Mike Jacovides

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:

Cute light beige dog dressed as a Halloween ghost.

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

You are in space. Congratulations. You've earned it

I wrote the St. Paul's university one and the accompanying footnote. I stand by my work

Once people decided that vaccines didn't work, all bets were off, and any combination of beliefs was possible

I didn't mean to chide you, just to express my delight at a piece of trivia. He was president during the Salem witch trials, which he supported

The sixth president of Harvard. You can't get any more tied to a university

Him: where are all the coffee filters?

Me:

Just found out Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman. This is why I have trust issues

Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."

Have you heard the one about the infinitude of death?

I’m a blood-pumping organ at heart.

Look, man, we're just interested in truth. Present your refutation, and then the future meetings will just be histories of an error

Third Meeting of the Association Association The Association Association is a group of philosophers working on the history and current applications of associationist ideas about the nature of the mind, including the range of ...

We’re planning a conference on associationism and its history, and we're calling for papers. Let me or Javi Gomez-Lavin @jglavin.bsky.social know if you’re interested philevents.org/event/show/1...

can I come over to your house and do this

The species relativity of color

There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.

If I have time to make signs for No Kings tomorrow, they're just going to be lines from the Declaration of Independence cataloguing George III's offenses that match things Trump has done.

I built an AI model that writes haunting sci-fi novels in which a vast and unknowable alien other produces seemingly-real replicas of your lost loved ones, just as you remember them but also hollow, since we cannot know the alien other if we do not know ourselves. I call the model 'Stanislaw LLM'

Tips Learn how to turn ideas into images.

Step 1: refuse to draw any distinction between "phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking".

#philosophy #c17

There she blows!- there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!

Bhutan in 2008

Santa is the patron saint of justice

a chef in a kitchen with the words borg written on the bottom ALT: a chef in a kitchen with the words borg written on the bottom

Physics Nobel announcement tomorrow.

If you know and dislike a famous physicist, this is the day of the year to call them up in the middle of the night, wait 10 seconds, and then do you best Swedish Chef impression...

The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.

Updated estimates here:

www.nber.org/system/files...

I think your urban death rate is off by an order of magnitude