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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
A couple new articles on well-being stuff. Thanks to all y’all who heard inchoate versions of these ideas.
philpapers.org/rec/WILWAA-10
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
philpapers.org/rec/WILWAA-10
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Circularity of Welfare Judgements - The Journal of Ethics
Some theories of welfare hold that whether you are living well depends upon whether you think you are. But then the very phenomenon we want to understand gets deployed in its putative explanation. Vie...
link.springer.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A couple new articles on well-being stuff. Thanks to all y’all who heard inchoate versions of these ideas.
philpapers.org/rec/WILWAA-10
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
philpapers.org/rec/WILWAA-10
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.
Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.
October 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.
Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.
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So so sad to learn about the death of Jonathan Lear. His work on Aristotle and Freud was formative for me. He was a model of philosophical intelligence and curiosity. More importantly he was a human human, with rare integrity and sharp judgment. It's hard to imagine the world without him in it.
September 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
So so sad to learn about the death of Jonathan Lear. His work on Aristotle and Freud was formative for me. He was a model of philosophical intelligence and curiosity. More importantly he was a human human, with rare integrity and sharp judgment. It's hard to imagine the world without him in it.
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New idea to create artificial intelligence that exceeds human capacity, not by programming a machine to be more intelligent than we currently are, but instead by making all the humans stupider by replacing reading and formal education with playing with a chatbot, thereby lowering the bar to clear
August 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
New idea to create artificial intelligence that exceeds human capacity, not by programming a machine to be more intelligent than we currently are, but instead by making all the humans stupider by replacing reading and formal education with playing with a chatbot, thereby lowering the bar to clear
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Government workers when DOGE shows up.
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Government workers when DOGE shows up.
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philosophers today
January 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
philosophers today
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I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC.
I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.
They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.
I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.
They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.
January 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC.
I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.
They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.
I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.
They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.
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update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)
January 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)
The whole thing is worth reading
Christopher Newfield on how humanities research funding works (or doesn't).
Full article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Full article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 28, 2024 at 4:26 PM
The whole thing is worth reading
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funny discourse where tech guys go 'i cannot tell the difference between LLM output and stuff written by professional humanists' and humanists are like 'exactly: *you* can't tell the difference'
December 26, 2024 at 11:49 PM
funny discourse where tech guys go 'i cannot tell the difference between LLM output and stuff written by professional humanists' and humanists are like 'exactly: *you* can't tell the difference'
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Obligatory brag: My book The Philosophy of Envy was awarded the Joseph B. Gittler Prize (which in my head I keep calling Glitter) by the American Philosophical Association My prize was announced earlier, but now everyone else’s been announced too. Congrats to all the winners!
2024 APA Prizes: Fall Edition - American Philosophical Association
2024 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies (Claremont McKenna College)2024 Article Prize: Lindsay Brainard (University of Alabama at Birmingham), “The Curious Case of Uncurious Creation,” Inquiry (2023)
www.apaonline.org
December 23, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Obligatory brag: My book The Philosophy of Envy was awarded the Joseph B. Gittler Prize (which in my head I keep calling Glitter) by the American Philosophical Association My prize was announced earlier, but now everyone else’s been announced too. Congrats to all the winners!
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"The problem is that the bottom of the Democratic Party literally fell out."
here an excerpt from @danieldenvir.bsky.social's interview of @keeanga.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/elec...
here an excerpt from @danieldenvir.bsky.social's interview of @keeanga.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/elec...
Donald Trump’s Victory, the Elitism of Democrats, and the Need to Build a Hospitable Left
Analyzing the 2024 election and its aftermath.
hammerandhope.org
December 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM
"The problem is that the bottom of the Democratic Party literally fell out."
here an excerpt from @danieldenvir.bsky.social's interview of @keeanga.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/elec...
here an excerpt from @danieldenvir.bsky.social's interview of @keeanga.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/elec...
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When I described Israelis hunting Palestinian children for sport I was not exaggerating or being purposefully outrageous. It is literally what the IDF is doing in Gaza. They are actually, literally, shooting civilians for fun.
www.instagram.com/p/DDxdPV1v1BN
www.instagram.com/p/DDxdPV1v1BN
December 19, 2024 at 9:45 PM
When I described Israelis hunting Palestinian children for sport I was not exaggerating or being purposefully outrageous. It is literally what the IDF is doing in Gaza. They are actually, literally, shooting civilians for fun.
www.instagram.com/p/DDxdPV1v1BN
www.instagram.com/p/DDxdPV1v1BN
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Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't
December 21, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't
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This is brilliant. And, if you’ve never seen _All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace_, change that in the next 72 hours
www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bbc-al...
www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bbc-al...
December 20, 2024 at 2:23 PM
This is brilliant. And, if you’ve never seen _All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace_, change that in the next 72 hours
www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bbc-al...
www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bbc-al...
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When I read conversations about "accelerating learning" I can't help but think of this @howiehua.bsky.social classic:
December 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
When I read conversations about "accelerating learning" I can't help but think of this @howiehua.bsky.social classic:
Yum
Shift drink: Ayúdame Robinson
1.5oz mezcal
.5oz demerara rum
1oz pineapple
.5oz lime
.5oz agave
.25oz campari
.25oz allspice dram
1.5oz mezcal
.5oz demerara rum
1oz pineapple
.5oz lime
.5oz agave
.25oz campari
.25oz allspice dram
December 12, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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Snitches get stitches. Unless you’re denied coverage—then, no stitches
FBI offers reward up to $50,000 as health care executive’s suspected killer evades police for fourth day: cnn.it/4goevIr
FBI offers reward up to $50,000 as health care executive’s suspected killer evades police for fourth day | CNN
As the investigation into the fatal shooting of a health care executive in Manhattan enters its fourth day, the FBI says it is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to an arrest a...
cnn.it
December 8, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Snitches get stitches. Unless you’re denied coverage—then, no stitches
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You know who else pardoned his son all of his sins?
December 2, 2024 at 3:11 AM
You know who else pardoned his son all of his sins?
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Welcome @bufordrat.bsky.social (Matt Teichman) to bluesky! Matt started his philosophy podcast well before others in 2009. The interview I did with him and Charlie Wiland was both fun and philosophically deep (but I'm biased). Give his podcast a listen and him a follow! You won't regret it. #philsky
Episode 135: Sara Protasi discusses the philosophy of envy - Elucidations Podcast
Subscribe to Elucidations: This month, Charlie Wiland and I sit down with Sara Protasi to talk about envy. Which she just came out with a whole book about! Awesome. Click here to do...
elucidations.vercel.app
November 28, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Welcome @bufordrat.bsky.social (Matt Teichman) to bluesky! Matt started his philosophy podcast well before others in 2009. The interview I did with him and Charlie Wiland was both fun and philosophically deep (but I'm biased). Give his podcast a listen and him a follow! You won't regret it. #philsky
If utilitarians knew how much their view pains me, wouldn’t they finally have to stfu about it?
November 28, 2024 at 1:00 AM
If utilitarians knew how much their view pains me, wouldn’t they finally have to stfu about it?
Zeno Vendler knew some impressive specimens.
November 23, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Zeno Vendler knew some impressive specimens.