Philosopher specialising in empirically-informed #philosophyOfMind, #perception, and the cognitive sciences at #UniversityCollegeDublin 🇮🇪. Former software developer and sound engineer. Father of a not-so-#LittleHuman. Born at 326 ppm. Mostly #vegan.
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Last Notes npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Just an excellent group of trees. Well done! 👏 #UCDSmurfit #trees npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1tgz…446e 😂 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson FCC votes to restore net neutrality in the United States. https://apple.news/AeNdG-_VkSTm3lEH-o4wQ3g npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1r4f…0nms Sorry to hear that. 😟 Wishing you a full and speedy recovery. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson A slide from Monday’s lecture. I will not be taking further questions at this time. 😬 #philosophy #perception npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “Most people will get delayed onset muscle soreness after a tough workout, but post-exertional malaise is a different animal altogether.” #LongCovid #coronavirus https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/09/1223077307/long-covid-exercise-post-exertional-malaise-mitochondria npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson They did turn up, including some students whom I haven’t seen all semester. So that was nice. 😅 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Question is, will anybody turn up? 😬 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Girding myself for the final lecture of the academic year. (Yes, I know it’s only April!) #academia npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Finally! #Apple #iPad #iPadAir #iPadPro https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-event-has-six-artistic-logos/ npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson The seagulls of #UCD are going batshit at the moment. They seem to be trying to get into the buildings! 😳 🐦 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Finished teaching my MA Philosophy of Mind seminar with student-initiated discussions of joint action, artificial agents, and déjà vu, among other things. I couldn’t have asked for a better group of students! 😊 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson #LittleHuman’s school emailed yesterday to ‘remind’ us it was #WorldBookDay today and pupils were allowed (read: expected) to dress up as a fictional character. Cue npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1jzg…hc3a Thanks! The 10,000 character limit is certainly nice. My current instance has the same, but is currently running an older version of Mastodon that lacks search, hashtag follows, and other features. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Inconclusive. 😄 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Oh no. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson It’s 12°C in #Dublin and people are out in shorts and T-shirts. 😄 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub13vd…70yj You get the bag for the life of the bag. That’s it. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub13vd…70yj I actually tried to exchange a worn out ‘bag for life’ at Tesco the other day. They said they don’t do that scheme any more. 🤨 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Sentence from a half-remembered dream: “The world is dissolving into micro-reasons”. 🤔 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Downing Street infested with fleas after Boris Johnson’s tenure, requiring carpets to be replaced “at vast expense”. You couldn’t ask for a better metaphor. 🪰 #ToryBritain https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68841797 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Deadly West African heatwave would have been "impossible" without human-induced climate change. #ClimateCrisis https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68835575 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “The lady at the exhibition had a really strong accent. It was so Italian it was nearly French.” —#LittleHuman 😂 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson #LizTruss thinks “the whole idea that we can protect adults from themselves is hugely problematic”. The idea that we can protect adults from Liz Truss, on the other hand, turns out to be both unproblematic and hugely popular. #ToryBritain npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Fun discussion of artificial consciousness at today’s #Consciousness, Action & the Self seminar—including a live rendition of the Bee Gees’ ‘Staying Alive’! (Not by me, I hasten to add!) 🕺 😂 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson #Humane AI Pin “bad at almost everything”, say reviewers. #AI https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cljdnw77ge6o npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “As a result [patient] EVR is incapable of making a decision about trivial matters like where he should go for dinner for he becomes overwhelmed by irrelevant information. He is incapable of tagging and prioritising informational criteria as relevant or irrelevant for all criteria carry the same emotional weight.” This perfectly describes me trying to make travel arrangements. 😬 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub13vd…70yj Also, they could easily eat us. 😳 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub16xf…zxfv Exactly. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson New categorical imperative just dropped… 👣 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Yann Lecun, another ‘Godfather of #AI’, argues that “a breakthrough would require not just a smarter version of what we currently have, but a totally different kind of technology”. https://apple.news/AeQ3I2gaNRdOHzCeWnf0-pg npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson #Norway operates hundreds of ferries, some of them fully electric. #Scotland can’t even seem to manage two. 🤦♂️ https://apple.news/A8xU_dGoSRMquWS99woQBEA npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub16xf…zxfv Some of it is in plain language, yes. Other rules are encoded in the model via human-supervised training and feedback. Other restrictions may be added via pre- and post-prompt filtering. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub13vd…70yj Hypothesis: we’re living in a post-rapture world… npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson It’s an ’80s bus driver day. 🎵 🕺 #UCDSmurfit npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Conservatism has reached the point that you have to wonder what exactly they are trying to conserve. 🤔 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “What could be more democratic than voting for your preferred candidate against the advice—the warnings, the threats, the fear-mongering—of your betters?” 🤔 It’s so unfair that #Trump cannot be the forever President! https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-2028/ npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1f5t…r8ft Exactly. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson More cultural vandalism. #Erasmus membership is one thing the government could actually have done to help address this shortcoming. 🤦♂️ #HigherEducation #academia #BrexitReality https://www.politico.eu/article/brits-poor-language-skills-made-erasmus-scheme-too-expensive-says-uk/ npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Apparently this is news? #QuantumComputing #ErrorCorrection https://apple.news/AHthhzGtrSfWxdHrQWb3tpg npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Only two more essays left to grade… 😅 #academia #marking npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson #Trump appears to be playing a high-stakes game of chicken with the US legal system. At present, it’s unclear who is winning. 🤨 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Incredible find. I hope this music is finally made available to the world. #MarvinGaye https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68674814 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1x7c…46cu if A then B: A → B npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1x7c…46cu Yes. It’s shorthand for the biconditional, ‘≡’. 😄 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1tg6…7h8k Nybble npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1x7c…46cu *stares in philosopher* 😳 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson This isn’t going to happen, but it’s fun to imagine what it would be like if it did… https://apple.news/AnOqfD4CSTuSCOXhA9CeA2Q npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Cases of dysentery and Weil’s disease are soaring, and marine species are “full of cocaine, amphetamines and MDMA” due to sewage dumping. #ToryBritain #PlagueIsland https://apple.news/AU4d7jhTRTDiaeIQNjEtU6g npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit 🐇 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TKZVUtvjBdM npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1eur…d0hs That is alarming! npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Society: Turn your clocks forward by 1 hour tonight npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1hqz…lu7z Accurate. 😆 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Is #Apple about to jump the shark by adding #GenerativeAI to all of its products? Do its customers actually want this and, crucially, will you be able to switch it off? #macOS #iOS #iPadOS https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/29/what-to-expect-from-macos-15/ npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Now, can anyone recommend some good #Påskekrim to watch this weekend? 🕵️♀️ npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Well that was fun. Daft, but fun. 😊 (It got better after the first couple of episodes. Or maybe more tolerable.) #3BodyProblem npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Five ways in which #philosophy can improve your love life (apparently). https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0326/1439979-philosophy-love-life-tips/ npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Switching between social networks and accounts so often these days, sometimes I’m not sure which one I’m on! 🤪 #BlueThreadXskybookodon npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson It’s almost like privatising the Post Office was a bad idea… 🤔 #ToryBritain #PostOfficeScandal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68663750 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “40% of English and Northern Irish universities (plus 36% of Scottish ones) are expected to go into the red this year, adding that ‘it may be inevitable that there is some loss of provision’.” #HigherEducation #academia #BrexitReality https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/29/britain-universities-freefall-saving-them-funding-international-students npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Information about visiting #Scotland will be on a strictly need-to-know basis from 2026. 🤫 #VisitScotland https://apple.news/AO3SyXRTRQuuAbvFJOXl-Nw npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub19zq…u4m5 You’re screwed. 😆 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Pitch perfect. 😂 #academia #HigherEducation https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/class-is-canceled-until-further-notice-while-i-do-my-job npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1at0…tgl8 Haha, yes. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Wide-ranging discussion at today’s graduate seminar on how predictive processing theories can explain consciousness, action, belief, intention, and meditation. 😅 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson I’m no lawyer, but one thing you definitely don’t want to do if you’re about to go on criminal trial is piss off the judge. #Trump https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/dont-piss-off-the-judge?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Wife at #LittleHuman are visiting family in Germany without me because the school and university holidays don’t overlap, and I have to teach. 😢 #academia #HigherEd #UCD npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “[A]ction arises when the brain predicts what its bodily state should be and hands these predictions over to the body at the dorsal horn [of the spinal cord], after which the body as it were goes away and does its own thing until the predictions come true.” —Jacob Hohwy (2014), The Self-Evidencing Brain npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson I hope this is right. Landscape camera placement makes more sense. The only question is where the #ApplePencil goes, or will it lose its inductive charging feature altogether? #Apple #iPad #iPadPro https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/25/new-ipad-pro-to-feature-landscape-camera/ npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Nice article on Nozick’s #ExperienceMachine thought experiment, and our increasingly fraught relationship with #AI. #philosophy #PublicPhilosophy https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240321-experience-machines-thought-experiment-that-inspired-matrixs-greatest-question npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1tra…npqw A four-letter sequence the size of a five-letter sequence. 😄 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson 🤔 https://hachyderm.io/@mendel/111166006540073129 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “When you do criming, eventually it catches up to you.” —@TTbuttonguys_2020 https://apple.news/Aqrh8tS_2QDSNvueE_qTiUw npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub140v…k3te Yeah, that’s the old layout. The new one looks like this: npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub140v…k3te Does the version you are seeing have a red banner across the top or a white one? If red, it’s the old design. The new one doesn’t have politics in the navigation, at least when viewed outside the UK. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1f6j…56zy That was exactly my point. (It isn’t further down the page.) npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1f6j…56zy Yeah, that’s the old site. Here’s what the new design looks like. Note no Politics in the top banner. Perhaps it’s just a transitional problem, but the site I’m seeing is inconsistent as the Politics page still exists, but using the old layout. Curiouser and curiouser… npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1f6j…56zy Are you seeing the new layout (white banner) or the old (red banner) in the UK? I wonder if the new layout is being rolled out worldwide before to the UK, which could explain why Politics has not yet been ported. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1f6j…56zy Are you seeing the new layout (white banner) or the old (red banner) in the UK? I wonder if the new layout is being rolled out worldwide before to the UK, which could explain why Politics has not yet been ported. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1f6j…56zy Nope. It’s not there either! Or anywhere in the top menu bar. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1f6j…56zy Interesting. This is the menu I’m seeing on the website when viewed in Ireland with the new template (white banner rather than red). Politics, which used to be under ‘UK’, is missing. 🤷♂️ npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson To see what I mean go to https://www.bbc.com/news and try to find the UK politics page. You can’t because it’s been hidden from the navigation. What’s going on? 🤨 #BBC #News #UKPolitics npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson #BBCNews’ #politics page seems to be the only one that hasn’t been converted to the new design. Either they are redesigning the site in stages, or politics has been deliberately deemphasised in the new design during an election year. 🤔 #ToryBritain https://www.bbc.com/news/politics npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub14t9…hj55 In #philosophy we would simply assume that reality is a simulation and we are all in the Matrix. (I use this example, or something similar, in my classes on perceptual knowledge!) npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson The meaning of Liff. 😄 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson #macOS and #iOS use a number of fixed, but relatively arbitrary times; e.g. focus modes persist until ‘evening’, defined as 7pm, or you can schedule an email for 8am the following day. But there isn’t any way to customise these if you work on a different schedule. #Apple npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson #LittleHuman and I accidentally dressed the same today. Now he looks like mini-me, but with longer hair! 😆 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “Some people have this idea that 50 is old. But 50 is prime.” Does this mean that I’m officially past my prime? 😄 #GenerationX https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240320-gen-x-workplace-ageism npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson When I used ‘Leo Varadker is the Taoiseach’ as an example of a contingent proposition, I didn’t realise it would be false before the end of the course! The same happened with Theresa May a few years ago. I’m now considering putting money on Trump disproving the necessity of self-identity! 😆 #philosophy npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Marking a good essay is so much easier than marking a poor one. Even if there are errors, it’s clear what’s being said and where the mistake lies. In a badly written essay it’s difficult to know what the author means, let alone where they have gone wrong. #academia #marking #essays npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1e0p…chxl 😟 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson And before anyone says it, yes we are still in a pandemic. And no, it is not only my responsibility to protect myself if I’m worried about catching SARS-CoV-2. The point is *my* wearing a mask protects *you*, and vice versa. Transport and travel hubs are a high-risk environment. #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson I travelled from Ireland to Finland via Germany over the past few days and I was the *only* one wearing a face mask in the airport or onboard the plane. In a pandemic! WTF, people? Do better! 😷 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1u77…vnyg Did it pass? npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Poor #Trump. It’s not easy to get a $464m bond at short notice. What a shame. 😁 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68609685 npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “To engage with the reality of [the #COVID] crisis, we need to understand how adopting an individualist approach to public health is destroying decades of labor activism, human rights progress, and hard-won protections.” #SARSCoV2 #LongCovidAwarenessDay https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/institutional-covid-denial-has-killed npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1gca…263w I enjoyed the TV show. Yes, it’s a little bleak, but no more so than most sci-fi, or reality for that matter. Though perhaps it loses some of the drama if you’ve already read the books. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson Elon Musk incoherent and delusional? Surely not! #X https://apple.news/AY2dWBD87QWSR_keK4by6gw npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson @npub1kp0…5ugq Local variation is to be expected. That’s weather. Climate concerns the long-term global averages, which are increasing. npub18y4wgx0k3afraxlmzh0q6nthfht2r94txjd9e0u99a6tjjlu7rassfwn3y Keith Wilson “Given the strong cooling impact of SO₂, a 10% reduction in emissions of SO₂ will result in additional global warming.” #ClimateEmergency #GlobalHeating https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shipping-rules-are-affecting-global-warming/
