Patrik Engisch

My 2 Pfennig joke about Schuringa’s book was: Are all these people still going on about the distinction between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy using or mentioning it?

Since we’re not supposed to use “Two birds, one stone” anymore, I suggest we replace it with “One raclette, two neighbors”

A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

You see this, post a concert pic that you took

YouTube video by Tom Waits Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking Concert (1998)

And one more for the road...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjdo...

YouTube video by Tom Waits Tom Waits - Seeds On Hard Ground (Except From The Human Factor)

There is probably not enough Tom Waits on your TL, so just take one minute to listen to this wonderful voice reading a beautiful poem

(as Nietzsche once said,without Tom Waits life would be mistake - or something like that...)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGA...

Not surprising that your public debt is out of control if you’re a country that can’t distinguish between an espresso and an Olympic swimming pool

I was lucky enough to be a guest a few times. Right before starting he would say, "our audience is very well informed, so go as deep as you want, and if need be I'll ask you to clarify." Thought that was pretty amazing, like, the opposite of saying "dumb it down please."

I am obviously not up to date, but my three favorite classic albums might be "Suprême NTM" from NTM, "La Rage de dire" from Fabe, and "Hip Hop Forever" from Busta Flex.

Update(s) from Serbia: the School of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad has been overtaken by the police, who have evicted the students occupying the building since the start of the student-led movement for social change. The police are now attacking citizens who came to support students.

Seems to me that there are contexts where you might not be surprised by the content, as it might be banal (say, something significant but pretty generic about one’s childhood), but surprised that you are considered to be the kind of conversational partner fit for that kind of content

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

In a world where many children are starving in Gaza and factory farming still exists on a large scale some people are worried about AI welfare…Has too much interaction with bots dulled their critical faculties?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anything good that isn't written in Garamond is de facto less good. Including this statement

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🧪 President Trump and Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, announced that Apple would devote $100 billion to additional investment in the US . The announcement came after Mr. Cook presented Mr. Trump with a 24-karat gold gift and lavished him with praise🤮

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Joseph Almog. His book on Spinoza is a literary gem, on top of being a philosophical one

Great to know that all these em-dashes tell us Nietzsche was in fact AI. I was always suspicious that anyone human (whether sub, normal or super) would ever pretend philosophizing with a hammer

This is how the traditional right-wing party of the economic elite, the one responsible for the creation of the modern state, is now branding itself in Switzerland. It was hard to out cringe the horny philosophers this week but they succeeded with ease…

Spot the cat

YouTube video by Čao Portorož Čao Portorož - Slovenec

youtu.be/FKMYWXwc5Qs

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?

2002:

Well, mostly because that would keep them busy for quite a while 😅

[W]hen an artist confronts us with a prompt that makes a decisive contribution to an audience’s ability to achieve insight in their shared project of enquiry, they are also due a share of credit for co-producing this cognitive achievement. - Christopher Earley, Co-Producing Art’s Cognitive Value

In this advance article, Chris Earley defends the collaborative cognitive achievements that artworks make possible. #philsky doi.org/10.1093/aest...

Best reason to dislike AI yet.

Are all these people still going on about the distinction between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy, using or mentioning it?

Using food to show where I grew up

I was planning to launch my substack on "Human, life, AI, and future" in a few months, with something very different. But life doesn’t always care about our timelines. Events erupt. Emotions build. And suddenly, waiting feels like avoidance. My first post: atoosatopia.substack.com/p/valid-and-...

The Origins of Contemporary European Thought 1837-1938 - Département de Philosophie - UNIGE Principal Investigator: Guillaume Fréchette SNSF Consolidator Grant 2024–2028 Video brief

The conference "The first 10 years of Inbegriff, the Geneva seminar for Austro-German Philosophy" will take place June 11-13, 2025.

An event hosted by the grant project The Origins of Contemporary European Thought 1837-1938, PI Guillaume Fréchette (Geneva): www.unige.ch/lettres/phil...