„Wenn die virtuelle Simulation zur Norm wird, verkümmert die menschliche Urteilsfähigkeit, und unsere sozialen Bindungen schließen sich in autoreferenzielle Zirkel ein, die uns nicht mehr mit der Wirklichkeit konfrontieren. Wir leben dann gleichsam innerhalb von Blasen, voneinander abgeschottet, wir fühlen uns von jedem bedroht, der anders ist, und wir verlernen die Begegnung und den Dialog. So breiten sich Polarisierung, Konflikte, Ängste und Gewalt aus. Es geht nicht bloß darum, dass die Gefahr eines Irrtums besteht, sondern dass sich die Beziehung zur Wahrheit selbst verändert.“

Papst Leo XIV. hat offenbar Jean Baudrillard gelesen. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The Strait of Hormuz is open to those who can tell which guard is the one who always lies and which is the one who always tells the truth

New riddle of the sphinx just dropped

I very much enjoyed this piece on how Germany modernized the medieval university, and what became of the ideals that inspired this transformation. Also, Göttingen mentioned :D

Ambiguitätstoleranz

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Forgot a word -.-

*Joker in the hospital meme*

"If a cardinal changes his first name because he's elected as Pope, nobody panics, because it's all 'part of the plan'. But when a trans person changes their first name, well then loses their minds!"

I agree that people shouldn't be negatively polarized into treating the Catholic Church as a net good in the world but if you're pretending it's not funny that the pope saying "bombing schools is bad" made our government invent Anglicanism from first principles, you're just a buzzkill

I see, thank you! Good thing, I don't have the money, anyways. Saves me from having to make this decision

Yeah, I got the impression that the forced change of civilizations with a new era was the most common reason for dissatisfaction, and I get that

What do you think of Civ VII? I only played VI and I found a lot of bad reviews on VII

People want to Live In Star Trek but don't want to do the thing that people In Star Trek do (being active members of civil society and the voluntary economy)

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

Me: Hey brain, I know we don't like doing that thing but it really needs to be done, so could we please do it, still?

My ADHD brain: No

Me: Fine, could we do that other thing that we enjoy doing, then?

My ADHD brain: lol. lmao

I'm not sure which conclusion to draw from this. Maybe there is none to be drawn. Still, I think it's a noteworthy observation, at least to me

I have published two papers, a third is in print, and a fourth will be going into print soon. Out of my four scientific publications (five, if you count my PhD thesis) three will have been written and published after I gave up on the prospect of an academic career

It's a tragedy that Stebbing was ignored and Ayer got the attention

I'm convinced that most people who maintain that Heidegger is unintelligible have not attempted to engage with him in earnest. For if they had, they would have noticed that he gives a precise definition for every term he introduces

Thank you very much for a good reply to a bad text

I wrote up my response.

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/04/ther...

Ich, wenn ich ein Gedicht schreibe, statt Sex zu haben:

What can we learn from this?

AI is, in a lot of ways, still entirely unreliable as a source of information.

It’s being abused on a grand scale.

And, of course, big tech don’t really care if it eats into your profit margin, as long as it keeps increasing theirs!

Ich muss gerade wieder daran denken, wie ich in "Pentiment" plötzlich mit dem wandernde Gelegenheitsarbeiter über die Vereinbarkeit von biblischer Schöpfungsgeschichte, Gnosis und aristotelischer Kosmologie diskutiert habe. Dieses Spiel ist so gut

Making Room for Ambiguity in Dogwhistles - Topoi Topoi -

My first publication! wihu

Congratulations!!

Ich habe den allergrößten Respekt davor, wie Bene seine progressiven Überzeugungen konsequent in der biblischen Botschaft verwurzelt und das auch so sauber ausargumentieren kann. Das macht Hoffnung

Don't forget the trans women who made the flight possible. They're not on the pictures though because they were fired by fascists.