New paper alert! Evidence of a shared neural signal for visually and linguistically evoked object representations. To appear in Brain and Language – free link until Nov 14, 2026: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nqn5,28iJ...
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preston lennon
@jplennon630.bsky.social
philosophy postdoc at rutgers, sad charlotte sports fan
the answer is 'yes', and it is called 'particularism'. claire danes' father-in-law is the peter singer of it
Willow@rockshrimp.bsky.social · 15h agoIs there an Effective Contextualism philosophy anywhere I can subscribe to? Just where “it depends” is always the answer to what’s the right thing to do?
(i think joe cruz's nyt piece, which acknowledges that "there will be challenges of scale", is perfectly fine. what's deeply annoying is the nyt printing 1000 of these pieces on teaching by Williams profs for every one piece on teaching by a CUNY prof)
Delighted to say that my paper "E Pluribus Unum: Costly Inference and Fragmented Belief" has been accepted for publication in Mind! You can find the paper at this PhilPapers link. Abstract follows in a reply. philpapers.org/rec/SPIEPU
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listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard
Bert's Reaction: FML Cry
ALT: Bert's Reaction: FML Cry
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Michael Scotto@mikeascotto.bsky.social · 6d agoJust In: Kon Knueppel suffered a left hamstring injury and Grant Williams suffered a right hamstring injury during offseason on-court activity. The Charlotte Hornets say both players will miss their preseason games and be re-evaluated during the first week of the regular season.
I'm super excited to be joining the Charlotte Hornets as an Analytics Researcher. It has been a life long dream of mine to work in the NBA and I'm super excited about joining the team in Charlotte. Can't wait to get to work. Go Hornets!
Krishna Narsu@knarsu3.bsky.social · last wk.I'm leaving @bball-index.bsky.social. I want to thank @cranjis.bsky.social and the @bball-index.bsky.social team for making these last bunch of years so enjoyable. It has truly been fun working with all of you.
HARBAUGH: Jameis we’re going to need you to start the last 15 games of the season. you spent the offseason preparing for this right JAMEIS: of course coach JAMEIS THIS OFFSEASON:
Now this is my kind of foreshadowing
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
i don't understand how people think we can effectively regulate AI when it's been known for 25 years that Agent Smith can inhabit and overwrite the simulated body of any human wired into the Matrix
1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽
4-5 years into the Paying Players (Legally) Era we finally get this, feels like an essential document to understanding the sport that we're going to need updates on every year
Jason Kirk@jasonkirk.fyi · 2w agoSo much work by my colleagues went into this. (To be clear I did absolutely none of that work, but saying "so much work by my colleagues went into this" is an old trick that makes people think you must have been really helpful. Keep that one in mind for when you need it)
great paper!
Jake Quilty-Dunn@quiltydunn.bsky.social · 3w agoNew paper, co-authored with Justin Wood, in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: The Nativist-Empiricist Debate Is Broken We argue that radical nativism and radical empiricism are compatible and, in some cases, both plausibly true. So something is wrong. 🧵 Author share link here, valid til Oct 31:
Some professors use this website to announce books or tenure or whatever, I use it to post "kush got me feeling like the white Bilbo Baggins"
there's been a terrible accident at the cap'n crunch factory, the captain himself is warning that the cereal is now all berries
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 3w agoOpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
First day of school, kids are all out of the house on their way to school.
Rutgers invented college football in 1869 and has spent the last 160 years regretting the decision
UMass-Rutgers, in piscataway we call it 'the ted sider bowl'
Every day I learn about a new prestige TV show. You mean to tell me it's the final season of CRUNGLER? Already?