it just came to my attention that the amicus brief is not timothy williamson's first questionable moment re: trans people. crazy to suggest that including trans women in the extension of women makes it easier to waterboard american political prisoners lmao
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
it just came to my attention that the amicus brief is not timothy williamson's first questionable moment re: trans people. crazy to suggest that including trans women in the extension of women makes it easier to waterboard american political prisoners lmao
Twice or thrice had I lov’d thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Angels affect us oft, and worshipp’d be;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Angels affect us oft, and worshipp’d be;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Twice or thrice had I lov’d thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Angels affect us oft, and worshipp’d be;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Angels affect us oft, and worshipp’d be;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
just learned all the fnaf lore from my (much) younger sibling. 2 hours of fnaf lore dump over phonecall. i have a 22 page notesapp document of fnaf lore on my phone now. next time im talking to a kid between the ages of 7-16 im going to shock them with my knowledge of circus baby and molten freddy.
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
just learned all the fnaf lore from my (much) younger sibling. 2 hours of fnaf lore dump over phonecall. i have a 22 page notesapp document of fnaf lore on my phone now. next time im talking to a kid between the ages of 7-16 im going to shock them with my knowledge of circus baby and molten freddy.
i do admire this paper for its ability to track the exact lines of thought i had when i was ten years old and deciding not to be christian. not sure that it's useful for a philosophy paper to do that but it's at least interesting to see that lewis and ten year old me were on the same page about hell
still crazy that there’s a posthumous david lewis paper about how the (standard) christian god is evil and so by extension (standard) christians are evil
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
i do admire this paper for its ability to track the exact lines of thought i had when i was ten years old and deciding not to be christian. not sure that it's useful for a philosophy paper to do that but it's at least interesting to see that lewis and ten year old me were on the same page about hell
finishing up a paradigm me-style first draft of a paper. like 60 pages, of which 10 is about clowns and 50 is about metaphysical modality, and which includes this heinous stretch of words:
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
finishing up a paradigm me-style first draft of a paper. like 60 pages, of which 10 is about clowns and 50 is about metaphysical modality, and which includes this heinous stretch of words:
the mistake is caring what conlaw profs think about anything. hard to think of any professional group more antireliable in general
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
the mistake is caring what conlaw profs think about anything. hard to think of any professional group more antireliable in general
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law professor seeing a grad student be targeted by a hate movement to try to get her fired: it's her fault for not writing a tighter essay prompt
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
law professor seeing a grad student be targeted by a hate movement to try to get her fired: it's her fault for not writing a tighter essay prompt
5 animals ive seen in the wild: ant, ant, ant, ant, ant
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
5 animals ive seen in the wild: ant, ant, ant, ant, ant
starting to be convinced that most of the AI-induced automation that has any shot of serious uptake was already stuff that could be done without AI (like self checkouts at target and ordering kiosks at mcdonalds). if the customer interactions are more complex than a midsize flowchart it won't work.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
starting to be convinced that most of the AI-induced automation that has any shot of serious uptake was already stuff that could be done without AI (like self checkouts at target and ordering kiosks at mcdonalds). if the customer interactions are more complex than a midsize flowchart it won't work.
here students can see the historical grade averages for previous iterations of the class and if you're grading even 1-2% lower than that number the students go absolutely ballistic and start challenging every grade. that average btw is always like an A-
My uncle is leading some sort of “wtf is going on” inquiry at UT Austin and would confirm this thread, with the added complications that
1) profs who fail students get bad reviews
2) profs who fail students get yelled at for eliminating tuition money
3) profs who 1) and 2) get fired
1) profs who fail students get bad reviews
2) profs who fail students get yelled at for eliminating tuition money
3) profs who 1) and 2) get fired
We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
here students can see the historical grade averages for previous iterations of the class and if you're grading even 1-2% lower than that number the students go absolutely ballistic and start challenging every grade. that average btw is always like an A-
i showed my students fleeing ghost the other day (promise it was relevant) and i was, as always, surprised by people's reactions to that painting. i need to find some excuse to teach aesthetics or something. i love teaching philosophy but eliciting hot takes about art from undergrads is also so fun
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
i showed my students fleeing ghost the other day (promise it was relevant) and i was, as always, surprised by people's reactions to that painting. i need to find some excuse to teach aesthetics or something. i love teaching philosophy but eliciting hot takes about art from undergrads is also so fun
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i miss drew, who never got to know all of who and what they were
i miss everyone i'll never meet because other people's bigotry fear and smallness left no place for them in the world
i miss everyone i never would've met
they all deserved better, because all it is possible to deserve is the best
i miss everyone i'll never meet because other people's bigotry fear and smallness left no place for them in the world
i miss everyone i never would've met
they all deserved better, because all it is possible to deserve is the best
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
i miss drew, who never got to know all of who and what they were
i miss everyone i'll never meet because other people's bigotry fear and smallness left no place for them in the world
i miss everyone i never would've met
they all deserved better, because all it is possible to deserve is the best
i miss everyone i'll never meet because other people's bigotry fear and smallness left no place for them in the world
i miss everyone i never would've met
they all deserved better, because all it is possible to deserve is the best
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*at the Christmas Eve service* when do we get to the part where we recite the green man’s twenty-two vices?
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
*at the Christmas Eve service* when do we get to the part where we recite the green man’s twenty-two vices?
i hate grading essays already but grading chatgpt essays is so fucking demoralizing. what an incredible waste of everyone's short time on earth
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
i hate grading essays already but grading chatgpt essays is so fucking demoralizing. what an incredible waste of everyone's short time on earth
curb your enthusiasm episode where larry, although he's quick to say he never would have gone, expresses disappointment that he was never invited to any of epstein's events. "i'm an important new yorker too, you know"
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
curb your enthusiasm episode where larry, although he's quick to say he never would have gone, expresses disappointment that he was never invited to any of epstein's events. "i'm an important new yorker too, you know"
woke avril lavigne: he was a boy, she was a girl, he was straight, she was straight, he was interested in her, she was interested in him, can i make it any more obvious?
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
woke avril lavigne: he was a boy, she was a girl, he was straight, she was straight, he was interested in her, she was interested in him, can i make it any more obvious?
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sorry i'm too young to remember 9/11 and thus am incapable of engaging with statements about possible worlds
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
sorry i'm too young to remember 9/11 and thus am incapable of engaging with statements about possible worlds
faculty hiring meetings are wild. just crazy style. do not like the vibes.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
faculty hiring meetings are wild. just crazy style. do not like the vibes.
the "merely" here is interesting. i feel like whether contrastivism is inflationary or deflationary, or otherwise is the more content-heavy sense of [thing discussed], varies wildly between disputes. i guess whether or not being by contrast is "mere" is a notion that is what it is by contrast.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
the "merely" here is interesting. i feel like whether contrastivism is inflationary or deflationary, or otherwise is the more content-heavy sense of [thing discussed], varies wildly between disputes. i guess whether or not being by contrast is "mere" is a notion that is what it is by contrast.
people act like econ majors in neoclassical departments are the brainwashed scions of empire or whatever but you know they're not out there talking with these guys because i can deprogram an econ bro in 15 minutes and radicalize him the other way in 25
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
people act like econ majors in neoclassical departments are the brainwashed scions of empire or whatever but you know they're not out there talking with these guys because i can deprogram an econ bro in 15 minutes and radicalize him the other way in 25
this isn't exactly right but not exactly wrong either. share of americans who live alone is at peak, but share of young americans living with "roommates" is *also* up. how is this possible? increases in both are offset by fewer married couples living together, since people get married later.
Okay I'm going to flag this not to dunk on Sandra but because I want to point that one major driver of increased housing costs is that young people today are MUCH more reluctant to have roommates than in the past. I personally know a number of folks who just refuse to consider it!
A loan and because I was a young woman my dad had to co-sign and the car was $2500. My apartment was $200, my share $100, heat and electric included. No IPhones, computers and other must have expensive tech. Once the gas went crazy high from .35 to over .52 sold the Mach and bought a VW bug.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
this isn't exactly right but not exactly wrong either. share of americans who live alone is at peak, but share of young americans living with "roommates" is *also* up. how is this possible? increases in both are offset by fewer married couples living together, since people get married later.
this is my grandmother 100% (can you guess who the "grandson" is)
A key figure in US politics that I think a lot of European observers obsessed with MAGA voters haven't really got their heads around is your average boring middle class suburban voter who in the face of incomprehensible reactionary chaos hankers after a Normie Revolution.
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
this is my grandmother 100% (can you guess who the "grandson" is)
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This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.