There's nothing quite like your two your old son WEEPING because you won't play Celine Dion's All Coming Back for a fifth time. It's so long 😩
"Nights in the winnnnnd 🥲😪😭"

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Volume 77, Issue 1 Table of Contents In Defence of Science By Jochen Briesen The Efficacy of Human Learning in Lewis Signalling Games By Calvin T Cochran and Jeffrey A Barrett Can Pragmatic Humeanism Account for the Counterfactual Invariance of Natural Laws? By Marc Lange When Is Similarity-Biased Social Learning Adaptively Advantageous? By Daniel Saunders Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry By Caterina Marchionni Theoretical Relicts By Katie Robertson and Alastair Wilson Cascade Versus Mechanism By Lauren N Ross Effective and Selective Realisms By John Dougherty Biological Mistakes By David Oderberg, Jonathan Hill, Christopher Austin, Ingo Bojak, François Cinotti, and Jonathan M Gibbins Editors’ Choice Article: On the Ecological and Internal Rationality of Bayesian Conditionalization By Olav B Vassend The Underdeterministic Framework By Tomasz Wysocki

New issue out now! We’ve got theoretical relicts and biological mistakes, pragmatic Humeanism and Bayesian conditionalization, Reichenbach’s vindication and Lewis games, and much, much more!

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur...
#philsci #philsky

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Stephen O'Neill Book Launch) Join Stephen O'Neill in conversation with Eamonn Hughes.

Belfast launch of Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 will be at the Seamus Heaney Centre on May 1, from 5.30pm to 7pm. Bígí Linn

This is also me when I see a woman has made a deadpan joke online that could be construed as her just not understanding something.

Important to check, all the same!

The younguns will be losing their mind over my Pro-Choice curriculum.

Week one, a hero of pro-choice ideology... that's right, guys, it's super-woke icon Ernst Zermelo. Want some more, well good, I'll take them all the way forward to that icon of independence, Paul Cohen.

cool, a human shaped car

Men might have coined the term, but women invented ‘looksmaxxing’ Unthinkable: Looksmaxxing in its radical form is unsettling, involving everything from ‘bone-smashing’ to using crystal meth for weight management

Men might have coined the term, but women invented ‘looksmaxxing’

The emergence of Elise, who has legs for ballet but hands for jazz:

Snip from the "Personality" section of Piet Mondrian's wikipedia page. Personality In a review of a 2024 biography of Mondrian, The New York Times book critic Dwight Garner described him as a "deeply eccentric man" who "lived like an ambassador from the kingdom of ridiculous notions" and who "had no sense of humor and rarely smiled". He was a follower of phrenology and spiritualism and fad diets and "didn’t believe in ice cubes because cold food was bad for the health".

It would take a full bottle of wine for me to get through all the reasons I find this hilarious.

Saying someone "lives like the ambassador of the kingdom of ridiculous notions" is just an immaculate piece of abuse.
Big Cork energy to it, also.

the translational issue from ancient greek via arabic (in the wiki) would make an excellent follow up with the right listener

Haha, I feel a lot better. Maybe it's an elaborate hoax

Title page of Oliver Byrne's 1847 Elements of Euclid which includes an image of the pythagorean theorem in his distinctive pictorial style.

A frame on a wall in which some coloured pottery pieces have been mounted onto a print of a book title page.

How have I never heard the term "bride's chair" before?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride%2...
I have spent so much time working on Byrne's one. I even made my own one in pottery class and my mam loved it so much she managed to get someone to frame and mount it on an appropriately printed page...

Enjoyed reading this piece on cosmetic surgery and phenomenology by Luna Dolezal for something I'm writing on Looksmaxxing. Esp interesting given how incredibly widespread aesthetic surgery is now.
www.jstor.org/stable/40602...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

This breaking news alert while an Israeli drone still buzzes above us #beirut

Regino Phalange

Last day to apply for this fully funded PhD in #philosophy at @ucddublin.bsky.social…

Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game (Official HD Video) YouTube video by ClannadVEVO

So sad to hear of the passing of Moya Brennan - part of the collective soundtrack of a slowly emerging cultural confidence in Ireland in the ’80s and ’90s.

Thanks, Sheena, I actually think this is some of my best work <3

Reminds me of that Iris Marion Young essay 'Glowing Like a Girl'

Jocks jocks jocks x

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, seven, barely survived the ​Israeli strike on her home in south Lebanon last week. She was there to bury her father as ‌hopes of a truce spread across the region, but a new strike killed her infant sister and other relatives.

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral reut.rs/41oluvL

A small one, but it'd be great if the Bike To Work scheme allowances were adjusted to match the cost of bikes now (as vs 10yrs ago) and included kid seats etc. For lots of ppl the kid seats are as essential to making bike commuting work as anything else...

Piece on Cam McEvoy's world record & comments on fatherhood. Also on flexibility and fascilitating individual flourishing as key to happy parents, not the reductive vision of trad-wives& manosphere bros.
If only I could've channeled Cam in training this morning. Absolutely pathetic sprints from me😩

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Finally reached the end of an hour-long battle of wits with a 2yr old over picking up some performatively thrown toast-crusts. Sometimes victory looks like you using your son's hands like an arcade claw machine to retrieve the items and put them in an intermediary vessel.

🧠 Integral: Irish Mathematical Philosophy at the NLI

Project lead: Clare Moriarty
Enterprise partner: National Library of Ireland
Funding amount: €102,247.44