Twin 1: *looking sad* "I don't want summer to be finished" Twin 2: "IT'S AUTUMN!! AUTUMN!! YAAAAAA HALLOWEEN!!"
philosopher of medicine and clinical ethicist who got a gig working in gender affirming healthcare, postdoctoral affiliate in philosophy at Lancaster University, music maker, keeper of snakes, dad, he/him https://hanehtutmaung.weebly.com
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Twin 1: *looking sad* "I don't want summer to be finished" Twin 2: "IT'S AUTUMN!! AUTUMN!! YAAAAAA HALLOWEEN!!"
I have a sort of synaesthesia thing for singing voices and food. I can't quite explain it, but Tunde Baiyewu's voice from The Lighthouse Family tastes deep-fried.
I have a sort of synaesthesia thing for singing voices and food. I can't quite explain it, but Tunde Baiyewu's voice from The Lighthouse Family tastes deep-fried.
so much of it is also deeply classist
I was thinking this too. our institutional tools for suppressing abusive behaviours are very blunt instruments. perhaps this reinforces a tendency to assess more and more domains of activity in moral terms.
congratulations! really look forward to reading it!
feeding our hognose snake april–august september–march
August 31st September 1st
you are in a kink club and this guy shows up. wyd?
there's been too much hype about A.I. emulating human activity but not enough about philosophers trying their best to sound like a race of killer robots
53% of UK respondents think Harry Potter is for adults
not sure whether to celebrate something that's probably just a bureaucratic formality which I feel I didn't do anything to earn (except agreeing to give a guest lecture) but which nonetheless gives me a fancy sounding title
I'm seeing a fugue bsky.app/profile/hane...
as the pieces are 30 years apart, I've always found it a nice comparison of modern and postmodern approaches to musical ontology—Schulhoff's "in futurum" is notated to emphasise the expressive quality of the silence itself, whereas Cage's 4'33" uses silence to emphasise the contingent ambient sounds
one of the most hipster things my wife and I ever did was include 4'33" in the music for our wedding ceremony
genuinely impressed by the fugal entries and the retrograde canon between the upper and lower parts
one of my 4-year-old daughters wrote some music for me
most of the philosophers I've spoken to about it have loved it, and the ones who didn't like it were grumpy cynical types who hate everything anyway
such a tech bro molecule
north & south — I'm a man not a boy youtu.be/dR2AjtfSYb4?...
thank you for this. also I assume that in order for this to actually save any money they'd also have to spread their resources much more thinly across the increased number of students
how are these expansions to be understood in view of the redundancies and course closures we've been seeing in other UK universities? I'm struggling to see how they'd be able to sustain it given the financial crisis in higher education.
never wish for a well-functioning world until you've specified the implicit teleology in the attribution of function
2020 / 2025
gosh that's a blast from the past! the facial hair has since redistributed.
Sellars first mentions the "logical space of reasons" in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, §36. as far as I'm aware, the "realm of law" is from John McDowell's reading of Sellars in Mind and World
playclassic.games/games/advent...
did you ever have Eco Quest? sierra point and click about cleaning up the ocean
with just three more lines and some candles we can use the St George's cross to summon demons
for context, twin 1 is the smiley one in pink on the right and twin 2 is the tiny goth on the left, which captures their musical choices
their favourite bit is the dramatic leap of a minor tenth on the word "konfus"
The St. George's Cross
bedtime songs requested by my 4yo twins: Twin 1: Nat King Cole — let there be love Presidents of the USA — peaches John Fogarty — rockin' all over the world Twin 2: Creedence Clearwater Revival — who'll stop the rain Skunk Anansie — hedonism Alban Berg — act 1 scene 1 from Wozzeck 💀
what is your favourite philosophy journal? this is mine. I use it to write down all my philosophy thoughts and feelings.
this is probably the best article on the topic I've seen in the mainstream media. don't be put off by the misleading headline.
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if it wasn't historically impossible, I'd say that William Byrd was inspired by Ravi Shankar's tour of Europe in 1956
I'm convinced that The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" (1965) must have somehow been influenced by William Byrd's "The Woods So Wild" (1590) — same time signature, same melodic motif at 1:48, same open fifth drone, same mixolydian mode harmonies, "this *bird* has flown", etc. youtu.be/JFCmrJ_wo7A?...
I'm yet to rewatch Tron with my eldest kid, but recently we've had a great time watching The Terminator, Terminator 2, and E.T.
Super Mario Bros 2
yeah I once refereed a paper for a commercial journal with high open access fees. I've recommended rejection three rounds in a row but the editor kept deciding R&R. my language got less tempered with each round.
another reason to hate that "to philosophers of easy virtue" guest post is that the player metaphor has made it hard for me to read your posts about being a gamer in philosophy in a non-suggestive way
Paterson Joseph, who plays Johnson, used to be mutuals with me on Twitter! one of the few things I miss about that site
I have soft spots for Super Hans and Johnson
just approved the proofs of my chapter for a forthcoming edited volume. looking forward to spotting a typo after casually glancing at a random page when it's published
"the swan and paedo"
and philosophers of medicine are a bunch of sickos
this is just nick land's fanged noumena
given that he has always tended to represent a triumphalist fantasy for a sort of nostalgic british exceptionalism that valorises whiteness and patriarchy, I can see why people struggle to think of him as anything but a cishet white man
I recently saw this in Freiburg bsky.app/profile/hane...
Sam Altman reminds me of this Mitchell and Webb sketch (from 0:25) youtu.be/f9L84x15fk4?...
I once saw a poll for "which cryptid would you most like to fuck" and Mothman was the clear winner
4hero — mr kirk's nightmare (immortal minds mix 1997) youtu.be/YY583wboB9c?...
yeah we bad
an innocent man
that's what I call making it explicit
email from the head of school today about departmental restructuring
oh buddy, same
awesome! I look forward to this. I really liked your previous Analysis paper on externalism
... I'm thinking of Smith's moral sentiments, Hume's "slave of the passions", Rousseau's focus on sensibility, Newton's turn to alchemy in reaction to the "atheist" threat of Descartes' mechanical philosophy, & the shift in musical taste away from learned counterpoint toward galant sensibility (2/2)
I've been thinking about how bizarre it is that the Enlightenment gets called the "age of reason", especially as so much of it seems to involve a reaction to the rationalism of the 16th–17th centuries. if anything, it seems more like the "age of sentiment" ... (1/2)
can't resist the cry of the flesh
I feel like I'm living in some alternate clown universe
Skee Lo "I wish"
the cabinet of dr caligari
yes, the use of a sub is a sophisticated code for their intention to SUBvert the democratic will
this made me think of La Primavera by Sash. just listen to when those horns take over the melody at 2:03 youtu.be/G1FGLge7cyc?...
Thomas Kuhn when he just wants to solve a puzzle
I've still never tried it bsky.app/profile/hane...
yeah it was a challenge! but I think it eventually paid off, as it gave me a better grasp of how to solo around his idiosyncratic harmonies, e.g., hanehtutmaung.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/...
was clearing out some papers accumulated over the years and found this old attempt by me at transcribing a Thelonious Monk solo
Isabelle Huppert
now that's a US-UK special relationship I can get behind
I've always wanted to be one of those people who catches dangerous snakes that have wandered into people's houses and relocates them in the wild. however, there aren't so many dangerous snakes in the UK.
a philosophising snake-catcher
if it happened in the UK it would've been a doner kebab
always a lot going on with male pattern baldness bsky.app/profile/hane...
ope gangnam style
happy birthday!!
more broadly, people have worried about human creative activities being emulated by nonhuman automata for centuries. here's Johann Joachim Quantz writing in the 18th century about the philosophical implications of musical automata (from David Yearsley's "Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint")
der absoluter wifeGeist
reading Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations as a self-help book
bill & ted's bogus journey
the second attempt is just as good bsky.app/profile/geof...
John *E* Kennedy 🤣🤣
as shown in this interview, Christopher Reeve understood the character of Superman better than anyone. Dean Cain is a fucking joke. youtube.com/shorts/a2eF9...
such an absolutely gorgeous city
*skink shame
that's also obviously what they did with elephants. just labradors with tusks and long noses
congratulations! this looks great
