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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 2d

Glad you’re feeling good! I hope the show was great.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 5d

Talk to the hand - Wikipedia

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 5d

1. [Holds up hand]
2. If this is a hand, then something in the world is not just presentation of content
3. Therefore, something in the world is not just presentation of content.

QED.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 5d

No convincing reply?! Here’s a reply:

🙌.

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Ernest Sosa, How to defeat opposition to Moore - PhilPapers

What modal relation must a fact bear to a belief in order for this belief to constitute knowledge of that fact? Externalists have proposed various answers, including some that combine externalism ...

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 5d

“The other issue I’m having is that my stronger students are very, very bored. I asked AI how to further engage them with AI prompting. Now, those advanced students are working on prompting AI to come up with ways to refreeze the glaciers their AI prompting has melted.”

Gold.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5d

"Because I’m not a good enough AI prompter, I can’t figure out how to prompt AI to tell me how to help all students become better AI prompters."

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 6d

Wow… holy shit.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 7d

Hope you’re ok! Sounds terrifying.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 8d

No don’t worry, it’s fine, Business Guy is on the case.

Seriously, I love that this is just an unsubtle advertisement for this one company. That’s the take away they want you to get: everything is fine as long as you buy from our sponsors.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 11d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 11d

I was just saying to @neuroyogacara.bsky.social yesterday that calling other people NPCs is really telling on yourself. Tell me you’re incapable of empathy without telling me…

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 13d

WTAF

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 15d

Blood Incantation concert pick with big obelisks on each side of the band.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 15d

A compelling argument for the value of shame by my colleague @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 16d

Brutal! Just did some 230 separate edits fixing various problems, most introduced, though some just ordinary mistakes that should have been trivial to fix but weren’t because the system is terrible.

Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 16d

We need to move to real open access publishing. I would much rather have non-profit inefficiency than drive myself nuts just to make a buck for Springer.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 16d

The Springer Nature Proof Editor is unbelievably terrible. I’m seriously considering just pulling the article, despite having gone through 2 rounds of revision to get it accepted.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 19d

Trump admin: [flagrantly violates constitution]

NYT analysis: The Trump admin *may* have crossed a constitutional line by [flagrantly violating the constitution]. Who are we to come down one way or the other?

In Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 20d

Unintentionally brilliant satire.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 20d

This New Jersey hate remains totally uncalled for…

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21d

One point Montesquieu makes that I find pretty insightful is that despotism er fuckin sucks and we definitely should not do that. I feel we have a lot to learn from this.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 22d

Yeah, that was a great time. Hard to know what to post. I’m doing some re-listening. I’m not necessarily claiming it was even the best thing he did, but Slaughter of the Soul is by itself an all-time greatest album, HoF (if we really had one) qualifying. Just fucking killer.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23d

"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"

Behold! I Am the Singularity—a Word That Has Three R’s

Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now gro...

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 22d

Oh no! I just saw the news after seeing this post. That’s terrible.

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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 23d

Dozens of times over. I should probably change my behavior…

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