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i don't agree with tarantino that paul dano is bad in there will be blood, but i *really* disagree with the idea that artists shouldn't criticize other artists. i wanna know what they think! it's interesting! it's okay not to like stuff!
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
i don't agree with tarantino that paul dano is bad in there will be blood, but i *really* disagree with the idea that artists shouldn't criticize other artists. i wanna know what they think! it's interesting! it's okay not to like stuff!
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Assistant professor, associate professor, full professor
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Assistant professor, associate professor, full professor
The only appropriate position on the White House demolition is “who cares”.
October 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The only appropriate position on the White House demolition is “who cares”.
i cannot emphasize how much i recommend disregarding this advice
Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive
September 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
i cannot emphasize how much i recommend disregarding this advice
Killers Of The Flower Moon and One Battle After Another… the bois saved their best for their later careers
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Killers Of The Flower Moon and One Battle After Another… the bois saved their best for their later careers
fwiw i’ll be slaughtered on a stake before i betray advil gang @dieworkwear.bsky.social @noamchompers.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
fwiw i’ll be slaughtered on a stake before i betray advil gang @dieworkwear.bsky.social @noamchompers.bsky.social
it’s better the other way around
Panpsychism is a proposal about the hardware on which the software of physics runs.
September 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
it’s better the other way around
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Honestly also the moment she says she will show us how to kill a God and, like, I saw why those angels followed Satan
September 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Honestly also the moment she says she will show us how to kill a God and, like, I saw why those angels followed Satan
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Rewatching My Neighbour Totoro and, like, I am just gonna come out and say it - the main characters are actually rather charming and endearing. Their youthful joie de vivre makes for uplifting and compelling viewing. No one else will tell you this but it's true.
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Rewatching My Neighbour Totoro and, like, I am just gonna come out and say it - the main characters are actually rather charming and endearing. Their youthful joie de vivre makes for uplifting and compelling viewing. No one else will tell you this but it's true.
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watched a couple of the ezra klein videos. shoulda been more self-serious imo
September 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
watched a couple of the ezra klein videos. shoulda been more self-serious imo
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they mean difficult like Derrida, right? ...right?
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
they mean difficult like Derrida, right? ...right?
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I love how when you actually read the classics of continental philosophy the first chapter is always like 'I am quite fond of asking whether the ground's grounding of the grounded grounds the ground's grounding of the grounded'
September 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I love how when you actually read the classics of continental philosophy the first chapter is always like 'I am quite fond of asking whether the ground's grounding of the grounded grounds the ground's grounding of the grounded'
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i am sorry but we are not rehabilitating count dooku. i believe in a big tent but i draw the line at sith lords
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
i am sorry but we are not rehabilitating count dooku. i believe in a big tent but i draw the line at sith lords
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"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People."
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People."
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
haunted houses are corny and corn mazes are haunted
September 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
haunted houses are corny and corn mazes are haunted
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Physicists will spend $10 billion on a particle accelerator to understand why there is an "unnatural" hierarchy between the Planck scale and the weak scale, then insist that philosophy has no role and we should shut up and calculate.
Today in #PhilosophyOfCosmology we talked about fine-tuning and naturalness, and introduced inflation and eternal inflation.
So many juicy philosophical questions that physicists don't take as seriously as they should! What does it mean for parameters/initial conditions to be "unnatural," anyway?
So many juicy philosophical questions that physicists don't take as seriously as they should! What does it mean for parameters/initial conditions to be "unnatural," anyway?
September 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Physicists will spend $10 billion on a particle accelerator to understand why there is an "unnatural" hierarchy between the Planck scale and the weak scale, then insist that philosophy has no role and we should shut up and calculate.
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UChicago went on an absolutely *spectacular* spending binge in an attempt to overtake the likes of Harvard, MIT, and Princeton in prestige and instead it effectively destroyed its endowment and is now carving up departments in a desperate attempt to reclaim its riches via cost cutting.
The university where I did my PhD is destroying itself. I’m not sure its forner reputation will ever recover. www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions
The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.
www.insidehighered.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
UChicago went on an absolutely *spectacular* spending binge in an attempt to overtake the likes of Harvard, MIT, and Princeton in prestige and instead it effectively destroyed its endowment and is now carving up departments in a desperate attempt to reclaim its riches via cost cutting.
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I hate that the Joker kinda ruined pointing out that we live in a society for the rest of us, since we do in fact do that and sometimes it is worth drawing attention to some consequences of that fact.
August 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I hate that the Joker kinda ruined pointing out that we live in a society for the rest of us, since we do in fact do that and sometimes it is worth drawing attention to some consequences of that fact.
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the hypothesis that the human brain can perform rule-based computations is theoretically extravagant, which is why i think it just does big ass linear algebra problems instead
August 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
the hypothesis that the human brain can perform rule-based computations is theoretically extravagant, which is why i think it just does big ass linear algebra problems instead
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so you're telling me this night snack is mid?
August 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
so you're telling me this night snack is mid?
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the first conspiracy.
May 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
the first conspiracy.
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'the mind is composed of items with both syntax and semantics, and formal operations defined over them. that's how intelligent behavior can be mechanistically implemented, and is assumed by most psychological explanations'
wow, evocative metaphor. a modern 'juliet is the sun'
wow, evocative metaphor. a modern 'juliet is the sun'
August 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
'the mind is composed of items with both syntax and semantics, and formal operations defined over them. that's how intelligent behavior can be mechanistically implemented, and is assumed by most psychological explanations'
wow, evocative metaphor. a modern 'juliet is the sun'
wow, evocative metaphor. a modern 'juliet is the sun'