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What does it mean when the ground starts turning green in Fairbanks, Alaska? Look up!

It's funny and telling that MAGA is agitated like never before but nobody can be seen protesting. The fervor is going straight into their ipads and online only.

The main objective is to exhaust you so that you can't even question the underlying psychological manipulations. The only way to fight back is to completely reject the authenticity of every suspicious source of information and not let anything epistemologically dubious affect your views at all.

one thing to remember about circulating disinformation (like the viral fake f-35 images): it's always unclear who deployed it and for what purpose. Sometimes it presents something very unconvincing, but with hidden assumptions built in to affect your opinion even if you disbelieve the thesis

& it's not to refute or handwave the problem of evil in logical context. But the problem of evil seems like looking for a particular strand of hay, rather than a needle, in a haystack. This is familiar to naturalism, but I think it's more pervasive and pessimism much truer than people tend to think

I think the problem of evil is funny in a sort of cute and misguided way.

The real mystery, I think, is how and why anything in this world of structurally infinite massacres could be good at all.

today was kind of crappy but at least a glacier didn't fall on me

thanks for the email linkedin maybe i will follow bill gates on social media i never considered this

Good night everyone

The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is turbulent and knotty. The colour of the twisted light is gold with dark brown patches. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.

The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is turbulent andgranular. The colour of the twisted light is yellow with dark black patches. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.

The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is granular. The colour of the twisted light is red and orange. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.

The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is granular. The colour of the twisted light is teal. There are dark patches as well. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.

There was a huge X-class solar flare yesterday on the Sun!

You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images.

I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star.

We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE.

🔭

I play one myself! but I haven't done some silliness like that since I was about 15 ort 16

Absolutely loved this. There's a disturbing trend in the humanities that because Descartes wrote at the start of the modern area, and helped to usher it in, that thorough scholarship of his works is somehow unnecessary to understand him and his views. This Element treats him thoroughly and fairly.

Not all guys who play Vs are chumps, only most of them!

I've seen what trump does with things he "cherishes". Never in a million years.

some people, like those who were exiled, do not have that option. Even though things might get bad, I'm thankful to be in a position to freely help others. I hope that as many of us as possible will retain that freedom

choosing to treat the impending downfall like an activity. Like an escape room or homework or an art project. I'll be there to meet the moment, to use my body and voice in the manner required of me, and we'll get through it. I don't have any money so it starts immediately for me when it starts. GLHF

Last month we were on fire,
This month we are under water.
In between those there was ice
(no peaches this year),
Next month will be ticks and mosquitoes,
But at least birds and flowers join the party.

men love to imagine scenarios in which they are disadvantaged (for a lack of real examples), which is why MRA guys who have never had a girlfriend get very upset about the supposed unfairness of divorce law and child support lol

Yea I was gonna say usually I see this phrase come up after someone has failed at critical or contextual thinking, not so much in response to them just being a bad person. Humanities education does not address the problem of being a shitty person who is willing to do evil things.

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Harvard’s putting up a fight from the academic sector. Where are our business leaders?? The silence is deafening. The latest No Mercy / No Malice: www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...

I like talking from strangers from time to time, at least to be polite or be helpful. Honestly, when I'm wearing my earbuds in public, I'm hoping that someone isn't trying to speak to me not realizing I have them in and I inadvertently ignore them. That can be slightly annoying still

I was deceived by my religious experiences into the foundational belief that ideas are ultimate reality. I feel like I’ve been slapped upside the head with the revelation that ideas don’t do anything

Photo of book Robot Ethics (Japanese edition)

Just received the Japanese language edition of my book Robot Ethics @mitpress.bsky.social

pouting the day away

I started out not liking him 10 years ago or so because I was a philosophy student and he ran an inevitably somewhat dubious philosophy show for PBS (why would you hire a non-philosopher for this). I thought of him like an industry plant in the music industry lol. I like him much more now

Over the town

Marc Chagall delighted in portraying himself and his wife, Bella Rosenfeld Chagall, soaring through the air, a visual celebration of their love.

it doesn't sound too unreasonable as long as you selectively pretend the semantics don't exist. Each axiom is a powerful and interesting intuition in its own right and very likely worth the detour