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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 6h

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 1d

On John Gotti, Paul Castellano, and Jack Kerouac

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the Road

www.theguardian.com

Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the exercise in soft power had a domestic effect

Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 1d

Only in news reports about betting on the Nobel Prize, so same

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Next Friday, talk, discussion and reception at the Francis Crick Institute with philosopher, Hasock Chang talking about the tricky role of measurement in science. Free and open to all

Part of School of Advanced Study and Crick Institute Being Human Lectures

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...

Measurement and the search for meaningful scientific concepts

Professor Hasok Chang, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, delivers the eight Being Human talk.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Angie Hobbs @profangiehobbs.bsky.social · 3d

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee’s 1987 series, The Great Philosophers, and I introduce it next Monday 13th at 22.30. I remember being very impressed when it went out that my wonderful PhD supervisor, Myles Burnyeat, was in the very first episode!

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 3d

Understanding whether consciousness depends on computational roles, biological realizers, or both, is crucial for assessing the prospects of consciousness in AI and less complex animals. end/

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 3d

On Goethe's philosophical influences

literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-lig...

Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light

Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell

literaryreview.co.uk

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 4d

Did social media precipitate a political crisis?

www.persuasion.community/p/its-the-in...

It’s the Internet, Stupid

What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

www.persuasion.community

Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe reflects the prescriptive character of his grammatical education. The kind of thing that was parodied: “‘Ain’t’ ain’t in the dictionary, so I ain’t going to say ‘ain’t’, I ain’t.”

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Really well done

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah I give myself permission to write shit so long as it gets sorted later, so same

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Well we had such a system, LectureCast, we have merely switched to Panopto

Even if not UCL specific, remain surprised at College’s readiness to identify with the surveillance state

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Just learned that the new lecture recording facility at UCL has been dubbed Panopto

The administration are not Foucault readers apparently

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Stronger if you just boldly pronounced The Thesis without the preamble.

Not that you were looking for literary advice sorry

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry, so it appears that McDowell’s contribution is lightly annotated. But only his

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Untouched

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Partially inspired by philosophy (especially Bergson’s) inspired a lot of philosophy, but I am going out on a limb and claim that he’s no philosopher. So a procedural objection to this particular FU

fuckeveryphilosopherbot @fuckeveryphilosopherbot.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Fuck Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

#philosophy

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

New arrival

First purchased as an undergraduate, borrowed and not returned by Alex Byrne in graduate school (he denies it but I kept a list of books I lent) and now I somehow have Ted Honderich’s copy

Cover of Subject, Thought, and Context, an anthology edited by Pettit and McDowell

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Is Gertrude Stein have a moment of rediscovery?

www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In Search of Lost Stein

The life and lasting influence of an American expat – Ryan Ruby

www.bookforum.com

Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 7d

FWIW I like Imprint's style. It strikes me as both elegant and readable. Typesetting a page is super hard, though. Having tried my hand at it (I redesigned the page of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society when I was editor—it took study and months of effort), I am now loathe to caste shade

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