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The rise and fall of Pizza Hut in the waning days of the Cold War slate.com/news-and-pol...

Working class spectacle, working class substance -- maybe we shouldn't fall for the former? washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/12/t...

I grew up late 70's-early 80's in rural Oregon, now with fond memories of eating locally grown beans and handmade rhubarb crisp in my school cafeteria. 'Lunch ladies' were then (and still are) absolute everyday superheroes bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Just dropped: fabulous interview with Scottish philosophy legend David Hume youtu.be/OXGJJevK4MU?...

Wealth inequality harms our economy in five ways - reducing demand, wasting talent, extracting wealth, skewing investment and undermining competition. Read more about the evidence base - and how to fill the gaps in it - in our joint briefing with @acadsocsciences.bsky.social, written up here 👇

I think about this post every day 🧪

ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat... "Most immigrants are already net fiscal contributors; decreasing their numbers will only decrease their contributions."

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Are our vices increasingly vicious? Have we swapped social vices (drinking) for anti-social ones (online gambling)? archive.is/z7k1M

Call for Papers, 'Doing Right by the Digital Dead' -- deadline 15 October 2026 filozofia.sav.sk/en/mi2026

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Who really runs Britain?

1) I ❤️ radio - its synchronicity, immediacy, humanness, unpredictability 2) AM radio is a powerful democratising force, vital to rural areas and the digitally underserved. Shame on automakers who won't spend pennies to ensure its availability in new cars! www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-tec...

They're calling him the most French man in history

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education: 1) Hire manye facultye 2) Small class syzes 3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte 4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

Why real Americans will be rooting for the Blue Jays to win the World Series slate.com/culture/2025...

PhD scholarship in Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh registryservices.ed.ac.uk/scholarships...

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying will be holding its sixth biennial conference June 9-11, 2026 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. The deadline for abstract submissions is 3 November 2025. www.philosophyofdeath.org/sixth-bienni...

From Taylor's Schmidt to Taylor Swift: A History of the Work Ethic from Exploitation to the Individual as Brand

<Please circulate!> Call for abstracts, deadline 28 Feb: 5th workshop on philosophy of emotions, Zhejiang University, 5 June. The topic is grief -- honoured to be the keynote speaker! @griefyork.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...

Remember when mid-century pearl clutchers told us television would rot our brains and be the downfall of civilisation? Turns out they were right, but it took the 'Internet of television' and its endless video 'flow' to bring it to fruition www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

Hey hey you you Get off of my cloud Today’s most requested song on Amazon Music.

The inimitable Joseph Heath, on populism as anti-cognitive elitism josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-f...

All very amusing, but especially this: "The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support." www.politico.eu/article/labo...

‘the kind of public intellectualism that makes the public hate intellectuals. Instead of showing what ideas have to teach us about life, Pinker holds a gun to life’s head and demands it conform to his thought experiments’’ www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

Listen to old Frankie R: 'Those who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers who seize power by force call this a 'new order.' It is not new and it is not order.'

Jerry was not enjoying his course on Kant's metaphysics.

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Sad about Diane Keaton - will never forget her hilariously convoluted but spot on monologue in Love and Death

My daughter doing big public service stuff! 😁

M.I.T. became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment. MIT Prez says “ it would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Pretty sure only one of these is a chargeable offence

No greater aspiration for a philosopher to write an "excellent" book that is "nevertheless difficult to recommend to anyone"

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.