you could've given me 1000 guesses and I still would not have guessed adam sandler would be the officiant

the fatal flaw with these "distraction-free writing tools" is that you can basically only use them at home, because if you went to a coffee shop to write, I'm sure you would be constantly interrupted by people asking you what the hell that thing is

once again

an unfortunately good opportunity for me to share that I've got a chapter forthcoming in an edited volume entitled "What is War Good For? New Perspectives on Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Gaza" where I talk a lot about how tasers are basically moral bullshit

One of our PhD students wrote this very cool and insightful piece about philosophy and Tyler, the Creator—check it out! andphilosophy.com/2026/06/30/t...

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Your favorite band's favorite band. These two new albums are amazing. Love Is Not Enough is immediately in their top 5 for me (Axe to Fall, Jane Doe, You Fail Me, Love is Not Enough, AWLWLB). I hope they never quit.

Microsoft blaming the rising costs of computer components after spending $146 billion dollars on AI investments

this ad just said "if football were a nation, it would be the biggest one in the world" aside from being a category mistake, this is just obviously false. what are the criteria for nations? how about...people who like to eat chicken? or people who enjoy laughter?

oh no, what ever will 21st century democrats do without james carville

I often really lament the insistence in philosophy that we have to defend a particular view. Sometimes I just want to map out the possibilities & explore the tensions! And I would love to read more stuff that does this! But this sort of work just isn't as valued, at least in my corner of philosophy.

tiring of lo-fi beats, adhd focus music, instrumental jazz, the interstellar soundtrack...what do y'all listen to while writing? has to be instrumental for me. (no classical; I will just fall asleep)

99% of you, like me, did not know most of these lyrics. we just mumble along.

if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: the offsides rule in soccer is terrible. it absolutely kills exciting plays. it's poorly officiated. and it doesn't make a lot of sense as a rule anyway.

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

this is false, though

nitpicky gripe: people (esp in poly circles) talk about the 'relationship escalator' (see image) to describe moving through relationship stages. But when you're on an escalator, you (standardly) move upward *while staying on the same step*! It should be called the 'relationship staircase'!!

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

Finally an anti-woke beer

back home in KC & most of the city is under a tornado warning (which is confusingly named: warning=active tornado, watch=tornado possible). I feel for all the World Cup tourists who are probably losing their minds, whereas most Tornado Alley veterans (eg yrs truly) are probably just chillin

In January, the Georgia Legislature is likely to welcome its first openly transgender, nonbinary and Japanese-American lawmaker, and all these firsts could be courtesy of one person. via @georgiarecorder.com

advice for people new to teaching philosophy: assigning a lot of reading is a bad idea for at least three reasons: (1) the students won't be able to do it all; (2) you won't be able to get through it all in class anyway; (3) *you* will have to do all that reading too

my bookend planters are starting to look good, hope they survive the kiln 😬

this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

these pairs being together at the game make me unreasonably happy

they're not booing him, they're shouting "boo-urns"

The relevant heuristic for tone of reviewer reports should be: if you wouldn't be comfortable reading these comments aloud at a workshop/conference with the author present and a room of colleagues, then you shouldn't write them that way in the reviewer report

RIP, she was brilliant

what's the most egregious shazamming you've ever witnessed? I once saw a millennial guy in Atlanta (!) Shazam "So Fresh, So Clean" by Outkast. Unforgivable.

you can tell a lot about someone's overall aesthetic taste by whether they like/how they respond to the song King Park by La Dispute

The money was always there for the good things.

i'm sorry but duckduckgo is just not a very good search engine. I want to like it, I want to use it, I want to be anti-superfluous-AI. but there's just so much friction in using it, it is a pain in the ass.

the hill I will die on: nuanced substantive objections to an argument are not legitimate grounds for a referee to recommend rejection!

Jaylin Williams/Jalen Williams both playing for OKC is kinda like how the Georgia State philosophy department has two guys named Andrew Cohen

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

Damn, harsh

very funny to have to go to Sci-Hub to get a proper copy of *your own paper*

My book is 95% done. The remaining 5% are focused on actually writing the book and editing it.

lol at the only non-enhanced swimmer winning at the enhanced games

I could never be tricked on the Jury Duty shows because I’d be like “oh my god is that Lisa Gilroy???”

"Mayor spends income on ordinary thing he enjoys"

sincere post: one especially hard part about going through a break-up w a non-primary partner in a polyamorous structure is that most monogamous friends don't really know how to talk about it with you, & it feels really heavy to carry grief that those close w you don't really empathize with

fun trivia fact: Jakob Dylan's dad is also a musician and songwriter! not a lot of people know that

maybe the avocado toast thing was real after all

Under the weather on my Albania vacay, so watching the Eurovision semifinals in my hotel room. Romania’s song is freaking me out

Very small improvement to the journal refereeing process: let reviewers know when the paper has finally been accepted (or not)! (Some do, but not all do, in my experience.)

drink iced coffee panic attack

I want to go somewhere relatively isolated but not remote for a week (at least) this summer to work on my book. I want somewhere that's cheap, easy to find tranquil lodging, in the lower 48, and somewhere I haven't been before (obvi you won't all know this list). Any ideas? Emphasis on the cheap.