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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 29/09/2026

you ever read something and just get overwhelmed by the sense "oh this person is just better than me at our shared endeavor"?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If anyone asks me to perceive things I simply link @rosenovick.com's poem to them and smile serenely

(It appears crooked, that half-submerged)
It appears crooked, that half-submerged
stick, but it is not.
How much mischief hides in that appears;
how much more in that
is not. A whole world of confusion –
no, two: the real one
and the apparent alike dwell there,
by their requited
antipathy sustained. Stick, you are
a trickster, wearing
now this face, now that, shrugging off each
as the medium
demands. Now, you resemble a stick,
straight (enough), hung half
in water, half air, tossing off light
in patterns wholly
sensible, under such conditions.
(Do I ask too much
of you, stick? You’re only a stick. Still:
no thoughts but in things.
Maybe better: no things but in thoughts.
It comes to the same.)
My eye, unused to light in water,
denies the water
though it sees it, certain: only air.
Worlds the fruit of this
first disobedience, worlds that split
you, stick, in two: real
and less than real, body and shadow.
Do I ask too much
of you? But I ask only that you
appear as you are,
and this you’d do without my asking.
What is more (I trust,
stick, I am not boring you with all
this babbling), I
have heard a most curious report.
I have heard: no stick.
I have heard: no air, no water, no
light, no things, no thoughts.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It isn't strictly valid to say that an AI "thinks", but this is a useful intuition for the implications of the fact that AI services are each powered by a Spirit Gem.

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 26/09/2026

We had the pleasure to read your work titled "Research‍" and were truly impressed by the depth of your research.

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 24/09/2026

don't mean to brag but i just solved the uw philosophy office's Good Stapler

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 24/09/2026

david chalmers, _constructing the world_:

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 23/09/2026

hard to Post Good when most of what i am capable of feeling is incandescent rage

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 16/09/2026

Chuck Tingle? of Nelson Goodman's Immersion-Tingle Theory?

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 16/09/2026

ultimately, whether we "win" or not, it's worth it to die a woman. as a friend once said, "you have to be whole"

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Jun Otsuka @junotk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just got a physical copy of Pim Edelaar's new book, the Selective Organism: and Expanded Theory of Adaptive Evolution. This is a truly wonderful book, applying causal methods to real eco-evo problems. And better yet, it is freely available: academic.oup.com/book/63165 Congrats, Pim!

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The Selective Organism: An Expanded Theory of Adaptive Evolution

Abstract. Adaptive evolution is often described as natural selection acting on the genetic variation that affects ecological performance. This description

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 13/09/2026

philosopher who drives a purple lexus

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 12/09/2026

we cannot beat fascism — a degenerate state of perverted and diminished humanity — by becoming less-human ourselves

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 09/09/2026

i am curious what the endgame of this sort of scam is, i guess the most obvious would be asking me to pay them for featuring me

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 09/09/2026

lmao, just got another one offering to feature Yellow Dusk (poetry) for "The Catch Up Book Club on Goodreads ("EVERYONE Has Read This but Me")" and I am pleased and delighted to know that everyone has read my obscure little poetry volume

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 09/09/2026

canonically, trying to convince philosophers of science to be more relativist

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 08/09/2026

received an email that begins, "Few questions in the philosophy of biology are as fundamental as how we explain the living world", which is, I suppose, true

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 08/09/2026

on the other hand, i do serve on the philsci archive editorial board, which is not a role where i see many submissions, but the folks who do see them indeed report a great many more slop submissions

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 08/09/2026

i have not noticed an uptick in how many I Have A Theory emails i receive in the past two years

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Rolanda 露露 @cornsilk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

sorry but many of you will never be Senior Research Fellows at the Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How to Do Things with Words How 2 Deux Things with Words Ho3 to Do Things with 3ords

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 22/08/2026

i think people who disagree with rawls should present a compelling alternative B Theory Of Justice

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Doro|河文 @faeydoro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Not only was the Tang dynasty real, Wu Zeitian also is Hello Kitty and influenced by her, women of the later Tang wore their hair in the shape of Cat ears

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 16/08/2026

i do think philosophers of science today should be made to read feyerabend and acknowledge every then-controversial point he made that is standard fare today

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

maybe Newton would succeed in the modern-day university after all

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 15/08/2026

"philosophy" is short for "philosophy of sophie"

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 14/08/2026

anyway, when a "woman" says "by the time I was six I was sure that I was born a man" that isn't "readily acknowledg[ing] her sexual ambivalence". it is a man expressing the exact opposite of ambivalence

Once out of the South and enjoying considerable fame as the young author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers readily acknowledged her sexual ambivalence. To poet Louis Untermeyer she said in 1940, "By the time I was six I was sure that I was born a man." McCullers often fell in love with women, but such infatuations seldom led to physical relationships.

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 14/08/2026

"robert musil was a woman", "fernando pessoa was a woman", "carson mccullers was a man", etc.

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 13/08/2026

what's the big deal, all my philosophy papers are coauthored with Clod

Sir Mottled said:
When Big Clod belches breath,
Its name is wind. If only it didn’t rise!
Rising, and the ten thousand apertures rage—
Have you alone never heard their roaring?
Mountain forests’ crags and scarps,
huge trees, hundreds of spans round,
their apertures and hollows
like noses, like mouths, like ears;
like sockets, like bowls, like mortars;
like sinks, like sloughs—
spouters, whizzers,
bawlers, suckers,
shouters, howlers,
wailers, screamers—
the leaders chanting gwraaa,
the followers chanting qrommm—
a cool breeze makes a small harmony;
stormwinds make a big harmony;
the rasping winds cease,
and the manifold apertures empty—
Have you alone never seen this sinuous swaying,
this flittery flutter?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I do actually remember someone on The Other Site confidently claiming that "Japan has no noteworthy literary tradition", and I think "China has no poetry" might actually compete with that for most Take of all Takes that I have seen.

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 13/08/2026

today i'm feeling nostalgic for the enlightenment-era academy, which famously housed no cranks, liars, or social climbers

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 11/08/2026

me when philosophers of science say "actual scientific practice" instead of just "scientific practice"

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 11/08/2026

against the wishes of 天 it does seem that i will make it to PoBaM on time instead of being stranded in chicago

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 10/08/2026

took three and a half years from when i first joined but bsky has finally added reposts

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 09/08/2026

the inverted wittgenstein

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 09/08/2026

(guy who understands that making a clever deal with trump is not actually clever but is instead selling your soul for the privilege of being ruthlessly publicly humiliated voice) i can make a deal with Untruth

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 09/08/2026

we need a version of this comic for philosophers reading daily nous comments sections

Three-panel crudely drawn comic in MS Paint style on a white background, black hand-drawn panel borders, the figures outlined in orange and green. Panel one: a thin orange stick figure faces a thin green one; the orange says "I've been on gel that makes you orange for three years but I still greyscalemode in public" and then "My spectral decomposition is too close to homogeneous everyone can see it," to which the green replies "huh?" Panel two zooms in on the orange figure, now a slumped angular blob with a stubby arm, saying "I have accepted my fate as an orangecel desaturatoid," "luckchromatic primaroids such as yourself could never understand," and "I simply will never be orange"; the green figure, offscreen at right, manages "what-". Panel three shows only the green figure's head and shoulder at the right edge: "I think whatever website you're getting this jargon from is hurting you.".

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em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Nice gender did your chromosomes pick it for you?

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 08/08/2026

this is difficult and terrifying to say, but I think it's important to speak my truth and not live in fear: I am the world's most famous living sociologist

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

man, it’s crazy that someone who was probably lying about obviously implausible claims and faked data was able to succeed in the social sciences, really shows how unrigorous the field is, you’d never see something like that in physics or biology

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 06/08/2026

i have made an interlinear zhuangzi translation compilation that goes sentence by sentence through the zhuangzi and, for each sentence, gives up to ten translations of it. if you'd like to look at it, let me know!

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James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Over 25 years of teaching and until I found this tool I never once got all the right days and dates of classes onto my syllabus. This has saved me so many tears: wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

wcaleb.rice.edu

Generic Syllabus Maker

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 06/08/2026

it seems like a straightforward description of the right-wing intellectual playbook since at least the 1960s. the longer they can keep a manufactured pseudo-debate open, the longer they win. e.g., wurman doesn't need to or want to convince anyone regarding birthright citizenship, that isn't the game

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ladyman & Ross:

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