Euthyphro

I saw my first piping plover babies last year and they were AMAZING!

I am not a birder in general but I love these little birds in particular. They are so tiny and so relentless in the face of winter temperatures and cold ocean winds. Let the scraping begin!

The first piping plover spotted on a beach in southern Maine. They’re a small whitish and tan bird with a black band around the neck and black eyes standing in the sand among twigs and seaweed

Interrupting your doom scroll to say THE FIRST PIPING PLOVER OF THE SEASON HAS ARRIVED IN MAINE

“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

Around all the AI argument circles this basic fact - our evolved brains do, on 1500 kcal a day, something that exceeds by multiple orders of magnitude what whole warehouses full of hot-running chipsets can do.

It is not *physically possible* to make those warehouses full of chips "intelligent".

Nobody is “back to normal” but everyone is sick all the time. We talk a lot about how much more expensive everything is but not the huge number of people missing from the workforce bc Covid killed them or left them disabled. This sites not uniquely deranged. Everyone’s emotionally burnt to a crisp!

Me too, friend. The world seemed so full of hope and promise then.

People on here aren’t unhinged because it’s bluesky. People are unhinged because covid broke the world and we’re six years in to refusing to acknowledge it.

People keep saying things like “I miss old twitter” and no you don’t. You miss 2019.

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon. History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.

Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.

I’m on the ground in Maine and as much as I’d love to believe that the folks sticking w/ graham after all his Nazis coded missteps are doing so bc they object to Mills policies toward natives or other POC, I think the far likelier explanation is that bigotry is a non factor to this very white state

A statue of naked Medusa holding a sword in one hand and a severed head in the other. Text: Be thankful we only want equality and not payback.

Happy International Women’s Day ! ✊

(You can click on it, it’s a statue of Medusa, the OG rape victim turned into a monster by her rapists)

The shirts you wear for one day say true things about the values you hold. The tattoos etched into your skin and left untouched for decades don’t. It’s logic!

None of us is great enough for such a task. But in all circumstances of life, in obscurity or temporary fame, cast in the irons of tyranny or for a time free to express himself, the writer can win the heart of a living community that will justify him, on the one condition that he will accept to the limit of his abilities the two tasks that constitute the greatness of his craft: the service of truth and the service of liberty. Because his task is to unite the greatest possible number of people, his art must not compromise with lies and servitude which, wherever they rule, breed solitude. Whatever our personal weaknesses may be, the nobility of our craft will always be rooted in two commitments, difficult to maintain: the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance to oppression.

Had my attention drawn to Camus' Nobel acceptance speech

Susan Collins just gave Donald Trump the green light to take further unilateral military action that could push the United States into another endless war without oversight.

She doesn't have the courage to stand up to the President, even when American lives are on the line.

Women's History Month is the perfect time to listen to this series I designed about the overlooked and underrated contributions of women in philosophy.

From Hypatia to Hildegard, Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Midgley, learn about philosophy's unsung heroines!

#WomensHistoryMonth #Philosophy #PhilSky

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections There are fewer than 380 right whales left in the world, with roughly 70 females capable of bearing young.

🐋 #whale #rightwhale

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections | Maine Public share.google/lZJnbsYNF0tY...

In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Absolutely stunning view of Super Blood Moon rising over Stonehenge tonight. 🔴

As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social reminds us, we’re going to win.

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

"Nijs says being able to ring the doorbell fills people with a “positive feeling,” and many people have told her about the calming effects of watching the canal’s fish. But the biggest benefit has been for the fish themselves."

Maine, we’re up June 9th!

Sign the Petition Help End Shark Killing Tournaments in Florida!!!

I thought “Shark Rodeos” were a thing of the past, but I guess not. With world shark populations plummeting, I’d say it’s past time we end them.

www.change.org/p/myfwc-end-...

Incredible stuff!

Dogs, man.

Australian shepherd sitting on deck stairs with his front paws on the step below him.

Everything is terrible so here’s a goof inventing new ways to sit on the stairs