Devin

knock knock
who's there?
mango
mango who?
man goes to doctor. says he's depressed. life seems harsh and cruel. he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. doctor says, "treatment is simple. great clown pagliacci is in town. go and see him. that should

what are colin mcginn’s actual philosophical contributions? afaict he sometimes gets (usually unsympathetically) cited for mysterianism and that’s about it

am I remembering correctly that “Saw Patrol” was one such attempt

I miss the brief period when various Hollywood people tried to artificially recreate Barbenheimer before realising that, like, no, that has to happen organically.

a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is making a funny face . ALT: a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is making a funny face .

Bulgarians rn:

how much money would you bet? trying to figure out if I should trust you

Read something I didn't like; need to take my mind off it quickly or it'll throw off my whole afternoon

I enjoy how often he pops up in footnotes in other people’s writing across a wide range of topics like “Nozick (in conversation)…”

teaching the bit of _philosophical explanations_ about the meaningfulness of life this week and i am yet again struck by how unfortunate it is that nozick was largely pigeonholed as the anarchy state and utopia guy

Do confident people look more knowledgeable? Not always. We show that high confidence equals more expertise among some, but others have the opposite intuition. We show that more deliberate thinkers (high CRT) generally prefer moderate over high confident judgments.

someone with an internet connection and the wit to ask has been able to access this information for like two decades

We Need More Leftist Crime Fiction Critics of crime fiction dismiss the genre as hopelessly reactionary, but its history tells a different story. From hard-boiled American detective novels to the explosion of Scandi-noir, crime fiction...

There's a sense in which I think this is the Platonic Ideal of a Jacobin article.

jacobin.com/2025/12/book...

salami shingles

little confused from the recipe, is it that you mix and then age?

this message brought to you by me getting the ingredients to make myself old-fashioneds and the internal struggle that has led to

the unfortunate combo of (1) enjoying the taste of alcohol, (2) being a lightweight, and (3) not actually being interested in getting drunk most of the time

I really hope Peter has followed the rules and not read any of it, I need to hear him try to get through the passages

still crazy that there’s a posthumous david lewis paper about how the (standard) christian god is evil and so by extension (standard) christians are evil

huh

I dunno, seems like the author might not be very thoughtful

ofc, presumably “fury” is a stand-in for some German word he’s mispronouncing it as, but which. and why doesn’t he know the common German word for “guide”

not having read the book, I still can’t get over the fact that a German kid is mispronouncing “führer” as “fury”

This was a thoughtful and interesting take on the book and I learned from it. Recommend!

something something repugnant conclusion

Random thigh pain today but immediately knew what it wasn’t; reading analytic philosophy of mind really pays off sometimes

What strikes me over and over again about the reality we are currently creating with so-called “generative AI” is that it’s always pitched as saving human time and effort. But this is only true if you are a parasitic grifter. For anyone with principles, anyone who cares about reality

Trump wins the FNAF Peace Prize, boosting his numbers with Gen Z

This really devalues the FIFA Peace Prize and i have half a mind to return my one

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign