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The 3 types of reading (and the 2 you’ll pick) https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/the-3-types-of-reading-and-the-2-youll-pick/

The 3 types of reading (and the 2 you'll pick)
On average, most people who open this article will spend around 50 seconds on it. It ought to take at least five minutes

Cowboys' Jones finally admits 'My way of doing things doesn't work' https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/12/cowboys-jerry-jones-changes-philosophy/88640420007/

Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.
-- Sydney J. Harris

“Hegel’s Philosophy of Action”
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I found this recent Factually episode on resistance against metrics/gamification coming from a gaming philosophy background very enlightening.
https://pca.st/episode/d7c287fb-e363-40de-8bae-1a4a5367a75e

How to Beat the Gamification of Our Lives with C. Thi Nguyen
The scoring mechanics of video games are ostensibly how the player is directed to have fun. Scores put interesting bounds on the experience of play, lead to creative solutions, and even inspire…

The Ghost in the Silicon: Why Code Is Not Cognition.
#philosophy

Code is Not Thought
If a machine can mimic a thought, does it mean it is thinking? This dialogue strips away the hype of modern AI to reveal the "Code That Could Never Think." By examining the structural limitations of computation, we explore the difference between a system that follows rules and a system

University bans philosophy professor from teaching about Plato because it's too gay - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/university-bans-philosophy-professor-from-teaching-about-plato-because-its-too-gay/

The philosophy of indoctrination and how to fix it https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/the-philosophy-of-indoctrination-and-how-to-fix-it/

The philosophy of indoctrination and how to fix it
Indoctrination is not about intelligence or the belief itself. It's about seeing any alternative as an enemy or as a a test of faith.

Decentralization only matters if people use it otherwise it’s just expensive philosophy.
Come to see my talk at #ETHPrague 2026
https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4519/

The Summoning of Bertrand Russell: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/641

The Summoning of Bertrand Russell
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous #philosophy #Texas

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next

The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and poetry turned the river black with ink for days. Killing people was not enough. What those people had made, what they had thought and dreamed and rendered into form, that had to be annihilated too.

The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty | David Boles, Blogs
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics…

I have been away from Mastodon for a while, not finding the time to be active here.
In any case here goes the final version of a paper on content and meaning in LLMs, co-authored with @…. It lived a long preprint life, but is now published in an outstanding special issue of the journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
The Vector Groun…

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Arcan-A12: Weaving a different web.
https://divergent-desktop.org/blog/2020/08/10/principles-overview/
saved 2026-02-07

For some years now the UI design and interaction methods shown in sci-fi movies have become ever more abstract & complex, driven by minimalist aesthetics utilizing high-res graphics, a design philosophy based on total omniscient access, heavy information density and interactive realtime visualizations (and/or visual ways of browsing) to aid exploration & expose patterns/relationships, the use of layered/spatial layouts, capable of customization/personalization, programmability (of so…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Honey Ltd.:
🎵 Love (The Devil)
#HoneyLtd
https://chaingangof1974.bandcamp.com/track/philosophy-of-love

CFP: Greece and Germany — Literature, Philosophy, Culture, and the Arts
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@ExistentialComics. The artist's comments at the bottom of the page are pretty much on target.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/644

Intelligent Life of Earth
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

I'm not a fan of the "users won't understand error messages any way, so we can just not give any meaningful error messages" philosophy... Is there a way to tell @… that I want to see more meaningful error messages?

The philosophy of the IT folks at my organization is “move fast and break things”
Move fast: add “implemented xyz technology” to my CV as fast as possible
Break things: the organizations tech stack.

Call for Abstracts: Elvis and Philosophy
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Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: As you know so much about their philosophy, you would seem to be the ideal person to teleport down to talk to them.
VILA: Me? But I've just told you what they're like.
TARRANT: Get permission for us to land Scorpio.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/192

Schottenheimer's, Cowboys' approach to Week 18 made zero sense https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/04/cowboys-week-18-philosophy-dak-prescott-giants-schottenheimer/…

The Life Paradox: Why Your DNA Isn’t a Blueprint
https://www.ocrampal.com/what-is-life-2/
If life is just a series of genetic programs, why can’t we predict the behavior of an embryo as easily as the flow of a river?

The Life Paradox: Why Your DNA Isn’t a Blueprint
A debate between two scientists about whether traditional science can truly capture the concept of life.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Boogie Down Productions:
🎵 My Philosophy
#BoogieDownProductions
https://djredscrewedupdeejay.bandcamp.com/track/my-philosophy-slowed-chopped-dj-red-boogie-down-productions
https://open.spotify.com/track/2P8KBF5BtraQiGpxDXrCnF

Welcome to Open Source Gardens, where openness is sown and freedom is grown!
Open Source Gardens connects people via Open Source (philosophy, seeds, software & hardware) in a horticultural and creative way. Read about who we are and why we are doing this on this page.
🌱 https://opensourcegardens.info

DJT’s political / strategic / pastoral / historical / comedic / tragic philosophy:
#FAFO
(Mine: Neither a fool nor a blaggard be.)

Intelligent Life of Earth - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/644

Intelligent Life of Earth
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

UNIX philosophy: do one thing well
Linux philosophy: do 11 things mediocrely, never ask users what they need or want, and if anyone ever complains, respond with "pull requests accepted [smiley face]"

"This too shall pass"* ☸️
- Buddha on SAMSARA
*for €30
#pun #philosophy #marketing #packaging #Deutschland #Germany #household

@… is on a roll!
https://ghost.thenewoil.org/critical-thinking-101/

I am old enough to remember when federalism was a key principal of the conservative political philosophy. And yet it is always the left accused of shifting.
Trump says states are required to enforce federal immigration laws. He's wrong. https://reason.com/2…

🔧 Install via: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code then /plugin install ralph-wiggum@claude-code-plugins
💡 Philosophy: "Better to fail predictably than succeed unpredictably" - prompt engineering becomes the critical skill
https://paddo.dev/blog/ralph-wiggum-au

Postmodernism and Christianity
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may view it as a problem, but it can be a resource for Christian philosophy, Christian mysticism, Christian apologetics, and even for the understanding of the Bible.

Postmodernism and Christianity | David Boles, Blogs
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may vi…

"With his return to Westminster seemingly blocked, on Monday Andy Burnham will get back to the two roles to which he has devoted his time in recent years: being mayor of Greater Manchester and annoying Keir Starmer."
".. he has carved out a distinct if occasionally woolly left-leaning ethos, certainly more distinctive than his philosophy as an MP,.. “ a growth-based vision".
Rebuffed Burnham can return to honing his stature and attack lines | Andy Burnham | The…

The Master Key: One Secret to Solve Every Philosophical Mystery. Dissolving the Dualities: Why Concepts are the Foundation of Thought.
https://www.ocrampal.com/how-solving-the-concept-problem-unlocks-philosophys-greatest-mysteries/

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries
Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap between inner experience and outer reality? These questions have spawned countless theories, debates, and entire philosophical traditions, yet they remain as

Marx unfrozen in the Future
(Original title: Marx is Unfrozen in the Future)
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/643

Marx is Unfrozen in the Future
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

from my link log —
GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files.
https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
saved 2020-01-26 https://

GNU Recutils
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools are focused on it. One such package is GNU Recutils, a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.

@… belated thanks … I still don't understand the calculations, but I'm not precious about the UNIX philosophy.
I stumbled across my old toot whilst responding to a FreeBSD/Linux post, https://www.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
SERVALAN: [Stands up and returns to stand behind her desk, Rai follows her and stands in front of it] Travis is an advocate of total war. He carries out his orders with meticulous thoroughness. An enemy does not cease to be an enemy simply because it has surrendered.
RAI: That's the philosophy of an assassin, not a Federation…

Art and philisophy are close relatives.
Both are about abstractions.
While art can be subjective yet implicit, philosophy aims to be objective and explicit.

Divinity student Donghyung Lee '26 M.Div. is the organizer of this event coming up February 27: the second-annual Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference.
Get details and register here:
https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/YDSKorean/rsvp_boot?id=23157…

#StarTrek never was about the action but the morals and ethics. Which is why we’ll look into some philosophy for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will …

Well. I’ve been accepted to my first conference!
This will sound strange to many academics out there, but working in the fine arts I don’t generally pay much attention to academic conferences—but having had a research semester last fall I was able to do a deep dive into the educational philosophy of practice-based filmmaking education and apparently the conference organisers agree that it’s interesting! I got an email this morning that my abstract was accepted.
Now I just need in…

Second International Conference on Embodied Education 2026
Copenhagen 8 - 11 June 2026: The 2nd International Conference on Embodied Education is aimed at conveying a community of people interested in embodied education and the related topics, like enaction, emotion, extended mind, embedded cognition, sports, wellbeing, and the performative arts (such as music, dance and drama).

Tony Dokoupil's CBS News road trip, where each episode ends in a squishy pabulum, revealed the problems with CBS' Bari Weiss-era focus on viewers' feelings (James Poniewozik/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/arts/television/cbs-news…

Tony Dokoupil’s Road Trip on CBS News Hits a Rough Patch
A stretch of big news revealed growing pains for CBS’s new evening anchor and problems with its Bari Weiss-era philosophy.

As far as I understand (granted, I don't understand that much, but...) there is a legitimate and actively debated position in philosophy of mind and cognitive science regarding ant colonies.
That is, colony-level cognition may be real, not metaphorical. Ant colonies:
- integrate information over time
- exhibit memory (via pheromone landscapes)
- solve optimisation problems
- adapt flexibly to novel conditions
- show something like attention (resource …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Joeski Love:
🎵 Pee-Wee's Dance (vocal)
#JoeskiLove
https://acthepd.bandcamp.com/track/arkives-blends-my-philosophy-joeski-love-pee-wee-dance
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wHOUqelLDOXS0ccxUnX5Q

Unix philosophy.
Creating a mini video management tool with #fzf, #fd, #mpv and #ytdlp .
There a…

Jim Leonhard Could Be the Cowboys' Best 2026 Hire https://insidethestar.com/jim-leonhard-could-be-the-cowboys-best-2026-hire

Asimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.
His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.
#ai #anthropic

Brutal.
Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633

Aristotle on Democracy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

New #DITS blog post.
https://mickgeeklabs.org/blog/2026-02-15-feb-2026-dev-log-dits-graphql-and-data-portability/

Call for Abstracts: Elvis and Philosophy
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🔧 YAML frontmatter converts directly to CLI flags: model: opus becomes --model opus, mcp-config: ./mcp.json becomes --mcp-config ./mcp.json, dangerously-skip-permissions: true becomes --dangerously-skip-permissions
🔄 Full Unix philosophy support: Pipe data in and out with stdin/stdout, chain agents together like git diff | review.claude .md or plan.claude .md | implement.codex .md, transparent logging shows what runs

Why Computation Can’t Create—And Where It Hits the Logic Ceiling.
While logic can rearrange the pieces of an existing puzzle, it cannot explain the spark that creates the pieces themselves.
https://ocrampal.com/the-scope-of-geneosophy-where-concept-creation…

The Scope of Geneosophy: Where Concept-Creation Matters
Not every domain of inquiry requires genosophical investigation. Understanding when geneosophy applies—and when traditional approaches suffice—clarifies both its potential and its proper limits. The Traditional Domain: Working Within Given Concepts Science, mathematics, programming, AI, and most philosophy operate successfully within what we might call "conceptually closed" domains. These

#Techbro #oligarch endorses a Pol Pot-style #YearZero?
Fuck this bingo card. I'm over 2026 already.
#Palantir…

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy is #WOKE #WOKE #WOKE and its GREAT GREAT GREAT
I don't care what other people say
Just binged on all 3 of the first episodes and loved them! I had my doubts, but they were all photon torpedoed into loving the show.
Yeah, it’s about kids. But as they said, “It's a school”.
The show brings the core ideals and philosophy of Star Trek and makes them into excellent teachable moments.
Looking forward to the cast gelling as it always takes time for a new Star Trek to get its footing. But it’s pretty solid already. Love what Holly Hunter is doing with the chancellor/captain. Gina Yashere is totally amazing and can feel her joy in the roll in every scene she's in. And Tig Notaro is totally fabulously funny in a so dry sort of way. Also being partners with Gina's character is just perfect in being so unperfect.

Tony Casillas on 'Defenses Win Championships' Philosophy | The Route Tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRcNz6Q70fE

The God’s Eye Fallacy: Why Computation Fails Biology
#philosophy

The 500-Million-Year-Old Refutation of Artificial Intelligence
A brain structure has persisted for 500 million years across fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The basal ganglia should tell us something fundamental about intelligence itself. Yet when viewed through the computational lens, it makes no sense at all. The problem isn't the basal ganglia. The problem is that

Lunda Wells on being a head coach in the Shrine Bowl, growth opportunities https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/lunda-wells-on-being-a-head-coach-in-the-shrine-bowl-growth-opportunities

📝 #UMHB: tenure-track Assistant Professor position with specialties in Theology and Philosophy - National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion https://nabpr.org/umhb-theology/

Lunda Wells on being a head coach in the Shrine Bowl, growth opportunities https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/lunda-wells-on-being-a-head-coach-in-the-shrine-bowl-growth-opportunities

SYMPOSIUM> Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
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AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics
#philosophy

AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite
The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sidelined in favor of statistical pattern manipulation. To understand this, we can trace AI’s evolution through a

Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136310/fifty-year-anniversary-nanzan-institute-religion-and-culture

SYMPOSIUM> Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136308/fifty-year-anniversary-nanzan-institute-religion-and-culture

#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)
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#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)
DESCRIPTION While major Western philosophical movements in the 20th century looked upon claims to absolute knowledge with deep suspicion, the Kyoto School never abandoned philosophy's sacred vocation to know the absolute. Against the dominant disposition to look upon contradiction as an obstacle to absolute knowledge, the Kyoto School recognizes contradiction as the key to unlocking the secrets of absolute totality. The Summer School will engage with major thinkers of the Kyoto School on totali…

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
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USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
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USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137738/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138673/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138673/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
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Secondary Coach Ryan Smith's coaching philosophy 💭 | #DallasCowboys #RyanSmith #coaching #shorts…

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138673/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-…

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
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USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137738/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137738/usc-levan-book-chat-jessica-x-zu-just-awakening

#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)
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#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)
DESCRIPTION While major Western philosophical movements in the 20th century looked upon claims to absolute knowledge with deep suspicion, the Kyoto School never abandoned philosophy's sacred vocation to know the absolute. Against the dominant disposition to look upon contradiction as an obstacle to absolute knowledge, the Kyoto School recognizes contradiction as the key to unlocking the secrets of absolute totality. The Summer School will engage with major thinkers of the Kyoto School on totali…

TALK> Asst. Prof. Klairung Iso, "KARMA AND CAUSATION IN THERAVĀDA BUDDHISM: RETHINKING DETERMINISM AND EXTERNAL PHENOMENA”
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Philosophy 101 with Coach Parker 📓| #DallasCowboys #NFL #ChristianParker #football

TALK> Asst. Prof. Klairung Iso, "KARMA AND CAUSATION IN THERAVĀDA BUDDHISM: RETHINKING DETERMINISM AND EXTERNAL PHENOMENA” https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135810/asst-prof-klairung-iso-karma-and-causatio…

#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026) #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL

#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)
DESCRIPTION While major Western philosophical movements in the 20th century looked upon claims to absolute knowledge with deep suspicion, the Kyoto School never abandoned philosophy's sacred vocation to know the absolute. Against the dominant disposition to look upon contradiction as an obstacle to absolute knowledge, the Kyoto School recognizes contradiction as the key to unlocking the secrets of absolute totality. The Summer School will engage with major thinkers of the Kyoto School on totali…