Oh cool this will impact all zero (0) bluesky group chats I've been added to

Bluesky@bsky.app · 22h ago

Update: group chats can now host up to 100 members.

wow. so true

Being a parent is weird because so many of the other parents are in this strangely overt competition over whose baby is the biggest or the smartest. What these idiots don’t realize is that MY baby is the biggest and the smartest.

People who thought it was bad when Princeton professors used to rank their grad should hear the parents of elementary school boys talk about youth baseball jesus christ

the trolley problem [the actual historical event where car companies conspired to kill public transport and turn the US into a necropetrocapitalist hellscape]

One reason I don't like the trolley problem is because no one rides trolleys anymore and also can't we all just be friends instead

One interesting thing about reviewers from other disciplines is that they're much more likely to (a) say that some stylistic preference of theirs is, in fact, the only way the paper can be written, and should be changed immediately; but (b) are then more likely to recommend accept anyway lol

It's always the people who yell at you in the grad-school bar about how truly horrible it is that your buddy is taking a postdoc even though he already has a TT job lined up who then take a postdoc while already having a TT job lined up

Brett, no!

What's very funny about the "liberal Bluesky" thing is that there's a lot of us wayyyy to the left of the average bluesky user who use this site just fine. Almost like fringe right wing bros specifically can't cut it in the marketplace of ideas unless a platform algorithmically rewards them...

Bold choice to demonstrate Thought Leadership by getting throttled by the character limit before finishing the word 'leadership.' The AI Space thanks you for your service.

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Getting a reviewer so bad at their job that I wished they had just used an LLM instead

there's no crying in philosophy!

another day guarding the river you can't go into twice. everyone keeps asking me if they can go into the river again. buddy, you aren't the same man.

One obvious area of slack that I wonder if people are exploiting: do you think people are submitting papers to more than one journal at a time? Of course you're not supposed to, but if you do, I can't imagine the punishment (no from two journals, reviewer/editors mad at you) outweigh benefits

rise & mind

Good morning, scholars! It's time to put the noise of the world away and (say it with me!) Hit! The! Mother! Fucking! Tomes! Let's rise and cite!! 😤😤😤 To the scholarship!

One of the most striking ironies of the field of analytic philosophy is that you can literally work on anything and still do philosophy, but also actually if you want to get a good job, you need to publish in one of like 10 journals that only publish on like 4 topics each

My own Q&A advice is to start crying in the back third of your talk, well before questions start. That way, everyone will feel so bad for you that you don't even have to do the silly dance that is the philosophy Q&A, and you can go home and continue crying

Philosopher in the Q&A: *asks a brutal and hostile question* Me, who has only read Alex Rails posts: omg stop flirting with me

In case any of y'all find yourselves at one of my talks in the future, I think the best question you could ask me is: "Your project [career/argument/etc] seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. How do you explain your success?"

Unless some math friend of mine wants to tell me they're actually bullshit, these (what seem like) genuine advances that LLMs are making recently are both (a) really impressive, and (b) put some pressure on those of us (including myself) who are skeptical of the cognitive capacities of these things

*flirting* So is your set... .. singleton?

One thing video games have over film is collecting shards. Regardless of how big Christopher Nolan goes with his camera, his movies will never allow us to collect shards.

When you're trying to get with the singleton set containing Socrates, call that hyperintensional flirting