Bill Nye the Wissenschaft guy

men used to philosophize with a hammer; now they hit their cheekbones with a hammer 😔

they should re-create the 1908 Red Special on an Amtrak line

silence, AI agent. I approach the nuances of this software with a prudent and refined phronesis that you could not begin to imagine

“It gives a touch of cheerful enjoyment to exegetical studies to watch the athletic exercises of interpreters when they con­front these sayings of Jesus about wealth.” Rauschenbusch

First Things carved out an annoying niche, but theological libs since about 1990 have been too shy (or embarrassed?) to reiterate without equivocation: autonomy is the true vision of humanity, the goal of human existence, and compatible with Gospel truth. All else is imbecile dogmatism

please actually read Max Weber

this is still when analytic theology peaked

we have a crisis of impressionable young men — they’re spending hours tuned into the carnap/heidegger debate

guy who accepts Barth’s polyamory but none of his theology

Chat with the real Augustine at civitas permixtAI

do wish they’d stop describing the next big evangelical as “media-savvy.” It’s like calling rain wet. Post-hippie casualness paired with technological know-how and fundamentalist theology gave rise to contemporary evangelicalism

this book was a wild ride. I read the re-released version from Princeton where the author talks about the need to carefully generalize her analysis since it was released (2011), with social media, crypto, and online betting. For the less careful (me), it’s hard to see the relevance everywhere.

right wing troll showed up to our town’s pride event in mask and camo, streaming on his phone. He was standing between the face painting station, the shaved ice stand, and families playing cornhole. It is a skill to be that pathetic lol

“What’s this 10 year gap on your resume?” My silent decade. I was developing my system

“The comic situation in which orders are carried out literally but not according to their meaning is well known. Thus there is no doubt that the recipient of an order must perform a definite creative act in understanding its meaning.” Gadamer

JD Vance reading Magnifica Humanitas

“I would argue, however, that what is truly irresponsible is Realpolitik, the form of political “realism” that sows in consciences and in society an attitude of resignation to the inevitability of war…” Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas

“Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people.” - Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas

“When efficiency becomes the ultimate measure of value, human beings are tempted to see themselves as a project to be optimized rather than as persons called to relationship and communion.” Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas

Takeout/deliver from Olive Garden doesn’t count, because when you’re there, you’re family

Luke Bryan’s “fish, hunt, golf, drink” is so bad because contemporary country relies on the mindless repetition of market-tested signifiers over narrative or conflict. This song just takes it to an extreme so sounds like a parody

“Why are grads booing AI?” Because they know AI has become the wet dream of the US corporate hack class. Dubious productivity gains with short term bonanza stock activity and the idiot-ification (if not disappearance) of entry and mid level work just feels gross and deserves scorn

Bernie posting Leo. the Catholic-DSA coalition needs to be bigger

“why didn’t they teach us this in school? 🧐” Not only did they teach it in school, it’s in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry on that topic

terrified some hacker now has access to my Canvas messages. Student: “I forgot the assignment can I still turn it in?” Me: “sure yeah that’s fine.”

you’re looksmaxxing when you should be universalizing your maxxims

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”