1) this is true 2) devs had some insane idea that everyone wants to be a dungeon master and manage their own fediverse or whatever the fuck. No, I want to post

Really excited for this! Should be super interesting!

hm as a humanities phd, i'm noting some subtle allusions buried deep in the subtext here

This is the one i have memorized

Not exactly breaking news, but catch-22 is, sentence to sentence, extremely 🔥

anyway already seeing this classic make the rounds once more

tyler cowen keeping it normal, as always

been making this joke kinda frequently, and just opened my document to get down to business, only to discover that i had not in fact gotten far enough to have written this down at all

We need to learn from the journalistic failures during the Biden administration [literally the exact same thing immediately happens again] everyone good with doing the exact same thing?

i don't think there's a particularly strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and being a productive writer, but i do think there's a very strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and producing guides to productive writing

I strongly believe that philosophy is therapy—a way of spending a ridiculous amount of money to become more self-involved

i obviously know the administration does lots of materially bad things all the time, but it does seem like the main thing they're focused on is scheduling the most asinine public speeches

At first I had some ethical qualms about comedians performing at a he Riyadh comedy festival, but then I learned that they were being paid money to do so

If I thought acceding to fascism was an effective way to mitigate the worst outcomes, that would raise some perennial philosophical quandaries. I just see very little reason to believe that works in fact

not really a job description, but okay!

i'd say the draft of my toast for my sister's wedding this weekend is in pretty good shape. for example, the paragraph that reads in its entirety '[say something about the groom]'. pretty proud of that paragraph

Been thinking about this recently for, well, obvious reasons. But I actually do get the impulse to try to, I dunno, ‘be nice’ after someone dies. I think it’s humane and empathetic and I feel the pull. But given the facts of the discourse cycle, the conversation immediately after someone dies

we're calling it the start of history, folks

i do find it funny to log on to the site on which anyone can post anything they want at any time and go 'uh... what the hell?! why are people talking about one of the most popular pastimes rn?!?!'

When the edible hits

With Eric Adams dropping out of the mayoral race, let’s take a moment to remember one of his most unintentionally funny videos

Now seated for one battle after another LETS FUCKING GO

This footage is still my favorite. It's like Little League all over again for some of those guys in the dugout. You have that one teammate who's just better than everyone else

the Jaguars just got a delay of game on 3rd and 1 and needed to call a timeout to prevent a second delay of game on the ensuing 3rd and 6

Ideally, if all goes well, the blog post about your death can run without needing a note like this imo

my haters become my deflators when i sit down at the table of dropping out

Deflationists be like

People have been pretty critical of the Riyadh comedy festival, but I’ve found it to be hilarious personally

Gotta include the Maron reply

My mom ‘sent from my iPhone’ email forwarding a happy birthday email from an optometrist in California who checked my eyes once 12 years ago is elite mom behavior

Obviously correct

Motherfucker this is the London review of books you better take your sensitive ass back to the Atlantic

The Milgram experiment but the guy in the white coat is a chef and he's assuring me that it's ok to add more butter

Anyway here’s me at 35, an old man filled with regret

popping a tylenol and talking about my special interest for 30 straight minutes at the bar

Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode

Being sure to write that I’m the special birthday boy in all of my cover letters

i do find it funny to be like 'hey y'all, i'm a data guy who has been crunching the numbers, and it's looking like it's not good if everyone hates your fucking guts'

I don’t want to be needlessly rude about it, but I’m decisively not interested in Kamala Harris’ opinions about politics. Not for me, sorry!!!

Fully supportive of dipshits I don’t particularly like standing up against persecution from the state, but I do find it annoying that saying remedial civics bromides gets treated as profound philosophical insight

good time of year to rewatch the five year engagement: the harrowing tale of a berkeley psych phd candidate whose life is ruined when she does not get the TT job in the berkeley psych department and is consigned to the unimaginable fate of a TT job in the michigan psych department

RTs=endorsements of not-at-issue content

incredibly rude of you to ask to see the draft i told you i had. that's personal

brian's right: you're supposed to sit in your office all day and write papers that get in phil studies

i basically think your opinions on political matters should be moved around not at all by any particular act of gun violence. i guess it's nice that that seems to be broadly the case, but very much swamped by the disheartening observation that everyone posts as though the opposite is true

chotiner: your problem is, that youre perfect, and everyone is jealous of your good posts, and that makes you rightfully upset. ME: I agree

Clapping like on Family Feud going "GOOD ANSWER GOOD ANSWER"

i mean i think that's approximately correct as a description of israeli public opinion. note that the question is about *the possibility* of peaceful coexistence. i think it's reasonable to suspect that practical support for 'a two state solution' is rather lower www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

'not a monarchist but...' is, to me, a very good pseudonym. i'm excited to hear what 'not a monarchist but...' has to say, truly on any topic

not at all to divert attention from the language-specific stuff, which is more important, but this dovetails with something i've been trying to think through recently. i think in lots of little ways becoming an academic involves an alienation from broader society, and we don't talk about it much.