Ben Brewer
@benjamonbellota.bsky.social
I teach philosophy - phenomenology, Frankfurt school, deconstruction - Atlanta
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huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
It is real:
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
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New in the OLR Supplement: Violeta Ruiz Espigares on Elizabeth Rottenberg's For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida
olrsupplement.com/2025/11/19/u...
olrsupplement.com/2025/11/19/u...
Unmasterable Psychoanalysis: Elizabeth Rottenberg and the Freuderridean Mutation - The OLR Supplement
A review of Elizabeth Rottenberg's For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida, by Violeta Ruiz Espigares
olrsupplement.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New in the OLR Supplement: Violeta Ruiz Espigares on Elizabeth Rottenberg's For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida
olrsupplement.com/2025/11/19/u...
olrsupplement.com/2025/11/19/u...
People like the cold light of calculus until they’re left empty handed in the cold light of morning. then that good ol’ Kantian jewel that has its full worth in itself starts to look mighty purty!
here's something i believe: you can do bad things for consequentialist reasons. there are some good things you can only achieve by doing bad things.
but if you operate by consequentialist logic, you are utterly bound by the consequences. and that means that if you failed, you were morally wrong.
but if you operate by consequentialist logic, you are utterly bound by the consequences. and that means that if you failed, you were morally wrong.
had she won, the compromises she made would have been worth it. but you cannot claim that you are entitled to sacrifice others' interests for an objective you did not achieve. you are gambling with house money at that point and have to take responsibility when you lose.
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
People like the cold light of calculus until they’re left empty handed in the cold light of morning. then that good ol’ Kantian jewel that has its full worth in itself starts to look mighty purty!
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Wenn du keine Hobbys hast, bist du vielleicht nicht Adorno, sondern einfach nur komisch drauf
August 30, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Wenn du keine Hobbys hast, bist du vielleicht nicht Adorno, sondern einfach nur komisch drauf
Today in 1889, Martin Heidegger was born.
Today in 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide.
Today in 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide.
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Today in 1889, Martin Heidegger was born.
Today in 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide.
Today in 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide.
Second Thursday in a row of teaching two classes, guest teaching a grad seminar, and then attending a guest lecture right after, and I feel insane. Not only bc I’m so tired but also bc I realize that secondary teachers do this much teaching day in and day out?? Fucking how?!?!
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Second Thursday in a row of teaching two classes, guest teaching a grad seminar, and then attending a guest lecture right after, and I feel insane. Not only bc I’m so tired but also bc I realize that secondary teachers do this much teaching day in and day out?? Fucking how?!?!
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Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time
This is what I picture when some of y’all talk about Deleuze & Guattari
Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x
September 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is what I picture when some of y’all talk about Deleuze & Guattari
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In the 1978 film The Candiate, where Redford plays a politician, you can see the full spectrum of tailoring language. Dark worsted suits, esp in pinstripes, call for neckwear. More casual jackets, such as tweed sport coats, can be worn with casual turtlenecks and chambray shirts.
September 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In the 1978 film The Candiate, where Redford plays a politician, you can see the full spectrum of tailoring language. Dark worsted suits, esp in pinstripes, call for neckwear. More casual jackets, such as tweed sport coats, can be worn with casual turtlenecks and chambray shirts.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Ich, jedes mal beim Babysitting
FREUD HATTE RECHT
September 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Ich, jedes mal beim Babysitting
Still thinking about this
Cormac McCarthy's tweed jackets. Very good taste in fabrics.
September 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Still thinking about this
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nietzche would be so owned if someone considered the genealogy of his ideas and what purpose they served for him rather than just taking them at face value
September 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
nietzche would be so owned if someone considered the genealogy of his ideas and what purpose they served for him rather than just taking them at face value
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I don’t love his tone but I get where he’s coming from
![Indeed, Miss [Katherine Anne] Porter, like the critics, had thought The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter a remarkable novel for one as young as Carson to write. "It had the mark of genius," she added. Yet the novel had already alerted her
to expect some aberration in the author herself. According to Miss Porter, her husband, Albert Erskine, declared to her upon finishing the book a year earlier, when it first came out: "Katherine Anne, that woman is a lesbian.”
Indignant over such an abrupt and seemingly unjustified judgment, Miss Porter retorted, "You can't assume that—what makes you think so?"
Erskine replied with a generalization that explained nothing, but implanted, nevertheless, the thought in his wife's mind: "I can tell from the author's mind in that novel and by what she makes her characters do and say."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u7x7lujm5mxy25eeepqgu3nk/bafkreihbd5m6ili3qnhyfrr7wjaobfw2u6e3pfvexxwlplmfrguqp4gl4m@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I don’t love his tone but I get where he’s coming from
Georgia peaches, man…some things really do live up to the hype
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Georgia peaches, man…some things really do live up to the hype
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Cormac McCarthy's tweed jackets. Very good taste in fabrics.
September 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cormac McCarthy's tweed jackets. Very good taste in fabrics.
My old, enfeebled body and rapidly senescing mind are absolutely reeling from 5 days of only getting 6.5 hours of sleep and socializing every day. I was not built to survive such grueling conditions
August 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My old, enfeebled body and rapidly senescing mind are absolutely reeling from 5 days of only getting 6.5 hours of sleep and socializing every day. I was not built to survive such grueling conditions
Honestly they got our asses with this one
August 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Honestly they got our asses with this one
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The philosophy experience
I like this, but I don’t understand it.
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The philosophy experience
Rewatched Eddington again last night. Fucking masterpiece.
August 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Rewatched Eddington again last night. Fucking masterpiece.
Sold a blazer today for 500 that I bought for 150 five years ago…I am king of business
August 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Sold a blazer today for 500 that I bought for 150 five years ago…I am king of business
I think this is basically right, and I don’t know anything about any of the sciences other than the stuff around the development of atomic energy, but it’s worth noting, I think, that the question of resource availability and allocation of resources to scientific research is the other key factor
This is utterly, completely false. Math and science were ruined in Germany and Italy approximately instantaneously, because the best scientists fled.
Hilbert, who stayed in Germany b/c he was not a target and was too old and disabled to leave, openly said academic math was dead in Germany.
Hilbert, who stayed in Germany b/c he was not a target and was too old and disabled to leave, openly said academic math was dead in Germany.
August 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I think this is basically right, and I don’t know anything about any of the sciences other than the stuff around the development of atomic energy, but it’s worth noting, I think, that the question of resource availability and allocation of resources to scientific research is the other key factor
If you are one of those people that posts the names of random brands in your eBay listings, I hope you have a terrible week. Fucking up my eBay saved searches, who even raised you??
August 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you are one of those people that posts the names of random brands in your eBay listings, I hope you have a terrible week. Fucking up my eBay saved searches, who even raised you??
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