sera schwarz

also, tragically beautiful iris-murdoch-y bit

Alice Munro’s Passive Voice The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

rachel aviv's essay on alice & andrea munro is incredible and intensely devastating. even if you aren't independently interested in this particular revelation, you should probably read it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”

where does the new york times even find these people

very important update

perhaps… perhaps. i suppose we will never know

ah, but could not god create an AI so dumb that even he could not speak through it?

this is unironically @peligrietzer.bsky.social

2025 has been a disappointment

on this new year’s day, a friendly reminder of the ignorant fluidity of all things

*gasps in hölderlin*

the friends-apostrophe was a typo, but also almost works in the case of caroline schlegel-schelling

been reading a lot about jena romanticism recently and man. those kids were living hard. every bio is like “it’s tuesday, i hosted a salon and slept with my friends’ wife and wrote some world-historical literature and died at 28”

All Bryan Magee philosopher interviews (chronological) - YouTube

anyway here’s my friend bryan talking to charles taylor, iris murdoch, herbert marcuse, hilary putnam, martha nussbaum, peter singer…. merry xmas youtube.com/playlist?lis...

genuinely deep, wide-ranging conversations? that are ALSO clear and accessible?? with philosophers of personality and substance?? who actually have something to say???? not in this economy, let me tell you

every couple of years i rediscover bryan magee’s bbc philosophy series on youtube, and every time it feels like an unprecedented joy

basically agree, but i do think i could attribute intrinsic value to *some* kinds of knowledge (about the world, human nature, etc) without accepting the intrinsic value of bionic knowledge

sorry about that, i asked it to make sense of my life choices

the one who wants to save alcibiades

Norms have a real power over our lives. But how?

In this new blog post, I argue: it’s not because they impact what we believe about certain actions; it’s because they impact which actions even occur to us at all

xphi.net/2024/12/12/t...

'Effective Altruism is an expression of the instrumental-reason form itself, and the dead-end it represents for Geist has to be treated dialectically instead of just dismissed'

the man just did not miss

“you’re the most dutiful girl in the world” - kantian in love

would love to be added

i think the “AI art turing test” is deeply, deeply misguided as a test of AI creativity (lol, lmao even). but i do want to take this moment to brag that my hit rate for AI slop was 80%

sounds amazing! congrats :)

a very warm hello to all my fellow sufferers, companions in misery

would love an add! so great to be able to find people