Jonathan Weisberg
@jweisber.bsky.social
philosophy prof posting in an uncomfortably personal capacity
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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
Tried playing Outer Wilds for the first time tonight but found the art style a real turn off, guess I don't deserve to play it if I'm gonna be this particular
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tried playing Outer Wilds for the first time tonight but found the art style a real turn off, guess I don't deserve to play it if I'm gonna be this particular
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Nice example of Simpson’s Paradox in this post.
Minor league umpires have a higher accuracy rate on ball-strike calls than major league umpires but
(a) they are worse on easy calls and
(b) they are worse on hard calls.
blogs.fangraphs.com/your-final-p...
Minor league umpires have a higher accuracy rate on ball-strike calls than major league umpires but
(a) they are worse on easy calls and
(b) they are worse on hard calls.
blogs.fangraphs.com/your-final-p...
Your Final Pre-Robo-Zone Umpire Accuracy Update
This is the last time we’ll get to judge umpire accuracy without the ABS challenge system. Where do umpires stand, and how might we expect their accuracy to change once the robots get involved?
blogs.fangraphs.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nice example of Simpson’s Paradox in this post.
Minor league umpires have a higher accuracy rate on ball-strike calls than major league umpires but
(a) they are worse on easy calls and
(b) they are worse on hard calls.
blogs.fangraphs.com/your-final-p...
Minor league umpires have a higher accuracy rate on ball-strike calls than major league umpires but
(a) they are worse on easy calls and
(b) they are worse on hard calls.
blogs.fangraphs.com/your-final-p...
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Inside each "We are so back" is "it's so over". Inside each "It's so over" is "we are so back".
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Inside each "We are so back" is "it's so over". Inside each "It's so over" is "we are so back".
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Brushin' all my kitties like they wanted me, calling me, all the time, like Tootie, check out her fluffy behind, it's fine all of the time
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Brushin' all my kitties like they wanted me, calling me, all the time, like Tootie, check out her fluffy behind, it's fine all of the time
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bicycles work by pedaling their wheres
We don't really know how bicycles work.
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
bicycles work by pedaling their wheres
You need help figuring out what you could have done better?
The fact I can login every morning and ask an AI to review all my emails and chats from yesterday then given what it knows about my goals and my role it should suggest what I could have done better is amazing.
Bubble or not, AI is huge for personal productivity and overall improvement.
Bubble or not, AI is huge for personal productivity and overall improvement.
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
You need help figuring out what you could have done better?
y'all wanna see the opposite of a dead body
Metallica ORION - Ten Levels Of Difficulty (Solo Bass Cover)
YouTube video by CharlesBerthoud
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
y'all wanna see the opposite of a dead body
It's interesting how little the first sentence here has to do with the other two
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It's interesting how little the first sentence here has to do with the other two
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been getting into metaethics, thinking a lot about the frege–anscombe's-husband problem
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
been getting into metaethics, thinking a lot about the frege–anscombe's-husband problem
got em
So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
got em