Lovecraft did !

The "relative" thing also always seemed to invite subjectivity (attitudes, desires, etc.) into affordances, but this seems exactly what Gibson wanted to avoid by proposing affordances instead of following the Gestaltists. I know, I know, Aufforderungscharakter is less catchy.

Of course the cat will perceive different gaps between its body and the chair than a human... and sure, these gaps don't exist if the cat is not there. A human and a cat perceive different relations in this (trivial ?) sense. Affordances, if these are affordances, might be "relative" in this sense.

The "relational" part confused me for a long time. One of the core moves of Gibson is that we can directly perceive relations. This is not equivalent to affordances being "relative". But relations can be in the environment or between organism and environment, and that (to me) muddied the waters.

21:07 < 凸 = Transgender women banned from women's PDC darts Darts 9 Apr 2026, 18:21 BET RED GETTY IMAGES RANSTAD.NL Noa-Lynn van Leuven became the first transgender woman to compete in the PDC World Championship in 2024 The Darts Regulation Authority has banned transgender women from Home My Sport Scores

21:08 ld Champion The Darts Regulation Authority has banned transgender women from competing in its women's events with immediate effect. The DRA, which governs the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), said "only biological females should be eligible to compete in women's tournaments regulated by DRA Rules". It comes after the DRA completed a review of its Trans and Gender Diverse Policy, which began in 2025. Noa-Lynn van Leuven, who in 2024 became the first transgender woman to compete in the PDC World Championship, said the decision had "effectively retired her". She remains eligible to play in open tournaments for men and women. " just got an email and apparently | just got retired, not by choice but because l am no longer allowed to compete," Van Leuven said in a video posted on Instagram. Home My Sport Scores

ecision had "effectively retire‹ 21:08 remains eligible to play in o naments for men and wome " just got an email and apparently | just got retired, not by choice but because l am no longer allowed to compete," Van Leuven said in a video posted on Instagram. "The DRA just decided that trans women are no longer allowed in women's events which basically means am out. "Everyday it is getting harder for trans people to exist, to compete. If you think this stops with me, it doesn't. We just want to be." Sex-based rights charity Sex Matters said "men's physical advantages in darts may be small but they all add up". "Darts is a male-dominated world, played in pubs and clubs, and the top darts players are all men. That's why women need their own tournaments. "The Darts Regulation Authority followed the lead of the old, unfair OC [International Olympic Committeel policy, this maid tirn to My Sport Scores Home The DRA said and

21:08 a male-dominal s and clubs, and the top All men. That's why women. own tournaments. "The Darts Regulation Authority followed the lead of the old, unfair IOC [International Olympic Committee] policy, so it's great to see this rapid return to fairness for women players." The DRA said it "seeks to be inclusive" and it encouraged "all players- irrespective of their biological sex, legal sex, and/or gender identity" to continue competing in open tournaments. It said its decision is based on legal advice and a commissioned report by Dr Emma Hilton - an academic developmental biologist who has published several papers on sex and categories in sport. Dr Hilton's report concluded "that multiple, small-magnitude sex differences accumulate to generate male advantage over females in darts". Last year, the World Darts Federation (WDF) banned transgender women from mentr Home My Sport oventrv. announced Scores

Looks like they’ve banned trans women from playing darts now of all things. Comes to something too when BBC Sport are quoting Sex Matters, and the DRA has commissioned noted transphobe Emma Hilton to helm a report for them. It’s a stitch-up, and it’s disgusting.

You might want to switch to something more relaxing like watching a movie. Maybe Threads or The War Game.

Screenshot d'une IA générative qui me crédite pour mes "investigations" au sujet de IPF.

Quelqu'un a demandé à une IA de résumer les controverses au sujet de IPF, et l'IA me crédite. Pendant ce temps, google refuse d'indexer mon blog 😂

But if you just think: this is dumb, soufflés can't count, let's add everything together immediately, the recipe will fail because the eggs will coagulate etc. In that case, the recipe has a kind of occult wisdom.

One fun example, from Hervé This, is adding eggs "two by two" in a soufflé. It works, even though soufflés can't count and it seems irrational. The reason (as he found out) is simply that it gives the soufflé the time to cool down... So you can just add the eggs all together after you wait a bit.

What is also interesting is that even when a "why" is given, there's no guarantee that is the correct explanation, because it's most probably a retrospective rationalisation... And who's testing the explanations systematically ?

There is some kind of cultural selection at play: what works sticks, what doesn't disappears. Claude Fishler calls this a form of "occult wisdom". But what "works" doesn't mean it's the most efficient or the only way of doing it. There's probably some overimitation at play too.

Parce que le plus important, c'est sans doute la liberté ! YouTube video by senestre

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Will eat my shoes if it doesn't work

More than that: this whole first section is him telling he's made of the stuff of others: mother, brother, father, tutors, friends and, of course, the gods and Fortune. Very far from the ideology of the self-made man.

La Jeunesse d'aujourd'hui YouTube video by DAVA

Les jeunes d'aujourd'hui doivent commencer toutes leurs phrases par "en vrai" et les finir par "en fait", sinon ils ont plus le droit à leur bourse. Ca faut s'informer hein.

Dude wrote a 173 page footnote on a marginally related topic, prefacing it with “I have omitted much that I would like to have said... [and] I have written much that few will read."

I HAVE FOUND MY PATRON SAINT

J-L Baudry's The Apparatus basically argues for the analogy between movie immersion and dreams (with a psychoanalytic lense which I find annoying, but ymmv). Noel Carroll critiques this in Mystifying movies.
I'm interested in reading more on the subject, so please share if you find something good :)

Increasingly convinced that the key text to understanding our current state of affairs is King Lear

This is the explanation of my joke I guess.

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Max Cooper - Order From Chaos (official video by Maxime Causeret) YouTube video by Max Cooper

I really love this one, based on the rhythm of raindrops on a roof www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7wK...

if the question was addressed to continental philosophers, billy woods would have been mentioned

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en lisant ça et avant de cliquer sur l'article, je me suis dit tiens ça me surprendrais pas que ce soit Antoine Marie (un membre de ma famille), et oui en effet 😂

Thanks. When I saw this a few weeks ago I was like: fine, I guess, but piss was right there.
The order is now restored.

j'connais ça c'est des symboles de tennis et de mathématiques

Why is he reading Kant in latin ?

Le problème, c'est que personne n'est surpris quand des militants d'extrême-droite font usage de la violence : au fond, tout le monde trouve ça normal, attendu, typique, adéquat à la catégorie "individu d'extrême-droite". Dès lors, ça ne suscite aucune indignation car ça ne surprend pas.

Je pense beaucoup à cette asymétrie, qui ne concerne d'ailleurs pas que la violence (physique). C'est clairement une vulnérabilité exploitable autant par les médias que les politiciens.