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More Holocaust deniers 😢

Trump’s Deportation Frenzy Echoes the Fugitive Slave Hunts of the 1850s | Washington Monthly Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

Sadly apt

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/11/t...

Was traumatized by 2017-2020. Now for the sequel!

Yes, the green, but the font of the white!

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

KDHX to stop broadcasting live, citing financial challenges KDHX board president Gary Pierson said in a Friday afternoon announcement that the station lacks the resources to continue in its current form.

Anyone wanna buy a radio station? www.stlpr.org/arts/2025-01...

philosophers today

Politics and Prose Presents Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva in conversation with David Zirin 1/17 @ 7pm P&P Conn Ave

My Canary Mission page

I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC.

I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.

They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

Diarrheatical Materialism

The whole thing is worth reading

funny discourse where tech guys go 'i cannot tell the difference between LLM output and stuff written by professional humanists' and humanists are like 'exactly: *you* can't tell the difference'

2024 APA Prizes: Fall Edition - American Philosophical Association 2024 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies (Claremont McKenna College)2024 Article Prize: Lindsay Brainard (University of Alabama at Birmingham), “The Curious Case of Uncurious Creation,” Inquiry (2023)

Obligatory brag: My book The Philosophy of Envy was awarded the Joseph B. Gittler Prize (which in my head I keep calling Glitter) by the American Philosophical Association My prize was announced earlier, but now everyone else’s been announced too. Congrats to all the winners!

Donald Trump’s Victory, the Elitism of Democrats, and the Need to Build a Hospitable Left Analyzing the 2024 election and its aftermath.

"The problem is that the bottom of the Democratic Party literally fell out."

here an excerpt from @danieldenvir.bsky.social's interview of @keeanga.bsky.social

hammerandhope.org/article/elec...

We're killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists. The Israeli army spokesperson's announcements about casualty numbers have turned this into a competition between units. If Division 99 kills 150 people, the next unit aims for 200. Recently discharged Division 252 officer

When I described Israelis hunting Palestinian children for sport I was not exaggerating or being purposefully outrageous. It is literally what the IDF is doing in Gaza. They are actually, literally, shooting civilians for fun.

www.instagram.com/p/DDxdPV1v1BN

Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't

This is brilliant. And, if you’ve never seen _All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace_, change that in the next 72 hours

www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bbc-al...

Sweet from Howie hua reads: pro tip, instead of cooking your turkey for 4 hours at 350° f tomorrow, save some time by cooking it for one second at 5,040,000° f

When I read conversations about "accelerating learning" I can't help but think of this @howiehua.bsky.social classic:

Yum

Snitches get stitches. Unless you’re denied coverage—then, no stitches

You know who else pardoned his son all of his sins?

Welcome @bufordrat.bsky.social (Matt Teichman) to bluesky! Matt started his philosophy podcast well before others in 2009. The interview I did with him and Charlie Wiland was both fun and philosophically deep (but I'm biased). Give his podcast a listen and him a follow! You won't regret it. #philsky

If utilitarians knew how much their view pains me, wouldn’t they finally have to stfu about it?

Zeno Vendler knew some impressive specimens.

don _hertzfeldt Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you're hunting, to feel like you're living your life. I'm going to the movies, I'm going to this show. What streaming has done-it's very convenient, but it's taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we're all just being fed. We're all farm animals that are just being fed, and we're being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We'll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone's depressed.

This hit my weak point for massive damage

Pretty clever how your paper’s thesis is vindicated even if I were to doze off while reading it…. Win/win

Agenda47: The American Academy | Donald J. Trump For President 2024 President Trump announces a plan to revolutionize higher education by shifting excessively large endowments from private universities toward a new institution called the American Academy.

The plan: replace accreditation & “take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments… to endow a new institution called the American Academy.”

FYI #AcademicSky

www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/age...

Something grim but also fitting about university administrators pretending 20 year olds protesting a genocide was a threat to their very existence and a few months later realizing that maybe there was actually a much bigger threat