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Philosophers: we’re hiring! Permanent lectureship in modern/early modern philosophy in St Andrews. Spread the word, apply, come to Edgecliffe, have philosophical fun with us. Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTJ343/l...

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My Department in St Andrews is seeking a Lecturer in the History of Philosophy, particularly, in Early Modern or Modern Philosophy (17th-19th Century). It’s a full time permanent position, and we’d like to hire someone who is available from the new academic year (September 2027). Details about […]

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team It’s Monday October 26, 2026 and scrolling bluesky on iPhone Safari suddenly has snap to top issues - start scrolling down and the page keeps trying to snap back to the top showing the first post. Where else can I report this?

Can see this becoming pointless for exams or papers, too. Make it a chalk or whiteboard from memory test. Present a problem and solution with full explanation, including a history, and interruptions from the class. No notes, no devices. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Very helpful review of the difference between pausing vs. blocking when using async/await in JavaScript. www.xjavascript.com/blog/async-a...

just heard a story about some native born bay area friends who grew up here and did not know BART went under the bay - native born bay areans - completely oblivious to the miracle of BART - for 40+ years - did not know - never heard “transbay tube” - they were terrified

New forallx Fitch proof editor & checker Daniyal Akif, a math undergrad student at UT Austin, has updated Kevin Klement's old Fitch proof editor and checker. If you're learning or teaching natural deduction from forall x: Calgary, it may be useful to you. New features include: Support for […]

New (interactive) HTML edition of forall x: Calgary Hexuan "Ricky" Huang (University of Cambridge) has created an interactive online edition of forall x: Calgary. Like our own HTML version, it should help make forall x more accessible. While our version is designed for use in courses as merely […]

Who needs a balanced diet when you can have candy all the time

I interpret it to mean implemented to spec with tests, bugs or not. I also interpret it as “will not be removed after decades just because“ and “reliable enough that governments mandate its use *by law*” but I’m old

Lines are drawn “You want changes? Go ask your agent or something. I’m told that’s what you’re supposed to do now. I’m out.” po-ru.com/2026/10/18/w...

While AirBnB is in the news today, this is your reminder that the owner is full blown MAGA and you should be avoiding them. #airbnb

This is truly liberating for front-dev after 20+ years of console paste and permission hacks. Use Firefox local mode to load your static files by _https_ running in your browser dev tools, enabling fetch, XHR, content security policy & other testing. firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-use...

XSLT is not in fact among the choices in any of the lists dating back to 2021

decisions made in panic mostly aim at reducing panic rather than at soundness despite the panic

PEAK MERITOCRACY

XSLT NEVER DID THIS

📝 Reading & learning about the history of nuclear weapons started as a niche interest seemingly divorced from everything work-related. But now that history feels tied more and more to the current moment. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/skip-re...

Apparently they have never heard of Heaven’s Gate… daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

Should go back to paper transactions

Still can’t believe a credible dedicated practitioner chose to panic and throw it all away for lookatme phony heroism that produced an historically bad outcome at scale. It was already been happening in stages for a long time, I just didn’t acknowledge it soon enough

The 'AI' Software Crisis: Software Developers have been promoted into incompetence www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/07-prom... Largely through no fault of their own, many software developers have been pushed into dysfunction by management through the misguided and excessive adoption of "AI" coding

also as a retired professional (who did not have time to chase down things like this), I now have time to chase down things like this books.google.com/books?id=WnK...

logic is time consuming in conversation and seemingly more so on comment walls. e.g., when you say code is unreliable do you mean coding the activity or code the current output? when you use that term to mean first the one then the other, you are using it equivocally, as sophistry or a fallacy.

Did you know there’s a national AI Walkout today? Happening now… irreplaceable.org/freeze-ai

Baking cookies today

*ping*+1

“Developer experience is the root of all evil.” —me, 28 Jan 2022

Imagine seeing Tosca and taking Scarpia’s side. A classical opera that protests injustice which you are not otherwise allowed to protest. moto-perpetuo.com/calgary-oper...

On Not Changing as You Grow Older: There is something to age and change, but it seems to have different explanations than closed-mindedness or resistance.

That Tesla stunt yesterday with the “flying car“ attached to visible wires is the same carney trick as the “artificial“ “intelligence“ product that requires your gullibility, data, money, or your intervention, or even live workers driving it from the Pacific, India, or Africa

they thought what they were doing was illegal and said so, and did it anyway www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

--Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Decoherence is an interesting term for the concept described, that resembles “impedance mismatch” writ large (er, “at scale”). maevyn.codes/decoherence

“now I can finally devote myself to the important work of publishing papers instead of doing physics” terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/w...

This made me laugh this week.

Logical strict implication A → B is just a fancy way of saying A ⋀ B ⋀ C (cetera or causality) without saying C. My PhD awaits

This, with Greg, is out in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology, OA: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is out in Ergo, so OA: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

OpenFatigue™ — Open is the new closed openfatigue.ai

Full-EV Surge! Fifteen countries had full-electric vehicles (BEV) at 30% or higher of auto sales for period of 6-months ending in August 2026! Another 10 were at 20% BEV or higher! Those numbers do NOT include Plug-in Hybrids (PHEV). ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.

Tech is the new tobacco.

It’s not our job to fix our employers www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/06-its-... This broken industry is too big of a problem for software developers to solve alone (And a Patreon launch)