Kade Cicchella

One thing might exist. Parmenides is so back.

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Do you know what evidence he had in mind? Feyerabend also says something like this but I assumed it was him being unserious to make a point.

counterexample to betteridge’s law

Last night was a movie (horror)

Over the weekend trump appeared to post a video that seems to be AI generated of himself flying what looks like a fighter jet with a crown-like object on his head and dumping a brown liquid that resembles feces on people standing on the street who look like protestors.

“don’t make things up” I told the making-things-up machine

And that’s the best kind of flying, anyway! Where does he think he’s going?

Heisenberg’s Umdeutung paper was received 100 years ago today

New paper up from Kai Milanovich - 'Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis'

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Every Lie groupoid has a corresponding Lie algebroid, but not every Lie algebroid integrates to a Lie groupoid.

Empathy can take a toll – but 2 philosophers explain why we should see it as a strength Empathy affords us a more accurate understanding of others’ experiences and emotions. Just like pain, it can be hard to bear – but that’s also the source of its strength.

APA member Colin Marshall coauthored this ‪@us.theconversation.com‬ piece on empathy and why it should be considered a strength. theconversation.com/empathy-can-...

new milestone: 100 books checked out at the same time

Today is world quantum day. What are you all getting me?

York school was sweet. Learned a lot of cool stuff and have a ton of new things to read and think about.

At the Spring School on Symmetry and Measurement in QFT at York

tyty

you’ve heard of dogwhistles, now get ready for just regular whistles that everyone can hear

finished lotr!

which books do I take on break?

1) Return of the King (mandatory)
2) Logic of Scientific Discovery - Popper (can finally finish)
3) Drawing Theories Apart - Kaiser
4) Bullshit Jobs - Graeber
5) Dawn of Everything - Graeber, Wengrow
6) QFT on curved spacetimes - Bär, Fredenhagen

I don’t drive anymore but at least I get to microdose road rage when someone chooses to stand on the left side of the escalator out of the light rail station.

Thanks! Do you worry about that restricting the generalizability of the results for this poll. I ask because I suspect that pro-Luigi is a pretty online view.

my strava wrapped comes off as sarcastic lol

How does random device engagement work? I’m not familiar with pollfish

watching Dark Matter and… Clausius mentioned?!

What was the MWI debate?

Essentially the idea is to use only unitary dynamics but assume some uncertainty in the Hamiltonian then show that after long time and small h-bar limits the initial state converges to a Born rule mixture.

Been thinking about a dynamical explanation of the Born rule. Some coauthors and I proposed an approach and have a proof of concept for a simple model of a binary measurement.

are we still fighting about philosophy of science? I want in