Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
I teach philosophy at Purdue. My opinions are my own and don't represent my employer
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Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
· Oct 31
I wrote a book that I'm proud of: www.amazon.com/Lockes-Image...
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Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...
Three ravens aren't black www.audubon.org/news/rare-al...
Rare Albino Raven Murdered
A rehabbed corvid’s caretaker wants to find its killer before it's too late.
www.audubon.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Three ravens aren't black www.audubon.org/news/rare-al...
Revealed preference works in both directions
I asked my barber why he has a much higher price for mullets on his board than any other cut. He answered, “Because I hate them.”
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Revealed preference works in both directions
Bear v. tree, thirty years ago www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
What really happened the night Cal's Oski beat up the Stanford Tree
"I must've been 18 beers deep at that point. I was in big trouble."
www.sfgate.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bear v. tree, thirty years ago www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
Poets are the legislators of the large language models
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Poets are the legislators of the large language models
Radical interpretation
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Radical interpretation
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She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
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He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
The current Earl of Sandwich is married to an American (the Countess of Sandwich) who studied computer science at Indiana University
Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The current Earl of Sandwich is married to an American (the Countess of Sandwich) who studied computer science at Indiana University
A self-portrait painted after van Honthorst's portrait
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A self-portrait painted after van Honthorst's portrait
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Aren't you supposed to call "I got it"?
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Aren't you supposed to call "I got it"?
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Halloween from
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Halloween from
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
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Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”
Once people decided that vaccines didn't work, all bets were off, and any combination of beliefs was possible
The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Once people decided that vaccines didn't work, all bets were off, and any combination of beliefs was possible
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Him: where are all the coffee filters?
Me:
Me:
June 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Him: where are all the coffee filters?
Me:
Me:
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Just found out Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman. This is why I have trust issues
April 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Just found out Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman. This is why I have trust issues
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Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."
(It wasn't until Jeff and Ann VanderMeer were working on their anthology The Weird that I learned that "onions" is a typo. Either Jeff or Ann mentioned to me that Barker asked them to fix the typo that had haunted the story in countless reprintings, incl in their own earlier antho The New Weird.)
October 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."
Have you heard the one about the infinitude of death?
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Have you heard the one about the infinitude of death?