Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.co
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
But not if it’s a cat! In common law, cats are technically free spirits.
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · yesterdayif you buy a pet, you assume responsibility for its behaviors. your dog runs off and huts someone? the scrutiny is going to fall on you
Nice to see some coverage of the discipline in the Times the week of the annual conf—sorry I’m just getting an update
May I introduce you to the concept of an argument that proves too much
The Winning Shot at Bedminster Golf Club
Lego Batman's First Try
Alt: Lego Batman's First Try
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Many varieties of academic flim-flam artist, with all races, creeds, and statuses represented, each seeking some sort of footing in a constantly shifting world of insupportable shite of all descriptions; and yet this grift space, while huge, is just a tiny slice of the General Bullshit Manifold
My go-to data point in favor of the high modularity of mind view vs generalized reasoning machine view, given that, as a population, Irish people were able to roast one vegetable but for centuries failed entirely to generalize this to literally any other vegetable, thus implying a fixed RP-module.
Adam L@adam-lg.bsky.social · 5d ago(Tongue in cheek) Roasted vegetables, which didn’t exist until 35 years ago (slate.com/human-intere...)
Issuing a considered statement the day after something bad happens is not “breaking your silence” about it fyi
Time to offer this seminar again I see.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d agothere 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
‘Christopher Nolan’ is a composite of early 21st-century tropes and motifs developed within an established tradition of film narrative.
Grand to have embarrassing authoritarian shit like this exist alongside people spraining their own elbows patting themselves on the back at the Mark Twain Prize evening for “not being afraid to piss people off” or what have you.
Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit Says
South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.
nytimes.com
in computer science the "halting problem" refers to the inability to know in advance how many times you'll have to tell an LLM "no, that's not good enough, keep trying" before it gets the right answer and you can stop yelling at it.
I’m never going to stop pointing out my recent @fpajrnl.bsky.social which was premised on the idea that higher gas prices could be relevant for foreign policy (some reviewers were skeptical) academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...
Pay Any Price? Measuring Americans’ Willingness-to-Pay for Sanctions on Russia and China
Abstract. Economic sanctions appear to be an inexpensive means for wealthy countries to punish or coerce targets. Not all sanctions are, or will be, cheap,
academic.oup.com
karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 6d agoI think it’s important to learn the lesson from this: he was untouchable until he drove gas prices through the roof.
One of my long-term goals has been to get appointed to some job that merits a serious profile in the NYT or equivalent and then tell my friends who get asked to provide stock quotes about me to say “He suffers fools gladly. Hugely enjoys them. Likes nothing better than being surrounded by fools”.
Tobias Harris@tobiasharris.bsky.social · 7d agoOf all the features of contemporary American life I'm ready to see the end of, the valorization of "people who aren't afraid to piss everyone off" is high on the list.
I just hope Homer is working his ass off rn on the third installment that’ll close-out this trilogy with a bang two years from now. I bet it’s gonna be great. Odysseus goes to America, maybe. Or maybe there’s room for a Spider-Man crossover, a time travel thing. Sony is always looking to make a deal
Any big-budget Wittgenstein film should be 75% Wittgenstein being an unremitting asshole to everyone he meets, with the director varying whether only we think the target deserves it, 23% him being terrible to himself, and then 2% this specific moment, which is unexpectedly the heart of the film.
Brett Karlan@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · last wk.Bro if Christopher Nolan ever directs a big-budget retelling of the Wittgenstein-Popper poker incident, imma write a review in the LRB that is SO scathing
"There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." Which film is this a dismissal of? Wrong answers only. I’m gonna say “Star Wars”.
Place your bets on what Immortan Bryan will claim next week. “I have 3D printed thirty copies of myself and made them all follow me on X”. “I have developed a new kind of serum based on the graphics in Laboratoire Garnier ads”. “I built a time machine and am now my own grandfather.”
Again, the most important legal and ethical issue raised by this is something like "no you didn't, that's a lie, that didn't happen"
<nine months from now> Elon, raging: WHY ARE THERE STILL TRAMS IN THIS VERSION? Grok: Sorry, my bad, I will take out the trams. Elon: OK. Now, What did Odysseus have for breakfast? Grok: He ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. Elon: Well that seems like a manly diet, at least.
The Odyssey, but it’s set in like the Med or somewhere like that and in oldey times and there’s witches and magic and stuff instead of an Ad guy in a 20th century city with an electric light rail system. idk maybe too radical
Maybe during the prize giving he’ll turn his ankle on a divot and it’ll be the start of a chain reaction leading to truly astonishing global scenes
Here in NZ the local TV reporter interviews a disappointed Argentinian supporter and asks “What’s your missage to Missy?”