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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

”If you’ve ever been personally victimized by the need to publish or perish, you can blame one man, and his name was Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen... Münchhausen was ... probably the single person most responsible for introducing a new criterion for academic advancement: the publication record."

asteriskmag.com

The Origin of the Research University—Asterisk

Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

But something is happening here And ya don't know what it is Do ya, Myth of Jones?

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed." Wittgenstein, quoted in 'The Duty of Genius'

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

the sovereign ensures that it will be a beautiful day in the neighborhood

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Kenny Pearce @kennypearce.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

'AntiXt' may look like a smartphone app or a new pharmaceutical product, but it is in fact a 17th century abbreviation for 'Antichrist'.

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is what it looks like when you're a lesser Dutch master from the 1630s and you've never actually seen a real dog in your life.

"The Queen of Sheba's Visit to Solomon" by Jan Davidsz. Remeeus (1602–1648)

Closeup of the absolutely terrifying dog that looks like it's head was taken from the costume discards from Planet of the Apes

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

ruining your life trying to teach students who submit work generated by AI does feel like ruining your life trying to police bank robbers with automatic weapons

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Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy @speporg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Husserliana would be a beautiful name for a baby girl...

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"You understand what I mean to convey..." 😈 —Husserl, Analyses Concerning Active and Passive Synthesis

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

T.S. Eliot on logical positivism

Photo of partial book page with text reading: “Certainly, logical positivism is not a very nourishing diet for more than the small minority which has been conditioned to it. When the time of its exhaustion arrives, it will probably appear, in retrospect, to have been for our age the counterpart of surrealism: for as surrealism seemed to provide a method of producing works of art without imagination so logical positivism seems to provide a method of philosophizing without insight and wis-dom. The attraction which it thus offers to the immature mind may have unfortunate results for some of those who pursue their undergraduate studies under its influence.
Yet I believe that in the longer view, logical positivism will have proved of service by explorations of thought which we shall, in future, be unable to ignore; and even if some of its avenues turn out to be blind alleys, it is, after all, worth while exploring a blind alley, if only to discover that it *is* blind.” […]

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Sofia Jeppsson @jeppsson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Picture: Two fish seen from the side. One is bigger than the other.
Text: Your brain thinks these two fish are different sizes. However, this is true, because they are different sizes. This is due to an effect called "seeing", where you look at the fish and "observe" their difference in size.
Science! Fun and Learn!

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

(Kant, MM 6:437) If I made myself a worm, would you step on me?

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 18/11/2024

You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Academia is like jazz. It's all about the papers you don't publish.

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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 03/02/2025

don't think of this as the american experiment failing, think of it as confirmation of the american null hypothesis

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I demand that Chuck Schumer be digitized and uploaded so he can take back control of government systems from inside the computer realm

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Depressed about fascism coming to America? This one pot cassoulet will make you feel like you’re living in Vichy France.

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Inventing a GAI (generative AI) to get mad at

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This list of methods for organizational sabotage from the CIA "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" are just a normal faculty meeting

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Nurbsy @nurbsy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Man is born free and everywhere he is on the computer

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

We already have programs that can spend months not writing a dissertation

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“It can accomplish PhD level tasks” Oh is it going to post online about how hard academia is

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Men will spend all their free time drawing chihuahuas having bubble baths instead of going to therapy

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It's life's primordial tension! Gah! Don't you even know life's primordial tension when you see it?!

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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Who would win: This Machine Kills Fascists or This Machine Is A Statistical Model Of Likely Strings Of Words From The Training Corpus

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mikes barnes @mikesbarnes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I say rest for the job you want, not the job you have

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

If I'm being honest with myself I'm more of a Wambsgans than a Toranaga

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

'hey do you want to read a text that is a complicated statistical average of the entire internet?' what? no dude, i don't

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Oh well this is pretty simple that's illegal I'm sure they won't just make an exception for billionaires

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karter @karteraka.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

with every bite of bánh mì they grow stronger

warning poster about not feeding magpies

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New proof of the external world just dropped

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

You see in this part of the code we import the Thinking Substance and merge it with the network, you know, not merely like a sailor in a ship, but intermingled with it so that they form a unit. The nature of this unity can't be explained btw

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that-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"[W]hy should you tell the person who asks you where the other is hiding either the truth or a lie? Why not tell him some third thing, something that lies in the middle..." Fichte: tell the murderer at the door a secret third thing

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