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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 15m

"When I first held Ivanhoe and Wang's Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy in my hands and leafed through it, I immediately regretted retiring from teaching a couple of months earlier" ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/read...

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Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy

When I first held Ivanhoe and Wang's Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy in my hands and leafed through it, I immediately regretted retiring from teaching …

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My fourth consecutive bedtime reading a book called Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and I think I'm just about ready to come out against child literacy. I'm going to become the reverse Dolly Parton and devote my fortune to taking books away from children.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

single issue voter, and the issue is... cheese

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Rav @rvbdrm.com · 24/09/2026

I love all of my fingers equally. Why do you ask such divisive questions?

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes feel like I don't really have imposter syndrome

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20/09/2026

Not geography but I will never get over sitting next to a guy in the dining hall freshman year at an elite university bragging about how he kept kosher as he chowed down on bacon. But you're eating bacon, I said. "Bacon isn't pork," he said. That was 41 years ago and I hear it like it was yesterday.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Instagram appears to be showing me headlines from 1642.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One mathematician closing in on proving X. Another mathematician closing in on proving Y. X and Y together entail Z, famous million dollar conjecture. Each mathematician slows down their work, racing to be the slower, to earn the million dollars and life of acclaim.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 30/08/2026

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I was a kid, I thought that the way it worked was obvious. Now I have to think about it. I blame society

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

zwee=two, ee=egg, -eg is an adjectival suffix

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 02/11/2023

[benoit blanc in true detective] now i know you think time is a flat circle, but if i may, you’re thinking of a clock

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Scissorbeans @spudgun67.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself by listing ten acts you made up: Prong Voles You Jackals! Sanitised Interiors The Cat Uncle Durian Cheesecake Explosion Horrendous Snare Two Toast Gnome Tchotchke ADHDigger Moths Do Astronomy

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undergraduates don't know who U2 is anymore

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edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No one actually has anything bad to say about the policies enacted by Caligula‘s horse-consul, so we have to assume that the old girl was a wise and just governor of men.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

W1731820189 - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/iC6rc4

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The colander is a sieve for winnowing, portrayed in the bottom left

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Norm MacDonald said that in the perfect joke, the punchline and the set up would be identical

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just to have something to do on my blog, I wrote out some advice that I find myself often giving to junior scholars and PhD standings re how to think about journals' prestige and reputation when deciding how to place one's publications. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/08/jour...

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Journal Prestige Advice for Graduate Students

I don't have time to blog much nowadays, but I want to keep this place active. One recurring use for the site is to outline to things th...

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

What are you doing with your one precious life?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Analytic philosophy is kiki while Continental Philosophy is bouba, however Basically Pleasant Bureaucrats are bouba while Sexy Murder Poets are kiki. This is my proof that the two are not the same distinction.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

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Michael N @belgrade18.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Something that went across my desk today: an inscribed copy of Helen Keller’s 1929 autobiography, Midstream. I had never seen her handwriting before this. #helenkeller @LibraryCongress #rarebooks #disabilitystudies

Dust jacket of Helen Keller’s book Midstream

Inscription by Helen Keller to “Edith” on the front flyleaf of her 1929 autobiigraphy Middtream

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think I was unnecessarily concerned.

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Newton . . . has become for me wholly other, one of the tiny handful of supreme geniuses who have shaped the categories of the human intellect, a man not finally reducible to the criteria by which we comprehend our fellow beings," Richard Westfall

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Mikhail Kats @mickeykats.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Only one horn visible due to tilted devil head

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is the one, The New Yorker!

NEW YORKER CAPTION CONTEST

IMAGE: two people in lab coats stand next to an enclosure with four monkeys in it—the monkeys are dressed as a barbershop quarter, singing. The enclosure window makes it look kind of like a painting.

MY CAPTION: “Welcome to The Lab. Never interact with the haunted monkey painting. They used to be a trio, and I used to have an assistant.”

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Council of Ephesus, the Great Schism, and the Counter-Reformation were all leading up to this

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/08/2026

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

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Every disease is a policy failure

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Gloucester cathedral, everyone

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Kids recreated the Roman testudo formation and it worked exactly like ancient historians described it

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Portrait of a girl, possibly Catherine of Aragon (or Juana, her sister) at age 11. Painted by Juan de Flandes, a Flemish artist in Spain, in 1496. Today is his day.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

hardest thing about immortality is sticking to it

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I wonder how much set theory there will be in the movie

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 28/07/2026

My favourite conclusion to a #philosophy paper, by Bill Lycan:

13.10. Conclusions
I can draw hardly any. My main thesis remains, that it is hard to see what could establish a claim as to what vision does or does not represent. Another thing that remains is the possibility that the question is a bad one. All this, I fear, is grist to the mill of the skeptics who deny that vision represents in the first place. I probably should not have written this chapter.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Fairly depressing essay getting widely shared in math circles, about doing math in a world where ai is better than you: kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-n... (tw: suicidal ideation)

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The Dark Night of Mathematics

What are we really doing?

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