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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 29m

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of industrial-organizational psychologists suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 3h

If you were planning to get something done by the end of September, then Professor Sir Fred Hoyle FRS has some bad news for you, sunshine.

Paperback cover to "October the First Is Too Late" by Fred Hoyle

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 14h

Love the part in Locke's ESSAY, Bk 2 where he says everyone always remembers their dreams. His argument is, "Dunno man, just seems weird that someone wouldn't remember their dreams." That's empiricism, babeeee!

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 21h

I'm discovering a law I didn't know about? It required all white people who were new parents in 2008 to name their daughters Lily or Lillian?

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 29/09/2026

(i think joe cruz's nyt piece, which acknowledges that "there will be challenges of scale", is perfectly fine. what's deeply annoying is the nyt printing 1000 of these pieces on teaching by Williams profs for every one piece on teaching by a CUNY prof)

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is getting serious. Who sells linen men's wear in post-Labour Day colours?

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Cole @coleboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Instead of engaging in inane discourse, enjoy this batman-inspired painting i made of my cat

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My gift to myself today will be not getting drawn into Batman discourse.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to say this right now. If Anthropic announces a breakthrough discovery in the foundations of Ursprungslogik, that was my google drive they took it from!!

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excellent paper alert! Marco Giovanelli's "Cassirer and the Arithmetization of Physics" really, REALLY (imho) advances our understanding of Cassirer's basic epistemological perspective. direct.mit.edu/posc/article...

direct.mit.edu

Cassirer and the Arithmetization of Physics

Abstract. Drawing an explicit parallel with Felix Klein’s account of the arithmetization of nineteenth-century mathematics, Ernst Cassirer maintains that nineteenth-century physics likewise underwent ...

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rare to hear STEM people admit that they work on the easy problems.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the best argument for the humanities I've seen in a long time.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It used to be that a young person could take 1-4 years to do something besides be as economically productive as possible -- and could do so without taking on crippling debt. School, music, sports, travel, whatever. Figure out what kind of adult they wanted to be. Giving that up was bad.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just read that Glenn Gould died at 50, and now I have to spend the rest of thew day having an existential crisis.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does my university community dare hope for this development to include a decent coffee shop?

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wish my university had an art history department. I wish I had art historians in the building I could ask my dumb questions to.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This wedding dj is playing a surprising number of jock jams.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One member of my household is scared of the rain, and so had a sleepless night. She is exhausted.

An Australian cattle dog, lying curled up on a grey couch. She is resting one paw and her head on human arm, the hand of which is resting on her hip.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was pretty busy yesterday, so I missed the OP. But I can't even imagine any possible reason why bringing an iced coffee to a job interview could be a red flag for an employer. Like, whatever that perspective is, it is presently inaccessible to me.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can promise that, when this book exists, it will be full of very cool papers.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office." If your experience with MS office is anything like mine, you read this as a deeply menacing threat.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What galaxy-brained genius decided an important part of the university experience was playing sports that give you concussions? "Pay us money to study here and also, too, to smash yourself in the head so you can't study at all."

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I look forward to days of Will Stancil arguing with historical linguists that Elizabethan English is, actually, old English.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've been scheming for years about curriculum changes that would make it possible for me to teach Kuhn on the regular. But my schemes are now stalled in limbo.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Garber is very right about this. It might be worth reflecting on the fact that, the more closely Kuhn engaged with analytic epistemology and philosophy of language, the worse his ideas got.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People in the replies/quotes are talking about fancy 21stC technology, but I'm here to rep movable type. It made mass literacy possible!

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can't wait to see an IG timeline of the Transcendental Deduction.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Compared to Jeopardy Masters, regular Jeopardy feels like Celebrity Jeopardy.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Turns out HOUSE OF DYNAMITE was actually about an AI error.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I hope the case study is published soon enough to make a difference in the direction of Canadian higher ed.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm reading Anne Conway this weekend for class, so here's my contribution to bsky's philosophy and AI debates: The computer has a soul. Why? Because everything has a soul, because only spirit is metaphysically fundamental and matter is nothing but the privation of spirit.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Caramel apple crisp just came out of the oven and daaaaaamn it smells good in here.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Noam is right about this. The narrative is one thing that helps hiring committees imagine your work extending over the next 5-6 years. They are very possibly wondering, "Is this person a good bet to get tenure?" The narrative helps them see an answer to that question.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm pretty sure Europeans' quality of life is so much better because they don't have lawns.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unfortunately, this conclusion follows from a more general principle.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thanks to AI, soon we all won’t have to work any more, and we all can join armed militias. 👍🏻

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is halfway to the plot of THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does Reacher have health insurance?

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All this talk of Bay Area sex cults reminds me of the most mortifying first date I ever had, when my date explained to me in great and animated detail, in a very crowded coffee shop, exactly how her Bay Area sex cult worked.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Apologies for posting cringe on main, but I find this deeply moving.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People are talking about THE SIMPSONS here, but I have to admire its commitment to the bit.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The second paragraph here describes what happens to you in six days if you do Descartes' MEDITATIONS as spiritual exercises.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Got back from class, logged onto the internet, and saw the news that Justin Bieber's best songwriter has childish politics.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The thing that's really fake about the "dark academic" aesthetic is how it never has the sound of gas-powered leaf blowers directly outside your window for an hour at time.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Intelligence is knowing you're in a Prisoner's Dilemma, wisdom is avoiding it in the first place

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