Nolen Gertz
@ethicistforhire.bsky.social
Philosophy professor @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social Author of #NihilismAndTechnology (RLI 2018), #Nihilism (MIT 2019), #PhilosophyOfWarAndExile (Palgrave 2014) https://www.nolengertz.com #Philsky #Philtech #Existentialism #Phenomenology #Filmsky
Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · yesterday“The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
Musk has reached Chairface levels of villainy...
Sky News@news.sky.com · 11h agoSpaceX latest: Abandoned rocket about to slam into moon at high speed
Dutch doctor: "Ride your bicycle more."
Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · yesterdayAttitudes to health in different countries: A German said to me that if a German goes to a doctor with a headache they’ll be sent off for a brain scan. If a British person does the same he’ll be given some pink pills and told to come back in two weeks if it’s still bad.
Marx predicting, in 1886, the effects of AI on society...
"My REAL Citation Numbers, not those made up by the Fake Google Scholar..."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: “My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been”
This is really demented. And Google's response is incredible, amounting to something like, Every extremely misleading image that didn't need to exist in the first place made by our dearest Gooberboo can be verified to be fake by means of a mechanism nobody will ever use. We're sure you'll love it!
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 7d agoChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
If only MTV still existed, we could've had Emily Wilson fighting Christopher Nolan on Celebrity Deathmatch...
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 6d agoNo professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Something I like about @elazic.bsky.social's careful read here is that it points out a fatal flaw with a lot of pieces of writing that pass for "reviews" (even from critics!) because they talk about a movie: saying "this is bad!" as if it's self-evident, rather than arguing for *why* it is bad.
Elena Lazic@elazic.bsky.social · 7d agoEmily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...
Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...
A Tale as Old as Time
Emily Wilson’s piece on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey evinces an archaic perspective on cinema’s value as art
animus-magazine.ghost.io
Is the new Spider-Man movie actually a Sex Ed video?
de Volkskrant@volkskrant.nl · 6d agoIn ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ is de superheld verrassend menselijk, inclusief klunzige ejaculaties
Exciting to live in a time when disagreements over interpretation between Humanities scholars is big time news...
Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7d agoOkay now it's getting real
I definitely recommend going to see The Odyssey at the Kino Rotterdam if you get the chance. The projectionist introduced the film and then during intermission gave us an explanation of how they actually project 70mm...
Tried asking them what Emily Wilson thought of their Odyssey-inspired burger but they refused to tell me...
destroying our cultural history sounds bad sure, but there's no other way to power the machine that destroys our cultural future
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.
“We are close to creating a genie” The level of hucksterism is nearly unfathomable. Real S tier shit.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
Just bought a ticket to go see The Odyssey again tomorrow (in 70mm this time), but will shake my head the whole time so people know I've already read Emily Wilson's takedown...
Also change ‘abundance’ to ‘financial chaos wiping out the value of your savings’.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.HANNITY: Elon Musk talked about Americans not even needing to save for your retirement like we have historically because of the abundance AI will create. Do you believe that? BESSENT: I do, but I think I would change the timeline. Elon is so far ahead of the curve
