Actions speak louder than words, especially if the action is playing the tuba.

Merry Christmas to all who are looking forward to sitting down with new books (and to everyone else too)!

Frohe Weihnachten to all the deadpan absurdists out there.

michael stipe: stand in the place where you live santa: ok michael stipe: now face north santa: fuck you

Self-fashioning

Over the last two weeks I helped research & write this amicus brief in the Hemani case before the Supreme Court. It considers whether habitual drug users have unlimited 2nd amendment rights to purchase, own, & use weapons, rights that should overturn a federal law, & that an an appeals court upheld

Eating a tangerine just to peel something

What's the most effective thing a person can to fend off war with Venezuela?

Watching Spinal Tap II for Rob Reiner. He was a good person who did good things

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.

me: if one is not free, all are not free cashier: *confused* no you have to buy the first one to get the second free one me: this is a travesty

As a reminder, our deadline for Association Association submissions is Monday. Please consider applying

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

Here’s an adorable pig-shaped rattle from ancient Ur

I'm trying to make a list of all the PhD programs in philosophy with (TT/tenured) faculty seriously working in AI ethics. (Think about prospective graduate students looking for supervisors in AI ethics.) What's missing? Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Florida, Georgia, Purdue? (plz share)

Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?

We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes. Why? Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism. Really? Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.

Self-authorship

Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...

Three ravens aren't black www.audubon.org/news/rare-al...

Revealed preference works in both directions

Bear v. tree, thirty years ago www.sfgate.com/collegesport...

Poets are the legislators of the large language models

Radical interpretation

She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.

Inside a 250 year old French Violin by Augustin Chappuy. #music #art #photography #instruments

BBC really burying the lede there

The current Earl of Sandwich is married to an American (the Countess of Sandwich) who studied computer science at Indiana University

A self-portrait painted after van Honthorst's portrait

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Aren't you supposed to call "I got it"?

Halloween from Down Under I love Kangaroos Just had to share (sound up) 🎃🤣

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

Once people decided that vaccines didn't work, all bets were off, and any combination of beliefs was possible

Him: where are all the coffee filters? Me:

Just found out Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman. This is why I have trust issues

Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."

Have you heard the one about the infinitude of death?

I’m a blood-pumping organ at heart.

We’re planning a conference on associationism and its history, and we're calling for papers. Let me or Javi Gomez-Lavin @jglavin.bsky.social know if you’re interested philevents.org/event/show/1...