iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

we aren't the ones you're supposed to convince, of course :^

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in basically all contexts the job of a parent is to raise the child that kills them

if a grad student tries to say you're wrong and they're wrong the correct response is to smile serenely and gnomically hint at where the weapons are as they leave

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that's what i did (or tried to do) as a grad student and now that i'm a professor (*not* full, to be clear), it's my turn. that's what i signed up for!

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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if grad students aren't humbling full professors by figuring out why they're wrong what are they even good for?

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prestigurgitating

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

unbeknownst to Smith, Jones brought iced coffee to the interview

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

anyway if the first two chapters are indicative of the whole there's a really good philosophy of science book in the pipeline

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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

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

david chalmers, _constructing the world_:

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

day after day, unendingly, fury in waves. my highest hope: may it become cold and severe

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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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this joke is probably for me alone but i think it every time i am reminded of chuck tingle

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

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i would prefer not to die a woman for many decades yet. but if it happened tomorrow, worth it

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

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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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!

academic.oup.com

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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corpse @consume.red · 12/09/2026

"always has been" meme but the earth is the shape from the proofs and refutations cover art and the gun-holding astronaut is imre lakatos

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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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very tempting to respond, "I'd be delighted to do so. My fee is $5000" but I probably won't

poked around a bit and it's clear the groups are real but are being impersonated. probably not going to poke around far enough to figure out how they try to get money from me, but what i said in OP would be my guess

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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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anyway the email referenced 29,000 Very Real readers who "were deeply impressed by your atmospheric storytelling, rich texture, and the nuanced exploration of memory, space, and quiet psychological shifts woven throughout your work" which is an only mostly incompetent description of its contents

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or, if we're moots, i'll mail you one

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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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my pobam keynote was pitched as grappling with a midlife crisis ("what have i been doing all my academic life?") and like so many such crises mine involved grasping for an identity. that identity was relativist

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

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but starting your email to me with a meaningless sentence that leads into simpering praise that hits the buzzwords of my book without indicating any real engagement is not the way to my heart

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it prefaced an offer to "feature" my book (_structure and function_) at some nyc philosophy reading group. i figured it was pure spam, but the group in question does seem to actually exist—at the very least, they have an online footprint that seems genuine

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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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i don't know the ratio of "more people submitting slop" to "the same number of people generating their slop faster" involved in this

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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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i have, of course, noticed an uptick in how many either incorporate AI into the Theory itself or explicitly acknowledge its role in developing or checking the Theory

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