Evan Washington

@eewash

yields falsehood when preceded by his own quotation

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Evan Washington@eewash· 10d

i'm putting together a team

Evan Washington@eewash· Jul 12

i was so wrong; it was a terminal case

Evan Washington@eewash· Jun 20

unless you have arms like scratchman apoo, you're not doing the cool back draw i'm so sorry

Scratchman Apoo from One Piece, a member of the long-arms tribe (they have an extra arm joint)

Evan Washington@eewash· May 19

reading this feels like high-diving into a blender "In fact, I have reason to believe that what makes me precognitive is a default aspect of my brain. Exhibit A? I'm a white person..." yeah! okay! right! uh!

I've been thinking about Philip K Dick's word "precog" to describe myself. But I want to make it very clear that I don't want to use it very much, because I don't want to differentiate myself from others. Far from it. In fact, I have reason to believe that what makes me precognitive is a default aspect of my brain. Exhibit A? I'm a white person, trained through centuries of gaslighting to think of myself as a specially separated, skin-encapsulated, command-control ghost in a machine operating in a "here and now" distinct from a "then" and a "there," with a memory of the past, but not a memory of the future (what could that even be?). If I can be precognitive, anyone can.

Evan Washington@eewash· May 14

they've been publishing the same articles over and over again here are some of the more uhhh...unique ones - being a zoophile is chill - being a pedophile is chill - firebomb a petsmart - litigating when barack obama can say it with a hard r (by "it" they of course mean "joker")

Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible
Fira Bensto (pseudonym)
Controversial Ideas 2023, 3(2), 5; doi:
10.35995/jci03020005
Received: 23 Mar 2023 / Accepted: 24 Sep 2023 /
Published: 31 Oct 2023
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Abstract
As one of our most deeply entrenched social taboos, zoophilia is widely considered to be wrong, and having sex with animals is illegal in many countries. In this article, I would like to go against this de facto consensus and argue that zoophilia is morally permissible. This would have major implications for how we legally and socially deal with zoophilia. Full article

The Pedophile as a Human Being: An Autoethnography for the Recognition of a Marginalized Sexual Orientation
Brecht Vaerwaeter (pseudonym)
Controversial Ideas 2022, 2(1), 3; doi:
10.35995/jci02010003
Received: 28 May 2021 / Accepted: 4 Apr 2022 /
Published: 29 Apr 2022
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By the general public and in the media, pedophilia as a sexual orientation is systematically confused with sexual abuse of minors. Neurological research supports the idea that pedophilia is an innate sexual orientation, and that is how pedophiles, in the sense of
'minor-attracted persons,' experience it themselves. The stigma attached to pedophilia as

In Defense of Direct Action
Ivar Hardman (pseudonym)
Controversial Ideas 2021, 1(1), 2; doi:
10.35995/jci01010002
Received: 6 May 2020 / Accepted: 31 Mar 2021 /
Published: 25 Apr 2021
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Abstract
There is widespread agreement that coercive force may be used to prevent people from seriously and wrongfully harming others. But what about when those others are non-human animals? Some militant animal rights activists endorse the use of violent coercion against those who would otherwise harm animals. In the philosophical literature on animal ethics, however, theirs is a stance that enjoys little direct

Philosophical Reflections on "the
Filthiest, Dirtiest, Nastiest Word in the English Language"1
Keith Burgess-Jackson
Controversial Ideas 2022, 2(1), 4; doi:
10.35995/jci0201004
Received: 19 Jul 2021 / Accepted: 25 Feb 2022 /
Published: 29 Apr 2022
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Abstract
When, if ever, is it morally permissible to utter the word "joker"? (NB: The word "joker" is a placeholder for another word, the mere utterance of which certain people find unsettling or offensive. See the prolegomenon of this article for an explanation.) After drawing some relevant distinctions (such as that between use and mention), I provide counterexamples to two extreme theses: first, that it is always wrong (i.e.,

Evan Washington@eewash· May 11

Achilles is as straight as Alexander the Great, that's right. very true. you've figured it out

screenshot of a tweet

"Don’t fall victim to their Marxist anti-Greek and anti-Western propaganda.

Achilles was, is, and will always be the role model of a healthy man.

Never forget that Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad (from Aristotle) under his pillow, along with his dagger. His role model was Achilles, who was also his ancestor on his mother’s side.

Never forget that.
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Evan Washington@eewash· May 11

sometimes i go back on twitter just to summon those real feelings of rage and confusion again, sometimes it's to laugh at the ten thousand posters named like SpartanReason

screenshot of tweet from "The Warrior Philosopher" with cover image of The Song of Achilles by Miller and Wilson's translation of the Iliad.

text reads: "These two books were disastrous for humanity and the study of the Ancients.

Miller convinced leftists Achilles and Patroclus were gay lovers and Wilson translated the Iliad to implicitly hint at this.

Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is the final straw to ruin Homer."

Evan Washington@eewash· May 7

That's right, it's Fantastic Mr Fox

screenshot from fantastic mr fox. he's leaning against a tree. looking pretty chill

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 28

lol

Generative Al Subscriptions Are Nothing Like Uber

To illustrate the scale of Al's pricing mismatch, I'm going to ask you to imagine an alternate history where Uber had a very different business model.

Generative Al subscriptions are like if Uber charged users $20 a month for 100 rides of any distance under 100 miles, and if gas was $150 a gallon, and Uber paid for the gas because somebody insisted that oil would one day be too cheap to meter.

Uber would, eventually, decide to start charging users a monthly subscription to access rides, and bill them for the gas that they consumed. Suddenly users would go from paying $20 a month for 100 rides to paying $20 to access a driver and $26 for a 10 mile drive.
Understandably, users would be a little upset.

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 27

bringing this one back

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 26

nothing ever happens but with lenin quote

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 22

also I'm pretty sure the "salamander" part of the portmanteau refers to the mythical fire elemental creature salamander and not the actual animal because this thing has wings

Dragon-like reptile in the congressional map political cartoon which gave "gerrymandering" its name

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 21

this article (but not this post) has been edited to reflect that this is an unconfirmed rumor started by some guy on a podcast

Headline: "Did Trump Try to Use Nuclear Codes? No Evidence to Back Viral Claim"

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 20

real and true

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 17

it seems that Japan twitter is now fighting a three-front war with Brazil, Russia, and the entire African diaspora over insanely blatant racism, war crime denial, and...media piracy? they're forming a powerful coalition. kinda beautiful really

$Nosu （らきのす） @luckynosu • Apr 14 O Translated from Japanese Show original Why is it that so many Westerners can't understand the Japanese way of thinking that hates justifying theft? ... Lazy Clipper Lazy Clipper| Y @LazyClipper • Apr 14 since ik I have some Japanese followers, I wanted to ask, why is it that so many of Japanese don't understand why westerners pirate Japanese manga, anime and games? 862 L7 2.7K 21K ıhl 3.8M 企 pasta de atum® a @hlnolvrgo_c • Apr 15 well yall seemed to love stealing korean women to be s*x slaves so i kinda dont believe you 36 {> 177 10K ıll 232K 企 Nosu （らきのす） @luckynosu ... O Translated from Japanese Show original { In the past, Korea and Japan were the same country, and engaging in the sex industry was legal under the laws of that time. There is no fact that they were made into sex slaves. That can be confirmed in newspapers and such from that time.$

不思議なアカウント @Sam22588549・12h
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I think so too, that Japanese people are way too noisy about this issue. But well, if Japanese people read pirated versions of Dostoevsky and say, "It's great that it's spreading, Russians!" wouldn't that feel a bit annoying? It's just a feeling on that level.
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@slasten3826 • 16h
Parody account
O Translated from Russian
Fuck, the Japanese live like they're in the Stone Age.
I don't know about you, but l've totally reconsidered my attitude toward Japan.
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不思議なアカウント
@Sam22588549
S Translated from Japanese Show original
It's creepy when there are a ton of replies like "Go ahead, go ahead!" It really makes me realize our senses are just

Carolina VAI VER IRON MAIDEN
@caramelotxt • Apr 16
G Translated from Portuguese Show original
This here is way too sad. We're fascinated by Japanese culture and they despise us.
We, the population, try to improve the inequality in the country, but it's a systemic problem.
We wouldn't want to pirate, but here whoever has money has everything and whoever doesn't is left how?
日暮れひぐれん
@higureshuuen • Apr 15
Replying to @jp_cortina
G Translated from Japanese
No wonder I can't get along with Brazilians.
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マンハッタンアンパンマン
@rs112233445
O Translated from Japanese Show original §
At least the poor kids in Africa without money are making balls out of rags and playing by the roadside, right?
Why not just enjoy hobbies that fit your means?
If you can use pirated stuff, you probably have a smartphone or PC anyway, so how about playing free games?

カッパ
@numakarakappa
·
19h
Translated from Japanese
Why do Black women shake their butts? I want to know. I hate that, but without exception, including my friends, they all shake their butts. My friends who are European-born Africans, my friends who are African diplomats stationed in Europe, and the Africans from the Middle East—all of them, African women, when they drink alcohol, just thrust their butts out toward men and shake them wildly no matter what. I'd also like to know, as a side note, how men feel when they get their butts shaken at them.
カッパ
@numakarakappa
Translated from Japanese
There seem to be all sorts of opinions, but since it's basically just drivel from impression-begging losers, I stopped reading!

Whether it's culture or whatever, these movements look as vulgar as can be to us, but they come off as charming to them, so yeah, our sensibilities and everything else are just worlds apart. It'd be better if they stayed holed up in Africa without venturing out to cultural circles that don't mesh [gorilla emoji] [gorilla emoji]

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 17

over on twitter they introduced automatic translations, which means now you can get Racism Japan™ (and the unintentional funniest tweets I've ever seen)

カミツレ
@7korobi___8oki
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Apr 13
Translated from Japanese
The number of encounters with black people in my neighborhood is steadily increasing.

Their skeletal structure and the way their muscles are built are on a completely different level from Japanese people.

I'm slim, so if I got pinned down, it'd be over in seconds.

I never imagined that violence from a foreigner would climb the ranks in my predictions for my own cause of death.
I couldn't have pictured that even a few years ago.

Things change when you least expect them to, huh...

小売業の者です
@ponto___dog
Translated from Japanese
The black folks who come to my shop are always grinning, cheerful types. They hang out at the nearby family restaurant. But they're scary.

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 12

don't save her she don't wanna be saved

jd vance looking admittedly pretty cunty in a yellow-blonde wig

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 11

i think it's his favorite shirt

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 9

right. so ~0% of my questions about why this random tool named Hegel is named Hegel are answered in the "Why Hegel?" page found on hegel dot dev

Image of Hegel's portrait but it's a hedgehog

Text reads: "Hegel. Hegel is a universal property-based testing protocol and family of libraries, built on Hypothesis. First time here? We recommend starting with the Getting started guide"

Why Hegel?
Hegel is an attempt to bring the power of property-based testing in Hypothesis to every language.
If you're not familiar with it, Hypothesis is the most widely used property-based testing library in the world.
Some of why Hypothesis is the most widely used library of this sort is because it's written in Python, which is quite popular, but Hypothesis wasn't the first property-based testing library in Python, only the first that achieved widespread use. This is because it has a lot of benefits over other property-based testing libraries.
The main ones are:
• Hypothesis has a great library of high-quality generators, and flexible tools for building on them.
• Hypothesis has "internal shrinking", which means that it will basically always give you a high-quality and readable final example. It avoids many of the pitfalls of shrinking in other property-based testing libraries. such as producing

Evan Washington@eewash· Apr 7

spongebob and patrick in burning bikini bottom

Evan Washington@eewash· Mar 19

instead of smelling salts you can just take a gander at noah smith's tweets

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Evan Washington@eewash· Mar 9

we built something real

Evan Washington@eewash· Mar 9

found some old drilosophers posts in my files. i've contributed something good to this world, i think

Evan Washington@eewash· Mar 9

it's breached containment

Evan Washington@eewash· Mar 5

yeah pretty much what I thought was going on

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

The idea is good but the text itself was rushed and not thought through. It violated a lot of standard practices to protect survivors and due process:

1. It also released documents related to allegations found to be false or unsubstantiated, not just verified violations or settlements. So innocent people would get lumped in with violators.

2. To our knowledge, there was zero victim consent or consultation on this text. That is very different than with Epstein, where victims are centered and consulted at every step. Here, victims offered all their statements with the promise of protection and anonymity. The text gave them no way to have a voice in what information of theirs or their accounts they wanted public or keep private. That is important because…

3. Although there was a throwaway line about redacting victim names, I do believe full witness or victim statements would have been released. With the way employment at the House works (offices are small, time periods of staff employment are publicly disclosed, etc) it means that even with names redacted you can definitely track details in witness statements and use that to ID victims without their consent. And there was zero mechanism for victims themselves to assert their privacy.

Originally we were supposed to debate the details of the text over two days but for some reason they rushed the vote so we couldn’t iron out any of these details to get this information properly disclosed in a way that guarantees victim safety.

If the text was clean I think you’d get a lot more support. As a survivor, I know why the vast majority of women never report at all and a lot of those reasons, even if unintentionally or inadvertently, were included here. For me at least, guaranteeing the safety and agency of victims and survivors would get me to a YES.

Evan Washington@eewash· Mar 4

if you want to really feed the conspiratorial mindset, we're apparently only *pretty sure* that this con man illusionist fraudster/Epstein fixer Al Seckel is dead

Evan Washington@eewash· Feb 27

didn't understand what (computer science) people meant with 'proving excluded middle involves time travel' here's Chris Martens's rendition (www.cs.cmu.edu/~cmartens/if...), referencing Philip Wadler and (originally) Peter Selinger still didn't really get any of them so I wrote my own version

$You're a time traveler in a strange land. Requiring more knowledge about your circumstances, you seek out the great wizard Alice the Aletheist, who is said to know everything. But first, she gives you a test. You approach her outside her terrible Tower of Truth. "Tell me," she says, her voice thundering. "Which is true, $p$ or $\neg p$?" You weren't expecting esoterica. "Uhh...$\neg p$ is true," you say with a wince. You're totally bluffing. Alice is not impressed. "Ha! Fool!" She cackles. "Then what's this?" She gives a stunning display of mystical mastery, demonstrating that without a doubt, $p$ simply must be true. You were deeply, metaphysically *wrong*. You know this in your soul. And worst of all, you wasted an omniscient arch-wizard's time. A menacing storm cloud blooms in her hands. You have the terrifying sense that absolutely anything could happen now. Well, crap. That's what the time travel's for, you suppose. *ZZZp.* Again, you approach her outside her terrible Tower of Truth. "Tell me," she says. "Which is true, $p$ or $\neg p$?" You remember the vision of unassailable truth she gave you last time. "$p$!" you say confidently. She nods sagely and gives the very same stunning display of confirmatory magic. "Indeed. You are welcomed to my humble Tower." She smirks. "There could be no other result."$

Evan Washington@eewash· Feb 21

whenever someone says CLANKER i think of this panel