Ethan Landes
@ethanlandes.bsky.social
Experimental philosophy of technology | conceptual engineering | metaphilosophy | Kent's Department of Psychology | Video games | Expat malaise | linguistic nerdery
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Not a confession so much but the slight embarrassment when you've booked a table and your taken to your table and the whole is place empty, Because it's shit and there was no need.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Not a confession so much but the slight embarrassment when you've booked a table and your taken to your table and the whole is place empty, Because it's shit and there was no need.
This is a bit out there, but what if we are seeing the ontology of object-oriented programming spreading into English?
Money spent is not a process in OOP, for it is a value stored in a vector or a database. Money was not spent; it is the value of Spend.
Money spent is not a process in OOP, for it is a value stored in a vector or a database. Money was not spent; it is the value of Spend.
What's up with this new silicon valley dialect where nouns are created from the base form of verbs?
- It's not "computation time" or "computations", but "compute".
- The OpenAI API portal doesn't tell you the "total spent" but the "total spend"
- It's not "computation time" or "computations", but "compute".
- The OpenAI API portal doesn't tell you the "total spent" but the "total spend"
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is a bit out there, but what if we are seeing the ontology of object-oriented programming spreading into English?
Money spent is not a process in OOP, for it is a value stored in a vector or a database. Money was not spent; it is the value of Spend.
Money spent is not a process in OOP, for it is a value stored in a vector or a database. Money was not spent; it is the value of Spend.
What's up with this new silicon valley dialect where nouns are created from the base form of verbs?
- It's not "computation time" or "computations", but "compute".
- The OpenAI API portal doesn't tell you the "total spent" but the "total spend"
- It's not "computation time" or "computations", but "compute".
- The OpenAI API portal doesn't tell you the "total spent" but the "total spend"
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What's up with this new silicon valley dialect where nouns are created from the base form of verbs?
- It's not "computation time" or "computations", but "compute".
- The OpenAI API portal doesn't tell you the "total spent" but the "total spend"
- It's not "computation time" or "computations", but "compute".
- The OpenAI API portal doesn't tell you the "total spent" but the "total spend"
Yossarian in Catch-22 is just me in high school:
He copes with being stuck in a situation that might as well be his own personalized circle of hell by regularly faking illnesses and being goofy. All either accomplishes is hurting himself and others.
He copes with being stuck in a situation that might as well be his own personalized circle of hell by regularly faking illnesses and being goofy. All either accomplishes is hurting himself and others.
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Yossarian in Catch-22 is just me in high school:
He copes with being stuck in a situation that might as well be his own personalized circle of hell by regularly faking illnesses and being goofy. All either accomplishes is hurting himself and others.
He copes with being stuck in a situation that might as well be his own personalized circle of hell by regularly faking illnesses and being goofy. All either accomplishes is hurting himself and others.
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This is the answer. But to expand on it a bit:
Because bikes are a useful mode of everyday transport (as opposed to fun sport) only within distances found in cities, and not in car-dependent suburbs. Bikes are thus coded variously as: for the poor; for the non-white; and for snobbish elites. 1/2
Because bikes are a useful mode of everyday transport (as opposed to fun sport) only within distances found in cities, and not in car-dependent suburbs. Bikes are thus coded variously as: for the poor; for the non-white; and for snobbish elites. 1/2
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is the answer. But to expand on it a bit:
Because bikes are a useful mode of everyday transport (as opposed to fun sport) only within distances found in cities, and not in car-dependent suburbs. Bikes are thus coded variously as: for the poor; for the non-white; and for snobbish elites. 1/2
Because bikes are a useful mode of everyday transport (as opposed to fun sport) only within distances found in cities, and not in car-dependent suburbs. Bikes are thus coded variously as: for the poor; for the non-white; and for snobbish elites. 1/2
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For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Seriously, why aren't bikes conservative-coded?
- They have been around longer than cars
- Cycling in freezing or blistering weather is surely more ruggedly masculine than driving in AC
- They embody self-reliance by being cheap, easy to fix by oneself, and not requiring licenses
- They have been around longer than cars
- Cycling in freezing or blistering weather is surely more ruggedly masculine than driving in AC
- They embody self-reliance by being cheap, easy to fix by oneself, and not requiring licenses
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Seriously, why aren't bikes conservative-coded?
- They have been around longer than cars
- Cycling in freezing or blistering weather is surely more ruggedly masculine than driving in AC
- They embody self-reliance by being cheap, easy to fix by oneself, and not requiring licenses
- They have been around longer than cars
- Cycling in freezing or blistering weather is surely more ruggedly masculine than driving in AC
- They embody self-reliance by being cheap, easy to fix by oneself, and not requiring licenses
Seriously, why aren't bikes conservative-coded?
- They have been around longer than cars
- Cycling in freezing or blistering weather is surely more ruggedly masculine than driving in AC
- They embody self-reliance by being cheap, easy to fix by oneself, and not requiring licenses
- They have been around longer than cars
- Cycling in freezing or blistering weather is surely more ruggedly masculine than driving in AC
- They embody self-reliance by being cheap, easy to fix by oneself, and not requiring licenses
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Seriously, why aren't bikes conservative-coded?
- They have been around longer than cars
- Cycling in freezing or blistering weather is surely more ruggedly masculine than driving in AC
- They embody self-reliance by being cheap, easy to fix by oneself, and not requiring licenses
- They have been around longer than cars
- Cycling in freezing or blistering weather is surely more ruggedly masculine than driving in AC
- They embody self-reliance by being cheap, easy to fix by oneself, and not requiring licenses
I'll pop open a vpn and swap to a privacy-focused browser just to search about health symptoms, and these supposedly tech-savvy guys just google their crimes?
i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'll pop open a vpn and swap to a privacy-focused browser just to search about health symptoms, and these supposedly tech-savvy guys just google their crimes?
Tbf, "epistemology" means so many different things that it cannot always be used interchangeably with "epistemology"
My biggest pet peeve is academics who use 'method,' 'methodology,' and 'epistemology' interchangeably. They mean different things!!
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Tbf, "epistemology" means so many different things that it cannot always be used interchangeably with "epistemology"
Have you ever eaten something with an artificial flavor you haven't tasted for decades and been instantly transported back to your childhood?
It just happened to me, a new protein powder, and breakfast with my parents eating Honeycomb Strawberry cereal
It just happened to me, a new protein powder, and breakfast with my parents eating Honeycomb Strawberry cereal
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Have you ever eaten something with an artificial flavor you haven't tasted for decades and been instantly transported back to your childhood?
It just happened to me, a new protein powder, and breakfast with my parents eating Honeycomb Strawberry cereal
It just happened to me, a new protein powder, and breakfast with my parents eating Honeycomb Strawberry cereal
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Allow me to introduce you to my friend, G.E. Moore.
Gotta love the philosophers who argue we should throw our hands in the air and say "fuck it, close enough".
But in a philosophical way.
But in a philosophical way.
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Allow me to introduce you to my friend, G.E. Moore.
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Online behavioral advertising has made surveillance the business model of the internet. Privacy Badger fights for a better web by incentivizing companies to respect your privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back
www.eff.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Online behavioral advertising has made surveillance the business model of the internet. Privacy Badger fights for a better web by incentivizing companies to respect your privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
After years of wanting to, I am finally underemployed enough to justify responding to a referee request at a for-profit journal with my own request for a consultancy fee.
It definitely won't work. But if it does...
It definitely won't work. But if it does...
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
After years of wanting to, I am finally underemployed enough to justify responding to a referee request at a for-profit journal with my own request for a consultancy fee.
It definitely won't work. But if it does...
It definitely won't work. But if it does...
The Italians have invented posh bothies
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The Italians have invented posh bothies
Reading AI-generated text, which is immaculately grammatical, is making me wonder why we care when texts have grammatical mistakes, even when the mistakes don't change or hide the text's meaning.
Is it that proofreading signals authorial effort?
Is it that mistakes are aesthetically unpleasant?
Is it that proofreading signals authorial effort?
Is it that mistakes are aesthetically unpleasant?
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Reading AI-generated text, which is immaculately grammatical, is making me wonder why we care when texts have grammatical mistakes, even when the mistakes don't change or hide the text's meaning.
Is it that proofreading signals authorial effort?
Is it that mistakes are aesthetically unpleasant?
Is it that proofreading signals authorial effort?
Is it that mistakes are aesthetically unpleasant?
Writing a pre-registration and feeling deeply deeply torn between appreciating the bullshit they prevent and longing for the days when mistakes made early in a project were not public forever.
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Writing a pre-registration and feeling deeply deeply torn between appreciating the bullshit they prevent and longing for the days when mistakes made early in a project were not public forever.
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The assisted dying debate is giving me doubts about Rawls’ idea of Pubic Reason. The basic idea is that on matters of justice & the constitution, political authority (law) should only be exercised on the basis of reasons accessible to all. That means that you don’t appeal to controversial claims.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The assisted dying debate is giving me doubts about Rawls’ idea of Pubic Reason. The basic idea is that on matters of justice & the constitution, political authority (law) should only be exercised on the basis of reasons accessible to all. That means that you don’t appeal to controversial claims.
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The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Experimental Philosophy
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Starting to suspect the left is falling victim to the same sort of entertainment cottage industry that the American christian right fell into in the 2000s:
Half-assed preachy movies banking on people watching it because of its purported spiritual values and cultural alignment.
Half-assed preachy movies banking on people watching it because of its purported spiritual values and cultural alignment.
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Starting to suspect the left is falling victim to the same sort of entertainment cottage industry that the American christian right fell into in the 2000s:
Half-assed preachy movies banking on people watching it because of its purported spiritual values and cultural alignment.
Half-assed preachy movies banking on people watching it because of its purported spiritual values and cultural alignment.
Nothing will convince me of Kuhn's observation that most science is essentially just scientists playing a game with preset rules as much as the reign of p < .05
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nothing will convince me of Kuhn's observation that most science is essentially just scientists playing a game with preset rules as much as the reign of p < .05