There’s a lot to say about De Gaulle: Resistance. Little of it good. Among other things, its attitude toward the colonies is straight out 1950. The only time we hear North African voices, they speak Hebrew!
And press submit…. There, that’s the last of the grant and paper reviews done at last. Now to check my email.
The built in translations in Apple Books is incredibly useful.
In the 'comments for the editors' box I wrote "I found this paper reassuring. It seems AI isn't ready to replace us yet."
How old am I? I am "the idea of subjecting myself to even one of those films as 'preparation' for *that* makes no damn sense to me at all" old.
The reassuring thing about the clearly AI generated paper I'm supposed to be reviewing is that it is very, very bad.
People don’t appreciate the good Trump does. He’s solving the problem of WEIRD research. First the D and E, then he’s coming for the R and the I.
À propos of the latest AI in philosophy discussion, here's my paper on why I think AI will kill philosophy for those of us who see it as a special source of meaning. philpapers.org/rec/LEVTWO-10
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The best thing about the Emily Wilson review is the effect it's going to have on the X-right. It's a terrible dilemma: do they side with the white man Elon says is tearing down Western Civilisation or the woman? Neutrality or keeping quiet is never an option.
Everything about this story is horrible.
Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · last mo.After Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom’s leading defamation law firms, to send @timeshighered.bsky.social a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch.
Y’all wanna see a picture of a stoned dog? Of course you do. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Labrador rescued after ‘eating discarded cannabis’ on Ben Nevis hike
Owner Christina Bluhme feared the worst after Tokyo began to lose consciousness while climbing the UK’s tallest mountain
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Every wonder whether people *really* believe in magic? @neillevy.bsky.social, Ryan McKay, and I have the carefully reviewed the literature and can provide you with the definitive answer: sometimes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I saw Disclosure Day and I have questions (mild spoilers, but (1) the plot really doesn't matter and (2) spoilers aren't bad anyway).
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
I wrote something for a symposium on The Edge of Sentience (@birchlse.bsky.social). It's too philosophical for the venue, apparently, so I've uploaded it to philarchive. philarchive.org/rec/LEVSMB
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Anyone else seeing evidence that the Taylor & Francis submission system is melting down?
Football question: does West Ham’s relegation mean there’s *no* European competition they qualify for?
Michael Bishop once published a paper called “In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How lazy and ignorant can you be?” I like to think I’m rising to the challenge. academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
Social Epistemic Warrant? You’re Covered!
Abstract. In a recent paper in this journal, Hrishikesh Joshi (building on Ava Thomas Wright) argues that unless experts are seen to address even poor obje
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Played a game of chess on chess.com. Next day I got an email: “You have a one day streak! Keep it going”. The following day “Your one day streak is paused.” The day after that “Hurry! We can’t hold your one day streak much longer!” Now I’m wondering what the record for a one day streak is.
If I’m understanding things correctly (always an open question), PDC journals (like J Phil) don’t publish open access papers. That seems a good way to exclude most of Europe from submitting.
I don't use Facebook, but I'm on it because friends are. Was thinking of quitting because I was seeing so much unhinged right wing crap. Meta must have read my mind, cos it's now feeding me unhinged left wing crap (about Golders Green).
The lack of a space after the period bothers me much more than is rational.
Happy one month anniversary to my paper being “with journal administrator.”
What people are missing is that the saying implies there's at least one more kettle full of fish. One would be surprising enough.
I don't know how I feel about this. The view that what Israel does necessarily reflects on Judaism risks conflating the two in a way that gives too much credit to those who say that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Israel’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn
Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy say criticising Israeli government is not disloyalty but a Jewish obligation
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