Hospitals are jammed packed with Bluetooth devices. There are so many that my phone just won’t populate all of them and it will be a crap shot to find the device I’m trying to pair with.

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I’m not taking a stand on the rightness or wrongness of Luigi Mangione’s actions, I will however note that the the two sides of the debate almost perfectly represent the Act/Rule utilitarian positions. #luigi #ethics

Philosophical question of the week: what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for a Christmas movie, and does Die Hard meet them?

Philosophical question of the week: are we obligated to return the shopping cart to the store, or can we just park it in the parking lot corral? Or just maybe propped up on the parking lot island?

Let the South Korean Martial Law event happening right now be a reminder to all of us in the US: Democracies can end if we don’t fight for it, and aren’t careful with it.

A conservative leader using the military to oppose the other party’s political opposition is exactly what Trump has promised.

Death is when one’s metaphysical identity ends (assuming no afterlife). Ben says that Anakin died and became Darth Vader. But Luke redeems his father Anakin.

So he is committed to a theory where identity survives death and discontinuity.

All this is to say Obi-Wan is a bad philosopher.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hmm downdetector is reporting #reddit #robinhood #spotify #microsoft are all spiking in downtime.

Hello Redditors! How is everyone doing while the servers burn? #reddit

Happy world Philosiphy day Bluesky!

…pointing to the fragility and finite of human existence, calls on us to live fuller, more loving and more generous lives;… consciousness of this insufficiency and accident calls on us to take responsibility for the other by articulating… the urgency to pursue a genuine and authentic existence…

Ugh. I’m sorry I put space or astronomy or whatever it is I did when I signed up. It’s just all AI generated BS of nonexistent skulls and butterfly nebula.

“Of course it’s happening in your head Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Dumbledore likes Berkeley’s Idealism