Elmo

it sounds like the singing of a goose, but the goose is also an angel

YouTube video by Dhafer Youssef Dhafer Youssef - Soupir Eternel

through the youtube algo I also found this, which I love: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwS...

Did I get this from you back on the other website?? It's one of my favorite pieces of music!

YouTube video by Alim Qasımov Alim Qasımov, Hüsnü Şenlendirici, Rauf İslamov və Michel Godard — A Trace of Grace

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

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I think "all" including "none" is way worse tbh...

Sign o' the times

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

That makes sense to me! I asked some friends and realized that I might be a kind of 'contextualist' about meaning.

I had a dream in which I explained the "in minecraft" locution to someone irl

I don't think water is a rigid designator, I'm not even sure that there is such a thing for a word to just 'be' a rigid designator all by itself.

q.e.d., liberal snowflakes!!1

Pepsiman, a chromedome monstrosity covered in Pepsi Silver and Pepsi Blue colors, running down a lovely suburban street, chasing down a garbage truck that's dropping cans of Pepsi, because garbage Pepsi is the only thing Pepsiman can drink to get any sliver of enjoyment anymore. Pepsiman is a freak. A jolly pixel-drawn person is crossing the street just next to Pepsiman, and they're just smiling and having a good time while walking in their flip-flops, not even noticing the corporate entity demon running beside them.

Pepsiman entering a cozy private family home, essentially trespassing, lying on his knees and smelling the turquoise floor carpet because, again, Pepsiman is a freak. A pixelated lady (presumably the owner of the house) stands in the kitchen while holding a tray of food and beverage, just beyond the doorway where Pepsiman is being a pervert, looking very confused at the weirdo that's just lying there on the floor of her home, contemplating the nearest route to the telephone (it's the 90s, they have a landline).

Pepsiman in his most dangerous and greatest existential and physical situation yet, being chased down the street by a giant rolling can of Pepsi that's just crushing everything in its path, getting ever closer to its prey. Imagine if Pepsiman just looked like a regular person, then the Pepsi can would just be a giant human head that looked like the person that it's chasing. THAT'S the kind of horror Pepsiman is facing right now.

A beautiful dusk light has fallen on the city, symbolizing its downfall and upcoming doom, with a burning drum barrel and a person that's clearly lost all sense of decency and self-respect, kneeling on the pavement with a empty smile on their face, raising a sign above their head that says "GIVE ME PEPSI". "It's too late for them" think the couple standing further down the street, looking at this unfortunate soul, knowing deep down that they'll succumb to the madness soon enough.

Pepsiman (PS1) (1999)

1/2

I'm surrounded by Rilke truthers: my wife is (spiritually) convinced that he was French rather than German and my dad holds the personal conspiracy theory that Rilke was a trans woman...

Wild story

@klf-univienna.bsky.social @roto-rub.bsky.social

yield two different senses (each) of what it means for Umwelten to be 'open' or 'closed'. The core question is whether phenomenal experience is shared in a strong (token) sense, which very few people explicitly claim and no one argues convincingly. Without that, phenomenal Umwelten are closed.

Two ways in which my view of Uexküll matured after this text: U's anti-Darwinism was less crude at least sometimes (e.g. anti-gradualist, rather than anti-species-change). Also, the ways in which conty philosophers fail to show that Umwelten are 'open' is complex, because the two senses of Umwelt...

"Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt" by Tim Elmo Feiten (Keywords: Biology; Metaphysics; Animals) Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944) believed that every living creature inhabits a world of its own. The structure of this world is largely determined by the species to which a creature belongs, by its phys...

Reread this short piece I wrote a few years ago, and I don't hate it: www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/jakob-v...

uhhh, what the hell?!

Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:

The pitch was greenlit by a paper (that has published a bunch of my stuff in the past). When I sent in the article I was ghosted. They said my email had been lost when I followed up, and then told me the article wouldn't be published because "there is no real hook for it" which is an incredible take

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

cited the bible at the end of my manuscript, i look forward to your response

Very cool! I went in... 2019 or so? It was great!

Poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The background is dark green with large yellow text and decorative abstract flower illustrations in red, yellow, and green at the corners. Dates ‘18–19 June’ appear at the top right, along with the venue: UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers are Enara García (SDU), Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). A bold yellow banner reads ‘Call for Abstracts,’ with a deadline of 15 January. At the bottom is a contact email: xivpbcs@gmail.com

I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky

curious video, where everything makes perfect sense except the phrase "this is not political", which is unfathomably wrong in a way that also immediately invalidates the rest of the analysis...

Students send me their C programs. I ask them: what does this line mean? They answer: I don't know.

I remember this extremely value-laden reception from when a video showed airport workers slamming baggage down and throwing it around. Because people support workers in general, they would deny that the luggage is being handled roughly; completely bizarre denials of reality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/166rvc/january_17_1985_its_worth_a_shot/