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Philosophy PhD candidate @ CEU. Solving problems for panpsychism today with Leibniz yesterday. Bad chess player. Cat dad.
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Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

Finally reading Neumann's Behemoth (LSE social theorists represent) and struck once more by just how common it was to believe in late 19th/early 20th C. that capitalist economies invariably develop into a clique of monopolies and cartels - even among pro-capitalist, who simply thought this was good.

Doris Lessing, who wrote science fiction and was the Guest of Honor at the 1987 Worldcon, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2007. When informed she had won the award, she famously said "Oh, Christ!" youtu.be/vuBODHFBZ8k

“I’m here to sound a warning bell for those who are now in the position I was several years ago.”

Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.

I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization... Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️

Trump's cruelty applies to children in the US as well as those abroad: The Trump administration will cut $1.1 billion in funding for food banks and free school lunches, officials confirmed Monday. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/11/u...

Batman: If there is a 1% chance that he's our enemy, then we must take it as an absolute certainty. @keithfrankish.bsky.social: if there is a remote possibility that we are mistaken about phenomenal consciousness, then there is a strong abductive inference that we are mistaken. Coincidence?

Between this and the "sin of empathy" stuff it's all getting a bit satanic round maga way.

An ICE contractor is currently monitoring more than 200 sites (including Bluesky) to draw connections between people and between accounts on different sites. Not good considering ICE is disappearing people at the moment www.404media.co/the-200-site...

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH

This is some serious Glorious Leader Looks At Things bullshit right here.

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

Everybody chill out and take an epistemology pill

I’d go to church. Maybe not. But I’d at least reconsider the ontological argument.

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General Call: Summer School on Panpsychism At the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb Keynote speakers: Hedda Hassel Mørch, David Papineau, Philip Goff (online) Students at all levels are invited to attend or apply to present their work. More details: panpsychism.ifzg.hr

📣 The BSHP Antognazza Lecture 2025 will be delivered by Professor Sandrine Bergès on the topic "‘Enslaved’ Women and Monstrous Men – Mary Astell, The Mancini Marriage and the case of Katherine Auker" 📍11 Nov. 2025 (6pm), The Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Library bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

My novel, The Dreams of Ghosts and Indians has finally arrived! You can order the paperback today. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ4PB57...

The journalism here is just incredible www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

If you were to disregard @esqueer.net’s request, you might want to send your suggestions from a burner email account. But I am NOT suggesting that you do that.

Might be more proud of getting smothered mate on @lichess.org than I am of submitting my dissertation this week.

Exactly this.

Try imaging Mike Myers reading Trump's words from the Zelenskyy press conference in the voice of Dr Evil

The final proofs are in!!! Available March 18, 2025 - unless of course it is banned.

A critique of @lovingautomaton.bsky.social's "illusionism" about phenomenal consciousness. He thinks that "phenomenal consciousness" relates to nonphysicality as "wizard" relates to spellcasting. I think it's more like "king" and divine mandate to rule. schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/king...

What happened to Mind Chat? Don't tell me the bromance is over, @philipgoff.bsky.social and @keithfrankish.bsky.social !

Markets in early December: Wow, Musk is going to have his way with Trump! 🥂 Markets, now: Oh shit.

Which states get the most federal support for education?

@prestonjacobs.bsky.social do we still get your book this week?

I don't think I have a high IQ (I'm terrible at test-taking), and, judging by the behaviour of folk who claim to have one, I wouldn't want one.

Imagine if the entire government were run according to the plans of that guy in your class everyone thought might become a school shooter

Wise Women is a sixteen-episode series about women in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth century made by @philtalkradio.bsky.social www.philosophytalk.org/wisewomen

Gary Marcus hits the nail on the head again. @garymarcus.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...