Kevin Zollman

This was a fun exercise. For the non-philosophers, here's a thread briefly describing the ridiculous views that we philosophers are pretty sure we could find seven experts to agree to. If you read one of them and think "What?!? I must be misunderstanding" you probably aren't.

Dissertation defense

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This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

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That said, it's an interesting fact that you can often extract significant concessions from a certain kinda leftist by activating their insecurity that the True Volk are exurban petit bourgeois reactionaries, and you are intrinsically inauthentic if you're not in this group.

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

I have never been to the cheesecake factory. Does that make me an elite?

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

I was under the impression that everything was an open question in philosophy

Meanwhile, on bluesky

A bit earlier, but I'm old enough to remember when Ann Arbor got its first Mexican restaurant.

It's not "bloat." It's not the fancy climbing wall. It's not the faculty. It's a simple fact: We collectively decided to stop funding higher education as a public good.

New webpage for new NSF Office of Metascience

In 1990, about 20 million animals a year were euthanized in kill shelters. Today, over half the shelters in the US are designated no-kill and less than 500,000 animals are euthanized.

Every aspect of life as a gay man is unimaginably better than it was when I was born in the mid 80s. We beat the plague that was killing us by the hundreds of thousands and then won broad social and civic equality.

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Vegetarian and vegan food

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

“Why is Colin’s bizarro long division a legitimate variation?” would be a good exam question

Just me chanting: Blansas Blansas Blansas

i've got some big news about a few other incarcerated people

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I get email: "I recently came across Philosophy Within Its Confidence Limits, and the title immediately caught my attention because examining the methodology ..." oh my famous book Philosophy Within its Conference Limits?!?!?

Jerry Seinfeld said and it's right. In New York everyone is funny. That's the best part about that city

Look, there aren't that many numbers. They've got to use 4 at some point

My body is a machine that turns tortilla chips into mediocre ideas

one bad habit i have not imported from twitter is to lift irritating, rude, or otherwise bizarre replies from my mentions with a qt. it's one little thing i do for the world i'd like to live in and for positive vibes during the day. i reply or mute or block but i don't try to expose or shame anyone

The replies seem to believe that the number one priority in fighting a fire at the library of Alexandria should have been minimizing water usage

oh wow, a couple tried polyamory and then broke up at some later point? just goes to show: should have stuck with monogamy, the thing that ensures that you will never break up at some later point

Waiting for Godot in a philosophy classroom

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Hello Pittsburgh! I am familiar with your TV show about agonizing medical situations

so playing around with Claude after basically not touching an LLM for a few years and a couple initial thoughts:

Damn. The Hague is on notice

This is the gateway drug for philosophy. Don't let you children ask this. Not. even. once.

just saw 'it is is inherently problematic to be attracted to someone'. that's the bluesky stuff right there

[Hume sweating]

"You're so vain"

My folk theory of one aspect of Everything That Is Happening is that for a long time we had technologies of making publics visible that seemed to compress political debate down into mostly-one dimension, but (a) that turned out to be shit, and (b) when other technologies came along, it was disrupted

Meanwhile in social choice