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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 5h

Tactile Visual Substitution aids for blind people are idiocy? Unpack that for me.

Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 11h

I found out about the book from Carrie Figdor's interview with Orestis Palermos on the New Books Network Philosophy podcast.

S. Orestis Palermos,

Podcast Episode · New Books in Philosophy · 10/10/2025 · 1h 1m

podcasts.apple.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 11h

Useful précis here:

Cyborg Minds and the Right to Think Freely

Technoprogressive Policy Project

ieet.substack.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 11h

The technologically extended mind means that we are open to new threats and ethical dilemmas. Orestis Palermos explores this hypothesis in a provocative new book & analyzes the ethical and legal implications. #aiethics

Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law

This book explores the ethical, legal, and rights-related ramifications of the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind Thesis. Focusing on technologies designed to extend our cognitive ...

www.routledge.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 19h

I wrote 400 words and finally got out the biggest idea that is currently in my head. It’s been there (in my head) all year, and now it’s on a page. Hope springs eternal!

Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 21h

Another night in the philosophy mines. Surely there is a good idea in this very drafty draft??

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 21h

Another night in the philosophy mines. Surely there is a good idea in this very drafty draft??

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 1d

Would love to talk about what you find! I still have about half the notes from Part I, Chapter I and all of Part II / Conclusion to take down, but I was impressed. Really slapped me in the face that there’s turn of the 20th c. neo-Kant, and then there’s actual Kant.

Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 3d

Wondering if I failed on reading comprehension or there’s other reporting on this prank? I didn’t see that it started to call out hypocrisy. Then again, I may be letting my old-person attitudes about teens and social media show. ;-)

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 3d

Related, the phenomenon of "Chatfishing":

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 3d

This "use case" is just deeply demoralizing. These tools are ripe for usage that undermines human-to-human trust. Putting them into an app widely like TikTok used by children and teenagers -- and I'm sure the Sora app will get there very quickly, too -- is irresponsible. #aiethics

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

www.theverge.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 3d

I regret to inform you that I’ve just given Kant’s second Critique five stars on Goodreads. I actually enjoyed it a lot!

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 3d

It makes my heart hurt a little as a former schools CFO. These kinds of thinks should be amply funded in the budget! But I get the reality most teachers live under. :-(

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

Super helpful, thank you! I’ll reach out to him.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

Whenever scholars claim a great work of philosophy is loose and disunified, I assume that a) we haven’t collectively worked hard enough at it, and b) it’s probably got serious juice that we’d benefit from. (Cf. Heidegger’s Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics.)

Excited about this on Kant’s 3rd C.!

Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique

One may wonder why we had to wait for so long for a book like Kristi Sweet’s to be published. It is in the Second Introduction to the Critiq...

ndpr.nd.edu

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

Do you know how they’re connecting plans to model to build? There’s a building I’d like to build, and I have no idea how to go about it.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

“I try to get a likeness,” Hockney says, “but in the end, I don’t care what the other person thinks of it, it’s what I think of it that counts.”

Hockney is my favorite living artist — maybe my favorite, period. Lovely (and lively) interview in the Telegraph.

David Hockney: ‘I assume I’ll die soon, so I want to work every day’

Ahead of a show revealing his transcendent new direction, our greatest living artist discusses why at 88 he’s still happiest when painting

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

This is very helpful, David, thank you!

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 5d

I know there's a million worthy causes to fund but may I suggest this teacher in Maryland who wants to buy two Albert Camus novels for his AP students? Please and thank you?

www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...

2 Novels From Albert Camus, a project from Dr. Michael Buso

Help me give my students a physical copy of a book we will read in our AP Literature classroom. This will allow each student to read the novels of Albert Camus in printed form. Since his novels are...

www.donorschoose.org

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

You got it.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 5d

There's an excellent @neglectedbooks.com review from about 12 years ago here.

The Cook, by Harry Kressing – The Neglected Books Page

neglectedbooks.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 5d

The Cook by Harry Kressing (aka Harry Adam Ruber) may be my favorite book of the year so far. Spine-tingling, witty, and by the end the characters you feel for are not the ones you expected!

The Kind of Face You Slash - Day 15: The Great Kitchen

Say what you will about Bentley Little's fiction (as I have done ), but the man seems to have very good taste. Of the ten novels chosen by L...

wwwbillblog.blogspot.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 6d

I'm finishing up "The Cook" but will read this one next :-)

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 6d

This looks really good!

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I can't explain my process at all. My notes probably look like Charlie's conspiracy board in It's Always Sunny. But it means I can hop in and out of my work when the kids need me and maximize every few minutes. So there's that.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 7d

Writing requires reading, and *reading* requires fairly intensive writing. I love what @vcarchidi.bsky.social has done here. It tracks with how I grew and changed during my MA. If I "read" in a meaningful sense, it means I've reconstructed the author's argument in my notes & linked them.

Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 7d

Some quick and honest thoughts on frustration and how (not) to deal with it in my experience.

vincentcarchidi.substack.com/p/getting-fr...

Getting From A to D Requires B and C

On the importance of persisting through frustration.

vincentcarchidi.substack.com

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