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I know I often talk vaguely about my medical stuff, so I thought I’d provide a thread with a timeline of everything for context.
October 2008: Pitching during fall baseball, felt an awful twinge in my arm after throwing a curveball. Went to orthopedist, x-rays showed nothing…
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a Columbia prof who WHAT
The NYPD crackdown on Columbia U students was led by a member of the school’s faculty
Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia prof who leads an NYPD intel division that maintains an office in Tel Aviv
Weiner said student "rhetoric" necessitated the violent raid
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So long Gen Z. From now on I call you Gen H. Generation Hamas.
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why are they on an airplane seat that’s in a house
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hard to pick a favorite 30 Rock bit but naming the handheld microwave had me in stitches
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none of these words mean what he says they mean
My "Nerd Urban Dictionary" list of fancy words nerds use to prove how smart they are now has more than 200 entries!
I'll bet you're guilty of a few of them (I know I am)
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I don’t like bashing students but the level of like cheating and the complete inability to follow the simplest directions on an assignment in an undergrad course are really discouraging. who failed these kids
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absolutely hilarious that there was a guy named schlegel who was a rival of hegel, cartoon level shit
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The conception of philosophy as an intellectual competition unfailingly produces the most arrogant, aggressive, anti-social, unbearable practitioners. Please resist it.
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Doing philosophy is getting all dressed up to go to the cafe and get your nice little ~latte~, reading 9 pages of a book, and passing out
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I love when people cite a work based on when it was printed, like writing “Kant (1993)” or whatever for the Critique of Pure Reason. so innocent and earnest and completely insane
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I put in an INSANE amount of work this summer—to teach formal logic, on Zoom, twice a week from 6 to 9 PM mind you—only for a substantial percentage of students to copy and paste proofs from like chat-gpt that look like
this instead of this
I don’t like bashing students but the level of like cheating and the complete inability to follow the simplest directions on an assignment in an undergrad course are really discouraging. who failed these kids
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the problem with “academic writing” isn’t that there’s too much jargon. it’s just that most academics aren’t very good writers
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that’s right: I’m going to have the only copy of the first Critique signed by the New York Mets in the entire world
#LGM
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the medicalization of every aspect of life has become such an easy way to shirk responsibility. you don’t only have obligations to others when it’s comfortable and convenient!
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this is what happens at a party when two guys find out they’re both into Wittgenstein
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You’re telling me Ayumu Hirano gets a 91.75—second place—for THIS? 🧐🧐🧐
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i know it sounds really funny and like a joke, but i actually feel like the whole "touch grass" thing is kinda classist? being able to go anywhere now costs a lot of money, like, if i have to go anywhere its over £50 i have to spend, i actually cannot afford to go places
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Doing a PhD in philosophy is the back door to studying literally anything you want, just add “philosophy of” before it
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@NataliaHodgins
@JA_Davids
Guy paralyzed my arm and gave me lifelong chronic pain, while almost killing me during an op, and had the balls to say “good thing we had you sign those waivers, huh? 😂”!!!!!!
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analytic philosophers when they feel defensive about their narrow interests
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The plan? Leave my soul-crushing academic job for big tech, where I will find the fulfillment I was always searching for.
I recently spoke to a tenured professor who left academia for data science.
I asked her why she left.
She said, "I got tenure and felt nothing."
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what are non-computer jobs for people with philosophy PhDs and no technical skills whatsoever
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French philosopher coming up with a new word: “différance”
analytic philosopher coming up with a new word: hmm how about “tonk”
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a lot of continental philosophy sounds cool but isn’t true. but a lot analytic philosophy just isn’t true
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(closing up the sex toy shop for the day) okay the vibes are off in here
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Luigi Spaghetti
United States World War I Draft Registration Cards
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you know what’s unserious? thinking that *anyone* can read 600 pages with careful and substantive understanding in just a week
Increasingly feel that anyone not assigning full books is fundamentally unserious and lacks respect for their students. Too much reading? Shut the fuck up and have this 600 page novel read by next week. If that’s too much then the class isn’t for you.
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"You see, my plans for the summer are no plans."
— Hannah Arendt
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FWIW my whole conception of the EA world was irreparably colored by several guys in the Oxford scene telling me that they didn’t really care about ethics per se but found population ethics to be “an interesting formal problem”
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this is without a doubt one of the funniest developments in her fall from non-grace
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thankfully there were a few good, well-meaning students, some of whom I met with individually and who were thankfully benefitting from the effort I put in. but overall it sucks to do all of that for nothing but the felt entitlement to a passing grade
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that is actually wittgenstein fwiw
this insta account posted pics of robert de niro’s father and uh yeah i need a min
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The “critical” in “critical theory”actually comes from the gaming phrase “critical hit”, first introduced in the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game Dragon Quest
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using rules we didn’t have, everything double pasted for some reason, and completely formatted incorrectly—obviously pasted from some AI thing
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Guys only want one thing and it’a knowing how synthetic a priori judgments are possible
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@focusfronting
literally my thought too like they spend so much time thinking about being smart instead of being smart
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one thing you have to realize about philosophers is that they are trained to be able to explain away any of their deviant behavior. they are extremely good at seeming to justify their actions. this is sometimes indistinguishable from sophistry
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people make fun of US universities for grade inflation but Oxford and Cambridge give undergrads MAs just for still being alive five years after they graduate
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it took far too much time to even parse this. when I asked them to resubmit assignments that look like this there’s just radio silence
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for all of you assholes who think I’m not a good teacher, here’s what my students have to say about me
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One thing I appreciate more and more in retrospect about having majored in philosophy is the department's commitment to offering lots of difficult, un-fun classes on topics that very few people are interested in.
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as a rule of thumb, the more adamant someone is that they understand Hegel the more their actual views sound like this
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@VergenceS
things haven’t gotten worse since before the pandemic. at least then people were able to write complete sentences
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peak analytic philosophy is a one-page paper in like Mind called “On the Alleged Impossibility of Being Goated Without Sauce”, followed by “A Reply” claiming that the original author fails to recognize an important distinction in kinds of sauces
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If I were Bertrand Russell I simply would’ve asked Wittgenstein repeatedly what the point of the Tractatus was until he finally conceded out of sheer annoyance and said it outright
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they’re not sending their best
Maudlin’s comeback (“ornithology would be pretty useful to birds if they could understand it”) is so obvious and devastating on multiple levels that I now consider the Feynman quote the setup for that
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one thing you might learn at Pitt or Chicago is that there has actually only ever been one philosopher, namely Kant, who is also sometimes known as “Aristotle”
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@_pem_pem
“why don’t we take a break” it’s so clearly just a throwaway bit for the writers and I love that for them so much
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firmly believe that any academic who says “sportsball” is expressing levels of cope deeper than any related to impostor syndrome
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Philosophers can have a little epistemic humility, not as a treat but as a medicine
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| NOBODY |
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/ づ
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I have no time for people who celebrate and envy this attitude. it reeks of unbounded self-importance. “my life and abilities are simply too important to be wasted on trivia”
Derek Parfit’s daily routine was pretty insane by the looks of it:
(from
@DavidEdmonds100
’s new book)
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order of explanation understander has logged on
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don’t understand why people romanticize things like this. it’s not indicative of a deep intellect, just looks gross
Every-time I see this picture of Piaget's office I get so happy.
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tweet tweet tweet talk talk talk blah blah blah hot take think piece funny meme and then we all die anyways :)
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iirc Brandom tells this origin story of the department:
in the 60s Pitt wanted to become really good at something on the cheap. they chose philosophy over math because, while mathematicians needed pencils, paper, and a wastebasket, the philosophers only needed pencils and paper
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Crazy how Kant foresaw the importance of social media in forging and shaping our identities with that whole unity of app-perception thing
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can’t get over how clearly the mere possibility of the possibility of the possibility of danger is now normal grounds for killing someone in broad daylight. a kid just looking for his siblings shot on a doorstep. a man in crisis choked to death on a crowded subway. what the fuck
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regular reminder that hitting a baseball is a miracle
Paul Skenes, 101mph Fastball (home plate view).
Don't Blink. 😳
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If you're so passionate about Palestine, take your fucking tent and go give it to a family in Gaza.
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The moment you say “Hegel” on this website some weird shit happens
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there’s no value in being original as such. the craving for novelty is just another expression of a felt need for intellectual validation that often ends up in highly toxic behavior. you’re not any less smart because someone happened to have some ideas before you did. chill out
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don’t find the Titanic submersible situation funny. sounds like one of the most horrifying experiences imaginable, which nobody could ever possibly deserve
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Happy International 𝔐𝔢𝔫𝔰 Day to the man who decisively established the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 between 𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔰 and 𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔭𝔲𝔰
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