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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 13

But if we take the opposite direction, we would end up arguing that "this statement is inferable because objects C and D are similarly placed in the category of linear relations" and at that point it would simply be more useful to just do "science"

Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 13

A key tension is the future role of universal properties and their usefulness at doing proper philosophy(and not simply naive classification), in short, I think that if we make it a goal to chase philosophical concepts as UPs we'll be taking away the necessary generality for properly employing them

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 13

My hot take is that I don't think that Category Theory will be particularly useful to philosophy, but (applied) Category Theory will definitely end up being a nice and perhaps, more elegant compromise between logicians and theorists

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 13

Guy who thinks that measure theory would be somewhat simple to understand because he once read some pages of information theory on manifolds (me)

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 13

Eric Weinstein is like the Zizëk of physics, and no, I will not elaborate

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 13

The EU is in that weird place where it signals total commitment to the climate crisis and yet, values more the mechanisms of the free market than the long term health of its citizens, there's barely no argument for blocking solar panels or adjacent tech from China simply bcs they receive subsidies

Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 11

Google search: How does one gets a religious sense of forgiveness without becoming religious?

Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 10

They need to invent a dating app for people who were born with the innate knowledge that they will die alone

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 10

We need a pop-scientist that remakes the failed study that stated that there's a daily limit to the amount of willpower one has, but this time, applies it solely to the amount of likes we give on social media

Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 10

Let me just say this, a few years back when I was there in vacation my cousin asked me if I had a girlfriend in Portugal, I said yes and right after he asks "Why don't you get another here as well?"

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 10

Cheating in France is actually extremely normalized so this is probably not only true for those secret agents but for the average French as well, I wish I was joking

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Honeytraps do not work on French spies because their wives are used to them having affairs, a television documentary about France's equivalent of MI6 has revealed..."

Russian honeytraps useless against French spies … their wives already know

Behind-the-scenes documentary shines a light on France’s equivalent of MI6

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 10

Tbh I think that kind of writers block is a perfect occasion to use ChatGPT, you can simply ask it to write some bullet points and you write the rest yourself

Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 10

Brb, I'm introducing Web devs to the concept of "if and only if"

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 10

At the moment, if you tweet "setwitter.com" on ios it automatically changes to "sex.com" and if that's the level of current twitter developers, it definitely means that I'm skilled enough for a senior position there

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · Apr 9

this week Elon Musk’s X began changing users’ tweets in the X app for iOS without their permission

if a user posted “Twitter .com” then it would automatically appear as “X .com”

even worse, other URLs are getting caught in this and being changed too
mashable.com/article/twit...

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

A scammer's dream and a disaster waiting to happen.

mashable.com

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

Baby, who's to say I'm not fine-tuned to love you

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

Physicist who for some reason hates Peter Higgs so he tries to write "RIP bozo" but the autocorrect fixes it to "RIP boson"

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · Apr 9

Sad news: Professor Peter Higgs died on Monday 8 April. He passed away peacefully at home following a short illness. 🧪🔭⚛️

He was a true gentleman and utter gem in the world of Physics.

It is with great sadness that I’m sharing the news that Professor Peter Higgs died on Monday 8 April. He passed away peacefully at home following a short illness.

Peter is renowned the world over for his prediction of the existence of a new particle – the so-called Higgs boson – which he first proposed in 1964. It would be almost 50 years before the particle’s existence could be confirmed, with experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN finally confirming Higgs’ theory in 2012. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work in 2013, along with François Englert.

Peter was also a great teacher and mentor, inspiring generations of young scientists. He was a remarkable individual – a truly gifted scientist whose vision and imagination have enriched our knowledge of the world that surrounds us. His pioneering work has motivated thousands of scientists, and his legacy will continue to inspire many more for generations to come.

Our thoughts are with Peter’s family

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thinking of becoming the type of hater that goes to the northernmost tip of Portugal to see the 2026 eclipse instead of just entering Spain

Map of the trajectory of the 2026 total solar eclipse in Europe

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

I actually don't know who wrote which section, they simply didn't put the authorship anywhere from what I can see. They might've not read them direct but some of the texts have references to authors directly influenced by them like Stirner, Barthes, etc.

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

Wait, you read Grothendieck in french? I know you have "Pierre" as your name here but I always thought that you were British

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

In particular, the issue that I'm reading(n16, 1973) has a lot of interwoven topics such as structuralism through hegelian lenses, anti-vax stuff, critiques of eco-fascism, critiques of scientism, revolutionary ecology. Nowadays, there's hardly no contemporary journal that could hold these together

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

Wow, I knew he was an ecologist but I had no idea he and others had wrote so much about it. These almost feel alien to me because their critiques of modernity genuinely sound like they could've been written by Heidegger(if he wasn't a fascist), did you found these via second literature, or?

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

By the 80's even pure mathematicians were well aware of the dangers of climate change, see Grothendieck "The rising sea" in nLab

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

If it's an A. G. Cook mix, all you need to know is that she's mother!

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

If a so called 'philosopher' ever made me mad, I would simply leave the function while whispering "That's how I know you never really left Plato's Cave" and smile knowing that it would left him devastated

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Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social · Apr 9

Short introduction to Baudrillard:
- The real becomes fake
- Disney was always fake
- LA's role is to spread fakeness
- The Gulf war never happened

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