marxism is best-understood, not as a thesis, but as a methodology, a mode of analysis. the distinctive methodology is to be weirdly preoccupied with hitler's penis

this is like the only time ever something i've said has gotten a better response in person than in a post

When you think about it, the Leibniz–Clarke debate is about whether space is a series of tubes or a big truck

Monday: talk about epistemology of polarization Tuesday: talk about the metaphysics of sexual orientation Wednesday: fly from Indiana to Maryland Thursday: talk about event representations in perception

One would have hoped that a professional political statement giver could have done a bit better than ‘firing people for stuff they said is itself free speech actually’

One thing I did during my talk today was encourage an incredibly nice person to ask a more dickish question than they were comfortable asking because I suspected it’s what they really wanted to ask

been getting into metaethics, thinking a lot about the frege–anscombe's-husband problem

Pictured: @noamchompers.bsky.social thinking deeply while being watched over by a silly and vaguely threatening guy on the whiteboard

Dangerous woke nonsense from @noamchompers.bsky.social

Hey Olivia, what’s your type? I guess I’d say I’m really into the Keith olberman–Ryan lizza–mark Sanford–RFK jr type What?

a lotta yall still dont get it ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape so if you have 1 astro ape and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new apes

Brown bagging in west Lafayette

Men of various sizes hanging out @agholdier.bsky.social @noamchompers.bsky.social

@noamchompers.bsky.social just told @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's grad seminar that he's "familiar with the internet" and I, for one, am glad to see a philosopher saying something noncontroversial

does anyone have any thoughts about olivia nuzzi's forthcoming memoir American Canto, or the colorful personal life it documents?

I am definitely in the Midwest

need someone to fly half way across the country to talk about the epistemology of polarization and the metaphysics of sexual orientation? i literally do not know who else you could ask

If we wanted to be real strict and technical about the meaning of ‘pedophile’, then the salient thing about Jeffery Epstein is that he was much worse than that

finding it funny that journalists are such big nerds that they think olivia nuzzi is cool

putting 'you know how jews and catholics sorta vibe?' in my cover letters for jesuit institutions

yes, i am interested in the job you are advertising; no, i will not be uploading a copy of my undergraduate transcripts. it doesn't matter whether 'unofficial is okay'. i would prefer not to

donald trump doing sex crimes for decades is a distraction from the real issues: my idea for an advance tax credit for small business owners

working on a handout

this is a bop

please DO NOT call jeffery epstein a pedophile—which is TECHNICALLY incorrect—instead call him a serial rapist and sex trafficker of minors—which is i guess supposed to be importantly different for some reason nobody can quite manage to explain

blowing my mind that of all the noteworthy things about this video clip, chris cuomo's facial hair is nevertheless the most salient

Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left

You forgot to mention that his dad is this Bernstein

sometimes a lede is so bad, i go to google to learn more about the author. so it's my pleasure to introduce you to [drumroll] nora ephron's son jacob bernstein

lol

i think it's fine to go 'i think bsky's moderation policies should be different', but at this point i don't have much sympathy for super active users acting shocked about what the policies are. death threat-y stuff is gonna get you popped; act accordingly

what a gift to have 'aged out' of applying for various prestigious postdocs. i finally don't have to not get the mindcore postdoc every year

so cool that robyn's new song is about my third favorite neurotransmitter www.youtube.com/watch?v=viti...

an anonymous correspondent sent me this

I suppose my wokest opinion is that it’s generally worthwhile to try to speak in ways that don’t upset people, even if that turns out to be occasionally effortful or cumbersome

lol for sure man

i don't wanna OD on tcw posting, but because it's something of a hobbyhorse for me: the claim that 'moralism' 'precludes introspection and self-criticism' is so manifestly fatuous it's hard to believe a second person read this before publication

‘Tis the season! eczema gang, tap in 🧠

always a fun conference!

struck anew by the irony: is there anyone more self-assured, less apt to doubt his own normative convictions, less able to fold the nuance of alternative reasonable perspectives into his worldview, than thomas chatterton williams?

i have a couple paper drafts that look like this tbh

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

people say epstein is a genius, but he didn't even distinguish between content-only views and explicit format element views of mobject representations

a senior person in the field once went on a bit of a rant about how it was incorrect to use ‘they’ for a singular person because it is grammatically plural. Sorta an unremarkable story, but I always found it funny that one of the main things (cough) they worked on was Wittgenstein’s investigations

my favorite part is she frames it like she has some amazing inside info on the basis of her reporting. thank you to megyn's anonymous source for going on background to leak that 15 year olds are different from 5 year olds; i had no idea

saw a faculty office with a sign that said 'welcome to dad's office', which i imagine is very cute when your kids come to visit, and maybe hits a bit different when you have meetings with students

How bout Miami Epistemic Vice and Sonny Crockett drives a cool car around Miami, sweating cocaine, and busting guys who are engaging in self-serving rationalizations and things like that

becca rothfeld is such a sharp writer—big fan

'yes that famous guy you find annoying definitely *is* annoying, but some of the bad stuff you are attributing to him is actually a different guy you've never heard of, who is about as famous to people like me, and has a lot of identifying properties in common with the guy you're thinking of'