Krys Dolega
@krysdolega.bsky.social
Philosopher by education Akademischer Rat @ruhr-uni-bochum.de by employment Silly goose by calling He\Him www.krysdolega.xyz
Rerouting sea cables towards a Bronze Age burial to preserve a fictional grave (!) of a Harry Potter character (!!) at an old movie shooting location (!!!) might be my joker moment www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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I was gonna make a joke about Nolan's big decision to cut HAL9000 from the Odyssey, but then I had a galaxy brain moment realizing that HAL *is* the cyclops, so I guess the joke is on me
Sitting down to read about modal semantics as a little summer treat to myself
Paul Rudd: Who Would've Thought? Not Me
Alt: Paul Rudd on Hot Ones saying: Who Would've Thought? Not Me
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"as a lesson to the young ruler"? Sure...
John McCafferty@jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2w agoAquamanile in the Form of Aristotle & Phyllis late 14th or early 15th century South Netherlandish (Met Museum) Tableware explainer: Aristotle, tutor of Alexander the Great, allowed himself to be humiliated by Phyllis as a lesson to the young ruler.
After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
Elon Musk’s tired schtick
Why does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?
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me, when I play Dark Souls before bed
grim 🪲🍂🌾@milfluvr420.bog.observer · 3w agogoodnighty everyone <3
EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses
When 'scaling small' becomes national policy
The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing
obc.copim.pub
I finished teaching today and my students asked me: "And what, no Gargamel?" "The Sumurfs guy?" "Yeah, last week you promised we'd talk about him!" Friends, they were talking about Gadamer 🫠
Today I looked at my email and the abyss stared back at me... I don't know who needs to see this, but please don't take psychoactive substances with a chatbot as your guide 😢
Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"
19thnews@19thnews.org · last mo.Trials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
technosphere.earth
Seeing your partner succeed beyond their expectations is just a gas like nothing else
This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures. It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514
I'm sorry, but how are these kids supposed to git gud? If you help them with the underwater level, they will never be ready for the fire-bars!
The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 2mo agothis is art
a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass with the word huh on it
Alt: the Dude - a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass - with the word huh on it
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Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 3mo agoNEW: When Pope Leo drops his new encyclical focused on AI next week, a co-founder of Anthropic will be there to help promote it. Why? Turns out, there was a decade-long effort by the Vatican and the tech world to forge a relationship — w/Anthropic at the center. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/w...
Starting a seminar on Rorty today, and the "holy cow" always gets me because it fits so well with his American accent and general disposition
If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.
Dr Keith Wilson 💭@keithwilson.eu · 4mo agoIf you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.
Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature
How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The
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Growing up I couldn't anticipate how much of my adult life would be spent asking myself: Is this what living in Europe in the 1930's felt like?
This and the opening of "Knowledge and the Flow of Information" are two passages I have filed under "Naturalistic philosophy that slaps"
Fintan Mallory@fintanmallory.com · 5mo ago“All the lore of the ages is due to irritation of the surfaces of a succession of persons”.
We have an exciting series of talks coming up this semester. Starting on April 22nd, Wednesday's 6pm Berlin time! Join us in going back to mental representations!
