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As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

I was today years old when I found out that the Mandarin that the American English expression "gung ho" is based off of literally means "industrial cooperative". I am passing this information along in the hopes that someone will write the thinkpiece that this deserves en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho

If you haven’t heard, @trufelman.bsky.social and I started a new podcast about fashion and philosophy. Each month, we read canonical text — Voltaire, Rousseau, Hegel — and talk about how the author's ideas help us understand why we dress the way we do.

stopped playing scrabble to look outside, accidentally saw a rothko

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Ideas for making up words: Borrow from another language! Combine prefixes/suffixes! Make it a new part of speech (verb a noun!) Stack or smush words together! Make a lil wordplay! Acronym! Shorten an existing word! Use an old word newly! Just throw together something that feels good!

marlo@marlo.ooo · 5mo ago

@gretchenmcculloch.com do you have any good tips for Making Shit Up (in a linguistics way)

Excited to be participating in Fiction Lab at Stony Brook today! A cool gathering where scholars in psych, media studies, comp lit, law, lit studies, and philosophy will all discuss fiction-- and what a cool poster!

Here at Hatsune Miku's concert to see what the hype is about! What makes this virtual singer so irresistible??? (10 min past concert start time, hasnt started yet, girl next to me "i need you to hurry up, youre like, all of 2D" 🤣)

Wow this is a mood in a restaurant bathroom, esp on Easter

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

It's like the I-III-V-I chord build up 🥹

weeder@weeder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Lantana blooming sequence 🌱

Check out the Aeon philosophy prize for early career researchers - offers the chance of intensive mentoring in writing public philosophy @aeon.co aeon.co/philosophy-p...

“The more opinions you have, the less you see.” - Wim Wenders

Viewers noticed Ryan Coogler appears to have a guitar and treble clef braided in his hair at the #Oscars

We can owe others morally good treatment, but what do we owe to ourselves? And is it even possible to owe something to yourself? Yes, argues the philosopher Thaddeus Metz in this Essay interweaving different strands of African philosophical traditions

What African philosophy says about our duties to oneself | Aeon Essays

African philosophical values of harmony and vitality have much to offer our thinking about what we owe to ourselves

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wow this shit is really good

zeet (irrigation engineer)@zeet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

I argued that AI personas are fictional characters in 2023 when LLM chatbots dropped! Remember the panic around "Sydney", anyone?? www.wired.com/story/artifi...

If Pinocchio Doesn't Freak You Out, Sydney Shouldn't Either

Why do people panic when an AI chatbot tells us it “wants to be human," but not when inanimate object says it wants to be a “real boy"?

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Daniel Lowd@dlowd.com · 7mo ago

This is a fascinating connection: AI personas are confusing, but perhaps no more so than fictional characters once were. Related, I couldn’t understand the complex ambiguity around Greeks mythology until a classics prof compared it to the many contradictory myths surrounding Santa Claus.

move slow and repair things

Kinda with the Danes here

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

The Word@the-word.news · 7mo ago

Attention: most people won’t finish your 3,000 word article the-word.news/2026/0305/at...

I love it when the bassist whips out the bow ugh 😩

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

New SEP entry for "Aesthetics in Chinese Philosophy: Painting and Calligraphy" just went live!!! Very excited to have this published. plato.stanford.edu/entries/chin...