Here's the program! Some of my fave moments: empirical data on how readers approach autofiction, how literature & our perception of time shape each other, how LLM is just the latest instantiation of collective labor, and how fictionality might be a gradable concept!
Excited to be participating in Fiction Lab at Stony Brook today! A cool gathering where scholars in psych, media studies, comp lit, law, lit studies, and philosophy will all discuss fiction-- and what a cool poster!
Here at Hatsune Miku's concert to see what the hype is about! What makes this virtual singer so irresistible??? (10 min past concert start time, hasnt started yet, girl next to me "i need you to hurry up, youre like, all of 2D" 🤣)
Wow this is a mood in a restaurant bathroom, esp on Easter
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT
there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead.
Me: Can it talk to my printer yet?
They: haha no
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
It's like the I-III-V-I chord build up 🥹
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“The more opinions you have, the less you see.”
- Wim Wenders
a guitar braided into Coogler's hair
A treble clef braided into Coogler's hair
Viewers noticed Ryan Coogler appears to have a guitar and treble clef braided in his hair at the #Oscars
We can owe others morally good treatment, but what do we owe to ourselves? And is it even possible to owe something to yourself? Yes, argues the philosopher Thaddeus Metz in this Essay interweaving different strands of African philosophical traditions
wow this shit is really good
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
I argued that AI personas are fictional characters in 2023 when LLM chatbots dropped! Remember the panic around "Sydney", anyone??
www.wired.com/story/artifi...
move slow and repair things
Kinda with the Danes here
Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.
I love it when the bassist whips out the bow ugh 😩
once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now
New SEP entry for "Aesthetics in Chinese Philosophy: Painting and Calligraphy" just went live!!! Very excited to have this published.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/chin...
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪
I wanna hear more, will dm :)
How fun!! Hope it's a great discussion
Just bought tickets to go to a Hatsune Miku concert. She's a virtual pop star so really curious what the experience will be like! Also first time going to a concert for research so that'll be interesting...
Yesss pears are underrated!
Korean Philosophy: From a Comparative and Intercultural Perspective, International Conference
October 5–6, 2026, Hildesheim University
www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2026/...
Organized by The North American Korean Philosophy Association (NAKPA) under the auspices of Prof. Sool Park.