Nikk Effingham

Ooo. Tempting

Donald Trump pardons founder of Silk Road drugs site US president says Ross Ulbricht was victim of ‘weaponisation of government’

Donald Trump pardons founder of Silk Road drugs site

https://www.ft.com/content/4ce961c6-1fe3-4ab0-b2b7-3d2e8b4cdcb7

BOOM! @knowawastaken.bsky.social just schooled everyone on fact-checking—using free Google is the bare minimum social media users can do to make sure what they’re hearing and sharing actually checks out.

Knowa’s 13 and already 🔥!

i was trying to find a screenshot from the film yesterday, and google's AI hallucinated this absolute nonsense

For your consideration:

The clearest sign for the tone of a TMNT adaptation is whether its version of Splinter started as a dude or a rat, and it's not in the way you would expect

YouTube video by St Cross College HAPP One-Day Conference "Paradoxes in Physics" Professor Nikk Effingham (University of Birmingham)

HAPP One-Day Conference "Paradoxes in Physics"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqvA...

"Great questions! 'Change' can mean being one way at one time & another way at another (e.g., learning something by traveling to the past). That’s fine. The real problem is changing something *at the same time* i.e.making it true & false simultaneously. That’s the kind of change that’s impossible."

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Woke up jetlagged in a hotel room and automatically opened my laptop to prep my talk slides, before remembering I'm here for a friend's wedding and not a conference. #academia #academicsky

Graduation day!

#EpistemicInjustice

A quote from New York Times bestselling author and co-creator of Star Wars: The High Republic, Cavan Scott: "Future's Edge is Gareth L Powell at his best, mixing exceptional world-building and galaxy-wide stakes with complicated, relatable characters and enough heart to fuel a supernova."

Before I go and start my day at the bookshop, here's a quick reminder that my next novel FUTURE'S EDGE (published by @titanbooks.bsky.social) is available for pre-order from all good online and high street booksellers.

More info: www.garethlpowell.com/futures-edge/

Look, it’s been nearly thirty years and I think it’s about time I said what we’ve all been thinking: Isn’t it time for Arnie to do ‘Jingle All The Way 2’?

i spoke on a panel Ugur convened at this conference last year and it was superb. an incredibly high standard of talks, and a really welcoming environment for discussion

LAST CALL: Thirteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Topic: Representational format
Length: 3000 words. Single spaced!
Deadline: December 15, 2024.
Prize money: 3,000 Euros.
More info: bencenanay.com

Yes I'm religious, I believe in the Holy Trinity

The 'Why?' podcast with Emma Kennedy interviews myself and @jimalkhalili.bsky.social about time travel!

linktr.ee/whypodcast

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

"Wicked" does not synch up to "Dark Side of the Moon" at all. Sorry to everyone in the theater.

Why Twitter is (Epistemically) Better Than Facebook Online Environments Social media has the potential to expand our epistemic horizons, connecting us with a wider range of people and more information and analysis than ever before. But it comes with…

my two cents on the echo chamber discourse (with a very outdated title)

1) echo chambers are only a risk for dominant groups, when they don't hear marginalised voices

2) most people instead need *epistemic respite*: space away from alternative viewpoints to build communities

People always misunderstand that teaching nine hours a week is a lot, confusing “teaching” with “working.” Here’s a comparison: professional boxers only “work” about four hours a year.

Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

Oxford colleges relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff on very low hourly pay (and they don’t even earn tips)… www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Now that actual celebrities are coming to Bluesky I will soon no longer be one of the largest accounts here, I will once again revert to my usual status of mid-tier niche notable, remember me as I was when I was beautiful, well, okay, not beautiful, but kind of middle-aged Muppety

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion Delusions play an important and fascinating role in philosophy and are a particularly fertile area of study in recent years, spanning philosophy of mind and psychology, epistemology, ethics, psycholog...

For my first post here I'm delighted to share, on publication day, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion! 🧵 www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

I used to think metaphysics was for philosophers who were smarter and more serious than me, then @danielnolan.bsky.social spent 2011-12 trying to convince me otherwise. Today he is teaching my paper on mental fictionalism to his grad students, so I guess he succeeded! Thank you, D-Noles 😊

100 years of average June-July-August temperature anomalies over land areas through 2024...

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0.

We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia

No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness.

Would you play this?