Scott Edgar
@scottedgar.bsky.social
History of modern philosophy, neo-Kantianism, sustainable transport, vegan tacos.
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A highly educated society is a better society. Everyone with the desire & ability should be able to go to university. Individuals & society benefit, whatever the subject, so education costs should be subsidised. Public research is a common good. That, apparently, is a controversial take.
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A highly educated society is a better society. Everyone with the desire & ability should be able to go to university. Individuals & society benefit, whatever the subject, so education costs should be subsidised. Public research is a common good. That, apparently, is a controversial take.
I love to think about the time I was in a group of advocates in a meeting with my city's mayor, trying to convince him to support a rapid transit plan.
That was meeting was the first time the mayor learned of self-driving cars, and that was all he wanted to talk about for the rest of the meeting.
That was meeting was the first time the mayor learned of self-driving cars, and that was all he wanted to talk about for the rest of the meeting.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I love to think about the time I was in a group of advocates in a meeting with my city's mayor, trying to convince him to support a rapid transit plan.
That was meeting was the first time the mayor learned of self-driving cars, and that was all he wanted to talk about for the rest of the meeting.
That was meeting was the first time the mayor learned of self-driving cars, and that was all he wanted to talk about for the rest of the meeting.
I wonder if we'll hear about it when these guys realize you can feed an LLM-produced essay back into the same LLM and tell it to critique the essay.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I wonder if we'll hear about it when these guys realize you can feed an LLM-produced essay back into the same LLM and tell it to critique the essay.
Listening to these back to back, to welcome the damp, premature dusk.
Three of my ten favourite songs of 2025 are overly-long, moody, slow burns. A fourth is a shorter, moody, slow burn.
Probably means everything's fine?
Probably means everything's fine?
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Listening to these back to back, to welcome the damp, premature dusk.
This is also my prediction. An increasingly clear demarcation between education for the ruling elite and education for the working masses.
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is also my prediction. An increasingly clear demarcation between education for the ruling elite and education for the working masses.
I've spent my whole life hearing Americans say "Only in America!" about things that are utterly normal in my country and any number of others.
"The United States isn’t a nation like other nations, and it never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state, and there was no such distinctive ethnicity even in 1776, when the U.S. was created."--Gordon Wood www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I've spent my whole life hearing Americans say "Only in America!" about things that are utterly normal in my country and any number of others.
Christmas level: extreme.
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Christmas level: extreme.
Amazing choice on the part of European painters to spend centuries making children look as creepy as possible.
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Amazing choice on the part of European painters to spend centuries making children look as creepy as possible.
Whenever a decision-maker starts talking about "nice to haves" versus "have to haves," they're telling you what they're about to take away from you.
(I am probably late figuring this out. Forgive me.)
(I am probably late figuring this out. Forgive me.)
Andy Fillmore says ‘nothing is off the table’ when it comes to making cuts in Halifax budget
By @suzannerent.bsky.social
By @suzannerent.bsky.social
Andy Fillmore says 'nothing is off the table' when it comes to making cuts in Halifax budget - Halifax Examiner
Council votes in favour of mayor's motion to consider options for financial restraint.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Whenever a decision-maker starts talking about "nice to haves" versus "have to haves," they're telling you what they're about to take away from you.
(I am probably late figuring this out. Forgive me.)
(I am probably late figuring this out. Forgive me.)
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It’s World Philosophy Day.
Go hug some wisdom.
Go hug some wisdom.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It’s World Philosophy Day.
Go hug some wisdom.
Go hug some wisdom.
It's important for everyone to know that Elon Musk's LLM is engaging in Holocaust denial.
I'll also add that all of the arguments here (about architectural plans and gas residue left in materials on site) were refuted decisively in the 1990s. There is *nothing* here but 30 year old falsehoods.
I'll also add that all of the arguments here (about architectural plans and gas residue left in materials on site) were refuted decisively in the 1990s. There is *nothing* here but 30 year old falsehoods.
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It's important for everyone to know that Elon Musk's LLM is engaging in Holocaust denial.
I'll also add that all of the arguments here (about architectural plans and gas residue left in materials on site) were refuted decisively in the 1990s. There is *nothing* here but 30 year old falsehoods.
I'll also add that all of the arguments here (about architectural plans and gas residue left in materials on site) were refuted decisively in the 1990s. There is *nothing* here but 30 year old falsehoods.
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I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Three of my ten favourite songs of 2025 are overly-long, moody, slow burns. A fourth is a shorter, moody, slow burn.
Probably means everything's fine?
Probably means everything's fine?
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Three of my ten favourite songs of 2025 are overly-long, moody, slow burns. A fourth is a shorter, moody, slow burn.
Probably means everything's fine?
Probably means everything's fine?
Mid-budget TV sci-fi from the 1990s through the 2000s all takes place in a shared universe and it turns out that universe is UBC.
Why does every advanced civilization connected to the gate network have architecture just like the science buildings at the University of British Columbia? Because shut up, that's why.
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Mid-budget TV sci-fi from the 1990s through the 2000s all takes place in a shared universe and it turns out that universe is UBC.
My biggest pet peeve is academics who use 'method,' 'methodology,' and 'epistemology' interchangeably. They mean different things!!
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
My biggest pet peeve is academics who use 'method,' 'methodology,' and 'epistemology' interchangeably. They mean different things!!
You know you've got a great metaphor when you have to write a whole other paragraph to explain how it works
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
You know you've got a great metaphor when you have to write a whole other paragraph to explain how it works
Absolutely not kidding about Christmas.
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Absolutely not kidding about Christmas.
Rosalía has not been on my radar. In my defence, no one ever told me she puts a chamber orchestra, hyperpop mania, and Bjork all in the same song.
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Rosalía has not been on my radar. In my defence, no one ever told me she puts a chamber orchestra, hyperpop mania, and Bjork all in the same song.
They should invent a synonyms for 'primitive' that doesn't have such racist connotations.
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
They should invent a synonyms for 'primitive' that doesn't have such racist connotations.
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I was shattered. Shattered like the cheap ceramic plates that explode into a million pieces when dropped, pieces that can never be fully swept up despite best efforts, its shards stabbing into your soles when least expected, into your soul. I’ve always hated those plates.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I was shattered. Shattered like the cheap ceramic plates that explode into a million pieces when dropped, pieces that can never be fully swept up despite best efforts, its shards stabbing into your soles when least expected, into your soul. I’ve always hated those plates.
The Axe Bodyspray CEO thinks Axe Bodyspray could make spotty 16-year-olds irresistible to supermodels, and even double the number of dates they go on each year.
Why doesn't Anderson Coooer interview the Axe Bodyspray CEO?
Why doesn't Anderson Coooer interview the Axe Bodyspray CEO?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The Axe Bodyspray CEO thinks Axe Bodyspray could make spotty 16-year-olds irresistible to supermodels, and even double the number of dates they go on each year.
Why doesn't Anderson Coooer interview the Axe Bodyspray CEO?
Why doesn't Anderson Coooer interview the Axe Bodyspray CEO?
"Play a train song, pour me one more round / Make 'em leave my boots on, on the day they lay me down."
RIP to a real songwriter.
RIP to a real songwriter.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Play a train song, pour me one more round / Make 'em leave my boots on, on the day they lay me down."
RIP to a real songwriter.
RIP to a real songwriter.
The arguments about the word 'pedophile' remind me very much of recent arguments about the word 'genocide.'
In both cases, I want to say, "Suppose I concede all your points about the technical definition of that word. Exactly what argument do you think you've won?"
In both cases, I want to say, "Suppose I concede all your points about the technical definition of that word. Exactly what argument do you think you've won?"
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The arguments about the word 'pedophile' remind me very much of recent arguments about the word 'genocide.'
In both cases, I want to say, "Suppose I concede all your points about the technical definition of that word. Exactly what argument do you think you've won?"
In both cases, I want to say, "Suppose I concede all your points about the technical definition of that word. Exactly what argument do you think you've won?"
UPDATE: Zeller has made it back in, in a footnote!
Follow for more updates on whether Eduard Zeller makes it into this draft in any shape or form.
Follow for more updates on whether Eduard Zeller makes it into this draft in any shape or form.
Lol I thought I might squeeze in a paragraph about Zeller after all.
But nope.
But nope.
I think this is the fourth time in my life I've written a section about Eduard Zeller and then cut it from the final draft.
There's never room for Zeller.
There's never room for Zeller.
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
UPDATE: Zeller has made it back in, in a footnote!
Follow for more updates on whether Eduard Zeller makes it into this draft in any shape or form.
Follow for more updates on whether Eduard Zeller makes it into this draft in any shape or form.
Slow and plodding. What everyone is looking for in their history of philosophy!
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Slow and plodding. What everyone is looking for in their history of philosophy!