Chris Cousens

Is there a distinction between a slur term and a slurring utterance under the surface here? Given the use in Killjoys and the uses targeting disabled people, it seems to function semantically as a slur term even if it doesn’t count as a slurring utterance when directed towards AI?

But… isn’t the first thesis of the paper that the first thesis of the paper is The Thesis?

Gotta love that policies are reported before they’ve been announced before they’ve been consulted on before they’ve been developed. Silly me thinking that the process should go the other way round…

Good news for those who can’t afford a smartphone, now they won’t be allowed to work!

Because it will be assumed by the intended audience that they refused to review it because woke, rather than that it reflects the quality of the book? You hear ‘26 reviewers thought it was rubbish’, they hear ‘the trans lobby tried to cancel the book’.

If the students aren’t there at 10 past do I get to leave?

Centring student voice in the classroom but the voice is mostly asking ‘Is Joe coming back’?

Is Queens of the Bronze Age too obvious?

‘If you use the Rights-Violation-Bad-Utility-Bullshit-and-Bigotry-Machine according to these rules, then you’re doing *responsible* rights violations, bad utility, bullshit, and bigotry!’

I am old enough to remember the time, long ago, when not every single ad was for sports betting apps.

Side note: sociologists might have looked into this as well/more closely.

I talk briefly about something in this ballpark, but it’s more about what happens when one conversation breaks up and those people join other conversations. Lmk if it would be useful.

Also Neri Marsili and Lucy McDonald’s work springs to mind.

And some of the boundaries are more porous than others - Phil language / linguistics and pol Phil / pol theory are at least at the intersection indistinguishable. Luckily I’m not editor of a journal having to make those kinds of calls!

How much Latin does the general populace of academic philosophers know?

Nor did the journalist seem to be aware that it does not close the play…

There’s a specific kind of discomfort, or being out of one’s comfort zone, that can be really valuable educationally. But this seems to conflate it with all other discomfort so now we’re told, what, if we don’t yell slurs at students we’re not educating them properly?

Revising this paper is disproving mathematics. I cut 2000 words, and now it’s 500 words longer.

Oh this is a maths joke not a Papa Roach reference!

Me assigning that paper: Haha yeah!!! Yes!

Me preparing for the class: Well this sucks. What the…

‘In French, potato is just an apple of the earth, ergo…’

‘It isn’t Marvel, therefore it is Arthouse.’

The Platonic form of philosophy is not the platonic Form of philosophy.

Bring back the Platonic form of philosophy (fictional conversation where one party only says ‘Why, of course, Socrates!’ for 27 pages).

Email saying "An AI created a podcast of your paper" Said paper is my PhD dissertation, "The Role of The Hippocampus In Configural Learning"

This is my PhD thesis

I did not ask for this

I did not consent to this

I did not approve of this

I was not compensated for this

I would not have advised this

I do not like this

And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

A sign to say the new issue of Hypatia has been published, with a design based on the journal's cover featuring a variety of different-looking (but all blue) women.

New issue of Hypatia, 40.2, is now published: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Speech acts and AI - ABC listen Speech acts - utterances that have the power to make things happen in the world - are increasingly being created by AI, especially in certain workplaces where it's not uncommon to receive orders and i...

I had a chat with David Rutledge on the ABC’s Philosopher’s Zone about AI speech acts in the workplace.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Or for Australians, ABC Radio National June 1 at 5.30 am, repeated June 3 at 1.30 pm and June 5 at five 12:05 am.

Political philosophers talk about a right to know. Which isn’t the same, but maybe same ballpark?

Quotas for pets

The structure of those ads always seems to be ‘I used to be terrible at my job, but thanks to AI, I can now do basic administrative tasks!’… but if one is already minimally competent, AI apparently offers nothing.