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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think it's consensus (or even true). I asked my metaethicist partner and he said the same.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 7d

increasing the ratio of voltage to current is an act of resistance

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 7d

My partner also suggested 'by weight', which comes with the added bonus of making your shelves unstable

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 7d

Not only is it useless, snobby, and inconvenient, but also you have to update it every year

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 7d

Ranking of author's PhD granting department in current year.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 7d

This is basically just two kinds of apoliticality. There's 'apolitical in how an answer is reached' (VFI type stuff) and 'apolitical in the perception of politicians' (constantly moving target, epistemically useless). Whether the former is desirable is debatable. Nobody should say the latter is.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 7d

Thankfully, my support is fatal to all playoff runs. So it won't be too long.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 7d

I have a duty to warn: after accidentally attending the best game of the season (this past Sunday) I have become afflicted with the disease known as 'Toronto Blue Jays'. Prognosis is not good. Blue Jay posting will now commence, as part of my treatment plan.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 8d

You can't even begin to understand conspiracy theories without a good understanding of trigonometry. It's a real sine quanon

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 13d

So, what's the strategy? Nobody wants to hire someone they can't bring in. Are yinz just going to stop considering applications from non-citizens?

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 13d

Really curious to hear how people on US university hiring commitees are planning to respond to the 100 000 dollar H1-B bribe rule. There isn't a junior academic in the world with that kind of cash to throw around, and I don't imagine many departments would enjoy it either.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 17d

"Yeah, you've been to a lot of roads, bud. But you still haven't ruled out that this one is the dustiest and sandiest"

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 17d

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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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 25d

Last night, the frat house on my street threw a very loud party (as is their right). But the weird thing was, the music they played at this very loud party in 2025 was at least 80% the exact same music I heard at frat parties in 2012. That's weird, right? Hypotheses?

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 31

That's the thing - it was a small shelf carrying only new copies of the very most obvious records (Rumours, Sgt. Pepper, etc.). The sort of thing you would expect any record-liker to already have!

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 31

There's a store in this airport in which you can buy vinyl records. That famously travel-friendly, small, durable, and easy-to-use music delivery method, vinyl records

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 30

I watched it on an aeroplane once and didn't like it, but it might just be that it's precisely the opposite of a good aeroplane movie

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 26

"But what about the implications? How will this all conclude?" I cry, as I am escorted away from the premises

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 21

"There's no platonic explanation for this", I say, looking at one of the dialogues that ends in ἀπορία

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