apraxique ⏚
@apraxique@mas.to
Le mec, il fait 15%. Il dissout l'assemblée. En pratique si la gauche s'unit, il n'y aura que des triangulaires où il sera dernier. Parce qu'on le voit mal faire mieux que 15%, non? Ou alors il veut forcer une alliance avec LR qui risque aussi d'être balayé ?
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
Had a nice visit with Bitsy, Marla, Ghost, and Homer at Almost Home just now
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Plutarch's detour into discussion of frankness of speech in his How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend. This one looks at how flatterers imitate real frankness
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/plutarch-how-to-tell-a-flatterer-from-a-friend-flatterers-imitation-of-frankness-of-speech
#Podcast #Plutarch #Frankness #Imitation #Criticism #Friendship #Ethics #Philosophy
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
We had a great hike out at Lapham Peak this afternoon. Beautiful weather, with a cool breeze
Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
I’m pretty flipped out by the success of far right parties in European elections.
@frueheneuzeit
@stefan_hessbrueggen@fedihum.org
@pence okay something funny: https://simple-fax.de/fax-ki They don't even need an English website.
Prof Ronpschitt
@Ronpschitt@mastodon.cipherbliss.com
Ça fait froid dans le dos cette histoire d’élections ouargl, j’ai des frissons rien que d’imaginer ce qu’il peut se passer. Va pas falloir trembler face à la bête immonde
Mathieu Triclot
@mtriclot@aleph.land
Ce que j'ai entendu ce matin sur Inter me paraît un peu clarifier le jeu.
Le macroniste expose la stratégie de bipolarisation, Macron vs RN, qui suppose la destruction de la gauche. Avec en carte maîtresse, la promesse de faire élire les candidats de gauche compatibles (non LFI). On comprend à quoi servait la candidature Glucksmann.
Tom Theuns
@TomTheuns@akademienl.social
In this fragmented #EP2024 result there are lots of stories to tell.
One thing I'm missing in commentary this morning is the near-total absence of a left-wing vote in #Poland and #Hungary.
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@academicchatter @dutchacademics @politicalscience @histodons
@philosophy
Victor Gijsbers
@victorgijsbers@mastodon.gamedev.place
I feel a disconnect from 'fandom'. Like, I just don't get it.
I understand loving a particular book or movie. But I find it extremely hard to understand why, if one loves a particular book/movie, one would want more stories (even by other authors or in totally diferent media) set in 'the same universe', or why one would want to set one's own creative writing in that 'universe', and so on.
I'm re-reading and loving Le Guin's Earthsea series, but I'm not eager for an Earthsea game/movie etc.
apraxique ⏚
@apraxique@mas.to
Bon, je vais couper un peu ici. Parce que c'est anxiogène et que tout ça au fond ne dépend que du bon vouloir 50 personnes imbues d'elles même qui dirigent les appareils politiques de partis de gauche sur lesquelles je n'ai aucun pouvoir et d'une cinquantaine de circonscriptions tangentes où je ne vote pas.
Greg Restall
@consequently@hcommons.social
The Nordic Logic Summer School is now in full swing here in Reykjavík. I’ve given my first proof theory class, and Rineke Verbrugge is introducing modal logic and social cognition.
Kent Pitman
@kentpitman@climatejustice.social
Love asks not, just gives,
needs no symmetry to thrive,
yielding selflessly.
Some love unrequited aches.
Was it demand clothed as gift?
#tanka (5-7-5-7-7 #haiku #senryu) #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #love #philosophy #symmetry #asymmetry #balance #acceptance
Humans seem obsessed with symmetry in relationships. In an egalitarian world full of people differing widely in station and status, I wonder if that is healthy.
I watch so much TV and movies in which people are sad or chided for loving those who do not love them back. Why not declare love as a success in itself and leave it at that?
Often one can repair a relationship by promising to love fewer people. Is a world with less love really to be sought? Is there not another way to solve this problem?
I don't mean this as a complete essay on the matter, only to hint better at some of the thoughts behind the poem. I don't really understand why unrequited love veritably implies sadness and often even yields a withdrawal of love.
Love conditioned on love back seems so transactional, hardly a gift, more akin to a purchase, often ridden with pressure. Can that really be the best love has to offer?
(And, yes, I understand there are many kinds of love. It's too big a topic for one small writing. Approximation, summary, and arbitrariness are pretty much the price of admission to discussion of human nature.)
Nick Byrd
@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de
Excited to be at the University of #Milan for the International #Conference on Thinking (#ICT2024) with many of my favorite scholars (and near my great grandfather's hometown!).
You can check out the program at the links below.
HTML: https://easychair.org/smart-program/ICT2024/index.html
PDF: https://ict2024.com/schedule/
I'm posting about the #ICT2024 talks that I attend at https://bsky.app/profile/byrdnick.com/post/3kukl4qw32n2d
#cogSci #decisionScience #psychology #philosophy #philMind #xPhi #AI #ethics #logic #probability #religion #stats
Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
Useful reporting on the European elections. From the Washington Post (for gift access click the text link, not the picture): https://wapo.st/3Vk4DGG
Jason Read
@JasonReadunemployednegativity@zirk.us
I wrote about my media history
http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/06/zine-blog-podcast-media-history-of-self.html
Domingos Faria
@domingosfaria@mastodon.social
New at #OpenForDebate: Truth, fiction and LLMs https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate/truth-fiction-and-llms/ https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-06-10T09:05:03Z
Gaston Braillard ( ♮ )
@guLomeBraillard@mastodon.online
Pays de racistes de merde
Maria Schwartz
@fidelio@techhub.social
Hurra, unser Sammelband ist da! Digitale Lebenswelt, Transformation, Computerspiele, VR, Digitale Teilhabe und noch viel mehr...
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-68863-2
Ingo Schramm
@go_shrumm@scicomm.xyz
Am Tag danach ist die #Klimakatastrophe immer noch da. Der politische Spielraum, ihre Folgen einzugrenzen, scheint aber drastisch reduziert.
Jetzt ist nicht die Zeit für Wählerbeschimpfung. Jetzt ist die Zeit für Selbstkritik.
Die gesellschaftliche Linke - auch die Wissenschaft - glaubt noch immer, dass Vernunft sich von selbst durchsetzt. Das ist falsch. Sie braucht Engagement, kämpferische Beharrlichkeit, Solidarität, vielleicht sogar Propaganda.
Domingos Faria
@domingosfaria@mastodon.social
jonny
@jonny@social.coop
Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale.
Is this the way we want science to work?
MiniMia 🏴 🇵🇸
@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz
Andrew Nuckols
@anuckols@mastodon.social
@heidilifeldman Wondering if anyone has volunteered with Field Team 6. Their strategy sounds good: "To win in 2024, we will reach out to millions of unregistered likely Democrats using our one-of-a-kind database and every outreach method possible (email, text, postcard, phone, targeted ad, and in-person too), in key swing states and districts where new Democrats will make the most impact."
Lisa Bortolotti
@lisabortolotti@fediscience.org
If you are a secondary school student in the UK, please consider participating in this Write a Script competition on philosophy and art: https://sites.google.com/view/the-philosophy-garden/about-tpg/competitions Your script could become an animated video!
#philosophyforeveryone #thephilosophygarden @philosophy @aesthetics
John Carlos Baez
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
I quit Twitter and moved to Mastodon in October 2022 when Elon Musk took over. Many other academics also came to Mastodon, and I was very happy - see my pinned posts. But most of them later became inactive.
I stick around because I've decided that corporate-owned social media are dangerous - especially now, when authoritarians are spreading their reach. Turns out it's unrealistic to expect that most academics feel this way - yet. They may get the idea when it's too late.
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Etienne Jacob
@bleuje@mastodon.social
I vote for this as the climax of all recorded music. It’s my desert island track, though it should be listened to in the context of the entire wonderful work. I hope that posting about it won’t alter the experience I've cherished for years.
Tiago Peixoto
@tiago@social.skewed.de
A historic opportunity missed.
IMO due to the self-imposed, unnecessary, and completely misguided limitations of mastodon: lack of feed sorting, quotes, etc.
Bread and Circuses
@breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social
It’s not only Earth’s atmosphere that is warming very rapidly. Perhaps even more worrisome is the tremendous amount of change occurring in our seas.
More than 90% of the excess heat trapped in the Earth system due to human-caused global warming has been absorbed by the oceans, which currently store 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere and 20 times more than land plants and soil combined.
It’s not certain, however, how long this ratio can be sustained. As the ocean continues to heat up like the rest of the planet, its waters are projected to become *less* efficient at taking in carbon dioxide and may release it back into the atmosphere more rapidly.
Also, the more CO₂ the ocean absorbs, the more acidic its chemistry becomes. After years of working overtime to take in some of the excess carbon we’ve pumped into the atmosphere, ocean acidification has already increased 30% compared to pre-industrial levels, and could increase an additional 120% in the decades ahead. That, in turn, could lead to severe disruptions in the worldwide food chain, followed by famine and starvation such as we’ve never seen.
I wish I was exaggerating. But I’m not. We are in grave danger.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
