Brian Weatherson

Will There Be Midterm Elections? - Daily Nous

Brian Weatherson

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I think the short answer to this is no, because of the ramshackle distributed way US elections are run. But I suspect other opinions are available.

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Is this a reasonable question?

According to a site that aggregates data from several betting markets, bettors think there's a 63.9% chance that the Democratic Party will regain control of the US House of Representatives in the midt...

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Is this a reasonable question?

Will There Be Midterm Elections? - Daily Nous

According to a site that aggregates data from several betting markets, bettors think there's a 63.9% chance that the Democratic Party will regain control of the US House of Representatives in the midt...

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Henry Farrell

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"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Baptiste Le Bihan

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I'm hiring, please share widely!
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Brian Weatherson

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They did have Matt Beard as part of the team earlier, so EGS isn’t the first philosopher they’ve had. I agree it’s very fun philosophy for kids.

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Dr. Matt Beard

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Jacquelyn Gill

@jacquelyngill.bsky.social

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

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Daniel Knowles

@dlknowles.bsky.social

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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southpaw

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Proud to make a gift of this article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Returns to National Mall

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Brian Weatherson

@bweatherson.bsky.social

Ugh, I meant portrait in the original. My bad! (Need edit button.)

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Brian Weatherson

@bweatherson.bsky.social

That is unfortunate, though it's across Wiley.

Again, once you've gone two column portrait, it is tricky. You either have footnotes across the whole page, which are too long, or uneven columns, which they might not like the look of.

Brian Weatherson

@bweatherson.bsky.social

I think the intended use for these PDFs is basically archival. You aren't supposed to read them at all; you read papers in the XML/HTML version that's in browser. These PDFs are for citing and archiving.

Brian Weatherson

@bweatherson.bsky.social

I don't love it, but it's a genuinely hard problem. Your readers are mostly using letter (or A4) size paper. They also expect to read things in landscape (ruling out Imprint's style). And they don't want to waste paper or have unreadably long lines. Meet all those conditions and you end up like this

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Evan Dando Is Back From the Brink

Brian Weatherson

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Did not expect to see a RRR sticker on the front page of the NY Times.

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Brian Weatherson

@bweatherson.bsky.social

Oh sure, there will be borderline cases.

But the clear cases (to my eyes) look like this:

1. There is a leader (or leadership group)
2. The bulk of people agree to follow the leader over some range of instructions.
3. The leader chooses something from that range and communicates it.

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Brian Weatherson

@bweatherson.bsky.social

I think armies can intend to capture locations, and prosecutors’ offices can intend to prosecute a particular case.

The more structured a group is the easier it is to ascribe it intentions.

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the importance of giving something a name

Brian Weatherson

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Have philosophers talking about conceptual engineering done any work on SLAPP as a concept?

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SOPPPPs and SLAPPs

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in which, I try to give the YIMBYs a present to make up for all the mean things I've said about them backofmind.substack.com/p/sopppps-an...

SOPPPPs and SLAPPs

the importance of giving something a name

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shauna

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everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)

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Brian Weatherson

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This is partially why Ishani and I argued that we should welcome the idea of coercive conditions on funding; it captures some things the government should not be able to do.

It's just that it was never plausible that Medicaid expansion was one of those things.

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Joey Fishkin

@fishkin.bsky.social

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

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James Hell Brooks

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RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

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Luke O'Neil

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Please report this fucking AI slop. Goddamnit. www.amazon.com/KALEB-HORTON...

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Lakshya Jain

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Many students use AI to get their work done. I think this is a disaster for higher education — it circumvents the process of learning, and expertise never gets built.

I wrote about it for The Argument today, with findings from our latest poll on AI attitudes.

www.theargumentmag.com/p/chatgpt-an...

ChatGPT and the end of learning

My students kept using ChatGPT. I couldn't make them stop.

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Aaron Rupar

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Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."

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The Upshot

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How range anxiety is being replaced by the freedom of the open road.

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See How E.V. Road Trips Went From Impossible to Easy

There are a lot more fast chargers than there used to be. Look up what that could mean for a route near you.

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Mark Eli Kalderon

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"One was Realism in Mathematics by Penelope Maddy. In the margins, McCarthy summarizes the author’s points and comments on them, frequently disagreeing. “Gibberish,” he noted at one point."

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$Image of Cormac McCarthy\s copy of Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown Books with a grocery list$

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Brian Weatherson

@bweatherson.bsky.social

Oh I’m sorry you had to do that. I haven’t seen any deterioration in the bibliographies I’ve received, they’re bad now and they were bad pre-LLM, but maybe I’ve just been lucky.

Brian Weatherson

@bweatherson.bsky.social

I think that's costcutting by journals, which LLMs might offset. The quality of bibliographies that we get in submissions is typically several steps below anything you see in print.

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