Just as Goodman predicted! www.popsci.com/environment/...

Film club with the kids has reached a critical moment. I want to drop "Pink Floyd: Live in Pompeii" on them; they are not exactly thrilled and are threatening to reply with "Trolls: World Tour". It's a stand-off.

Bhangra night in SF

Today marks one year since I started sitting with the Quakers on Sunday mornings. Coincidentally, while writing out a sticky name tag on the way in I found that they had made me a permanent laminated label to use, just like the regulars. Which I suppose I am at this point? >>

Earth, Wind, and Fire!

No comment needed open.spotify.com/track/5n1P2I...

Uplifting group of women bringing a groove #NoKings

#NoKings Oakland, with my daughter Dylan fighting the power 👊🏽

I’m happy to have signed this open letter protesting the rise of fascism around the world and defending principles of democracy and intellectual freedom. Please consider supporting this global initiative - especially on the eve of Trump’s gratuitous military parade. stopreturnfascism.org

“Thought is a way of concealing truth.” -Alan Watts More great epigraph material :)

Sly Stone to Miles Davis: “Get your mother-fuckin ass out, don’t ever play that voodoo shit here” 😂 Legend ❤️

RIP 😥

Is Elon the Darth Vedar character who brings down the emperor from within?

It felt timely that at my kid’s middle school graduation today a bunch of diverse students lined up on stage to offer the same welcome greeting in the following languages: Amharic Arabic Bengali Cantonese French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Malay Mandarin 👇🏽

what did ya’ll think “globalize the intifada” meant? vibes? papers? essays?

Another thing from the meditation retreat: I think it was on day 3 that it dawned on me that Putnam’s model theoretic argument is *obviously* correct. I mean, duh. *Of course* representation isn’t a thing! 👇🏽

I recently completed my first silent meditation retreat. 5 days of uninterrupted mindfulness. It was absolutely incredible, both personally and philosophically. I hope to write about the experience at some point but here is one take-home: 👇🏽

Friday koan for you: Medicine and sickness correspond to each other. Whole earth is medicine. Where is your true self?

I saw the imax re-release of pink floyd live in pompeii. Good times. One thing that stood out is how integral Nick Mason and especially Richard Wright were to their sound back then. Wright in particular seemed to be conducting things.

Chat on what it's like to hear the sound of miles davis. Takes a bit of prompting, hang in there it gets interesting...🧵

Tell me this thing isn’t sentient

I have not attended "free palestine" protests (because I am not pro war) but I am very glad that UC Berkeley has largely avoided inventing or selectively enforcing bullshit standards to shut them down. Sadly, U Michigan now looks to have joined the ranks of those that do (link below).

I have not attended "free palestine" protests (I am not pro war) but I am very glad that UC Berkeley has largely avoided inventing or selectively enforcing bullshit standards to shut them down. Sadly, U Michigan now looks to have joined the ranks of those that do (link below).

The standing desk thing is so 2010

Hey @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social - was it you who posted a while back about listening to early Pink Floyd and finding it meh? Try Ummagumma, first 4 tracks. Live versions of the early stuff. I found it much more compelling than the studio versions. Maybe they were essentially a live act back then.

Leftists: Down with neoliberal economics! Trump: HAPPY NOW??

I’ve tried to deliver my 24-hour talk for years now but EVERY TIME they stop me at 60 minutes for q&a. Fascists.

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked” —Allen Ginsberg, trying to print a handout in the Berkeley philosophy department

Elowyn asked me a great question today over lunch: If you could be dropped into any three music concerts ever, which would they be? My answer, admittedly reflecting recent biases: -Pink Floyd "In The Flesh" tour 1977. Where they played Animals and Wish You Were Here. Peak Floyd, I think.

I have a film club with the kids and these are the films I showed them in March. All three selections landed well! I was particularly impressed by how open they were to 2001. Dylan loved the Hal sequence and Elowyn was transfixed by the apes.

Oakland street life (Watch to the end)

Little write up in the local paper www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Nor will I stop saying what I think, stop traveling, or start wiping my hard drives when I do so. Again, why would I want to live in a place where freedom of movement and expression is not a thing? Anticipatory obedience feels like conceding the whole point.

I’m 17 years a green card holder, and last week I did start thinking it might be time to bite the bullet and apply for citizenship. But on second thoughts, no. Why would I want to be part of a country that wouldn’t want me here on a green card?

Teacher: Where are you going? Student: Around on pilgrimage. Teacher: What is the purpose of pilgrimage? Student: I don't know. Teacher: Not knowing is most intimate. Just came across this Koan and it brilliantly fits the models of mystical experience I'm working on! Epigraph material.

How I read them

Dear Columbia President Armstrong, In this one instance Nancy Reagan was right: Just Say No.

Just sent this. @chancellorlyons.bsky.social

It would be better to give up all federal money than to give up the soul of the university like this.

Big academic accounts, pls share! 🎓✊ @academic-chatter.bsky.social @acs.org @apsphysics.bsky.social @cenmag.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @nationalacademies.org @sciam.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @socphilpsych.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Big academic accounts, pls share! 🎓✊ @academic-chatter.bsky.social @acs.org @apsphysics.bsky.social @cenmag.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @nationalacademies.org @sciam.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @socphilpsych.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Time is of the essence! Columbia’s deadline to respond to the Trump administration’s letter is this Weds. Please consider signing and distributing this open letter in solidarity asap. @apaphilosophy.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

To those concerned about the recent attacks on Columbia University and their potentially far-reaching implications for freedom of expression and academic freedom at American universities - please consider signing this open letter in solidarity. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

HEY @American academics🗽👩‍🎓✊👨‍🎓🤓🔥- Get on this! It will take you 90 seconds to read and sign. Already a few hundred signatures- let's make it *THOUSANDS*

To those concerned about the recent attacks on Columbia University and their potentially far-reaching implications for freedom of expression and academic freedom at American universities - please consider signing this open letter in solidarity. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

May you be well May you be free from harm May you be happy and healthy May you live with ease May you be safe May you be at peace

It's important for academia that Columbia does not fold in response to yesterday's letter. How can we at other institutions best stand in solidarity? Statements? Strike? The latter may be terrible optics but I feel this is a line in the sand that must not be conceded lightly.

In 1967 a faculty committee at UChicago prepared "a statement on the University's role in political and social action“, affirming its "commitment to the academic freedom of faculty and students in the face of suppression from internal and/or external entities“ ⬇️ provost.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...

It's important for academia that Columbia does not fold in response to yesterday's letter. How can we at other institutions best stand in solidarity? Statements? Strike? The latter may be terrible optics but I feel this is a line in the sand that must not be conceded lightly.

Dear lord let me not have to drink Californian red for the next 4 years.