Jen Whyte 🍁
@whyjenwhy.bsky.social
Thinker about old stuff at Duke University. I have a website and this is a link to it: https://www.jenniferlwhyte.com/
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Jen Whyte 🍁
@whyjenwhy.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Epiphenomenalists dni
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Yeah, see, there's a reason that most tournaments do a 'best of 7' for their finals. You're basically guaranteed at least one good game that way.
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Yeah, see, there's a reason that most tournaments do a 'best of 7' for their finals. You're basically guaranteed at least one good game that way.
Ok, I'll admit that I haven't had time to follow the sport this year until now, but I'm not sure anything could have prepared me for how fucking goofy Ilia Malinin's long program is.
February 8, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Ok, I'll admit that I haven't had time to follow the sport this year until now, but I'm not sure anything could have prepared me for how fucking goofy Ilia Malinin's long program is.
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The name 'C.D. Broad' really was wasted on the philosopher. Should have been saved for a 90s music store with a great riot girl selection
February 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The name 'C.D. Broad' really was wasted on the philosopher. Should have been saved for a 90s music store with a great riot girl selection
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Daily Affirmations:
- You are very wise
- You speak truly
- It must be as you say
- That is surely correct, Socrates
- You are very wise
- You speak truly
- It must be as you say
- That is surely correct, Socrates
July 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Daily Affirmations:
- You are very wise
- You speak truly
- It must be as you say
- That is surely correct, Socrates
- You are very wise
- You speak truly
- It must be as you say
- That is surely correct, Socrates
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You know, the narrator in 'I've been everywhere' never actually specifies whether he's seen a road with as much dust and sand as the Winnemucca road he's currently on. He names many other roads he's been to, but doesn't make any ruling on their comparative dustiness or sandiness.
September 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You know, the narrator in 'I've been everywhere' never actually specifies whether he's seen a road with as much dust and sand as the Winnemucca road he's currently on. He names many other roads he's been to, but doesn't make any ruling on their comparative dustiness or sandiness.
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If the standard model ever develops a need for another pair of quarks they should call them based and cringe
October 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If the standard model ever develops a need for another pair of quarks they should call them based and cringe
You: you're just making up a guy to be mad at
Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio
Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio
February 2, 2026 at 2:37 PM
You: you're just making up a guy to be mad at
Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio
Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio
Winter is a great time to get some sewing done, but it comes with a caveat, and that caveat is what happens when you make a beautiful new white dress shirt - perfect for job interviews - put it on for the first time, and then immediately baptize it with the unmistakeable, indelible tinge of Dayquil
January 28, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Winter is a great time to get some sewing done, but it comes with a caveat, and that caveat is what happens when you make a beautiful new white dress shirt - perfect for job interviews - put it on for the first time, and then immediately baptize it with the unmistakeable, indelible tinge of Dayquil
I've been sick continuously for about a month now. At first I thought that the reason was that I've had to do a bunch of non-optional travel while sick and that was delaying my recovery. But that's not true. It's because I've been too busy to watch Star Trek. You gotta watch Star Trek.
January 25, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I've been sick continuously for about a month now. At first I thought that the reason was that I've had to do a bunch of non-optional travel while sick and that was delaying my recovery. But that's not true. It's because I've been too busy to watch Star Trek. You gotta watch Star Trek.
Maybe we can distract him by insisting that an EGOT is way cooler than a Nobel prize anyway. Let him go bother the Grammy committee
January 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Maybe we can distract him by insisting that an EGOT is way cooler than a Nobel prize anyway. Let him go bother the Grammy committee
'Describe the process of making bobbin lace'
let's put a pin in circling back to that later and circle back to putting a pin in it later
January 16, 2026 at 9:42 PM
'Describe the process of making bobbin lace'
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Just don’t think my government should be creating largely exclusive content for this guy. Put another way, if your constituents had to buy Ernst Zündel’s zine to read your latest policy position, that’d be a policy position in itself. And “but his circulation numbers are high” isn’t a good defence.
It takes a few clicks to ultimately see the post Elon Musk is talking about. But the original post is about Rhodesia.
“What they once did to Rhodesia, they now attempt to the whole world. Resist.”
“What they once did to Rhodesia, they now attempt to the whole world. Resist.”
January 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Just don’t think my government should be creating largely exclusive content for this guy. Put another way, if your constituents had to buy Ernst Zündel’s zine to read your latest policy position, that’d be a policy position in itself. And “but his circulation numbers are high” isn’t a good defence.
One of the big questions I keep writing a little bit about and then backing away from is 'what happens if a privately-funded space project announces that they have discovered alien life or detected an alien signal? How could we possibly believe them?'
Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private space telescope
Lazuli, a Billionaire-Funded Private Space Telescope, Signals a New Strategy for Astronomy
Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private space telescope
www.scientificamerican.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
One of the big questions I keep writing a little bit about and then backing away from is 'what happens if a privately-funded space project announces that they have discovered alien life or detected an alien signal? How could we possibly believe them?'
Everyone going to the APA today, have fun, and be very grateful to me personally for choosing not to give you the flu.
January 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Everyone going to the APA today, have fun, and be very grateful to me personally for choosing not to give you the flu.
"New artists won't be able to find an audience anymore because everyone's listening to AI" New artists can't find an audience right now because everyone's listening to Fleetwood Mac.
New music has never accounted for as small a proportion of what people listen to. Why would that change?
New music has never accounted for as small a proportion of what people listen to. Why would that change?
I think a big issue with content slop evolving in general is that I am already in a place where I’m not going to get caught up with every game in my Steam library and every movie and tv show I have on various watch later lists. Like who the fuck is going to pay real life money for an AI movie
January 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
"New artists won't be able to find an audience anymore because everyone's listening to AI" New artists can't find an audience right now because everyone's listening to Fleetwood Mac.
New music has never accounted for as small a proportion of what people listen to. Why would that change?
New music has never accounted for as small a proportion of what people listen to. Why would that change?
What happens if you do SAT-based faculty hiring and a candidate was educated in one of the dozens of countries that don't administer the SAT? I know the real answer is 'we don't hire foreigners', but I like the idea of a bunch of 30-somethings having to sit a teenager test to be hired to a TT job.
January 2, 2026 at 7:55 PM
What happens if you do SAT-based faculty hiring and a candidate was educated in one of the dozens of countries that don't administer the SAT? I know the real answer is 'we don't hire foreigners', but I like the idea of a bunch of 30-somethings having to sit a teenager test to be hired to a TT job.
I love the hockey World Juniors for a lot of reasons, but possibly the main one is that the sponsors are so much worse. Nobody looks cool with 'Chipotle' plastered across their forehead.
December 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I love the hockey World Juniors for a lot of reasons, but possibly the main one is that the sponsors are so much worse. Nobody looks cool with 'Chipotle' plastered across their forehead.
To the department that sent out their 'thanks but no thanks' job application responses early this morning: at this point I just have to admire the commitment to the role of the heel. Nobody's in the office today. You had to fucking schedule that one.
December 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
To the department that sent out their 'thanks but no thanks' job application responses early this morning: at this point I just have to admire the commitment to the role of the heel. Nobody's in the office today. You had to fucking schedule that one.
Maybe this is unique to my players, but the most surprising part of being a GM to me has been the degree to which I've had to be able to come up with an astonishing array of meals, cocktails, and unusual beers completely on the spot. They really want the full menu every time.
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Maybe this is unique to my players, but the most surprising part of being a GM to me has been the degree to which I've had to be able to come up with an astonishing array of meals, cocktails, and unusual beers completely on the spot. They really want the full menu every time.
I admire the ambition, but it's hardly a beginner-friendly distro. I think he'd be better off starting with Ubuntu or something.
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I admire the ambition, but it's hardly a beginner-friendly distro. I think he'd be better off starting with Ubuntu or something.
Counterpoint:
Leonard Nimoy's "Spock Thoughts" vs. John Pertwee's "I Am the Doctor"
Leonard Nimoy's "Spock Thoughts" vs. John Pertwee's "I Am the Doctor"
Star Trekkin' vs. Doctorin' the Tardis
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Counterpoint:
Leonard Nimoy's "Spock Thoughts" vs. John Pertwee's "I Am the Doctor"
Leonard Nimoy's "Spock Thoughts" vs. John Pertwee's "I Am the Doctor"
I guess I should do a promo with a bit more information: if you want to hear me talk about alien contact, prime numbers, a Doritos commercial from 2008, and what any of that has to do with the Vienna Circle, this is your opportunity to do that!
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November 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I guess I should do a promo with a bit more information: if you want to hear me talk about alien contact, prime numbers, a Doritos commercial from 2008, and what any of that has to do with the Vienna Circle, this is your opportunity to do that!
Hey look who it is!
Please join us on 12.01.25, at 9:30 am, for our next Foundations Seminar.
bit.ly/3Mg7ZK5
Please register here: bit.ly/4n8Hwvu
#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifoundationsseminar #foundationseminar #JenniferLWhyte #harvard @pittofficial
#harvarduniversity @universityofpittsburgh
bit.ly/3Mg7ZK5
Please register here: bit.ly/4n8Hwvu
#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifoundationsseminar #foundationseminar #JenniferLWhyte #harvard @pittofficial
#harvarduniversity @universityofpittsburgh
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Hey look who it is!
Update: turns out that when you manually back up all your files in anticipation of Doing the Thing you learn that your files needed a good clean a long time ago. Why is the entire Final Fantasy IX soundtrack in the folder for the philosophy of math course I took in 2018
Part of me really wants to try switching to Linux right now, knowing full well that I will get very Into It almost immediately, part of me thinks I should save it as a good, safe option for a midlife crisis down the line.
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Update: turns out that when you manually back up all your files in anticipation of Doing the Thing you learn that your files needed a good clean a long time ago. Why is the entire Final Fantasy IX soundtrack in the folder for the philosophy of math course I took in 2018