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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 52m

never let doing what you love (academic philosophy) interfere with your day job (phone)

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 1h

"Oh to have the confidence of a white male postdoc" is, I'm sorry, a very funny thing for a full professor to say

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 3h

I love all genres of music (math rock, Midwest emo, garage rock, hell even indie folk)

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 3h

Said something like "business ethicists aren't real philosophers, but they shouldn't care because they make more money than 10 of us combined" in a group chat today, and a business ethics guy got really mad. I wanted to be like, buddy, I'm a philosopher of AI. Game recognize game

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 6h

Finally got to a point in a project today where things all snapped into place, and I think the project is really good now. S-tier feeling

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 9h

One of the things that makes being an AI skeptic hard is that a lot of my fellow AI skeptics on here seem to be very dumb

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Jon Hegglund @jonhegglund.bsky.social · 10h

the aufhebung here is attending every single meeting, volunteering for every committee, going to every town hall and awkward mixer and being absolutely, unapproachably, antisocially insufferable at each one (insert joke about, yeah, that's just called being an academic)

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry, "SI" is already taken as an acronym. It stands for "Special Issue," and it is the main way that Synthese publishes 20,000 mid papers a year

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 19h

I've decided my new thing is gonna be not being alienated from my environment and my peers. I'm gonna be assimilation-pilled. I'm in my at-peace-with-my-station era. Etc and so on

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 23h

Happy to announce that, after failing to get into basketball last year, I will instead be trying (and probably failing) to get into hockey this year

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just spent 15 minutes walking through a complex objection to Locke's theory of personal identity (involving a lucid dream that precisely resembles a murder you are, unconsciously, committing) with a freshman student. Bracing to see pure, uncut analytic philosophy talent in the wild

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok apparently, in order to go viral on here, I need to post less about philosophy and more about the 1994 Action Movie Classic, "Speed." Got it

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 29/09/2026

Movie pitch: gotta publish two papers a year or this bus will explode

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since I became a professor, the only movies I can sit through are dumb, loud action movies. Everything else I can't get through. Depressed ruminations about the human condition? Buddy, that's my day job! Now, Sandra Bullock keeping a bus going above 50mph so it doesn't explode? I'm interested..

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the most capital-R Romantic things I believe is that the notion of authenticity is both very real and very ethically important

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

T-1000 Don Draper gesturing at poster of city on fire: "Everyone else's cities are smouldering wastelands; Anthropic's are toasted"

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the first time I've ever retaught a low level course with slides I've already prepped. Just got done with prep until... October 15. Could get used to this!

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Elmo @tim-elmo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we can replace academic journals with diy-labels that make cool zines at home and have names like Assertoric Force

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can do it. We can replace academic journals with a vast network of pen pals.

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never thought the Stolen Data Machine would steal *my* data

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The future system will probably suck more, but I really do think the already-happening AI deluge is gonna destabilize the journal rankings in philosophy

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Postdoc appreciation week is over, so please, STOP appreciating postdocs. They will get some more appreciation next year

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You vote to hire colleagues on the basis of fancy degrees and publications. I vote to hire colleagues on the basis of how chill the seem and how likely I think they are to get a drink after work on a Wednesday. We Are Not The Same

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One day soon, the hard reset is gonna come. I'll be in the comments, and I'll say "you know, I never liked video games." I'll start dragging gamers on main. People will be like, "aren't you the guy who said gamers are the most oppressed minority?" and I'll be like "hahaha nah I hate framerates"

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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I scanned the PDF and got the moves being made.

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim To Have Never Read A Paper By Brett Karlan

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Those ads for fresh organic dog food are so funny. They're like, "you should give your dog only the best." Girl I've seen my dog eat rabbit shit, consider it for a moment, then make a face like a satisfied NYT food critic. She doesn't need organic root vegetables

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*very clearly not having thought through the end of the joke* Woke 2? More like 2 Woke 2... *45 seconds of silence* ... Woke

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

philosophers:

Garth Marengi saying "I'm one of the few people who've written more books than they've read"

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do think one thing people who don't regularly do philosophy research don't really understand is how little reading is actually required to do it

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you believe the computational theory of mind, the artificial minds debate is like 'what if a *computer* could be.............. a computer'

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am kinda fascinating by the relatively small (but nonzero) percentage of academics who succeed mostly by, like, productivity kayfabe. They always seem busy, always tell you how busy they are, and have hands in everything, but do not seem to actually do (or be able to do?) the work

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Awake at 4 am. Have decided my new bit is gonna be "well howdy, I'm just a small-town country professor of philosophy, I don't know nothin about no Phil Review, but let me tell you, where I'm from, my grandpapy taught me that the ground's grounding the ground grounds the ground" etc and so on

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 26/09/2026

4(Un)E(mployment)

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm sorry, but if you mention dynamical systems theory - or any damn 4E at all - in a job interview, you're disqualified. It's not hard, people

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh hell yeah we're throwing it back to old school philosophy twitter tonight (I'm drunk and posting about how I love all of you)

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*bringing an iced coffee to an interview where I fucked everything up massively* The iced coffee is why I did not get the job

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Idk what it says about me that, in basically every area I've worked on, I've always been drawn to positions that are kinda boring and conservative (RTM in cog sci, skepticism in phil AI, lesion studies and localization in neuro)

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's the last working day of postdoc appreciation week and we've spent the week yelling at Will Stancil instead of doing what we should be doing (making fun of postdocs) Must Do Better

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For those keeping score, I am not dying and was described by the radiology specialist in her report as "unremarkable"

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ted Lasso is my favorite fantasy series about a magical world where professional athletes are fundamentally good people who spend most of their time discussing their feelings and being friends with each other

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hear me out

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone clearly knowing the specific conditions of what makes something defamation per se, posting an article that dares another party to sue them for defamation, then takes it down because of "legal advice" is both (a) objectively hilarious, and (b) insanely bluesky coded

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One thing I love about my university is that, in order to save some miniscule amount of money on staffing, they have just decided everything is going to be dirty now

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Oh noooooo our scawy model did another crime :((((( But we need one quintillion dollars to make sure it doesn't happen again :(" versus:

static.klipy.com

Desenchufar Ana

Alt: Unplugging the damn computer

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Both "AI systems are incredibly impressive and increasingly useful" and "AI systems are massively overhyped and being deployed in deeply unethical ways" ring true to me. But there's a fundamental asymmetry: if the latter is true, the former doesn't really matter

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fact that you're just supposed to sit around and wait for days for medical news is a really fucked up part of life actually

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One new antisocial thing I have in class this semester: 2 students, in a class of 44, who just will not stop talking to each other the entire class

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

figured you guys would want to see this

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