Brett Karlan

one thing this picture is not communicating, but i know from experience at other conferences, and is important context, is that brett is talking VERY LOUDLY in this pic

Whatever the intention, feels like causally it will encourage

When you're being mean to me online, this is who you're being mean to

Me looking like I have to fart while giving a talk

The genius, accessing the realm of pure thought (via @agholdier.bsky.social)

This is the kind of constructive feedback only friends can give you

People love to tell you something they're not interested in is bad and wrong when what they mean is they're not interested in it

We used to be a proper country

The Jack and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for Teen Drama, the Arts, and Feelings

In case they didn't know

Have successfully communicated, I think, to every participant in this workshop that I attended Princeton University

A 2021 Amtrak survey found the ideal layout for a high-speed rail network across the United States. It would be relatively cheap to build and would intersect every major center of commerce:

Can’t believe I’m missing the Midwest early career workshop for philosophy of technology and related topics of Latter Day Saints

Lmao drag that baby

Look, I'm not saying that only my buddies are good at philosophy. No one is saying that. What I am saying is that all of my buddies are great at philosophy, and other people often lack the sauce, but not everyone... unless?

i always knew i wanted to be a grad student when i grew up

Interesting that you'd hire a philosopher of AI (when anyone who wants to read or learn about philosophy of AI could just read my work) but sure go off I guess

The easiest way to get a job in academia: when someone posts a job ad and says "come be my colleague!!!!", just respond to the post with "ok." Once you've done that, they have to give you the job. Few know this

"The brain is NOT a computer!!!!!!!!" well sure maybe yours isn't

Could you imagine Wendy's trying to do an Indiana pork tenderloin? Carnage

Honestly, not bad; basically second-rate biscuits and gravy over hashbrowns, which isn't a terrible thing for a fast food place to do

I think it's cute when fast food restaurants offer their own version of "local specialties" that no one who lives in the area has ever heard of.

This post brought to you by the "Hoosier Breakfast Bowl," a local delicacy that exists at the local Wendy's and, as far as I can tell, nowhere else

Brandom and McDowell in a book-lined office with Gothic(?) window; green vertical line through Brandom and green oblique line through McDowell

Sexy Brandon and McDowell dot jpg

"We saw you from across the bar and liked your vibe"

Legit dreamt last night of an Evangelion-style anime opening for analytic philosophy, where quick cuts of those Steve Pyke b&w photos of philosophers were mixed with all-caps text like "ROBUST NORMATIVE REALISM" and "HYPERINTENTIONAL METAPHYSICS." It was awesome

Kenneth it's Saturday night

The first episode and a half of Horimiya is pretty solid y'all

Uh yeah I think the male loneliness epidemic is a huge problem (my wife has plans tonight and I don't so I'm just laying on the couch watching romance anime until she gets back)

And I think that's beautiful

If modal realism is true, there are uncountably infinite numbers of real worlds where we have the same variety of genres of music but every single lyric ever sung in any of them is from "Low" by Flo Rida. That's just what making music is in those worlds: arranging "Low" by Flo Rida