Nathan Smith

Philosophriends, I worked with @openstax (et multi alibi) to write an Intro to Philosophy textbook that covers the bases--from a global perspective. It's completely free & you'll appreciate the quality and breadth. Use it as a primary text or supplement: openstax.org/details/books/…

@morallawwithin (Oh, and one more: marginalizing a genuine attempt at some more objective ranking of the merits of grad programs in philosophy.) Arguably, each of these effects were intentional in the design of the PGR.

@morallawwithin That, and, it has had three principle effects: 1) elevating schools outside the Ivies and traditional powerhouse schools who had really great Phil depts, 2) obliterating the reputation of Continental-focused schools, 3) enshrining the status of BL as king-maker.

Actual elitism is bad bc someone’s interests don’t deserve more consideration just because they’re rich or educated, but what’s supposed to be the problem with “elitism” in the sense of like, considering some philosophy departments better than others? Prestige can be justified.

@bkpark Opposite problem. I use about half a small can when I make a soup or sauce. I never need much more. I've tried storing it, but it goes bad before the next use.

@smithnd how much tomato paste do you need? it's a paste, not sauce!

Do any of y'all know if Trump is going to do something about getting smaller cans of tomato paste?

@NoamChompers This is the way. I just can't find it in the stores I usually shop at.

@smithnd get the double concentrated stuff in the tube, trust me

@itaisher Sorry for the late reply, I'm not on here much anymore. Deplatforming as a strategy originated among student organizations in the UK and it continues to be something (typically) marginalized groups advocate for. I don't think it's about paternalistic protection.

@smithnd I think at universities you can just have standard procedures for inviting speakers (eg departments can invite speakers, student groups can invite speakers, etc) and once these are followed no one needs to step in to paternalistically protect the audience from speakers.

Maybe deplatforming is just a tactic that shouldn’t be used at all

Every single day when I log into this god-forsaken platform at twitter dot com

@jimenezincasper @JonStoneNews @chrisvanderveen I think y'all are on some revisionist history: si.com/nfl/broncos/ne…

@JonStoneNews @chrisvanderveen That not correct. Elway wanted to hire Kyle, but was struck down by Joe Ellis. This all falls back on Elway’s boss, Joe Ellis.

Can someone remind me how the son of the greatest coach in Broncos history joined forces with the son of a great Broncos wide receiver…all while under the management of another great Broncos player… to bring championship level football… …to a city not named Denver?

Your daily reminder that the IRS will launch a pilot of its first free tax online filing tool in a matter of weeks. It will be available in 12 states In English and Spanish. Intuit spent $3.8 MILLION in the past year alone to stop this from happening. We didn’t let them win.

@shahaoul @biblioracle I suspect that's true. Also, you get better results from AI when you know what kinds of questions to ask. Finally, you have to take the outputs and shape them into a final product that is polished. And that takes skill.

@biblioracle @smithnd Is that because to recognise good writing and content from a LLM, you first have to be a good writer and know about your subject?

@biblioracle That's an interesting thought. It runs slightly counter to the results of this study papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… where the greatest benefits were seen among the least skilled. But quality remains an issue, and time savings are pretty scattered.

@SnafuSociety @biblioracle You might try reading again.

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@bkpark Ugh. Good luck.

@smithnd it might be gone for good; not much root, not much remaining after removing dead leaves. anyways; 'hopefully it will be clear in a week or so.

i thought it would survive better at work ... but i guess it died in the 3 weeks of winter closure? :|

@bkpark don't neglect to trim back the dead parts as well.

anyways. watering it and seeing if it comes back.

@JohnProtevi This is a great point. As chair of a department at a community college, I can tell you that it's endlessly frustrating to read publications in philosophy pedagogy with elaborate plans for weeding out chatbot usage when we are teaching over 150 students a semester.

Working conditions of students are also teaching conditions of teachers. That is, it helps when students don't take 18 hours per semester to finish faster to minimize debt, so they aren't tempted to over-use chatbots because of *their* workload (which can include side hustles).

would be happy to discuss here or on FB

@Sstrkr1702 @JohanSalomon Bc7 Kxf6...

@JohanSalomon Bc7 Qxc7 Ng4

White to mate in 2! 🤔

@KBYip Aw it's so cute. I took that little devil off my phone a year and a half ago.

@smithnd I’m keeping the birdie icon as long as possible. Not updating the app till it really doesn’t work.

Good thing that X is still on twitter.com because otherwise I would have to forget about this app entirely.