Daniel Kuby
@daniel.kuby.it
Managing information security at the University of Konstanz, Germany, since 2024. Infosec by day, philosophy by night (previously reversed)
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Is South Park's latest episode "Sermon on the 'Mount'" the "Pillars of Society" of our time? People may not grasp how crude and offensive George Grosz' 'shit for brains' was in the 1920s. Yet, I fear, it didn't really change things then, it won't change things now.
July 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Is South Park's latest episode "Sermon on the 'Mount'" the "Pillars of Society" of our time? People may not grasp how crude and offensive George Grosz' 'shit for brains' was in the 1920s. Yet, I fear, it didn't really change things then, it won't change things now.
“She spent hours bent over the cage, watching this staggering feat of multiple intelligences. Naturalists before her, working only with dead specimens and theoretical conjecture, had declared this impossible. …” 1/2
The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence
“I armed myself with patience and courage, and only after several months managed to dissolve my doubts and see my research crowned with happy confirmation.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 27, 2024 at 1:54 PM
“She spent hours bent over the cage, watching this staggering feat of multiple intelligences. Naturalists before her, working only with dead specimens and theoretical conjecture, had declared this impossible. …” 1/2
Norton’s Dome has reached YouTube!
The Dome Paradox: A Loophole in Newton's Laws
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December 26, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Norton’s Dome has reached YouTube!
An Operational Definition of Christmas
(Warm Christmas wishes from the Skinners, Dec. 1940)
(Warm Christmas wishes from the Skinners, Dec. 1940)
December 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM
An Operational Definition of Christmas
(Warm Christmas wishes from the Skinners, Dec. 1940)
(Warm Christmas wishes from the Skinners, Dec. 1940)
I’ve got an influx of new people following me here in the past few days… Was I added to some starter pack? Does anyone care to enlighten me?
December 10, 2024 at 3:29 PM
I’ve got an influx of new people following me here in the past few days… Was I added to some starter pack? Does anyone care to enlighten me?
Dragons are potentially useful but also very dangerous. Indeed, big and highly intelligent dragons could be very bad for humanity.
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November 21, 2023 at 11:33 PM
Dragons are potentially useful but also very dangerous. Indeed, big and highly intelligent dragons could be very bad for humanity.
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This is a good primer on Wolff’s legacy—also, I think we should recover titles like “Rational Thoughts on God, the World, and the Soul of Human Beings, as Well as All Things in General”. Just add “as well as all things in general” to your next paper’s title!
Why we should recover the philosophy of Christian Wolff | Aeon Essays
Written for laymen, read by women and kings, Christian Wolff’s mathematical method made him a key Enlightenment philosopher
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October 13, 2023 at 6:01 PM
This is a good primer on Wolff’s legacy—also, I think we should recover titles like “Rational Thoughts on God, the World, and the Soul of Human Beings, as Well as All Things in General”. Just add “as well as all things in general” to your next paper’s title!
Once you start criticizing the syncope, the path to DEI is inexorable, I tell you
"And that is why we must infiltrate corporations and universities with DEI trainings" -- Adorno in "Aesthetic Theory", probably. (No one has ever read it, so who knows?)
September 30, 2023 at 7:36 PM
Once you start criticizing the syncope, the path to DEI is inexorable, I tell you