Elin McCready

when I read philosophy of fiction I really wonder whether people only read some basic "great books" style work plus like harry potter? every premise seems so obviously invalidated by so much writing out there

is chomsky dad content now? or is fighting disinformation just a dad activity?

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Oder vielleicht bist du auch einfach nur ein Nazi 🤔

Book is LIVE @rhenderson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/57329

Signaling without Saying: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistlesacademic.oup.com Abstract. Signaling without Saying develops game-theoretic approaches to social meaning to model the phenomenon of dogwhistles. Dogwhistles, known primaril

Bonevac tf, I knew he had gone sour but this is SOUR

Two professors at UT Austin, John Hatfield and Daniel Bonevac, are suing for the right to penalize their students who miss class because they are obtaining an abortion out-of-state. media.aflegal.org/wp-content/u...

again a plea for suggestions on publishers for a short book on a new strategy for literature/art, which also uses techniques from semantics/pragmatics and so is a little technical! please share if you can

book proposal fell at the post AGAIN, so frustrating

these people are like sopranos but more basic

Interviewed in Akahata blog.goo.ne.jp/uo4/e/ec25cb...

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interviewed about immigration law changes here www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Foreigners object to move to revoke permanent resident status | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watchwww.asahi.com Foreigners are expressing concerns about a bill pending in the Diet that includes a provision allowing for their permanent resident status to be revoked if they fail to pay taxes or social welfare pre...

if you happen to be a person who takes biblical signs like rivers running red seriously ... www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

genuinely impressive the total disingenuity of every single statement by an israeli government representative

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Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved transit, not only did it transform the city’s public life & economic success, but the traffic got better. The traffic got BETTER.

new favorite Gricean language change example: the move from thumbup to heartmark due to perceived rudeness of thumbup, which comes directly from scalar implicature from

a nice thing about books is you don't have to finish them and they will still be there for you anyway

itemized list in which every item is numbered 1

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The kids are alright.

sonoma state uni president put on leave for "insubordination" really makes clear the nature of our profession

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Babe wake up, new Hemingway luxury variant just dropped

Very solid points here (Japanese constitution already xenophobic, on basis of rejecting anti-Imperial sentiment after the war even!): mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Opinion: Xenophobia is baked into Japan's postwar Constitutionmainichi.jp U.S. President Joe Biden labeling Japan

The government case is as incoherent as expected. The 10% figure of tax nonpayment they quoted also turns out to be based on some extremely questionable assumptions ... mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Revocation of permanent residence status in contention in Japan Diet talksmainichi.jp TOKYO -- A proposed legal amendment that would allow permanent residence permits to be revoked if foreign residents in Japan intentionally fail to pay

I have to ask this question again, because I am still confused: what does the "right to exist" of a state or other entity consist of? What does this phrase mean?