Alex Sieber

I 💙 Bluesky.

89% of Democrats and 19% of Republicans hope to see a woman president in their lifetime.
(@today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251121-top...

Meanwhile, the new Ken Burns documentary is amazing.
#pbs

Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains

Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/m...

FIFA Will Award Its Own Peace Prize Next Month in Washington

Gross.

FIFA Will Award Its Own Peace Prize Next Month in Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

And they laughed at him.

BREAKING: A MOMENT OF REFLECTION IN THE LONGUE DURÉE

Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous "The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...

RIP

dailynous.com/2025/07/28/j...

People in prison explain what music means to them — and how they access it Three people incarcerated at prisons across the U.S. spoke to NPR's Morning Edition about how music helps them reconnect with the past, endure the present and envision the future.

People in prison explain what music means to them — and how they access it. Story via @npr.org

Ali's draft card could fetch up to $5M at auction Muhammad Ali's unsigned Vietnam-era military draft card is coming up for sale and could draw an estimated $3 million to $5 million.

www.espn.com/boxing/story...

"Swimming is the closest thing I have to a religion. It’s one of life’s few experiences where the world isn’t pushing you back. A good swim means losing all sense of time." – Judith Butler

It’s Time for Complementary Currencies By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Introduction Zohran Mamdani’s landslide win was not just a local upset—it was a turning point. It proved that member-led, volunteer-powered campaigns c…

Intro to complementary currencies @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/28/i...

YouTube video by Charlie Berens AI Data Mines in Wisconsin – Manitowoc Minute Special Report

www.youtube.com/shorts/ez7YV...

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members.

If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

Opinion | The Truth About Detransitioning

The Truth About Detransitioning www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Check out "Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment" from Signs and read how trans-exclusionary feminists' definition of womanhood is shaped by "ressentiment." Find it here: ow.ly/8NTH50WttHN @signsjournal.org

A Party's Brand Is Built on Trust. So Why Are Democrats Treating Their Supporters Like Marks? The Fundraising Frenzy Invades Text Messages

The line between online political fundraising and an outright scam feels like it's disappeared. I wrote about the deceptive tactics—the fake "400% matches," the guilt trips targeting the vulnerable, the absurd narratives—and why the Democrats’ embrace of these tactics is harming the party brand.

update: Morgan Wallen is in Miami.

My cat worships a printer because she thinks it is also a food dispenser. 🖨️🙏😺

It looks like a woodpecker.

"... Needless to say, no one who shares a
delusion recognizes it as such."

Is it time to bring back natural philosophy? - ABC listen Once upon a time, what we now call scientists were known as "natural philosophers". These were people who studied the physical universe through observation and logic, using philosophical methods and r...

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

You need an intervention.

Kevin Okoth · The Pessimist’s Optimist: Beyond the Postcolony Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never...

"But Mbembe has already made up his mind. For him, neo-sovereigntism has little to do with Pan-Africanism. In fact, it represents its opposite: a retreat into a limited and parochial vision of the world."

The Pessimist’s Optimist www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Teaching AI to admit uncertainty Johns Hopkins researchers show how different "odds" can teach AI models to admit when they're not confident enough in an answer

hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/26/t...

Coyote pups at Graceland Cemetery!

Line chart showing steep increase in the share of Republican X users who say the platform is good for American democracy, decrease among Democrats since 2021.

The share of Republicans on X who say the platform is mostly good for American democracy has risen from 17% in 2021 to 58% today. Democrats’ views have moved in the opposite direction. www.pewresearch.org/...

Decolonizing dignity - Contemporary Political Theory Few concepts in the western theoretical canon warrant decolonial scrutiny more than that of dignity. This paper begins from the well-known bifurcation between a hierarchical dignity-as-status and the ...

"Decolonizing Dignity" by Geo Maher
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Truly impressive to beat the global pandemic on this one

😑