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Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
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I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
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15 year car loans and 50 year home loans. Now all we need is some modification to debt laws and we're back to back to feudal peasant debt bondage.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
15 year car loans and 50 year home loans. Now all we need is some modification to debt laws and we're back to back to feudal peasant debt bondage.
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Recent Sonic pixel art in the Quake 1 palette because I like Quake 1's weird blues
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Recent Sonic pixel art in the Quake 1 palette because I like Quake 1's weird blues
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Day 2 of the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium concluded with a panel discussion featuring the day's speakers: Alan Guth, Jennifer Nagel, David Albert, Simon DeDeo, Emily Riehl, and Anil Seth.
Stay tuned for the exciting final day of the Symposium!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apnv...
Stay tuned for the exciting final day of the Symposium!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apnv...
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Day 2 of the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium concluded with a panel discussion featuring the day's speakers: Alan Guth, Jennifer Nagel, David Albert, Simon DeDeo, Emily Riehl, and Anil Seth.
Stay tuned for the exciting final day of the Symposium!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apnv...
Stay tuned for the exciting final day of the Symposium!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apnv...
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Honestly, everyone is overthinking James Bond. He's a cool spy who goes on missions in exotic places and there is a lady he has sex with who dies and a lady he has sex with who doesn't die. The 'continuity' is maybe Jaws is in a few films because it's cool to have a big guy who bites people.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Honestly, everyone is overthinking James Bond. He's a cool spy who goes on missions in exotic places and there is a lady he has sex with who dies and a lady he has sex with who doesn't die. The 'continuity' is maybe Jaws is in a few films because it's cool to have a big guy who bites people.
It's very strange to me that they think we need an explanation of why Bond is alive now. Do they think we need an explanation of Bond keeps changing his age and appearance in discontinuous ways?
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's very strange to me that they think we need an explanation of why Bond is alive now. Do they think we need an explanation of Bond keeps changing his age and appearance in discontinuous ways?
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this is so silly. people know the deal with bond. the writers should just embrace the metatextual aspects of the franchise
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
this is so silly. people know the deal with bond. the writers should just embrace the metatextual aspects of the franchise
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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What if they made a 6:00 a.m. alarm that didn't feel like getting punched in the face when it went off
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What if they made a 6:00 a.m. alarm that didn't feel like getting punched in the face when it went off
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"getting dumped, going on a bender" really is the ockham's razor one here
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
"getting dumped, going on a bender" really is the ockham's razor one here
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Ye became extremely divorced, Musk has always had the air of divorce even before he was divorced. Could argue it both ways tbh
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ye became extremely divorced, Musk has always had the air of divorce even before he was divorced. Could argue it both ways tbh
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when Yakub was making my right tear duct he was not doing his best work.
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
when Yakub was making my right tear duct he was not doing his best work.
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"Nocturne" 1891
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
American Artist
Pastel on Paperboard
(43.8 x 36.8 cm.)
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
American Artist
Pastel on Paperboard
(43.8 x 36.8 cm.)
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"Nocturne" 1891
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
American Artist
Pastel on Paperboard
(43.8 x 36.8 cm.)
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
American Artist
Pastel on Paperboard
(43.8 x 36.8 cm.)
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
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"The world's richest man continually manipulates his company's AI to lie about science and promote white supremacism" sounds like some hack sci-fi writing, but it's just our current reality
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"The world's richest man continually manipulates his company's AI to lie about science and promote white supremacism" sounds like some hack sci-fi writing, but it's just our current reality
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Name a more iconic warhammer duo?
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Name a more iconic warhammer duo?
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i still find it really odd that columbia university faked a bunch of data to game the US News rankings but i feel like that's a me problem. at this point i should assume everything like this is fake i guess
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/10/c...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/10/c...
Columbia fake U.S. News statistics update: They paid $9 million and are still, bizarrely, refusing to admit misreporting of data, even though everybody knows they misreported data. | Statistical Mod...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
i still find it really odd that columbia university faked a bunch of data to game the US News rankings but i feel like that's a me problem. at this point i should assume everything like this is fake i guess
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/10/c...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/10/c...
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There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
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all of us should take this L as hard as we can because it clearly represents a core fact about the world
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
all of us should take this L as hard as we can because it clearly represents a core fact about the world
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Okay, but things like that are designed to be crap. There's no upside to designing a good system. No one minds if you kick the poor: even if they weren't committing benefit fraud, they're surely up to something.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Okay, but things like that are designed to be crap. There's no upside to designing a good system. No one minds if you kick the poor: even if they weren't committing benefit fraud, they're surely up to something.
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<covering the ears of degroot and schervish> don't listen to him
False. There is no such thing as an introductory statistics textbook
What intro stats textbook to use?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/09/w...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/09/w...
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
<covering the ears of degroot and schervish> don't listen to him
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"Don't talk to me about sapiosexuality unless you're literally Alcibiades drunkenly serenading Socrates"
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Don't talk to me about sapiosexuality unless you're literally Alcibiades drunkenly serenading Socrates"
I always enjoy the genre of "sapiosexual" imagery (the search for these was "sapiosexual photo") wherein, like, look, maybe the people photod happen to be smart too, but that is *not* why they are attractive there. To really lean in to the concept it should be, like, Sartre and Socrates etc.
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I always enjoy the genre of "sapiosexual" imagery (the search for these was "sapiosexual photo") wherein, like, look, maybe the people photod happen to be smart too, but that is *not* why they are attractive there. To really lean in to the concept it should be, like, Sartre and Socrates etc.
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current advertising campaign in Switzerland:
"Lesen macht sexy" = "Reading makes (you) sexy."
www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...
"Lesen macht sexy" = "Reading makes (you) sexy."
www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
current advertising campaign in Switzerland:
"Lesen macht sexy" = "Reading makes (you) sexy."
www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...
"Lesen macht sexy" = "Reading makes (you) sexy."
www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...
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This is just part of the UK focus on being mean to people who may in some way be deemed foreign despite the economic cost of driving working age people out of the country.
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This is just part of the UK focus on being mean to people who may in some way be deemed foreign despite the economic cost of driving working age people out of the country.
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Tsuchiya Kōitsu (Japanese, 1870—1949)
"Yokohama Sankei Garden", 1938.
Woodblock Print, 10″ × 7″
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Yokohama Sankei Garden", 1938.
Woodblock Print, 10″ × 7″
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Tsuchiya Kōitsu (Japanese, 1870—1949)
"Yokohama Sankei Garden", 1938.
Woodblock Print, 10″ × 7″
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Yokohama Sankei Garden", 1938.
Woodblock Print, 10″ × 7″
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
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A carboard box with a manual with Lore
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A carboard box with a manual with Lore