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Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
I teach philosophy at Purdue
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See, the line of an upper part of a cartoon frame is a line like a clothesline in a way that you hadn't considered

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Constructive geometry

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the challenge for the penguin tonight is going to be staying on message, talking about the issues where he has a polling advantage, rather than, as he often does, going off on tangents and getting drawn into questions about batman's identity

Batman (1966) Penguin and Batman having a TV debate
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Neptune & its moons by JWST, 2022. 🔭 🧪

In this version of Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image of Neptune, the planet’s visible moons are labeled. Neptune has 14 known satellites, and seven of them are visible in this image.

Triton, the bright spot of light in the upper left of this image, far outshines Neptune because the planet’s atmosphere is darkened by methane absorption wavelengths captured by Webb. Triton reflects an average of 70 percent of the sunlight that hits it. Triton, which orbits Neptune in a backward orbit, is suspected to have originally been a Kuiper belt object that was gravitationally captured by Neptune.

Credit:
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
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At a dinner party last night, three of the prongs broke off of my fork, but I still had a good tine.

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Re-upping this one as I work on this "easy" paper

Red flag hanging on a white wall that says "we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy"
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This 2,200 year-old mosaic panel from Ptolemaic Egypt, with an adorable dog seated next to a knocked-over gold wine jug, once decorated a floor in the royal quarter of Alexandria. antiquities.bibalex.org/Collection/D...

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

A writer sits in her publisher's office and says:
"I've got an idea for a story that examines multiple outcomes for each action."

The publisher's three possible replies are depicted:
1. I love it!
2. Hmm. It might work.
3. That sounds terrible.

Depending on the publisher's reply, she leaves the room saying:
I'll send you a draft in three months.
or
To hell with you! I'll write it anyway.

Both versions lead to an image captioned "Nine years later..." which shows the writer surrounded by notes and drafts, saying "Finished! Finally!" and this leads to images of the writer holding either:


1. a rejection letter
2. a sheaf of polite reviews
3. a Nobel prize

And yet, inevitably all the possibilities land with the same image:
The writer's gravestone lit by the moon.
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A paper I wrote on the development of Hume's views on belief appeared in the Journal of Modern Philosophy: jmphil.org/article/id/1...

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Natural kinds

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A periodic table, titled “Can I lick it?” color-coded by the relative wisdom of licking each element.
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Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
I teach philosophy at Purdue
79 followers211 following87 posts