Jonathan Weisberg
@jweisber.bsky.social
philosophy prof posting in an uncomfortably personal capacity
Incorrect the point of citations is to enable pointless but cool data viz
The whole point of citations beyond "showing your work" is so it's clear where your evidence is coming from. I'll be the last person to be a stickler about the specifics of a given style other than my deep and abiding hatred for APA but citations matter! They matter so much!
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Incorrect the point of citations is to enable pointless but cool data viz
The ST5 dialogue is so good you can see why it took years
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The ST5 dialogue is so good you can see why it took years
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RIP Tom Stoppard, a genius-hack-genius sandwich of a writer
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard, a genius-hack-genius sandwich of a writer
I see this take a lot but I kinda don't get it. It's so much easier now to find and access weird/niche stuff, if you want to. Is the idea that people don't want to as much? Because it's become correspondingly easier to access familiar stuff?
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I see this take a lot but I kinda don't get it. It's so much easier now to find and access weird/niche stuff, if you want to. Is the idea that people don't want to as much? Because it's become correspondingly easier to access familiar stuff?
There's literally a mangled bird corpse in the shot
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There's literally a mangled bird corpse in the shot
Nice meme template ya got there, be a real shame if somebody posted a real lame instance of it
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Nice meme template ya got there, be a real shame if somebody posted a real lame instance of it
Interesting
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Interesting
NAND
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
NAND
JD Vance is right, eating turkey has very low utility
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
JD Vance is right, eating turkey has very low utility
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I'm gonna get you succor 🫂
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm gonna get you succor 🫂
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I wish a philosopher would just nail it for once. Enough hemming and hawing!
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I wish a philosopher would just nail it for once. Enough hemming and hawing!
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We need Ted Chiang to write a story about a drug that stops you finding annoying people annoying
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We need Ted Chiang to write a story about a drug that stops you finding annoying people annoying
(seeing ai progress plateau) trump take e^x
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
(seeing ai progress plateau) trump take e^x
Finally getting the good YouTube ads (Queen Latifah hawking Weight Watchers for Menopause set to Nelly's "Hot in Here")
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Finally getting the good YouTube ads (Queen Latifah hawking Weight Watchers for Menopause set to Nelly's "Hot in Here")
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what if the real distinction is not between analytic and continental philosophy, but between cope (philosophers who want to preserve some intuition) and seethe (philosophers who are super mad about it)?
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
what if the real distinction is not between analytic and continental philosophy, but between cope (philosophers who want to preserve some intuition) and seethe (philosophers who are super mad about it)?
This is simply the correct moral view
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This is simply the correct moral view
rare bouie w + follows from a more general principle
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
rare bouie w + follows from a more general principle
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Men of Bluesky Calendar
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Men of Bluesky Calendar
It's a bad movie
You may have gotten the impression that I hated the del Toro Frankenstein and your impression would be correct. Here's my review
www.dailysabah.com/arts/reviews...
www.dailysabah.com/arts/reviews...
Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ drains life out of Shelley’s masterpiece
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ is very loosely inspired by the classic novel and offers fireworks instead of a story
www.dailysabah.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It's a bad movie
Watching the new Frankenstein, it's subtle but I think I'm getting the broad strokes
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Watching the new Frankenstein, it's subtle but I think I'm getting the broad strokes
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Being proud of being in the Russell Group is largely just cope for not being in Oxbridge, which is itself largely just cope for not being in the Ivy League, which is itself largely just cope for not being Harvard, which is itself largely just cope for not being Charles Sanders Peirce in particular.
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Being proud of being in the Russell Group is largely just cope for not being in Oxbridge, which is itself largely just cope for not being in the Ivy League, which is itself largely just cope for not being Harvard, which is itself largely just cope for not being Charles Sanders Peirce in particular.
Also probably no coincidence this is the year I got a tt job
Not saying people stare at their phones like zombies, but there was a pretty life-changing product launch in 2007
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Also probably no coincidence this is the year I got a tt job
when in the springtime of the year / when the trees are crowned with leaves
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
when in the springtime of the year / when the trees are crowned with leaves
I'm autistic and needed a job where I'd be left alone most of the day
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm autistic and needed a job where I'd be left alone most of the day