silly goose qua silly goose

windbaggery & charlatanism

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

get you a Hume who awakens you from your dogmatic slumber

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

not defending ChatGPT about which I know virtually nothing but what makes you think that many/most human beings are not programmed to think/believe/utter formulaic platitudes if not outright misinformation? Dickens' caricatures of individuals fixed in robotic personalities are not really far-fetched.
most brains are hives of others' voices & only with effort does one "think for himself."
please note that US society is built upon contradictions; it is considered maturity to politely not notice these.
at least ChatGPT is "only" a device. just pull the plug.

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

@philosophysux Oh I’m so sorry. Vlad was a great cat. RIP Vlad 🖤

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

so what form of disenchantment is this

[Katherine Everitt 💥 @katherineveritt]

It’s tragic that ppl are so unfamiliar with reading, they think it must be “performative” to read a book in public.

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

Ok helpful information actually

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

Today I asked my class the question “how would you define magic” and in what seemed like less than a second a ChatGPT voice proclaimed “the definition of magic is….” until the student defused it. The class collectedly gasped. One exclaimed “that’s wild”. I felt…numb?

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

there’s obviously a nostalgic “humanist” reading of people falling in love with AI bots (ie. everyone is so desperate for any connection now, etc) but the antihumanist one feels correct: humans have always fallen in love with flat/partial/projective/“machinic” qualities in others

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

Parisian immigrant from Montreal falls in love with some podunk Ontarian, they kiss in a snowstorm….bridges the Anglo-Franco tensions in the country…..

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

love is blind Canada when

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

she’s giving the vibe of a younger demi moore in the substance

[‏ؘ @artstartingover]

holy shit demi lovato

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

I refuse to believe that people read “for the aesthetic” and/or read in public spaces (other than libraries) for attention. I see people reading in public spaces all the time and I have never even once had that impression.

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

parenthood from romantic relationships

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

I've been thinking recently that if I ever want a child, I wouldn't want to do with a partner I love because that would fundamentally change the relationship between us from lovers to caretakers. And it also means that there is the pressure of not seeing how the relationship with

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

the partner develops because you're caught raising a child together. Romantic love is significant to me and by having a child with a lover I feel like the entire structure of the relationship would change. Obviously this is not a practical reality but I wish I could separate

[vivian @jazzloaf]

I'm developing a raccoon theory of male sexuality:

- male sexuality is racoonish in character
- we love raccoons, raccoons are great
- raccoons can maul people, and in those cases need to be shot or imprisoned
- raccoons do not belong in the workplace

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

10 years of therapy couldn’t do for me what zizek’s surplus enjoyment theory did

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

This is what I said when I was handed a bioethics syllabus to teach

[no earthquake (undignified) @no_earthquake]

it’s wild how contentless this genre of writing actually is, if you skip over all the aesthetic posturing the only actual take here is undergrad level econ 101 bullshit lmao

[silly goose qua silly goose @anendinitself]

new pope who dis

[エミリー🍓 @emily_sipiora]

graduate humanities degree