whoa, didn't see that one coming

Did we just discover that association cortex has...associations?

Several friends urged me to play it and comment on it. I hit a roadblock at some point in which I couldn’t progress and got bored of it. 2deep4me I guess.

loving citing wittgenstein for the trenchant insight that stuff is sort of similar sometimes

I need to get in control of my mood swings. A single, well meaning criticism shouldn’t send me into a spiral of anxiety, sadness and apathy.

I really wish there was a way to be valued (and adequately compensated) for being *insanely good at teaching undergrads*, instead of this publication-centric prestige thing that academia is today.

meme image of a woman and man in bed facing away from each other. Rene Descartes' head has been pasted over the man's head. the caption reads: her: I bet he's thinking him: you bet I am

Lucky you! Mine are half randos, and half capital-p Philosophers with zero interest in talking to me (I'm *their* rando)

perhaps the worst part about being a capital-p Philosopher is that half of the randos who want to talk to me about philosophy don't know what the hell they're talking about, and the other half somehow know way more about philosophy than I do

Angine de Poitrine - Sarniezz (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

It's basically inevitable that AI's rise will lead to artistic movements celebrating the rejection of slop - that revel in creating things so novel that they could not be generated by models.

And I'm completely here for it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7OI...

Se estrena la película sobre Kuhn!!

✔️Info: posgradounq.odoo.com/r/Sib

I'm as sciencey as they come for philosophers. But I got into philosophy because, in some important sense, the man on the Clapham omnibus is right. You are allowed to look at a scientist, say "what the fuck are you on about?", and they (or at least us philosophers) have to say something sensible

Este semestre estoy enseñando "Epistemología social", y esta semana discutiremos el artículo de @angeleserana.bsky.social y @drxl.bsky.social "El conocimiento como una actividad colectiva" (revistas.up.edu.mx/topicos/en/a...). ¡Está buenísimo! Muy recomendado.

Never occurred to me that my ADHD was a BIG causal factor on my self-induced Diabetes

ESTOY CANSADO, JEFE

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Shelley Duvall in The Shining, looking with horrified realization at the sheet on which Jack Nicholson has typed "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over and over cutesy script caption: "all a first draft has to do is exist"

once again relevant to discourse

Sometimes I find myself, for a good couple of minutes, asking questions out loud, like "who the f*ck is Mason Westfall, and why he looks so familiar?"
Keeping track of who is who here is exhausting LOL

I have a lot of *strong* opinions on this year's Wrestlemania but I will take them to their natural habitat (a YouTuber's comment section) instead. I’m a simple guy who enjoy simple things sometimes.

In Spanish we have this neologism, “TRISTERESANTE”, a portmanteau of triste (sad) and interesante (interesting).

You know you can catch your boy crying over concepts

Trusting the process (band pre-production meeting)

Have a moment of pure, undiluted bliss before your usual doomscrolling

Electricity is gone at my Uni today, so we're told we have to teach from home via Zoom. I'm having PTSD over the pandemic years now. I still have nightmares of endless screens with silent avatars. I would rather teach my Funko Pops instead of having to go through a semester of online teaching again.

My wife is a midwife and a professor of midwifery, and she’s repeatedly yelling at the TV and punching my arm (we’re watching The Pitt's season finale, she has *strong opinions* about how they are handling a hard case…)

I had to go to LinkedIn to do what I usually do there: [check notes] reject invitations from people I don't know. I mean, what's the deal with amassing large numbers of followers there? Is it even remotely useful?

Street Fighter | Official Trailer (2026 Movie) YouTube video by Paramount Pictures

I'm actually concerned at the fact that this trailer had me all emotional, almost sobbing. I know it will not be a good movie, but I want to watch this so bad: Street Fighter | Official Trailer (2026 Movie) youtu.be/Xt4X4FvXk2A?...

When I have a new idea vs.
When I have to finish a project

"Concluding remarks Those who appeal to the success of science as support for scientific realism face some serious challenges: 1. They need to clarify the notion of success relevant to their arguments. Though science is successful in many ways, maybe only some successes provide evidence that our theories are latching onto reality. And the traditional appeal to explanatory success seems threatened by evidence from the history of science. 2. They need to be more precise about the correlation between the success of a theory and the nature of their realist commitments. And it seems clear that the base-rate fallacy poses a threat to probabilistic versions of the No Miracles Argument. 2. They may also want to explore ways in which local arguments for realism can be developed. A global argument like the traditional No Miracles Argument seems doomed." Wray, K. B. (2017). Success of Science as a Motivation for Realism. Handbook of Scientific Realism (pp. 37–47). Routledge.

A theory’s successful predictions are signs that the theory is true, right?

It'd be a miracle for #science to be so successful if its best theories weren't at least approximately true descriptions of reality, right?

Actually, those intuitions are faulty: doi.org/10.4324/9780...

It's weird how, after all these years, you never know if any of your ideas actually matter or are any good. You vaguely hope there might be a diamond in the garbage somewhere but it becomes harder to search for it with your own insecurity trolling you at each step, and the world around falling down.