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Tim Crane
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Philosopher and Pro-Rector at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
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Is denying the Holocaust legal or illegal in your country? HT @civixplorer
January 3, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Still Life with Lemons on a Plate, 1887 #postimpressionism #vangogh
January 3, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Actually, the guy and his speech were very impressive, but this was really a very awkward and clunking sentence from Mamdani
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Pretending you don’t understand *and* falling over and pretending to be injured? And it’s only the second day of the year. Start as you mean to continue, if guess.
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." 185 1 96 0 6 囚企 ... . . John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.s... • now No danger of much civility on here, so that's progress I suppose
January 2, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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Snow in Budapest
December 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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In 1923, frustrated, under appreciated and broke, David Bomberg travelled to Jerusalem and southern Jordan, having secured funding for his passage from the Palestine Foundation Fund in return for a number of works; this features a rock façade at Petra.
December 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
December 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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💥 KiC Debates is here!

Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social and Simon Rippon, both @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social, go head-to-head in a philosophical debate on artificial general intelligence, with audience voting and the chance to share your thoughts!

Jan 20 @ 5:30pm
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KiC Debates: Will we ever achieve artificial general intelligence?
Join us for a philosophical debate on artificial general intelligence, with audience voting and the chance to share your thoughts, too!
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December 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Ramsey coming up with his mature theory of induction in the middle of a talk
The other possible account has only just occurred to me, and as I am tired I cannot see clearly if it is sensible or absurd. Roughly it is that a type of inference is reasonable or unreasonable according to the relative frequencies with which it leads to truth and falsehood. Induction is reasonable because it produces predictions which are generally verified, not because of any logical relation between its premiss and conclusion. On this view we should establish by induction that induction was reasonable, and induction being reasonable this would be a reasonable argument.
December 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones

You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
steverattner.bsky.social Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 4d
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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If only everyone had predicted this including me.

Here's something I wrote at the time

bylinetimes.com/2021/05/19/t...
Currently, the only people likely to benefit from the deal are Australian farmers. For while the rise in UK exports to Australia will be fairly negligible, the boost in trade the other way could be as much as 83%. Australia is the second-largest producer of beef and lamb in the world and the UK is a ready- made export market, ripe for exploitation,
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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If you go down to the woods today you're in for a big surprise...

#CursedCarols
December 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Nativity by Piero della Francesca, 1470s. The angels are making music and yet the silence feels complete.
December 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Joyeaux Noël !
Photo of Beauvoir and Sartre in a bar with Santa hats poorly grafted onto Beauvoir's head and the head of a woman in the foreground. Sartre looks like he is trying to take her hat. Beauvoir is drinking something.
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Art of Fugue is a kind of Protestant/Rationalist antidote to all that Catholic — Anglican sentimentality
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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A lot of Catholic tunes (Berlioz, Bruckner) at the King’s Cambridge Carol concert. Maybe because of the King praying with the Pope
December 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Don’t know how many of you are choral music enthusiasts, but this is quite a performance of this amazing piece www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vspc...
Arnold Schönberg – Friede auf Erden op. 13 | WDR Rundfunkchor
YouTube video by ARD Klassik
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December 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Happy Christmas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTFU...
Tallis: Videte miraculum
YouTube video by Owain Park - Topic
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December 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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It's a busy day in Bethlehem and nobody really notices the couple who have come to be counted. As imagined by the great Pieter Bruegel.
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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i've updated my history of AI poster. new version is on my website. 🥳
December 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Alan Bennett’s diary, 1984.
prefer to be liked and thought a nice man. But I'm not. I'm just as bad as the rest of them, only I don't like to show it. 7 December. To a party at the Department of the History of Medicine at University College. I talk to Alan Tyson, who's like a figure out of the eighteenth century: a genial, snuff-taking, snuff-coloured, easy-going aristocrat - Fox, perhaps, or one of the Bourbons. He is a fellow of All Souls, and when Mrs Thatcher came to the college for a scientific symposium Tyson was deputed to take her round the Common Room. This is hung with portraits and photographs of dead fellows, including one of the economist G. D. H. Cole. Tyson planned to take Mrs Thatcher up to it saying, 'And this, Prime Minister, is a former fellow, G. D. H. Dole? Whereupon, with luck, Mrs Thatcher would have had to say, 'Cole not Dole' In the event he did take her round but lost his nerve. 15 December. Filming this week for Man and Music at Penshurst Place, the home of Lord de L'Isle and Dudley. Everything one 189
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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⚠️ Conference!
Knowledge, Agency & Responsibility
9-10th Jan
Vienna

A conference organised by Fabio Lampert @flampert.bsky.social, on issues concerning human agency, abilities, and capacities, with a focus on problems about free will and moral responsibility.

More info: buff.ly/gXKBzmp

#philsky
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December 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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We have a trailer for the Mind-at-Large Project! www.youtube.com/watch?si=rbU...

Learn more about this project, sign up for updates & early-bird tickets and submit abstracts here: ctr4process.org/mind-at-large/ and here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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ahistoryinart.bsky.social
'Winter Afternoon, Chalk Farm.' Geoffrey Rhoades was an artist who made an exchange of fame for the pleasure of teaching. His work makes a pictorial statement about an artist's viewpoint, rather than recording a landscape in which he took interest. This work was painted in 1935
December 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Cultural Attractors by Dan Sperber: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.61e20c82
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
In which Tim Stanley experiences the "find out" phase of his arrant fuck wittering.
Tim Stanley Brexit isn't about nostalgia. It's about ambition. Trust me, I'm a historian Tim Stanley Brexit hasn't defunded Britain. So why is Project Fear willing us to fail? Brexit is simultaneously the smallest thing and the biggest The smallest because we're already halfway out of the EU, We were never in the euro, which is what matters. The EU wants a unitary state, we don't - so let's depart as friends But it's also massive because it's a repatriation of law and democracy. Brexit was one of those things that could never happen. But the people willed it, so it will be so. Within the bounds of a constitutional monarchy, this is as revolutionary as it gets. It's thrilling. The sense of potential for the nation is great Xe're the architects of our own destiny Do NOT fly to the EU! New security system doesn't work - or is designed to deter Brits, could be either - and we've been stuck in a queue for an hour, I'd guess another two to go. A drunk lady from Manchester is trying to explain the economic consequences, but they won't listen,
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM