Snake oil salesmen miss the good old days of patent medicines

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science AOC: Open Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof Deadline: November 1 #PhilSci #philsky

I still cannot imagine how building this is legal…. Are there no zoning regulations on additions to federal buildings?

I scrolled on lonely as a troll Whose posts get ratios from hell, When all at once I saw a mob, A host of white-skin dude incels; Bestride my timeline, beneath the posts, Shitposting, reply-guying more than most.

Male loneliness? Are there no daffodils anymore??

Marco Rubio is the acting Archivist of the United States, as it happens

Most of the philosophy I engage with in my work on logical empiricism is now written in English by non-native speakers. Even after all these years I find reading philosophical German a slog and writing it would be nearly impossible. I think my non-native English speaking colleagues dealing amazing.

CTV puts the big question in the headline: coverage of our launch last night. youtu.be/ILborKiaYCU?...

Which is EXACTLY why Congress has exclusive constitutional authority to impose tariffs. But Trump wants to be an autocrat, and unilateral tariff authority forces CEOs to come to him begging, then he can extort what he wants from them personally. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/k...

A bigger problem was how stupid everything he said was

This—my attempt to teach as well as I used to despite the required use of LMSes and the expectation of slide decks made available to students every class (etc) gives me precious little time for destroying western civilization.

Oh, fuck, we are modern RIGHT NOW!: A Reply to Latour

Sincere-posting is for the reality-pilled.

The federal government hasn’t reduced crime in DC so much as taken control of crime in DC.

Electing someone who doesn’t know the basic things about how the DoJ is supposed to work was a bad idea.

My semi-annual reminders about the FIRE annual “free speech” rankings on college campuses: 1) FIRE has promoted highly punitive and restrictive positions on free speech in higher ed. They lack credibility as a source of information. 1/

this explanation for bargatze's emmys bit is ... my mind honestly boggled www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

you cannot "smolbeanify" the moral agency of millions of people who decided to enshitty the rest of the world, whether it be USAID, climate change, or whatever

American universities are not controlled by leftists. Campuses are just that rare place in American public life where leftist ideas are not unwelcome.

Something we are going to have to deal with at some point is that our country’s entire landscape - politically, legally, technologically, culturally - is the product of white men getting their feelings hurt. www.wired.com/story/silico...

All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:

“Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time” is a confession.

jd vance blurbed jack posobiec and joshua lisec's book *unhumans*, a work of grimdark fashfic whose title recapitulates the nazi slur "untermensch" to demonize opponents of maga as literal satanic subhumans and which celebrates mass murderous dictators franco and pinochet

“Their accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan”

I am a warrantedly-assertible-storian

RFK2 could have stepped aside and let American medical science do spectacular things and be thought some sort of hero. Instead he’s doing the shit he’s doing.

Another spectacular performance of incompetence

Ken CHESEBRO, an architect of Trump's bid to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, has been suspended from practicing law in D.C. (he'd already been disbarred/suspended in several states) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

UCLA in the ranks of institutions that stand up—and prevail. And another [non-Scotus, of course] federal judge in the ranks of those who stand up for rule of law. Courage and principle are contagious. Stand up, and support others who do.

Your boss literally tried designated antifascists as a terrorist organization

This is the biggest self own Democrats have ever done. They handed control of the largest social media platform to far right regime allies.

The USA has ceded world leadership to China on many fronts, this one especially.

JUST IN: The Trump administration's bid to coerce states to comply with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster aid is illegal and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The BC Green Party's new leader is @emilylowan.bsky.social The party used a ranked ballot and Lowan won handily on the first ballot with more than 3,000 votes #bcpoli

10 years have passed since we adopted the Paris Agreement. Since then, the world has changed. The clean transition is moving forward.

It, and hear me out here, he is an unhinged autocrat and has no interest in engaging in any normal US government activity.

This apparently is the officially approved tone in which all good Americans should speak about those they disagree with. bsky.app/profile/rach...

Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month. marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr

PhD project in philosophy of science in practice. The main PI is Sara Green. Check it out! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

not to be annoying but I won my first RTDNA award for enterprise journalism!! This was one of the most challenging stories I’ve worked on, and it feels really nice to be recognized among such talented reporters. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Foreign millionaires are going to be great restaurant and farm workers.

“One worker in the chat accused guards of pulling their eyes sideways in a racist gesture against Asians. “The racial discrimination and sneering — and how the United States viewed us — will linger long in my heart,” the worker wrote.”

Chotiner: So you chose to kill your slavewomen as well as the suitors who had taken over your home. Why? Odysseus: Well, I was in a frenzy understandably, plus they had probably slept with the suitors. C: Ah. And as slaves did they do this voluntarily? O: I didn’t ask because C: They were dead?

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

As a child of the Reagan years, the fact that the *Republican Party* is expropriating shares in companies and shaking companies down while saying stuff like this is wild