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@davesuarex.bsky.social
My posts are elucidatory in this way: anyone who understands me in the end recognizes them as nonsensical.
”If you’ve ever been personally victimized by the need to publish or perish, you can blame one man, and his name was Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen... Münchhausen was ... probably the single person most responsible for introducing a new criterion for academic advancement: the publication record."
The Origin of the Research University—Asterisk
Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?
asteriskmag.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
”If you’ve ever been personally victimized by the need to publish or perish, you can blame one man, and his name was Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen... Münchhausen was ... probably the single person most responsible for introducing a new criterion for academic advancement: the publication record."
Large Language Moloch
May 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Large Language Moloch
But something is happening here
And ya don't know what it is
Do ya, Myth of Jones?
And ya don't know what it is
Do ya, Myth of Jones?
May 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
But something is happening here
And ya don't know what it is
Do ya, Myth of Jones?
And ya don't know what it is
Do ya, Myth of Jones?
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"My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed."
Wittgenstein, quoted in 'The Duty of Genius'
Wittgenstein, quoted in 'The Duty of Genius'
April 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed."
Wittgenstein, quoted in 'The Duty of Genius'
Wittgenstein, quoted in 'The Duty of Genius'
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Analytic philosophy ass dis
"Harvard pushed back on the White House’s claim that it should have checked with the administration lawyers...'It remains unclear to us exactly what, among the government’s recent words and deeds, were mistakes or what the government actually meant to do and say.'"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Analytic philosophy ass dis
the sovereign ensures that it will be a beautiful day in the neighborhood
April 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
the sovereign ensures that it will be a beautiful day in the neighborhood
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'AntiXt' may look like a smartphone app or a new pharmaceutical product, but it is in fact a 17th century abbreviation for 'Antichrist'.
April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
'AntiXt' may look like a smartphone app or a new pharmaceutical product, but it is in fact a 17th century abbreviation for 'Antichrist'.
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This is what it looks like when you're a lesser Dutch master from the 1630s and you've never actually seen a real dog in your life.
April 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is what it looks like when you're a lesser Dutch master from the 1630s and you've never actually seen a real dog in your life.
ruining your life trying to teach students who submit work generated by AI does feel like ruining your life trying to police bank robbers with automatic weapons
March 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
ruining your life trying to teach students who submit work generated by AI does feel like ruining your life trying to police bank robbers with automatic weapons
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Husserliana would be a beautiful name for a baby girl...
March 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Husserliana would be a beautiful name for a baby girl...
"You understand what I mean to convey..." 😈
—Husserl, Analyses Concerning Active and Passive Synthesis
—Husserl, Analyses Concerning Active and Passive Synthesis
March 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"You understand what I mean to convey..." 😈
—Husserl, Analyses Concerning Active and Passive Synthesis
—Husserl, Analyses Concerning Active and Passive Synthesis
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T.S. Eliot on logical positivism
![Photo of partial book page with text reading: “Certainly, logical positivism is not a very nourishing diet for more than the small minority which has been conditioned to it. When the time of its exhaustion arrives, it will probably appear, in retrospect, to have been for our age the counterpart of surrealism: for as surrealism seemed to provide a method of producing works of art without imagination so logical positivism seems to provide a method of philosophizing without insight and wis-dom. The attraction which it thus offers to the immature mind may have unfortunate results for some of those who pursue their undergraduate studies under its influence.
Yet I believe that in the longer view, logical positivism will have proved of service by explorations of thought which we shall, in future, be unable to ignore; and even if some of its avenues turn out to be blind alleys, it is, after all, worth while exploring a blind alley, if only to discover that it *is* blind.” […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:upfkcx7m4ytvabnuyzz7tew5/bafkreidbenc62c3u3z6gwrargb22kvuxowne27rzg3pegbtiywb6idujge@jpeg)
March 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
T.S. Eliot on logical positivism
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(Kant, MM 6:437)
If I made myself a worm, would you step on me?
If I made myself a worm, would you step on me?
February 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
(Kant, MM 6:437)
If I made myself a worm, would you step on me?
If I made myself a worm, would you step on me?
+ 🎵"Serving kant" 🎵
- Lack of substantive engagement with critical philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNK...
- Lack of substantive engagement with critical philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNK...
Miriana Conte - Kant (‘Singing’) | Malta 🇲🇹 | National Final Performance| #Eurovision2025
YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest
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February 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
+ 🎵"Serving kant" 🎵
- Lack of substantive engagement with critical philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNK...
- Lack of substantive engagement with critical philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNK...
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You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.
November 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.
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Academia is like jazz. It's all about the papers you don't publish.
February 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Academia is like jazz. It's all about the papers you don't publish.
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don't think of this as the american experiment failing, think of it as confirmation of the american null hypothesis
February 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
don't think of this as the american experiment failing, think of it as confirmation of the american null hypothesis
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I demand that Chuck Schumer be digitized and uploaded so he can take back control of government systems from inside the computer realm
February 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I demand that Chuck Schumer be digitized and uploaded so he can take back control of government systems from inside the computer realm
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Depressed about fascism coming to America? This one pot cassoulet will make you feel like you’re living in Vichy France.
February 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Depressed about fascism coming to America? This one pot cassoulet will make you feel like you’re living in Vichy France.