Even during the "ceasefire", the Israelis are still demolishing entire villages in southern Lebanon with armored bulldozers. In fact, civilian contractors hired by the army receive pay which is based on the number of buildings destroyed.
Schumer voted against blocking the sale of these bulldozers.
I blew out my bluetooth speaker apparently. is there anything one can do with this except use it as an extra random noise generator when playing music?
this is not going to end well for anyone whatsoever
guardian's trans coverage is always questionable, but this article is interesting bc the only people they interviewed (the only ones they could find?) who are happy about this ruling are people who spend their life and energy to make things worse for trans people
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
entering this virtual world next month! please join if it looks interesting
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perhaps this says something about the kinds of stimuli we use both in papers and experimental contexts. when we ask people about implicatures the content cannot be too boring or trivial, we have to use something someone might care about...
hmm interesting! I had not thought about this. I mean it definitely does not make them at-issue! but there is something about stakes here as well. I guess there are always stakes things happening when we are expending or contemplating expending cognitive effort?
perhaps someone should write something on this, perhaps even me
when I am this caffeinated I start to fantasize about language game LARPs where no participant is human (in role or in identity)
totally fair! yes. definitely religions include systems of norm-governed practice. or at least religions as practiced do. I wonder if there is a sort of axiomatic core that generates those practices though
I was thinking of high-stakesness as orthogonal to these other things. controversiality looks to me to be cashoutable as an information-theoretic notion, but highstakesness would not be
do you mean like religious practice? or any old practice?
reasonable! what systems would you characterize as high/low on this scale?
call for reading material: has anyone explored a notion of at-issueness where something is more at-issue the more it addresses a high-stakes QUD? (where the stakes are external and involve more or less intense consequences, a bit like Stanley's bank examples in interest-relative epistemology etc)
can we leave behind on social media in 2026: (i) arguing with terfs about transness (ii) arguing with annoying people about continental philosophy (iii) actually so many other things too
to what extent can we think of systems of religion (and of religious morality) as systems of laws or axioms?
everything is so dystopian
how much money does the marine corps lose
is it just me or is this actually completely insane (springer publishing agreement)
Who in the Trump administration (including their friends and families) is making money tonight and tomorrow? 🤔
asia.nikkei.com/business/mar...
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.
very subtle use of quotation marks by the guardian here
that trump doesn't understand the difference between "rain" and "reign" is the least of our worries but still
not sure it is quite out, but they did some listening event a couple hours ago
sunn!
brain melting in ecstatic darkness this new record is amazing
seems plausible to me too (still thought it was funny, slightly)