izzy collins

philosophy graduate in berlin

[izzy collins @izzyiswild]

@Stoneman6666 Thank you! It's a long and slow journey but it's going

[izzy collins @izzyiswild]

I passed the B1 German exam in December. My plan for this year is to take the C1 exam by the end of the year. Let's see how it goes...

[izzy collins @izzyiswild]

@hermesDE Hi I'm trying to use your WhatsApp customer service but I can't seem to get through :)

[izzy collins @izzyiswild]

I hardly ever use Twitter, but today my German copy of Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good arrived. My German is *very* basic but SoG is my favourite (philosophy) book, so let's see how reading the German goes... Translation by Dr. Eva-Maria Düringer.

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

Greta Gerwig’s “I’m doing the thing and subverting the thing” re Barbie seems like a variation on what Zizek identified as the dominant structure of consumption a good while ago: the product that incorporates a critique of itself into the act of consuming it…/1

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: 85 people in Arizona suffered severe burns from contact with pavements heated up to 180F (82C). 7 of them died. In total, 257 people had underlying cause of death listed as "exposure to excessive natural heat".

This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

The scientific consensus for #ClimateChange and that is is caused by human activities is 96-100%.

People think it's just 60-70% of climate scientists, because bots and climate change deniers flood social media and newspapers with false data, lies and fossil fuel propaganda.

[Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya_amano]

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
https://t.co/Z6za22rMgg
1/9

[Glenn Sullivan @drglennsullivan]

In her memoir, Marsha Linehan, the creator of DBT, records that her own years-long mental anguish resolved after a mystical experience: “all of a sudden the whole of the chapel was suffused with a bright golden light, shimmering all over” (p. 102).

[tern @1goodtern]

Grinning dinosaurs posing with the comet.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

The week in #climate so far:

Monday: Average global temperature hits 17.01°C (62.62°F), highest in 125,000 years

Tuesday: Record climbs to 17.18°C, beats Monday's

Thursday: Record climbs to 17.23°C, beats Tuesday's

3 hottest days in 125,000 years in 4 days

It's only Friday

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

The Seven Stages of climate denial:

1. It's not real
2. It's not us
3. It's not that bad
4. We have time
5. It's too expensive to fix
6. Here's a fake solution
7. It's too late: you should have warned us earlier

Trolls use all of these stages to deny reality of #climatechange

[izzy collins @izzyiswild]

it’s good to look back sometimes. six months ago, everything here felt insurmountable (post-brexit emigration bureaucracy, finding a job, securing scholarships, learning german, establishing a social life). things are, finally, starting to feel settled. six months. not bad

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

This is a banner which was hung in at least three schools in York by the South Bank Trust, a MAT. It is harmful to young people and their families, and it is dishonest. This is why. 1/

[fractionalgirl @fractionalgirl]

So, apparently Kathleen Stock has claimed that "if you think that trans people aren't violent, you need to speak to a criminologist." And we will see what actual criminologists think, which is not quite what Stock would want us to believe. (1/17)

[Ryan Calo @rcalo]

If AI threatens humanity, it’s by accelerating existing trends of wealth and income inequality, lack of integrity in information, & exploiting natural resources. Think @GreatDismal’s jackpot, not Skynet. I agree with the simple statement to this degree.

[Ryan Calo @rcalo]

The first reason is to focus the public’s attention on a far fetched scenario that doesn’t require much change to their business models. Addressing the immediate impacts of AI on labor, privacy, or the environment is costly. Protecting against AI somehow “waking up” is not.

[Ryan Calo @rcalo]

You may be wondering: why are some of the very people who develop and deploy artificial intelligence sounding the alarm about it's existential threat? Consider two reasons--

[sarah o'brien @SarahMarieOB]

That what if lingers for a lot of autistic women and girls, I'd bet, because boundaries being overstepped by autistic men is something we've seen, we've experienced, or we've heard about.

We have to uphold social rules while they weaponise incompetence about the very same rules.