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HPS PhD Uni Melb. Writer of a number of non-income-producing books. Semi retired. Dad jokes and bad puns are free. [bridged from https://fediscience.org/@jswilkins on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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this puts the fake cost-cutting narrative of the doge nazis into perspective (but of course none of this can ever be discussed, let alone touched)

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If we consider all what happened over the last 2 months, it is time to transition toward free-software and sovereign infrastructure at a 🇪🇺 scale. It is a good investment. @fsfe @EUCommission @ThierryBreton @marinetondelier

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Just like to note that the Pacific Ocean has been renamed the Australian Ocean. Get on it Google!

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Shouldn’t people who act criminally in the Trump era be reminded constantly that they are likely to be prosecuted when the Grand Stupidity is over?

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Drop what you are doing and read this incredible story from Wired, if you can. After that, come back here. https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/ It mentions that a 19 y/o man who's assisting Musk's team and who has […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

When I was five, I slept in the top bunk. One night I fell out and landed on my head. Yes, I was debunked…

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"In the first place, it seems to me, an altogether disproportionate value has been assigned to Bacon's share in the movement. At most, I think, he deserves to be regarded but as a literary exponent of the Zeitgeist of his century. Himself a philosopher, as distinguished from a man of science […]

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John Hawks <https://newsmast.social/@johnhawks> On human genetic diversity. https://johnhawks.net/weblog/the-contribution-of-segmental-duplications-to-human-diversity/

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Turns out it's too late to exchange my blues record for an electronica one: Tom Waits for Numan.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

How do philosophers do it?

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Great to see Australia's under-funding of PhD candidates making the news. Australia pays PhD students - the engine of University research - an absolute pittance. If we don't raise the stipend to a livable rate, we risk losing a generation of researchers […]

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Ohhh I hadn't thought of that...huh.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Philosopher Larry Sklar (University of Michigan) has died.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

I have transcribed the "Strickland Code" from 1842. Any corrections welcomed. https://evolvingthoughts.notion.site/The-Strickland-Code-1842-16eb20022e9e80bf9a5bd0bb02f7defb

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Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and speciation complexity in palaeoanthropology https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae033

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#Musk endorses Germany's #AfD (neo-Nazi party)... https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-endorses-germanys-far-right/ ...which even #LePen has disavowed. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/05/22/european-elections-le-pen-officially-breaks-with-german-ally-afd_6672249_5.html […]

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Last night’s dream: I was asked to give an impromptu lecture on Mapping and the university hadn’t booked a room so the class was held outside a Chinese restaurant and I had to write on their window instead of a whiteboard, which erased their signage, and I had to repay them myself. Now that I […]

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🤔 Science publishing is a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme: https://archive.is/DgpJl

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone have botanical French and would be willing to read through a few chapters in French and the only available English translation to see if the translator has changed much>

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Happy rant Saturday. Please stop AI. Stop mentioning it, stop using it, stop powering it with the dead souls of children and bunnies! It is just machine learning on better setups than they had in the 90s. Itt is a solution looking for a problem, and that is a recipe for an ongoing disaster.

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Early-morning worshippers inside a synagogue in Melbourne , Australia, reported seeing two masked men throw fuel inside the premises, before setting it alight. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-06/melbourne-synagogue-fire-adass-israel-community-suspicious/104692108

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Historicism https://open.substack.com/pub/johnwilkins/p/historicism?r=6gaq8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that AccuWeather is one of the orgs leading the attempt to destroy the National Weather Service. It should be avoided. #weather

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

The decline and fall of democratic decency https://evolvingthoughts.net/so-how-did-we-get-here/

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[USPol] A few farewells: Farewell to Ukraine. You fought valiantly. Farewell to NATO. Russia got what it wanted Farewell to US Democracy. I hope you survive the next twenty years. Farewell to US Rule of Law Time to raise the barricades, rest of us.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

I have just received a contract to publsih an edited four volumes of sources for _Species and Natural Classification in the long Nineteenth Century_....

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Best wishes to my American friends. I hope your journey into authoritarian nationalism is not successful. #uspol2024

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone have a copy of Wittgenstein's Culture and Value? If so could they please send me a photo of Par 18e in German and English?

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Steup and Neta have revised their Epistemology, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/ #sep #epistemology #revised #philosophy

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

#archiveorg is back. Well done to the volunteers who worked to restore it. Send them money to support the site from. the PayPal link on their main page. (Nice e-library ya got dere. Be a shame if sumtin were ta happen to it.)

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

After the inevitable crash of “AI”, what will happen to all the academics who were employed to study it in economics, philosophy, and apropos the recent Nobel, physics etc?

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

The Internet Archive, home to many books and sources now out of copyright and generally unavailable, is in dispute with major publishers who do not like them lending out digital copies of books that are in copyright the way a library does. Coincidentally, it is under a massive DDOS. Just sayin' […]

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My review of Van Fraassen's presentation of the semantic conception of theories in two chapters of "Laws and Symmetries" (1989). The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that this focus on theories being "structures, not statements" promoted by the semantic conception is either […]

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Quentin Ruyant is a postdoc doing some wonderful reviews and discussions of hard philosophy of science. This one is on van Fraassen's semantic view of theories. He has previously covered the Sneed-Stegmüller and subsequent structuralisms, and of course Suppe's semanticism before Van F […]

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

I seem to have a new book contract on the way...

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SF Chronicle columnist has had enough of the New York Times. He's not alone. https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/new-york-times-washed-19780600.php

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

Re-introducing myself since it seems this place has gotten bigger. Follow and I'll follow back-trying to rebuild up the networks in philosophy, medicine, bioethics, meta-research, epidemiology and general social science.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments