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"My Impressions as an Israeli Reservist in Gaza" . The important thing is to reflect what is happening for the Israeli public. To bring things to the surface. So people won't say afterward that they didn't know archive.ph/924av @haaretzcom.bsky.social

“Fiction invents all things, and it also invents books.” Turning Borges's 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' into reality. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

a) I forgot this means Glenn loses twitter access, which is the funniest possible thing to happen to him b) if he shows up On Here we need to do an emergency Fallon maneuver, he cannot be allowed to set up shop, our lives are all better without having to deal with his posts

Twitter is down in Brazil.

"As Protagoras says of Mathematics, the subject-matter is unknowable, and the terminology distasteful." — Philodemus of Gadara, on Poetry

Davidson, Ryle, Wittgenstein, and Quine #philsky

Protagoras 1 - Socrates 0 buff.ly/48xQlr0

Aldo Leopold was born OTD in 1887. “We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” #HpBio #histsci 🌎 #philsci #STS 🧪

Caution signs become more interesting when you add a skateboard.

Umberto Eco was born OTD in 1932. “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.” #philsky #booksky

Gorsuch 'borrows', with examples cited as 'sloppy', and definitely keeps his job, while Claudine Gay 'plagiarizes' and is forced out. The differential treatment of Gorsuch compared to Gay, and the ultimate consequences, are so ridiculously obvious. www.politico.com/story/2017/0...

"In his treatise "On nonexistence" or "On Nature" [Gorgias] argues three points in connection. First, that nothing exists; second, that even if something did, a human being cannot sense it; and, third, even if something is sensed, it could not be articulated and explained to anyone else."

Logeion iOS app update! New dictionaries on your iPhone! (@logeiongklat.bsky.social)

#academicsky #philsky

There's a yellow ribbon everywhere, Mickey Mouse! . . License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

🔴 Good morning and Happy New Year! Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.bsky.social ... - Introducing the newest character in Tom the Dancing Bug: MICKEY MOUSE! - boingboing.net/2024/01/01/m... !

On December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson published the final 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip.

Every day since 2016 the Daily Express has discovered, with accompanying outrage, that leaving the European Union meant leaving the European Union.

It's your birthday, Duane.

#philsky

This is a feed tracking #theaetetus #protagoras & #sophistic bsky.app/profile/did:...

#Sarcophagus fragment showing the deceased (r) conversing with a philosopher. Between the two is a sundial. The composition suggests a visualization of the deceased's devotion to philosophy and paideia Museo d'Arte Antica, Milan, 4th c. t.co/TeJWJn17oh

"The #AI Act will set up a new European AI Office to coordinate compliance, implementation, and enforcement. It will be the first body globally to enforce binding rules on AI" By @Melissahei #AIEthics www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/11/1...

To The Bliss existentialcomics.com/comic/529

Artificial intelligence is automating the creation of fake news, spurring an explosion of web content mimicking factual articles that instead disseminate false information about elections, wars and natural disasters.

Finally, a publication about comics EVERYONE can get behind! Matt Feazell, stick figure king of Hamtramck, Michigan (and national treasure) has a new 24-page color book(let) about comics and it's delightful of course! Learn more here: www.mattfeazell.net/CYNICALMAN/i...