Apropos of everything, I'm just going to say explicitly: Canada should increase immigration. If our housing stock and social services can't absorb new immigrants fast enough, then we should raise taxes on Canadians to pay for more social housing, healthcare, and education.

If you know, you know.

My art history professor was almost embarrassed about how unsubtle the post-colonial analysis of this painting had to be. Like, as academics, we want our analyses to be *smart*. But all you can do is look at this painting and be like, "Well, that's super racist."

The Isaac Chotiner interview I'd most want to read? Andy Cohen, on the ethics of reality tv and making money by turning people's mental illness and pain into mass entertainment.

Volume I of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy now published! journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn... #philsky

I will pay for a show that is Planet of the Apes with dolphins. Paul Gross is in the Charlton Heston role, and all the dolphins have Newfoundland accents for some reason.

"The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume." HUGE NEWS. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Yesterday, the world was quite close to an apocalypse.

If you bake, you know what's going on here. A two-crust fruit pie with shortcrust pastry is much, much, MUCH harder to make well than a cheesecake. A good cheesecake is easy to come by. A pie that's actually good? Surprisingly hard to find.

It's tv and not a movie, but I wonder more often than I should about how Philip and Elizabeth Jennings handled the fall of the USSR.

A highly educated society is a better society. Everyone with the desire & ability should be able to go to university. Individuals & society benefit, whatever the subject, so education costs should be subsidised. Public research is a common good. That, apparently, is a controversial take.

I love to think about the time I was in a group of advocates in a meeting with my city's mayor, trying to convince him to support a rapid transit plan. That was meeting was the first time the mayor learned of self-driving cars, and that was all he wanted to talk about for the rest of the meeting.

I wonder if we'll hear about it when these guys realize you can feed an LLM-produced essay back into the same LLM and tell it to critique the essay.

Listening to these back to back, to welcome the damp, premature dusk.

This is also my prediction. An increasingly clear demarcation between education for the ruling elite and education for the working masses.

I've spent my whole life hearing Americans say "Only in America!" about things that are utterly normal in my country and any number of others.

Christmas level: extreme.

Amazing choice on the part of European painters to spend centuries making children look as creepy as possible.

Whenever a decision-maker starts talking about "nice to haves" versus "have to haves," they're telling you what they're about to take away from you. (I am probably late figuring this out. Forgive me.)

It’s World Philosophy Day. Go hug some wisdom.

It's important for everyone to know that Elon Musk's LLM is engaging in Holocaust denial. I'll also add that all of the arguments here (about architectural plans and gas residue left in materials on site) were refuted decisively in the 1990s. There is *nothing* here but 30 year old falsehoods.

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

Three of my ten favourite songs of 2025 are overly-long, moody, slow burns. A fourth is a shorter, moody, slow burn. Probably means everything's fine?

Mid-budget TV sci-fi from the 1990s through the 2000s all takes place in a shared universe and it turns out that universe is UBC.

My biggest pet peeve is academics who use 'method,' 'methodology,' and 'epistemology' interchangeably. They mean different things!!

You know you've got a great metaphor when you have to write a whole other paragraph to explain how it works

Absolutely not kidding about Christmas.

Rosalía has not been on my radar. In my defence, no one ever told me she puts a chamber orchestra, hyperpop mania, and Bjork all in the same song.

They should invent a synonyms for 'primitive' that doesn't have such racist connotations.

I was shattered. Shattered like the cheap ceramic plates that explode into a million pieces when dropped, pieces that can never be fully swept up despite best efforts, its shards stabbing into your soles when least expected, into your soul. I’ve always hated those plates.

The Axe Bodyspray CEO thinks Axe Bodyspray could make spotty 16-year-olds irresistible to supermodels, and even double the number of dates they go on each year. Why doesn't Anderson Coooer interview the Axe Bodyspray CEO?

"Play a train song, pour me one more round / Make 'em leave my boots on, on the day they lay me down." RIP to a real songwriter.

The arguments about the word 'pedophile' remind me very much of recent arguments about the word 'genocide.' In both cases, I want to say, "Suppose I concede all your points about the technical definition of that word. Exactly what argument do you think you've won?"

UPDATE: Zeller has made it back in, in a footnote! Follow for more updates on whether Eduard Zeller makes it into this draft in any shape or form.

Slow and plodding. What everyone is looking for in their history of philosophy!

I did not anticipate the guy who co-wrote the song from the FAST & THE FURIOUS becoming one of the clearest, most plainspoken advocates for the existential significance of human-made art.

Incredible punchline. "I was born as a very young child."

Most people should eat a mostly vegan diet most of the time. In other words, the most annoying vegan you've ever met is still mostly right.

JC Superstar, because it works on all important levels: 1. Great exploration of central topics of christology; 2. Sick as hell funky odd meter bass lines and drum grooves.

Successfully pushing and challenging yourself to do things you couldn’t initially do when you first willed yourself to do them feels great actually! Our war against waged labor should not also be a baby-with-the-bathwater war against creative labor and other kinds of concentrated striving.

I always encourage my students to talk about the differences they find comparing GENEALOGY 1&2 and THE GAY SCIENCE. This gets it exactly.

“The will to power” isn’t leather trenchcoats and sadism, the will to power is practicing the same two bars of music over and over at half tempo for as long as it takes until you can play it perfectly at full tempo.

Lol I thought I might squeeze in a paragraph about Zeller after all. But nope.

This is correct. Anyone who has ever worked in an institution with a very steep power hierarchy has seen this kind of email and knows exactly what it means.

Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.

Finally, some institutional pushback against the cult of the operator.

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There's only one cycling frog I recognize.

the last American alive after the climate collapse clinging to a side of beef like Jack in The Titanic

You know that thing where women (justifiably!) complain that they can't just read a book without guys trying to talk to them? That, but for men who don't want to be the target of reactionary culture pieces.