DMV

i have a doctorate in issuing drivers licenses

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

Watched Primal Fear for the first time in 20 years. Weirdly conservative-coded movie:

A jaded defender finds a case that makes him believe that maybe his job should be to defend the innocent. Fortunately, he learns the valuable lesson that you should never trust any criminals.

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@Philip_Goff That sentence is true only if it is a material conditional

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@xgabegottliebx People *really * don’t want to hear it, but Peter Singer

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@luscofusch Fair point, but 90% of the time the person who says “S is hard to understand” is saying so in order to justify not reading S, and the person who says “actually S is easy” is saying so in order to encourage people to read S. There’s a battle going on under the surface here

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

We had an exceptional applicant pool

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@JoshuaLWatson Is this an argument that Leibniz gives against materialism? Or is he making a different point?

(I would be surprised if Leibniz took this observation to have implications about the metaphysics of mind, but I’m happy to be corrected)

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

Shameful

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

I just spoke with President @EmmanuelMacron about the situation in the Middle East.

We condemned Iran’s strikes against civilians and civilian infrastructure, and underscored the importance of opening secure access through the Strait of Hormuz. Canada supports efforts to safeguard international shipping and ensure freedom of navigation.

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@yah5us You’re not going to win an argument with a professor who’s been thinking about this for years/decades. But that also shouldn’t be your goal. Just try and figure out what you think is true.

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@NathanJRobinson You know who else’s is descended from prior inhabitants of Israel? The Palestinians!

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@ProvideContext He was also injured in the playoffs during Jokic’s first two MVP seasons.

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@renderfish @thecavemommy This is really cute but also presupposes the thing it’s supposed to explain. If you didn’t know why a negative times a negative equals a positive, you also wouldn’t understand why -(-6)=6

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@SamQuinnCBS https://t.co/FCiTq2O9GP

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@DavidAFrench Draft tournament at the end of the season: all non-playoff/play-in teams play for draft order

[Victor Kumar @victorckumar]

Analytic philosopher here, wife claims I don’t love her enough so I stayed late at the office and wrote up a devastating and humiliating refutation of her view

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@DanFriedman81 The claim is not that Stephen King is worse fiction than newer stuff. It’s that is that it’s sad people don’t read more challenging stuff.

One can think both that Rapper’s Delight is awesome, and also that it’s sad that my uncle doesn’t have the rap literacy to enjoy Kendrick.

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@NateSilver538 Maybe it didn’t use to be, but by 2024 “woke” was not a leftist position. Most of the left had moved on from identity politics, which was frequently mocked as a centrist position (“👏more 👏women 👏CEOs 👏”, and so on)

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@DavidAFrench Draft tournament at the end of the season: all non-playoff/play-in teams play for draft order

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@SonOfAnchis3s Wow you really showed that…student of yours

[некосаттвачік @nekosattva_chan]

this stuff really depresses me because at no point did "continental philosophers" do anything to hurt anyone doing analytic philosophy. the converse is not true: self-professed analytic philosophers went out of their way to destroy the careers of continental philosophers.

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@xgabegottliebx I very occasionally carve out time for myself to read some fiction, but only a couple times a year. My reading-brain is usually too overloaded by work reading

[DMV @DMV_PhD]

@jhendersonYT “The Philosophical Underclass” is still active on Facebook.

Post an article you want and someone with access will send it you a pdf.