Devin

@dervine7

philosophy ph.d. student (philosophy of language primarily), amongst other things. they/he

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Devin@dervine7· 28d

PHILOSOPHY TRICKS TO TRICK ANYONE
• LIE TO PEOPLE
• INTRODUCE YOURSELF AS THE
GUY WHO ALWAYS LIES
• IF SOMEONE ASKS IF YOU ARE LYING, SAY YOU'RE LYING

Devin@dervine7· 28d

thinking about this pic a cat sitter took of our cats last year where they look like a hip-hop duo from the 90s

Devin@dervine7· 29d

noam superimposed in front of the Sydney Opera House

Devin@dervine7· 29d

ok now hold on

Post from me from today when the Lindsey Graham news broke: *Mitch McConnell emerging from the hospital looking notably younger*

Devin@dervine7· Jul 11

don’t really know who this guy is so don’t have a dog in the fight but this read to me as “as a white leftist it’s hard to criticize black establishment figures” not “time to let the white leftists take charge”

"The extent to which the older generation of Black political leadership are such a pillar, frankly, for establishment, capitalist, imperialist American power through their role as this kind of traditionalist, establishment-ist pillar of the Democratic Party, it's a big problem," Lawrence said around the 41:48 mark of the podcast. "It's a big problem for left politics in this country. And it gets us every single time. It really defangs the white left and puts us in impossible positions, really."

Devin@dervine7· Jul 8

it in fact seems to be her main career

Devin@dervine7· Jul 7

these are all things that there was evidence he actually did! eyewitness reports are evidence! the sexting was reported by his wife! we’ve *seen* the nazi tattoo!

"But there were so many red flags," the argument goes, pointing to the sexting, tattoo, and Reddit posts. Think about that argument for a moment: it means that people should be disqualified from public office for things there isn't evidence they actually did,

Devin@dervine7· Jul 7

Devin@dervine7· Jul 6

I’m glad this piece is pushing back against this work, but also, how is the answer to this question not completely obvious to everyone in the field?

Are the adverse effects of UPFs caused by ultraprocessing itself or are they a consequence of their nutritional properties?

Devin@dervine7· Jul 6

I...don't think this is the sort of thing that could be a finding of this study

They also found small nudges in the meaning of draft messages could be amplified across millions of interactions to create long-term public opinion shifts greater than the bias introduced by the AI system. They said the issue was not yet being tackled by regulations such as the EU AI Act or the Digital Services Act, creating a "severe accountability gap".

Devin@dervine7· Jul 5

I don’t know about that one chief

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"That is a big part of why I hate it. This... this forced inevitability. People like you are always saying that it's happening whether you like it or not, but you're the ones making it happen, okay? |...] It is technological R-A-P-E.
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Devin@dervine7· Jul 5

journalists* *

independent journalist and crypto commentator Adam Cochran

Devin@dervine7· Jul 4

I genuinely can’t figure out what he’s even talking about here, “pronouns” just means…introductions? I guess in a swing dance context it could mean they explained that they’re gonna call the dance in a gender neutral way, which would take like…30 seconds tops

A "swing dancing in the park" event I attended a few days ago started out with pronouns and cultural appropriation and never made it to demonstrating actual dance steps.

Devin@dervine7· Jul 2

bug report #451: assets replaced by white-box models

Devin@dervine7· Jul 2

*working-class understander* this is because they think he doesn't have *enough* Nazi tattoos

But note this: In the Times poll, Platner trails among voters without a college degree, a proxy for the working class, by 37–58. In the Fox poll, that’s 41–56. What’s driving this? One possibility: The Times poll has working-class voters saying Platner has “good character” by 37–57 and “the right kind of moral values” by 36–57.

Devin@dervine7· Jul 2

Devin@dervine7· Jul 1

this…doesn’t correspond to what I remember? I feel like Biden had a pretty good working relationship with DSA-aligned congresspeople

During Democratic presidencies, which the DSA mostly spends denouncing the occupant of the Oval Office as a sellout,

Devin@dervine7· Jul 1

look at it. it’s so beautiful

what we europeans kinda try tell you, and that you ignore to solely be able to look superior is: to actually do what you want to, we had to combat so many regulations and government stuffs, that:
1) until success, most europeans be dead
2) defeating climate change as a whole would be LOTS easier

Devin@dervine7· Jul 1

Devin@dervine7· Jun 28

“if you get close to the columns, you’ll see that they don’t even touch the ground! I love details like this, little rough edges that remind you that someone was making choices about what details to focus on and which didn’t matter”

Devin@dervine7· Jun 27

how is a two-year rent freeze not a “solitary increment that can be easily reversed”? (setting aside the “minuscule” part bc that depends on what you consider minuscule)

Quote of the OP:

Maybe, but Incrementalism™ as a strategy is sold by cons masquerading as centrists quibbling over miniscule, solitary increments that can be easily reversed
actually achieving goals to improve folks' material conditions on the way to shaping a better society is making real progress

Devin@dervine7· Jun 27

the implied trajectory(s) of the whale here are *wild*

Devin@dervine7· Jun 26

I’m going to have an aneurysm trying to figure out how the first image is supposed to look like “fun in the sun” while the second (in the replies) is supposed to look like “realistic scenes of people finding it tough”