Think my time with BlueSky has sadly come to an end.

Snapchat: JohnGosland

Much love yall!

Trans Rights, Human Rights, fight fascism where and when you can!

Take care of yourselves! 🖤

I remember wanting a Pac-Man lunchbox. Not sure it existed at the time. Settled for Dukes of Hazzard.
Boy, that didn’t age well.

A decade and a half later, I got an MST3K lunchbox when I was buying any MST3K merch I could get my hands on. Still have it (unused) in a box somewhere.

the mixture of grandiose tech prophecy with childish wish fulfillment is so common. the things you care about are not cosmically important. he who lurks between the stars has never thought about them and never will

jeffrey epstein donated to and supported enough science that there are entire lines of research that were apparently pursued largely because he liked them. one of them is evo psych

INTRODUCING - Our February/March 2025 Issue (Issue 166) philosophynow.org

Issue 166 has a theme of political philosophy. It has a few things to say about the extremely divided and divisive state of politics at the moment and much more. As always, it is a riot of ideas.

Happy 4-year anniversary of the MacKinnon helmet throw

New Element by Charlotte Sabourin on Kant on Marriage, a topic that's long been of interest to feminist philosophers thanks to the work of Barbara Herman and others - free to download for the next couple of weeks

Almost 4,000 years ago during an era we call the Old Babylonian period, a student formed a round tablet out of clay and drew a circle on it for a math assignment.

The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Via @zlz.bsky.social on X:
"The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt.

If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service.

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

Liberté, Egalité, Gritté

I completely forgot to tell you that my paper published in The Conversation (France) has been translated in English an is available on #arXiv.

👉 "The Hermeneutic Turn of AI: Are Machines Capable of Interpreting?"

#PhilSci #PhilSky #LLM arxiv.org/abs/2411.12517

Ich feier erst wenn wir der AFD, der CDU, der FDP und dem BSW die Prozentpunkte runterjagen.
Wenn Merz zurücktritt.
Wenn wir Nazis wieder das Fürchten lehren.
Wenn die Presse endlich Klartext redet und nicht beschönigt.
Wenn ein Wechsel zur konstruktiven Migrationspolitik stattfindet.