mikes barnes
@mikesbarnes.bsky.social
philosophy of words & the world wide web & the work behind it all. associate professor at the university of oslo. michaelrandallbarnes.com
vibe in Norway very positive right now, in case you're curious
was recording some lectures today for a thing and made the guy working the teleprompter laugh by going off script and throwing in the quick 'we live in a society'
looks pretty wise of me to move to Norway now doesn't it?
did I mention I'm seeing The Cure tonight in Cardiff? and the joy formidable, and twilight sad? pretty pretty pretty good way to cap off a (excellent) conference
this guy giving a very different impression of what doing philosophy looks like than whatever it is I do
first impression of Cardiff is that the city and the airport do not appear to acknowledge the existence of the other in any serious way
I'm traveling to the UK today and worried about the current state of things there. Will this coup be violent? Will starmer supporters be in the streets protecting their man?
it's true. there are many downsides to grading. but the snacking is nice
sure, just let me get thru the 255 hours (and 16 minutes) of podcasts in my queue first
first they booed the AI hypers, and I said nothing because it rocked, and really, every commencement speaker should be booed
Actual Batman vs Nolan's Batman An absolute soul-crushing abomination. Stripping all color, joy, and life from a breathtaking place and replacing it with drab, gray sludge. This isn't art. It's cultural vandalism and aesthetic terrorism.
extremely extremely sad to join the chorus of people on here who lost a pet. sweet little Maki, I miss her so much already
big news day! oh what's that? oh no no no. I meant that today in Oslo we had BOTH a little earthquake and a dog race
found this little wax seal kit at a local loppemarked. lemme know if you want to receive some guaranteed untampered correspondence
not sure this is the best but I like it
Euthyphro@euthyphro.bsky.social · 4mo agoPost the best picture you have ever taken of your pet
I don't mean to be mean, but if this person (asking this Q on a philosophy blog) is actually asking whether they should do adjunct work to improve their chances on the philosophy job market, their PhD program has utterly failed them
center alignment for a whole essay? are you psychotic?
I have read and enjoyed ben lerner's Transcription. and so can you
i mean, what do you expect from a kid named avuncular?
[pulls up a chair, sits down backwards on it] you know who else did something cool after 3 days??
I have a new paper coming out on conceptual abandonment: philpapers.org/rec/SHIDFP-2. Abandonment is a ubiquitous strategy in the history of philosophy – philosophers have advocated getting rid of folk psychological concepts, the concept of harm, the concept of democracy, among many others.
Matthew Shields, Diving for pearls: conceptual abandonment, conceptual engineering, and the limits of thought and language - PhilPapers
References to conceptual abandonment are ubiquitous in philosophy. I argue that making a case for abandonment is much harder than philosophers have realized and that this difficulty has striking, broa...
philpapers.org
maybe one day i'll come to terms with emoji reacts to emails in outlook, but today is not that day
there's a lot of reasons to hate andy weir. chief among them his attempts at humour