I feel like my explanation would make a better French film, if that is the goal...

Is it because you are already anticipating how the energy you harvest from the enthusiasm of your students will soon wane?

come to think of it I actually do hate Kantinential philosophy

Leibniz: But let us set our differences on the matter of calculus aside for a minute. Perhaps you would care for a biscuit? I have some delicious chocolate-backed confections, far superior to those fig-based monstrosities that have become so popular recently.

Newton: now hang on just a minute…

The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972–2022) On a seemingly daily basis, we see attacks against the intellectual culture of the academic humanities, which, since the 1960s, have opened up spaces for leftists to develop critical theories of all k...

The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972–2022)

going to try coining a new term

there's a genre of LLM usage side-effect where someone will start being ever so slightly more impatient, less curious, less able to think critically (by which I mean examine problems from multiple perspectives, use empathy, use doubt as an interrogative tool) […]

I like “vibesick” but wondering if maybe that’s a more extreme state of being “vibedout”?

If nothing better is handy (like a name), I like “comrade”

One wonders if AI could do the same thing for personalized learning…

Hello, they will genuinely be so excited. Save some water; fuel a librarian.

Wow. Don’t mess with them!

Ok wait just a second there. My entire philosophical identity was predicated on hating on Baudrillard and celebrating Foucault. And you took it away just like that?

Ya. Again. I’m salty about how Baudrillard is looking more and more correct…

Post the best picture you have taken of your pet.

Nigel and William evolve their standard "yin-yang" nap formation into a perfect heart shape.

His reference to Stuart Hall just raised my already high esteem for @dieworkwear.bsky.social!

Steven Pinker Doesn’t Know Anything About Marxism Bill Gates’ favorite writer keeps spewing out lazy clichés about Marxism being a “disaster” whenever it’s “implemented.” But he’s way off-base, and Marx deserves better critics.

Pinker’s shtick is eloquently projecting mischaracterizations of topics that knows nothing about into the public sphere. He masquerades as an expert, despite never seriously engaging with the fields he critiques. He’s the Trump of popular science writing. www.currentaffairs.org/news/steven-...

Winning

644 days: New personal record for elapsed time between job application and resolution. I'm sorry your hiring process was so drawn out...thanks for letting me know!

Well done! Too bad you can’t add any more now!

Write every paper as if it will be your only legacy

The key to a good paper title is to anticipate and shape its nickname for when it becomes so popular in its discipline that people refer to it as just “Bomp” or “Magma” as if everyone had already read it…

are there any more things like this

Dear bot: find a bunch of data and draw whatever inferences you can from it. What could go wrong? I agree your stakes made a difference.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing! These insights also give me pause because so much weight is put on empirical measures. Maybe like the AI protein folding approach AI might try out a jillion measurement frameworks and promote whatever theory fits the most compelling results.

customer slopport. is this anything

bob ross says that beauty is everywhere while painting a picture Alt: Animated GIF of PBS art show host Bob Ross turning towards the camera from a yellowish painting he is working on while holding a paintbrush and palette to say: “Beauty is everywhere.”

Banksy unmasked! wrong answers only

Take it to the metabridge

Some say being polite on social media has similar salutary effects…

Timothée ChalNOTamet amirite

Ya, it's hard to stay serious when there are clowns driving, but I'm also viewing this from a place of relative safety, so I know that makes it all seem less serious to me.