinite set of parallel universes. But Jacob Barandes argues that any talk of multiverses is…
buff.ly
November 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM
The multiverse is unscientific nonsense, argues Harvard's Jacob Barandes. | https://buff.ly/41425Be
“This point merits reiterating: no experiment has ever actually seen an atom in two places at once, let alone a cat being both alive and dead.”
#philsci #multiverse
“This point merits reiterating: no experiment has ever actually seen an atom in two places at once, let alone a cat being both alive and dead.”
#philsci #multiverse
Here is my hangup with BlueSky: it is the anti-twitter for philosophy, a running away from twitter. Why can't we reclaim X, make it become twitter again? We are philosophers, damn it, we should be able to do that. And I promise you once you get BlueSky to where X was, someone will buy it.
Discuss.
Discuss.
November 30, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Here is my hangup with BlueSky: it is the anti-twitter for philosophy, a running away from twitter. Why can't we reclaim X, make it become twitter again? We are philosophers, damn it, we should be able to do that. And I promise you once you get BlueSky to where X was, someone will buy it.
Discuss.
Discuss.
Is there anyone out there?
November 28, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Is there anyone out there?
Reposted by Joe Campbell
The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it www.latimes.com/business/tec...
Column: The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it
ChatGPT and other generative AI applications rely on copyrighted material to do what they do. But rather than compensate creators, the companies are turning to one of Silicon Valley's most reliable pl...
www.latimes.com
January 21, 2024 at 1:33 PM
The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it www.latimes.com/business/tec...
January 1, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Theorem: Nothing is morally wrong per se. Things are only right or wrong in context, once the full circumstance is taken into account (Hume).
Corollary: If something were morally wrong per se, it would not be abortion.
Corollary: If something were morally wrong per se, it would not be abortion.
December 14, 2023 at 4:48 PM
Theorem: Nothing is morally wrong per se. Things are only right or wrong in context, once the full circumstance is taken into account (Hume).
Corollary: If something were morally wrong per se, it would not be abortion.
Corollary: If something were morally wrong per se, it would not be abortion.
This is my new thought about metaphysics: it is like color.
There is a sense in which metaphysics isn't real - you can make almost any idea consistent with almost any metaphysics by bending one or the other - but you couldn't distinguish much without it. It makes any knowledge we do have possible.
There is a sense in which metaphysics isn't real - you can make almost any idea consistent with almost any metaphysics by bending one or the other - but you couldn't distinguish much without it. It makes any knowledge we do have possible.
November 20, 2023 at 2:47 PM
This is my new thought about metaphysics: it is like color.
There is a sense in which metaphysics isn't real - you can make almost any idea consistent with almost any metaphysics by bending one or the other - but you couldn't distinguish much without it. It makes any knowledge we do have possible.
There is a sense in which metaphysics isn't real - you can make almost any idea consistent with almost any metaphysics by bending one or the other - but you couldn't distinguish much without it. It makes any knowledge we do have possible.
Reposted by Joe Campbell
The greatest story ever told
November 5, 2023 at 8:16 AM
The greatest story ever told
I really liked No Hard Feelings, and I love this version of Maneater, originally done by Hall & Oates. Makes you realize what a great song that is. Just a change in context perfectly captures contemporary young male angst - just like the original version did.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elWa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elWa...
October 31, 2023 at 8:25 PM
I really liked No Hard Feelings, and I love this version of Maneater, originally done by Hall & Oates. Makes you realize what a great song that is. Just a change in context perfectly captures contemporary young male angst - just like the original version did.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elWa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elWa...
We lack free will means either we lack the specific ability to do otherwise, or we are not the origins of our actions.
Both are suggested since causes have effects preceding the agent.
Yet no one who gives advice (Sapolsky) thinks we lack control over the future.
How is no free will a solution?
Both are suggested since causes have effects preceding the agent.
Yet no one who gives advice (Sapolsky) thinks we lack control over the future.
How is no free will a solution?
October 31, 2023 at 4:39 PM
We lack free will means either we lack the specific ability to do otherwise, or we are not the origins of our actions.
Both are suggested since causes have effects preceding the agent.
Yet no one who gives advice (Sapolsky) thinks we lack control over the future.
How is no free will a solution?
Both are suggested since causes have effects preceding the agent.
Yet no one who gives advice (Sapolsky) thinks we lack control over the future.
How is no free will a solution?
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