@cheryanne@aus.socialCounting Stars Yoga
Join me as we explore yoga philosophy, the eight limbs of yoga, the wisdom of Ayurveda, and the many styles of yoga practice that guide us back home to ourselves...
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@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialJohn Hare, Emeritus Noah Porter Professor of Philosophy, gave lectures in Nairobi in July at St. Paul's University, Africa International University, and the University of Nairobi. Two of his lectures explored philosophical themes on the subject of AI and theological education, building on the consultation on AI and theological education hosted by St. Paul's University in Nairobi - with the support of the Yale MacMillan Center's Project on Religion and Society in Africa.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot"This marked a pivotal moment in Western thought, moving the focus away from divine punishment and toward human responsibility and urban planning."
@… https://m…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSince it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy
@cheryanne@aus.socialUncomfortably Curious
Exploring psychology, science, health, philosophy, history, and the questions underneath modern life — through conversations with researchers, thinkers, and practitioners who've gone deep on something...
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@NFL@darktundra.xyzPatriots' Kevin Byard: WR like A.J. Brown 'shifts your philosophy on how you want to play defense' https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-kevin-byard-aj-brown-shifts-philosophy-defense
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf I had to summarise capitalism in one word it would be “enclosure”.
That’s literally everything these bastards are about. Taking something that belongs to us all, building a fence around it, and calling it “mine.” (And if you don’t like it, “say hello to my little friend…”)
That’s literally the whole of their bullshit philosophy.
@publicvoit@graz.socialHow #religions are involved with killing people over different interpretations:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/668
😉
(Oh, and it involves lightsabers.)
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaAs Autumn bears down on us from behind the heat, I think it's time to revisit some cabin-in-the-woods content. No, silly, not the Unabomber Manifesto. Thoreau *AND* the Unabomber Manifesto! You can hardly do better than Ken Kifer's annotated Walden. https://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.k
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@Kingu@sakurajima.moe @cheryanne@aus.socialProfitable Designer
Discusses the philosophy, principles and strategies that unlock a profitable design business that runs itself...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/profitable-designer/
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election were brazenly antidemocratic.
Yet Trump and his supporters nonetheless justified their actions under the dubious pretense of preserving American democracy
– as a matter of getting the vote right, of reversing voter fraud.
There’s a good reason they took this approach.
Authoritarianism has long been rejected across the political spectrum.
Democrats and Republicans routinely lob insults like “di…
@carturo222@ohai.socialThis is your infrequent reminder that from time to time I share science news on Flipboard:
https://flipboard.com/@carturo222/loredom-v294r1k3y
@lpryszcz@genomic.social
@raiders@darktundra.xyzThe Strategic Philosophy Driving the Raiders' 2026 Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-strategic-philosophy-driving-2026-offseason
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more (Mark Zuckerberg/Meta)
https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io5,000 years of philosophy and douchewaffle techbro edge lords really think they’re super smart and original when they ask “but how do you know humans have intelligence?”
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe letter is fake. @bennjordan.bsky.social has apologized for posting it. @… https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidniss/116897523388822104…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
@adjb@social.lolBook Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI @jcrt.org #acrel https://jcrt.org/religioustheory/posts/9781350602502/
@mela@zusammenkunft.netMela is listening to a podcast: The History of Bad Ideas: Utilitarianism – Past Present Future – David Runciman - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1682047968
@sofia@chaos.socialit bothers me that in #philosophy, a "sceptic" is someone who just assumes that some underbaked hypothesis (like "brains in a vat") explains our experience just as well as reality does.
unlike, you know, an actual sceptical person who tries to find ways of distinguishing what's real from what isn't.
@outer@mas.toI know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
--Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001
#Freedom #Zoo #Philosophy
@raiders@darktundra.xyzThe Strategic Philosophy Driving the Raiders' 2026 Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-strategic-philosophy-driving-2026-offseason
@_tillwe_@mastodon.socialOne result of #metropolcon for me was learning about this science fiction meets philosophy journal: https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/home/
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThe Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern | Open Culture
https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/encyclopedia-of-women-philosophers.html
@samueljohn@mastodon.worldI did cancel our #drop1password team plan for 11 seats that we are using in my company @….
Sorry, but supporting racists is incompatible with our company philosophy. #1password
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe @cdarwin@c.imClimbing culture has a storytelling idiom I call “Close Calls.”
They’re an inversion of just-so stories;
instead of tales of creation like “How the Zebra Got Its Stripes” or “How the Giraffe’s Neck Got So Long,”
Close Calls focus on tales of destruction like
“How Rebecca Lost Her Leg” or
“How Johnny Lost His Partner.”
Years ago at the base of the Incredible Hulk, a gorgeous granite outcrop in the Sierras,
Owen and I were preparing to climb the class…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(Un)Common senses: Human cyborgs and sensory substitution https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/senses/96CD7FCCD5A9AABEFCB3937BB1DE4FD7?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv4_a1dennhawg2fhs#sec20 by Ann-Sophie Barwich…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (Cal Newport/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opinion
@mela@zusammenkunft.netMela is listening to a podcast: The History of Bad Ideas: Utilitarianism – Past Present Future – David Runciman - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1682047968
@eyebee@mstdn.socialGiving my ears a clean out, with some PsyTrance this morning. Philosophy, an album I found on Qobuz. Well, Room found it for me, actually.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzThe hidden strategy behind Klint Kubiak’s first Raiders season https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/14/the-hidden-strategy-behind-klint-kubiaks-first-raiders-season/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of incoming WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah, who studied philosophy in Mumbai, advised Sequoia India, and joins a growing pool of Indian-born tech executives (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/442bdba8-6f7e-4ddf-a99b-a8ba102d247f
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUniversity of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major (Justin Weinberg/Daily Nous)
https://dailynous.com/2026/07/23/university-of-wyoming-to-drop-philosophy-major/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p123#a260723p123
@enriquericos@mastoart.socialOctavia Butler's Bloodchild just unlocked a childhood memory: this guy I read on an interview, got a botfly infection and, instead of getting the larva out with extreme prejudice, he let it grow out. Also said the bug was made of him
It made me question things. My parent's philosophy was: bug=bad=kill it, which I Never accepted, but this guy was on another level
Also, I never saw our own materiality the same way again
I owe a lot to that (maybe not) crazy bastard
#books
@cdarwin@c.imBelgium’s Ghent University has suspended Nathan Cofnas,
the controversial scholar whose blog accusing Jason Arday of plagiarism led to widespread public scrutiny of the late University of Cambridge professor’s academic record and personal achievements.
Ghent said in a statement that it has launched “a preliminary disciplinary investigation” into Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher in its Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Rumors: Why going after Terrion Arnold would be uncharacteristic https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/09/raiders-rumors-why-going-after-terrion-arnold-would-be-uncharacteristic/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a leaked four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute access, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more (Fred Gao/Inside China)
https://www.fredgao.com/p/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-breaks-his
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Max Richter:
🎵 The Consolations of Philosophy
#MaxRichter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gllTV2Gyhpn7OwunTAaQH
@cheryanne@aus.socialEvolving Traditions Podcast
Across this series, we explore traditions spanning yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, religion, philosophy, culture, film, theatre, music—and even comedy...
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@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSmalltalk wasn’t just a language; it was a philosophy of the human-computer relationship. At its heart was the idea the computers should be user-malleable: reshapable by each person to be the machine they wanted it to be.
SmallTalk’s impact is hard to overestimate. Most famously, along with CLU and Simula, it gave us objects and OOP — not just in the narrow mid-80s “everything is an object!” sense, but in the broader sense of interface-implementation separation that groups related state and behavior into a tidy abstraction. Its fingerprints are alllll oooover modern programming. But that’s not all.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioReasoning requires logic (which is the study of correct reasoning) and logic is a philosophical discipline. It requires understanding and a theory of mind.
You can’t statistics yourself into logic; despite some mathematicians claiming you can—it’s a categorical error to think this (indeed, a reasoning logic error).
Both from a perspective of mathematics (“it’s likely therefore it’s true” is not logically valid) and from a perspective of philosophy (which requires understanding what is actually talked about).
Therefore statistical algorithms such as LLMs can never reason.
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeAt 27 pages into Gil Duršn’s new book “The Nerd Reich” I came full stop at this sentence:
“As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”
Simply and elegantly stated. The various techno-optimistic philosophies running around Silicon Valley and the venture capital community are toxic and inhumane. We are desperately in need of a new tech manifesto that puts human wellbeing, acceptance, compassion and love as first principals. Why do we write code if not for this? The current direction of technology leadership has taken a wrong turn onto a dark and destructive path. This needs to change.
This is a great book so far. Highly recommend it.
#GilDuran #TheNerdReich #Tech
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117236445086373612
fwiw
Statistics is a field of mathematics concerned with the analysis of data.
Logic is a field of philosophy concerned with reasoning correctly.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“... Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”
You never guess when this was written (solution in reply)
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
VV Brown:
🎵 Philosophy
#VVBrown
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sgYY8ZUnCgzCsueQyqg1H
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Faith, Hope & Charity:
🎵 To Each His Own (That's My Philosophy)
#Faith #Hope #Charity
https://dannygofficial.bandcamp.com/track/faith-hope-and-charity-to-each-his-own-danny-goliger-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bHlinY9FlU19g4dA0IXvD
