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what if you give a trans dyke a philosophy phd - “prof” @yale.edu, previously @barnard.edu - words @signsjournal.org - projects @being.transinphilosophy.org & @philosophy.lgbt - genders they/she/my love - more on https://not.dingherself.com
had a good time chatting about chaser sexologists, hack comedians, and Graham Linehan’s world-historical crash out
Odium Symposium@odiumsymposium.bsky.social · yesterdayNow out for all listeners! Helen and Sarah sit down with @amymarvin.bsky.social, a philosopher who specializes in feminist philosophy and trans theory. We discuss the relationship between chasers, transphobia, and ruinous obsession, and ask how that intersects with stand-up comedy.
the idea that this one specific very active group of people is an imbalance to be straightened out, rather than the very reason the platform is what it is, is the mistake that bluesky will come to regret
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
New Barnard Printers, Broken Down in Three Easy Steps by a Philosopher https://dingherself.com/blog/new-barnard-printer-setup.html
New Barnard Printers, Broken Down in Three Easy Steps by a Philosopher · Ding
“It would be a massive service to the College.”
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went to a screening of the restored welcome ii the terrordome with the director @bambrooklyn.bsky.social . surprised to learn that this all started out as a student project!
papers due oct 29 / conf jan 29 / i'll be there!
Graduate Student Workshop in Feminist Philosophy at Georgia State University
Georgia State University’s Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Center for Ethics Student Forum, and Minorities and Philosophy Chapter are pleased to announce a call for papers for a 2027 Gra...
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Very excited that this piece I co-wrote with @carlafehr.bsky.social is finally out. Please share widely! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)
We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.
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Let’s be honest. If Philosophy hasn’t been ‘liquidated’, Sociology will not be. For all the criticisms, at least Sociologists collect data. Meanwhile the Philosophy people just make things up out of thin air. Just whatever they want. Doesn’t matter.
Total and complete shut down of gender until we can figure out what the hell is going on
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w agoour elites want to abolish hard men
riding nyc subway and watching people being glued to their phones scrolling instagram and facebook really changed my perspective on life and society
mayor mamdani bring your film to brooklyn’s only film lab Full Spectrum Photo staffed conveniently by only transgender women for develop and scan starting at only &$9.99
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoOver the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.
when we went to the second QAF conference in Santa Cruz, we remembered to pack propaganda!
Clarence Thomas citing MIT philosopher Alex Byrne to support his ultra-transphobic opinion. I hope all the analytic philosophers who defended Byrne as a serious, apolitical scholar see this and learn something, but I'm not hopeful.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last mo.Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J.
THOMAS, J., concurring
judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men-
tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does
not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of
which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—
race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re-
sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla-
tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g.,
Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness);
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta-
tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to
keep men who believe that they are women out of teams
and private spaces reserved for women.
Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio-
logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10,
27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or
girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta-
ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary;
and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that
correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne,
Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical
Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob-
scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—
is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
“as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of
Power 17, 21 (1992).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreibwsxtosqddkiskx5oxonnai4ha7ygixfcqmnbsxb27z3q43jh4iu)
start of a horror story: i'm a metaphysician and you just gave me three distinctions
having friends visiting is such a useful life hack to finally clean your apartment! would recommend
spent the weekend speedrunning the “replying to emails to trying mutt again to learning python” pipeline
“citing environmental and ethical objections to AI that don't align with her religious beliefs”
Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 2mo ago"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
am i doing something right when a trans girl tells me that two of her exes as well as her current gf are all in my feminist philosophy class lol
today i learned that you could just deploy docker on google cloud? so of course i should use google to run all my self-hosted degoogling shenanigans right
woah i might have figured something out: even with 2fa, you don't use app-specific passwords for caldav? how?? why??
ding@not.dingherself.com · 3mo agostudent coaxed me into giving flip phone a try. a week into it: loves: T9 keyboard, usb-c, wifi, rss, the cool thing you do to open a flip phone, can do google maps, swappable battery swappable battery swappable battery pain points: email, calendar/contact sync, rideshare
