I hate the framing “what will AI do” to XYZ. Conveniently hides *who* is benefitting and who is bearing the consequences

fun short read for the real Kant sickos out there

Nico hoerner balling out this year

Sing we need higher marginal tax rates

it’s not a bubble bro I swear

a copy of Kant’s first critique next to the Emmy. GOATed Zoom setup

simpletons and charlatans. Every last one of them

letting far right Catholics and Protestants argue until liberalism wins by default is a viable option

inspired by Artemis II since they’re opening up the lunar economy for me to leverage AI and make data-driven decisions

on this topic, but actually good, I recently enjoyed Sophia Rosenfeld’s new book “The Age of Choice”

hall of fame, s-tier crank commentary in WaPo today

Guy who studied fundamentalist theology at a third-rate reformed seminary to his finance major wife: “I make the money decisions.”

Genuinely idiotic thing to believe. It is a sacrifice of one’s dignity as a moral agent to obey *anyone* without justification. At that point, you’re in the egalitarian realm of reasons, validity, and legitimate expertise

Judith Shklar thought this claim of “social theology” represents "dogmatic intolerance" and ignores the uncertain or remote the effects of religious doctrine on society. Shklar said that “there are few theories that assume more and explain less than this one.”

citation inflation must be stopped. You shouldn’t feel the need to cite the newest and “best” at every turn. Dive into the primary sources and make stuff up. Creative misreadings are often the most generative

Ordered my first box of baseball cards in 20+ years. Needed to break the routine of this dreadful winter and look forward to baseball, spring, etc

US men’s should not have partied with Kash Patel for a thousand reason, but an overlooked reason is giving a man who is clearly never invited to parties an experience he has always wanted

ah, the email is marked urgent. very cute

this book is where it’s at. About time somebody fleshed out the Taylorian idea of articulation as critical to moral theory and the experience of values

Pleasantly surprised to see a deep dive into Dorrien in Jacobin. I think ive read most of what he has put out and my current book project is basically just playing on the field he’s so laboriously reconstructed jacobin.com/2026/02/dorr...

AO Hirschman showed this “perversity“ has not changed in 200 years, especially among some Catholics. Unfortunately there’s a market for this recycled slop

[nods in Montesquieu and Shklar]

if I saw Socrates in the agora asking questions I’d hit him with the “wouldn’t you like to know weather boy”

saw someone describe another philosopher as “Temu Zizek.” Not sure how you recover from that

as a maxim, you should never talk to a social media sidewalk interviewer for any reason

shit slaps

BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES

“stop being fat, starting using AI, consider gambling in your free time.” the peak of capitalist innovation might be this bleak

the state is murdering its citizens in cold blood

1/4 of Republicans are pure fascists. Almost 60% are just about there

On Not Giving The Foul Ball You Caught To A Kid: An Augustinian Approach

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

MSM reporting that Macron has a medical condition because they’re frightened of a Frenchman with drip smdh

I am NOT a Toniebox parent; you going to fall asleep to

getting into trouble this weekend

Trump *just* justified his own masked thugs using lethal force a protestor

cmon

you know this slaps hard for the “can’t-read-a-book” crowd

vague, un-falsifiable, and asymmetric motion. But the real issue is the lack of Hegelian representation to argue that the state is the march of God in history.

finding promotion announcements on LinkedIn and commenting “omg congrats! You told me you hated it there?”

oh you’re a lobbyist? Tell me how this building receives occupants, mediates between exterior and interior, controls circulation, and displays the building’s public identity.

seeing too many alt-ac humanities PhDs starting fancy Instagram accounts. You shouldn’t even know how to use one of those fancy small mics

this is what Rawls had in mind when he talked about an “overlapping consensus”

friend asked for critical theory for Christmas. Sent him the starter pack

made a deep dish pizza at home on my lunch break. there are no rules and you can do whatever you want

cheat code: go through life asking if something is maxim-universalizable-coded

nation’s uncles emboldened before Thanksgiving as President posts on social media just like them

finished a good book on US secularism. Near the end tho he brought up the (correct) point that postliberals left and right liked Taylor’s Secular Age for different reasons. But he made Taylor sound more reactionary than I remember. I thought it was more Taylor reception than the actual text