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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator

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"Take care of Freedom and Truth will take care of itself." Former Ph.D. student in philosophy/logic/formal epistemology at CMU Trying and failing to prevent wildfires. he/him Website:

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· 20d

The email I send when I don't get called back after an interview:

A blue haired boy stands on an otherwise empty stage, tilting his glasses-laden head downward. "But my mom says I'm cool.", he laments.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Jul 5

I've been in Europe for 3 weeks for a pair of conferences and a week in between (here I am the day I left Paris to go to Dunkerque, intentionally looking as American as possible).

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Jun 25

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure. What's yours?

An overhead shot of a large air force base.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Jun 24

A large beach

Merlin iii engine wreck

Rad officer mannequin with spitfire control panel behind

Diorama of the evacuation of dunkerque

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Jun 24

I have greatly enjoyed my stay in dunkerque.

Long panoramic shot of a beach

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Jun 20

While in France, I knew that I needed to find a way to try the classic delicacy, "baguette with butter and brie."

A baguette with butter and brie on a black plate.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Jun 18

Range:

Skinner from the film "Ratatouille"

Ash from the film "Alien"

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Jun 3

A picture of Wallace Shawn from "My dinner with Andre" captioned "Live Wallace Reaction".

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· May 28

Former President Gerald Ford saying "Out long, national nightmare is over."

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· May 27

It seems that every year I make a new "My best Spitfire yet". So, here it is. I think unambiguously my best Spitfire yet, and my first Dunkirk Spitfire in 1/48. G.C. Allan R. Wright, 92 Squadron, RAF Tangmere, May, 1940.

A model airplane on a concrete slab in brown and green camo.

A shot of the same airplane from behind.

A closeup of the opening door and intricate cockpit details

The underside showing off the gunsmoke streaking and oil stains.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· May 25

You'll never be her...

Poster for ``The Mandalorian and Grogu'', showing two hutts in the background and Mando looking lovingly at Grogu in the foreground

Poster for ``The Empire Strikes Back'', showing Darth Vader in the background and Han looking lovingly at Leia in the foreground.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· May 23

Reading some Peirce.

The Darwinian controversy is, in large part, a question of logic. Mr. Darwin proposed to apply the statistical method to biology. The same thing has been done in a widely different branch of science, the theory of gases. Though unable to say what the movements of any particular molecule of gas would be on a certain hypothesis regarding the constitution of this class of bodies, Clausius and Maxwell were yet able, eight years before the publication of Darwin's immortal work, by the application of the doctrine of probabilities, to predict that in the long run such and such a proportion of the molecules would, under given circumstances, acquire such and such velocities; that there would take place, every second, such and such a relative number of collisions, etc.; and from these propositions were able to deduce certain properties of gases, especially in regard to their heat-relations. In like manner, Darwin, while unable to say what the operation of variation and natural selection in any individual case will be, demonstrates that in the long run they will, or would, adapt animals to their circumstances. Whether or not existing animal forms are due to such action, or what position the theory ought to take, forms the subject of a discussion in which questions of fact and questions of logic are curiously interlaced.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· May 18

I'm gonna be posting this a lot in the coming weeks. Also I'm gonna be in Europe (Paris/Amsterdam and in between) the last 2.5 weeks of June.

A gold robot sits in a dingy booth. His round (trashcan shaped with a silver domed head) blue and white companion stands beside him. He laments:

"Oh, my, I'd forgotten how much I hate [redacted] travel."

Scene from Star Wars, 1977.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· May 5

"I cannot feel cold, captain."

Data frm Star Trek TNG

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Apr 27

A seated man in a suit and tie with a nametag sadly tucks his head into his shoulder while seated, scratching the opposite temple. He bemoans: "Why should they be happy?"

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Apr 14

I prefer crime-causing Catholics.

Two men in black suits, sunglasses, and black fedoras sit on the hood of a 1974 Dodge Monaco parked in an industrial site. The Blues Brothers.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Apr 13

Top left: Father says to son "Pondering the human condition? I'll show you something interesting!"

Top right: "The two types of needs are capital and company. All needs fall into these two categories. Health? Capital. Safety? Company. Food? Capital."

Bottom left: "Freedom? Surprisingly, company. Sleep? Capital. Spiritual fulfillment? Company. Contrary to what you might initially think, self-actualization is actually mostly capital!"

Bottom right: Son is distraught and disturbed by the realization, he cannot sleep.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Mar 29

A small tusked pig lizard. It's lystrosaurus.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Mar 26

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see.

Two male Lystrosaurus, big size hairless rodents with beaks and tusks, tussle in a riverbed near some horsetails.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Mar 18

Colleague: "I think I'm agnostic on the realism/antirealism debate." Me: "That's antirealist we count those."

Alec Baldwin in a suit says to a disturbingly smiley Jack McBrayer "That's antirealist, we count those."

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Mar 14

Man in brown coat with large collar looks surprised. Says "The power's back!"

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Mar 14

Worth it.

3 silver painted model airplanes.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Mar 14

‪160,000 outages, including my apartment, in Pittsburgh right now from wind. However, I refuse to let God fuck with my plans.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Mar 10

She's CANADIAN!

A Canadian ID held to the camera. Screenshot from the show "Fallout".

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Mar 9

Are they old enough to read the sacred texts?

Film Poster for "The Big Lebowski". Two men stand with a bowling alley in the background. On the left, Jeff Bridges with long hair, a beard, sunglasses, and a bathrobe. On the right, John Goodman stands in a military vest, raising a gun to his head.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Feb 25

My reaction:

The same plan as in OP but with nose art depicting an extended middle finger.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Feb 23

Took this picture the other night.

Small model of a green and brown camo plane with a shark mouth.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Feb 18

One could simply watch the film "The Wind Rises" and understand history better than Gladwell explains it, apparently.

One gets the impression that the change of command was the impetus for the firebombing campaign; this isn’t exactly a novel argument: a number of historians have made it.58 In Chapter Seven, he writes about the development of M-69 incendiaries, their testing, and Hansell’s relief, but once again offers very little explanation or detail.59 He states that the United States had identified the vulnerability of Japanese cities based on a 1942 Harper’s Magazine article published a few months after Pearl Harbor.60 In fact, the susceptibility of Japanese cities to catastrophic fire was hardly a new discovery. It had long been recognized by observers with even a passing familiarity with Japan and had been starkly demonstrated by the destruction that followed the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, when vast sections of the city were consumed by fire.61 In 1932, the retired Brigadier General Billy Mitchell predicted that in a future war with Japan, “incendiary projectiles would burn the cities to the ground in short order.”

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Feb 18

I'm losing my mind here. Does Gladwell say _nothing_ about Doolittle's 8th?

This more or less closes the European theatre, which again is negligence. The subsequent pause in deep penetrations was therefore less an admission of doctrinal failure than a recognition that the campaign had outrun its material and tactical foundations. When the Eighth Air Force returned in strength in early 1944, it did so in a fundamentally different environment: with P-51 and extended-range P-47 escorts, improved radar navigation and bombing raids, a larger and more experienced force, and a deliberate strategy aimed at destroying the Luftwaffe in the air and on the ground. Only under those conditions did daylight precision bombing begin to produce the cumulative industrial effects that prewar planners had envisioned.

Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator@thrillhouse1701· Feb 18

Is the implication that Gladwell doesn't mention this either?!?

These are both dubious at best. The AAF had already recognized the limitations of the Norden bombsight in combat as early as March 1943. Its effectiveness varied significantly from one bombardier to another and was further degraded by weather, flak, evasive maneuvers, and the sheer complexity of formation bombing.43 In response, bomber units abandoned the idea that each aircraft would conduct an independent precision run. Instead, the formation relied on a lead bombardier: only the lead aircraft actively aimed using the Norden, while the remaining aircraft in the “combat box” released their bombs when they observed the lead bomber’s salvo.