AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

I also made a psy-techno track that samples David Chalmers #PhilosophySky hanehtutmaung.bandcamp.com/track/phenom...

Phenomenal Consciousness, by Hane

from the album Theoretical Hard Core

hanehtutmaung.bandcamp.com

Hane@hane.bsky.social · 3d ago

I've finally set up a Bandcamp account for my electronic music. here's a breakbeat hardcore track that samples Imre Lakatos saying "hard core". #PhilosophySky hanehtutmaung.bandcamp.com/track/theore...

Me: “biological males” is a slur against trans people Lib who thinks she is the protagonist of the story: ackshually he said that to refer to the fact that sex is immutable 🤓☝️

I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

The Birds I Waited 45 Years to See

An evolutionary biologist returns to New Zealand to find the rare birds he dreamed of seeing as a child making an extraordinary comeback.

bloomberg.com

A while back, I realized that everywhere in this debate, there's a fundamental asymmetry. The default position is that trans identities stand in need of explanation and justification against cis identities.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 2d ago

What a heartless, cruel thing for an elected representative to say.

Daraus ist unter anderem dieses Positionspapier hervorgegangen, in dem wir einmal formulieren, wie wir selbst unsere Arbeit als forschende Wissenschaftscreator*innen sehen: zenodo.org/records/2335...

So etwas wie das hier ist übrigens der Grund, warum ich auf den Begriff "biologische Frauen" höchst allergisch reagiere. Dieser Begriff gaukelt eine Wissenschaftlichkeit vor, die er nicht hat, und wird vor allem dazu gebraucht, Menschen wie mich auszuschließen. Richtig ist meist "cis Frauen".

Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · 2d ago

This will kill people

Honey I shrunk the kids for tax purposes

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson@keithwilson.eu · yesterday

We Bought A Zoo For Tax Purposes

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to connect to wifi using eduroam

for every person who denigrates philosophy on here, i'm gonna make it take one year longer to solve the hard problem. go ahead and keep talking shit, see what happens

This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️

AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

hnn.us

Laprofmme@laprofmme.bsky.social · 4d ago

Thank you to @cjdenial.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social @liznorell.bsky.social for a fantastic webinar on Resisting AI in Education. Should be required of everyone involved in education. So many excellent ideas & resources from almost 700 attendees!!!!

Brauche mal #followerpower: Die Cousine einer Freundin sucht *dringend* in Mainz ein WG-Zimmer aufgrund familiärer Probleme. Kennt jemand was in Hochschulnähe? - 20 Jahre, Queer - Etwa 10-15m² - Bestenfalls ~400€ warm. Ich bitte um Repost. :) Gerne DM an mich, ich vermittle dann.

Es lohnt sich, immer mal wieder daran zu erinnern, dass der Grund der ganzen Shitshow der Versuch ist, kommunale Wohnungspolitik so zu gestalten, dass eine Stadt wohnbar bleibt. Mit sozialdemokratischen Methoden.

Dass man mit sozialdemokratischen Wahlversprechen erfolgreich sein kann, das ist natürlich vor allem für die SPD eine kaum fassbare Zumutung

I was just reminiscing about the @cogtweetoseries.bsky.social Workshops and how they managed to be fun and relaxed but also intellectually enriching. I think a major factor was that the vibe was "We're not taking ourselves too seriously, but we take seriously the questions we discuss." Good times

The collapse in gender boundaries and stereotypes entirely broke some people. Their view of the world was defined by there being two entirely separate sexes. Eroding patriarchy/gender norms, trans/gender fluid people etc broke that model. And they're desperately trying to rebuild that divide.

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 5d ago

Eagle-eyed readers might note the almost total lack of hyperlinked evidence for this paragraph's many sweeping generalizations. Among them, that young readers want TOUGH GUY cultural objects that are cruelly being denied them by all these meddlesome women, when, in fact...

(1) Vancura position (2) Lucena position (3) Avicenna position

Yes. I will repeat what I said about "hazing" in pro wrestling for my Hulk Hogan anti-eulogy: www.thehandbasket.co/p/hulk-hogan...

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · 4d ago

Because my job can be a real bummer, when I am searching for instances of sexual violence among men in a defined group, you don't search for "sexual assault," you search for "hazing." We have euphemized language because we really, really don't want to address this in any real terms.

The moral is, if you’re appointed Ambassador to Greece as an unqualified nepo hire, don’t try to do bonus grifts. The grift is being Ambassador to Greece. You are being paid to hang out in Greece for 4 years. Grift accomplished

Doing Grift 2 during Grift 1 is the hubris of aiming too high and destined to lead to your downfall. If only the Greeks had a story warning about that

Klar kannst du dich über die Rechtslage aufregen und dabei den Wortlaut ignorieren, aber dann ist dein Take halt Müll

Probably when my parents took me to see me one therapist after the next because I needed to be "fixed" (not their words but that's the impression I got)

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 4d ago

QUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?

"It is easy to write off Saxony-Anhalt as a post-socialist backwater where far-right victory was overdetermined. But there is a version of this story where the triumph of the AfD could have been avoided." Excellent article which takes apart the self-delusion in the debate following the election

Ned Richardson-Little@historyned.bsky.social · 4d ago

I have thoughts about the election of the AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt and how an election steeped in symbolism of the GDR is not actually a problem of re-litigating German reunification.

Not hitting the snooze button. That’s what I call the hard problem of consciousness.

philosophical expertise is more like knowing the lay of the land than like knowing where the treasure is buried. that's partly why people are often disdainful of it. 'look i can wander around too'. you can, but you're also hacking through a notoriously dense thicket thinking you're making progress

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.

Jetzt online: Schöne Majestätsbeleidigung. Mein Aufsatz über den Caligula-Skandal von 1884 - ein spannender Fall, der in vielfacher Hinsicht wieder zeitgemäß wirkt. www.researchgate.net/publication/...