I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Discovering that Sam Darnold's grandfather was the Marlboro Man should not have shaken me like this but here we are

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

British person: Blimey that’s a fair few quid

This is like my mom cracking herself up by standing outside the back door loudly telling the dog to “go pee” because it sounds like a rather serious insult in Chinese (狗屁). Until one of her students walked up to find her venerable professor yelling 狗屁! out into the neighborhood.

Likewise, although mom was in academia. She single-mommed while facing, alone, all of the worst workplace behavior men could display to a woman who was smarter and more well-read and a better translator and a better chair than they would ever be.

My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

As someone who has actually worked in a regulatory agency, Parks and Rec annoys the fuck out of me. It’s sympathetic in a way, but it’s a real, sympathetic depiction of an office staffed by the dumbest 10% of people I worked with. At least season 1. I couldn’t take any more.

Tbh this has always been my gut reaction to, for example, my students being strongly encouraged in various bureaucratized ways — by those with power over them! — to share pronouns. Like, the classroom space is safe for you to share, but I will absolutely not make you do that.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

TIL that Stuart Hall -- cornerstone of cultural Marxism and founder of the New Left Review -- was at Oxford a student of JRR Tolkien, who dissuaded him from doing a contemporary literary theory analysis of Piers Plowman. Both playing their assigned roles right there! What pair of opposites.

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

The Democrat of the future is a hard-ass woke socialist CIA operative who grins like a muppet and kneecaps MAGA chodes

Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas

Damn I could have sworn he died when he fell into the lava on Mustafar

I have yet to hear any description of a bodega that doesn’t fully match the *two* family run corner stores within a block of my house in… Iowa City. The only difference being I guess that it was the 1980s and both stores are now gone. One has returned as a neighborhood butcher’s though.

I am definitely becoming a Seattle sports guy again for the first time since my 20s in order to feel something besides the polycrisis, so I’m going to need to hear everyone’s hot takes about Quinn leaving Jayden in down by 31 just so Washington can lose another franchise QB to horrific injury.

Kwakwaka’wakw mask that inspired the original Seahawks logo opened to reveal a carved human face inside, which gives me an absolutely wild idea for a throwback helmet.

Kwakwaka’wakw mask that inspired the original Seahawks logo opened to reveal a carved human face inside, which gives me an absolutely wild idea for a throwback helmet.

Collinsworth sounding like he just discovered an indy band talking about Seattle, a literal Team in the National Football League since 1976.

Zorn to Largent. Wilson to Lockett. Darnold to JSN.

JSN is a cheat code. #seahawks

*Blinks again* Seahawks score 14 more points

Have the Seahawks ever looked this dominant? Certainly not when they wore those as their regular uniforms. 2 touchdowns in 11 seconds.

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

The stadium is actually a player in this game!

Enjoy my daughter’s legit terrifying pumpkin

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Support for my long-held conviction that “peef” is an accepted singular of “peeves”

i'm sure the "faculty forum" on "reducing burnout" and "enhancing resilience" will include helpful things like "join your faculty union" and "here's a bucket of money" and "we hired a bunch of new full time faculty to reduce the teaching load across the university"

The Dutch elections and the World Series happening at the same time should mean more mentions of honkbal in my feed.

I love that roller derby went to a global tournament system before baseball has.

Expos expansion team when?

If I understand baseball correctly, it’s about time for the Dodgers to have a god dammit bullpen moment

All the Blue Jays look like children who recently wished to be turned into adults

Yesavage, Seranthony, Teoscar… what is it with the portmanteau names in the WS?

Jays seriously making it look like the Mariners could have taken the Dodgers. Yesavage is not changing my opinion about this so far.

Just drafted my midterm exam on the “History and Breadth of Geography” and I kinda want to have all of my colleagues take it! I’m sure everyone has a fresh command of Central Place Theory, Vidal de la Blanche’s “genres de vie”, and at least three examples of bioturbation.

This is 100% a story Rob Sitch would have told on Utopia.

My take on the World Series? I support Shohei Ohtani’s role as global ambassador for Oi Ocha. I’m a regular Ito En drinker and I agree with Ohtani’s take: “So much is happening these days. It makes sense to take a break for green tea.”

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Pope Clement VII is NOT going to like this

it’s oh no bullpen time for the dodgers

So the media CAN use the active voice when the police kill a living being.

Interpreter: What was the greatest challenge tonight Ohtani: Your momma Interpreter: Thats a great team we played