Heard a writer say how much she loves predictive text as it’s a warning you are about to lapse into a tired old cliche and should look for a different expression.
Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke
This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.
“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking
The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.
Higher education friends: do students at your school declare their majors electronically? If so, what application / program do you use? My school still does everything with pen and paper, and I’m wondering whether good electronic options are out there. Thanks!
gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.
Replacing Great Man of History Theory and Structural Theory of History with Worst Web Forums Theory of History
One thing that has really surprised me about what’s happened in Minneapolis: outrage can overwhelm fear, for many more people than I would’ve guessed. It feels really encouraging to me
Everything is about Race except for Race, which is about Gender.
This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
It should go without saying that marching heavily armed agents dressed for war through the city park isn’t about finding undocumented people. It’s about trying to scare families who aren’t white away from using parks and other public spaces. It’s resegregation by fear.
when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus
lmao masculinity is beyond parody
Hey academic philosophers!
- Love working, but hate getting paid for it?
- Looking to help push Informa PLC’s profit margin up past 30%?
The British Journal for the History of Philosophy is here to help.
Contact me if you’d like to review any manuscripts in early modern philosophy.
the president may not like the idea of spending $7 billion on after school programs, but it IS NOT UP TO HIM. what this administration asserts, again and again, is that the president has sovereign authority over nation
We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps
You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.
It's a lie.
Youth pastor voice: You know who else took on a globally important leadership role at the age of 33?
A philosophy professor, citing Trump's and Hegseth's incursions on academic freedom, resigns from her position as the Admiral James B. Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics at the Naval War College...
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
Huh then I probably stole it from you too?? Receipt(=blogpost): obscureandconfused.blogspot.com/2011/02/lame...
I understand that it's possible that people *could* be doing this sophisticated defensible thing when they do that apparently stupid thing. But, actually, they're not, they're just doing the stupid thing. The principle of charity is not backed by any sociological law, I am sorry to say.
Yes! the principle of charity seems at best methodologically appropriate in a philosophy seminar room (= when evaluating positions in light of all available evidence), but not when we’re trying to explain humans’ actual behavior, like a historian, psychologist, sociologist, or JOURNALIST should
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
