The solution! Is always! To cultivate an intellectual community!

I mean this in the kindest way: this could be solved by creating meaningful connections with your peers/colleagues. I have a writing group and a thinking group and plenty of people to text or call with questions, and it doesn’t require draining the earth of resources or stealing work.

I would literally pay a portion of my salary back to my institution each month if they'd let me take my goddamn picture off the faculty site. No one needs this! I don't want this! Please let me go Unperceived!

“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die

Here’s to 2026

That time of year again!

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

I recommend extremely highly "take a bunch of edibles and listen to Yes: Close to the Edge"

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Harvard scientists today announced a study where they were able to piece together that you are much too hard on yourself, trying to fulfill many unreasonable expectations. You are awesome the way you are. You are loved. You have worth. Tell a friend you appreciate them. Be kind.

My love language is when people go out and bring me back food. 🥹

I want A.l. gone, I want the internet of stumbeupon back. Back when we made our niche websites and cheered each other on and the national discourse wasn’t YouTube drama

I know I’m not the first person to say it but the hyper commercialization of the Grinch story is pretty sad and a perfect illustration of the ability of capital to absorb critiques painlessly

Stay safe out there y'all

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

Because we're hot, right?

Another will smash the prison register, Another will smash the doors of the jail. Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks. —Péguy

the exclusive use of festive, ambient lighting in *all* living spaces will continue until morale improves

Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.

Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

there's a parallel between nonprofit world and academia, where there's a constant tide of idealistic, hopeful people coming in the door, and the people on top are able to lever that commitment to The Cause to extract from them in a way that's harder when everyone's just there to make a buck

finding out that Isaac Chotiner does quote dunks now too opens up the delightful possibility of a Chotiner/Derek Menswear guy tag team situation at some point

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well

Roses are red, And so are my dearests. They’re

When I arrive at the party

Poetry is here to help -- not in a self-help kind of way, but in a taking your sadness and wonder and lacing it with bracing beauty kind of way

Sometimes I wonder what the other timeline versions of me are doing. At one point I was a parent. At another I was married. And then somewhere in the midst I just huddled down and just focused on either my art or writing. To them I send all my love regardless.

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed” basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again. i feel that with my dad.

Finally, a perk

Stop trying to make Black Mirror happen, it's not going to happen (also, Butlerian jihad when)

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

This has been and will continue to be a rough week for folks who have survived sexual assault. The release of this new cache of Epstein emails makes one thing perfectly clear: so many people knew after his conviction and simply did not care.

Permit me a little maudlin gushing. I can’t tell you how good for the soul caring for animals is for me. The animals in question don’t even have to like me or acknowledge me, but spending time feeding and caring about something matters.

With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...

Honored to be featured on the freshly-relaunched @aftermath.site with this new piece! It's about AI and Fascism, and also the beloved Y2K-era teen comedy Mean Girls.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

I am increasingly distressed by the thought that university level teaching no longer can meaningfully advance the cause of humanistic progress. one shows up far too late on the scene for students who have by and large already been violently deskilled and stripped of any hope. it is heartbreaking.

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

Today is as good a day as any to look up your local DSA chapters, friends.

“You’re going to be disappointing other people or you’re going to be disappointing yourself. You have to choose.” — my partner to me today. Thought I’d mess yall up too. Thanks!

"AI is designed to kill humans, but in the most soulless way possible, stripping away even our ability to own and express our pain." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice** *this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize **for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs

Obsessed w this. 😍 anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

One of my unsupported hot takes is that the loneliness crisis is caused in part by people not being bored enough. In most of my classes the students all stare at their phones until class begins. We’ve lost the precious boredom of eventually actually being bored enough to engage with others.

You know all those "strong men build" hustle guys have never actually read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations deeply because it's basically an old man who is at the apex of his world's social order constantly complaining about how none of it makes him happy and it's all meaningless

I think one of the hardest things for decent people to understand is that sometimes folks just plain enjoy cruelty. You can not reason them out of this. There is no winning them over. So long as the permission structure to be cruel is in place, they will delight in cruelty.