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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 8h

I find I get along most with philosophers who give off the energy that they regularly sit up in bed with the thought that what they are doing might be a huge waste of time and talent.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

B-29 be like

a man with his eyes closed looks at the camera

ALT: a man with his eyes closed looks at the camera

media.tenor.com

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

I can't get over how well this Always Sunny clip illustrates what Susan Carey calls "placeholder concepts" - rather than a full grasp of a concept(ual structure), placeholder concepts are just memories how the concept is used in common circumstances

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEA...

charlie is confused about pittsburgh

YouTube video by not EXION

www.youtube.com

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

The UK's visa system is, if anything, more fucked. It's run almost entirely by a 3rd party, who uses confusion and fear to upsell document verification and priority services

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more egregious examples of US-style neoliberalism is the introduction of CLEAR priority lines at the airport.

In exchange to a fee to a private corporation, you receive preferential access to a government service.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

I opened the article expecting a feast of old boy winging about Marx and Foucault, and left the article quite unsated

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

My read is we can put the blame squarely on capitalism.

Presumably many journals got hit with the same pressure from publishers as JPP: dailynous.com/2023/04/27/w...

Presumably many editorial boards didn't resist, which is how we end up with 61 article issues: link.springer.com/journal/1122...

Wiley Removes Goodin as Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy (Updated) - Daily Nous

Robert Goodin, the founding and longtime editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy, has been removed from his position at the journal by its publisher, Wiley. Goodin wrote to the associate editors...

dailynous.com

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair to Synthese, it's not necessarily new:

I repeatedly heard a story from c. 2018 that a department was considering expelling a PhD, but the PhD had a super technical publication in Synthese. The dept brought in a logician to decipher the article, who found it to be completely bunk.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

Article Processing Charges

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

What a headline for an article about how some classics departments are trialing having students speak in latin and ancient greek.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

I have an experimental psych paper under review where we only added p values as a preemptive referee-pleasing measure.

And surprisingly I think the paper may be worse for them? If anything, some p values prevented us from making otherwise unobjectionable qualitative claims.

Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 5d

I am once again BEGGING philosophers of causation to do a bit of public philosophy

Screen cap from Twitter. Original tweet:

Nicholas Wu
@nicholaswu12
Jeffries tells reporters there’s been no contact with GOP leaders since the shutdown started

“Republicans have shut the government down because they don't want to provide health care to working class Americans, and then they're running around the Capitol now lying about it.”

Quote tweet: Rachael Bade
@rachaelmbade
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Thing is, DEMOCRATS shut the government down. Not Republicans.

Small technicality, I know.

(Facts are funny things!)

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 5d

The article seems bullish on the Big 5 surviving the burst - we can expect to see a world with RTX 7090s?

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking about writing a short journal article about why one of the tent-pole historical examples in philosophy of language is so wrong that the actual facts make the opposite point people want.

Any ideas what journals would publish that?

Or how to write that in a way journals will publish?

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 6d

But I Am A Free Man On Sunday, painting by Clare Allan. Footpath leading to Kinder Scout, inspired by the 1932 Mass Trespass. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 6d

I have two married high school friends I haven't seen in 7 years whose entire vibe is exurb + Walmart + Disney.

Every time I think about reaching out when I'm back in the states, I don't because I feel guilty that it's ~ 70% for anthropological reasons.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d

i'm sort of fascinated by the fact that all of the Nostalgia Slop videos almost always center around either Walmart or just the most boring-ass exurban environments known to man

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's severe undiagnosed ADHD strikes again

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 8d

So it begins

Wikipedia article: Deaths linked to chatbots

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 8d

I thought the same thing

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 8d

It's not quite laziness, it's that the authors don't even think to check if there is a corresponding literature out there because analytic philosophy is so siloed off from the rest of the humanities

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 8d

My favorite sub-sub genre of social justice philosophy are what I call "HuffPo philosophy" - articles whose grasp of the topic were clearly entirely informed by left-leaning news websites

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 8d

So it begins

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 8d

Many people think immigrants automagically get ILR after 5 years. Not so. The average student would already qualify only after ten years.

3 years on a student visa.
2 years on a post-study work visa.
5 years on a skilled worker visa.

So they'd currently qualify in the 11th year of their residence.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 8d

This feels like this should have been said somewhere already, but I haven't seen it: the great tension raised by AI is between virtue ethics (doing stuff well) and consequentialism (getting stuff done).

It's a tension we aren't that used to navigating.

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