Grumpy Philosopher
@SteveCooke@zirk.us
Elon Musk appears to be crashing Tesla faster than a dodgy self-driving AI or the faulty accelerator pedal on one of his cybertrucks. You’d have to have a a heart of stone not to laugh.
Grumpy Philosopher
@SteveCooke@zirk.us
Elon Musk appears to be crashing Tesla faster than a dodgy self-driving AI or the faulty accelerator pedal on one of his cybertrucks. You’d have to have a a heart of stone not to laugh.
gprimiero
@gprimiero@scholar.social
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Logic for the AI Spring 2
Summer School at Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, September 2-6, 2024
Jason Read
@JasonReadunemployednegativity@zirk.us
"It seems to me that the occupations are not some disruption of the university's normal function, but an attempt to fulfill what should be the mission of university: to think and live critically. At this moment in time, they are the university. "
http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/04/two-thesis-on-limits-of-philosophy-marx.html
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
Two cat-focused FB memories today. We lost our sweet old girl Sassy a bit over two years ago. Three years ago we were constantly together. One year ago, I was coming into Almost Home to visit the cats, and applying to become a volunteer
Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
Hey, American college students, it would be helpful for the U.S., the world, Palestinians, and Israelis, if you would turn your attention to defeating Donald Trump in November. Read about his fascist plans in this recent extended interview with him. https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/
Kent Pitman
@kentpitman@climatejustice.social
Heat of the moment:
Once, a cooling off followed.
Heat's now of whole lives.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #climate #GlobalWarming #heat #ClimateAcceleration
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
I lightly edited and republished a piece previously in my Medium in my Substack where anyone can read it. The highest good in Plato is impersonal, but does that mean to attain it, we leave our personalities behind?
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/plato-on-persons-and-the-highest
#Plato #Personality #Ascent #Philosophy
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
Well, how about that!
clint verdonschot
@clintunplugged@mastodon.online
I will be joining the protest march in Amsterdam called, among others, by my union @fnv, adding of course a flourish of #InternationalSolidarity with the oppressed people of #Palestine @palestine
Solidarity forever!
Lisa Bortolotti
@lisabortolotti@fediscience.org
What are the stereotypes affecting young people who hear voices? I wrote a post for the EPIC blog addressing this question: https://epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2024/05/stereotypes-about-young-people-who-hear.html @philosophy @philosophyofpsychiatry
clint verdonschot
@clintunplugged@mastodon.online
happy #InternationalWorkersDay! how will you be celebrating?
Domingos Faria
@domingosfaria@mastodon.social
Novo evento na #FLUP: Simpósio Da Tradição à Modernização: 50 anos Após a Revolução dos Cravos https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=174227 https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-05-01T07:00:02Z
Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
A good article on the immediately awful effects of Florida’s 6 week abortion ban. Once again some U.S. states are using their laws to subordinate and oppress, with the aid and comfort of the federal Supreme Court. Gift access: https://wapo.st/3Wmi7Eg
Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
“Most readers of this newsletter understand the seriousness of Trump's threats and are working tirelessly to prevent a second Trump term. But tens of millions of Americans seem oblivious or apathetic in the face of an imminent and dire threat.” https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-have-been-warned
Cédric Eyssette
@eyssette@scholar.social
Un nouvel outil libre et gratuit sur #LaForgeEdu pour pouvoir créer facilement un livre numérique à feuilleter en ligne à partir d'un document en Markdown (sur la forge ou sur CodiMD) :
https://eyssette.forge.apps.education.fr/flipbook/
#LaForgeEdu
#LaForge
#numérique
#Prof #MastoProf #TeamEduc #TeamProf
Mathijs van de Sande :antifa:
@MathijsvdSande@todon.nl
A great piece that William Morris wrote for Mayday in 1896. Granted, his choice of words is at times somewhat archaic and problematic - especially when he speaks fondly of colonized peoples (and their resistance against colonization/capitalism). But other than that, this is something that unfortunately has not lost even a little bit of relevance in the past 130 years:
"[N]ot all the discoveries of science, not all the tremendous organisation of the factory and the market will produce true wealth, so long as the end and aim of it all is the production of profit for the privileged classes.
Nothing better will happen than more waste and more, only perhaps exercised in different directions than now it is. Waste of material, waste of labour (for few indeed even of the genuine wage earners are engaged in the production of utilities). Waste, in one word, of LIFE."
Domingos Faria
@domingosfaria@mastodon.social
New at #SEP: Paul of Venice https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paul-venice/ https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-04-30T19:00:03Z
Philosophy Blogs
@philosophyblogs@botsin.space
Crooked Timber || Machines and tools
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
Near the end of the conclusion to part 3 of his Prolegomena, Kant sets down some conjectures about the "natural ends of reason's uses of transcendent concepts." Here's a new Sadler's Lectures podcast episode about that!
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/immanuel-kant-prolegomena-natural-ends-of-reasons-transcendent-concepts
#Podcast #Kant #Reason #Philosophy
Luciano Floridi
@lucianofloridi@mastodon.world
"A Justifiable Investment in AI for Healthcare: Aligning Ambition with Reality", new paper, freely available @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4795198
Domingos Faria
@domingosfaria@mastodon.social
Good Morning 🎧🎵 King Krule - Seaforth https://www.last.fm/music/King+Krule/_/Seaforth https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-05-01T06:00:03Z
Lisa Bortolotti
@lisabortolotti@fediscience.org
Due to the planned train strikes, we moved Emily Thomas's talk online. 8th May at 1pm UK time. If you want to attend the webinar, please contact me. Emily is going to talk about two of my favourite things, philosophy and travel! The lecture is supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy. @philosophy
Michal Měchura
@lexiconista@mastodon.ie
Don't let anyone talk you out of starting a PhD. It's only 3 years, and those 6 years will be the happiest 9 years of your life.
Hannah Kolbeck 🏳️⚧️
@hannah@social.alt-text.org
Hi friends,
The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, I have brain cancer.
I built a working, scalable, proof of concept library of shared alt text with fuzzy matching.
I'd like to connect with the #accessibility dev community. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.
Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org
Boosts appreciated
Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus
@Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
"Professional outside agitators."
NASA
@nasa@social.beachcom.org
Comet, Planet, Moon https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240429.html #APOD
lichess
@lichess@mastodon.online
Happy #LabourDay! Great things are possible without taking advantage of workers or users, we just have to work together 💪
Thank you to all our contributors and check out http://lichess.org/help/contribute if you want to get involved! Whatever you do, fight for your rights! ✊
Kieran Healy
@kjhealy@mastodon.social
This is a bad decision by Columbia’s administration. Maybe you’d like it if these teenagers had let’s say more considered political opinions. The problem is the people most excited for this sort of police action do have well worked-out views, and they’re authoritarians who hate universities.
VM (Vicky) Brasseur
@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com
This is a fun article.
——
This is How a Pen Changed the World
"When released in 1950, the Bic Cristal cost just $2. Since this vital instrument has continued to be so affordable, world literacy is at 90% today.”
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/this-is-how-a-pen-changed-the-world/
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social
"On a day of many important stories, the most important news came from Donald Trump's interview with Time Magazine. See Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look Like | TIME. In the interview, Trump confirmed that he will attempt to exercise dictatorial powers in a second term.
We have been warned.
We ignore Trump's threats at our peril and the peril of our democracy."
~ Robert B. Hubbell