best part about christmas is that it's incredibly unlikely I'll get any journal rejections today

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

There should be a reverse Christmas where a magical man comes to your house and takes away a bunch of junk. But the government won't allow this because it doesn't help the economy

“The university’s actions are an escalation of far-right efforts to politicize, surveil and discipline instruction, undermining the integrity of higher education.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

lol no way

Here are my top five favorite short films of the year, in case you care: jermtheory.substack.com/p/you-should...

this feels passive aggressive

Amazing tribute to Melissa Hortman! "‎[Tim] Walz spent the summer in torment, thinking of his conversations w/ Hortman & how she should be Minnesota’s next governor ... 'I know I have been deeply damaged by this,' Walz says in a quiet voice. “We all have.” Free link: archive.ph/oAYEx

Where those Harper’s Letter folks at

just re-watched Love, Actually last night, and MY GOD the fatphobia is unreal. Have I been living under a rock? How have I never seen any discourse on this? Anyway, it's truly maddening--and also, not that it matters, but NONE of it serves the plot in any way!

relatedly, two things have been happening to me recently: (1) getting emails from places I only used my credit card, so Square (or whatever) must be feeding them my info; & (2) getting emails from sites I looked at but never bought anything from, which, same story probably. Unbelievably obnoxious.

Very excited that my paper "The Harms of Cultural Tourism" is finally online—open access!—at the Journal of Ethics. This paper is (hopefully) the first of many interventions into the neglected area of the ethics of travel/tourism. Please let me know what you think! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Allegory of the Man Cave" -- is that anything?

Periodic reminder to send us your coolest papers to this Special Issue on feminist philosophy of mind that I'm co-editing at Hypatia! Deadline is now February 9.

reading about roller coaster accidents (happy thursday y'all) and this one...doesn't seem like it should be on this list

am I crazy—didn't the MacArthur Award used to be $1m? either the recession does indeed come for all of us, or this is one of those mandela effect things

Become ungovernable

my "I have not lost control of the House" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Midway through season 4 on my first time watching The Sopranos, and—I know I’m gonna catch a lot of flak for this—but I don’t think Tony Soprano is a very good husband!!!

squeaked it out, gg noam

Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were murdered. This is how Trump decided to respond.

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

my nearly perfect fantasy season about to be ruined in week 1 of the playoffs, all because @noamchompers.bsky.social started Kyle Pitts for what is probably the best fantasy TE performance of all time 😢

I accidentally typed "ethicz" today for the first time ever, and idk I think it is pretty cool and I hope it catches on

then I guess it should die??

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

lol

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

obsessed with this part of the acknowledgements of this philosophy of sport paper

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)

there's a reason they've been my top artist the past 2 yrs on spotify. they've been unfairly lumped into the "pop punk/easycore" genre, but they're way more innovative than that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv2l...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

contextual eyes contextualize contextual lies

this poll was reportedly taken at a suburban thanksgiving dinner table

An absolutely pathetic display

Culturally normal is a dog whistle.

I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.

surprising! (from: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...)

Super interesting and counter-intuitive findings: "Exposure to the SNAP work requirement increased the probability of returning to prison within three years by 0.22 percentage points for non-drug offenders and 0.47 percentage points for drug offenders." (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...)

what’s more virgin than a computer

doing some writing today

Reminder that the CSU system is spending $17 million on ChatGPT.

Ancient folks: apply for this job! I don't know anything about it, because it's not housed in philosophy. But if you have questions about it, DM me and I can see about getting answers for you! philjobs.org/job/show/30465

lmao these guys just don't get it, do they

joyous www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmc...

between 96 and 97, Diane Warren was on an absolute *tear*

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal. Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military. Pure, mindless, barbarism. www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...