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My article, "Philosophy as a Normative Discipline", which was accepted by Philosophy @triphilosophy.bsky.social last year, is finally online (& open access)! It outlines my "normative" account of the nature, point & peculiarities of philosophy. Dare I say it's the best metaphilosophical paper ever?😜

This is so funny

Asked a contractor pal about the $13M paint job peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Him: I knew that was going to happen. Me: How? Him: You can't rush that kind of job. The pool bottom has to be really dry or it'll exude water. And you have to clean it like a mofo first...

The slave power was the social power that accumulated to the big plantation owners, by extension their states, and through those states, their influence on the federal government

Trump has his own party so absolutely flip-fucked, pretzeled and upside down over this that they're on TV arguing we actually *wanted* Iran to win the war

If an undergraduate at Columbia said something like this the NYPD would immediately napalm the campus

CHOTINER oh my god

OK... I wasn't going to do a thread about this, but after trying to draft something short and pithy, I'm going to. It's a thread from my perspective, as someone who was a student of Paul Boghossian, an analytic philosophy acolyte, who abandoned the views of this about 15 years ago. 🧵

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

One problem is that, even if this works in theory/narrow settings, in practice it faces a severe collective action/partial compliance problem: for various reasons, many people are going to engage/platform them anyway, which might make partial non-platforming ineffective or even counterproductive.

That's why you find a variation of this theme in all working cities (that work for people). Because there is a sweet spot for height, density that makes cities great.

The Board at chapel hill denied tenure without justification (written or otherwise) in move that cannot help but appear to be politically motivated, based on “DEI.” Add your name to a petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/hi...

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

rude af

The absolute fucking insult to injury here is that he's using the language of reparations re: these traitors. THAT'S the headline. "Just compensation for people who were mistreated by their government" oh you mean like a Constitution protecting slavers? FHA's redlining? Mass incarceration?

That's right. Our single member districts are another anachronism that was, at the time it was introduced, a wholesome innovation. Congress forced states to use them starting in the mid-1800s to end the unfair practice of states allocating all seats to the party who controlled the state legislature.

Surprise!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Truly not a day has passed in a political science department in the UK for the last two years where we are not all turning to each other in the hallways and going "WTAF are they smoking." We are not a discipline with a lot of consensus research findings, but there is absolute consensus on this.

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Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

“The danger of Callais, then, goes beyond the VRA, too. It was not enough for the Roberts Court to kill the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement. Callais hollows out the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment in order to ensure that no other civil rights law gets the chance to live.”

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Cook Co prosecutors are trying to block nearly every exonerated person who is seeking a certificate of innocence, which can help w/ getting jobs, housing and modest state compensation More great digging by @injusticewatch.org on the changing approach to innocence claims by the new state's attny

This is kind of brilliant. You know Donald's watching.

Republicans can accuse Democrats of anything they want to, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

My intellectual hero is George R. R. Martin. Whenever I procrastinated, he would save me from self-pity by not completing The Winds of Winter.

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Every single day that I take a shift as a substitute teacher I have to look at where the emergency backpack is, where the looped chain and anchor for the door is, if the opaque internal window covers by doors are in good shape, and the safest corner of the room to huddle the children.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Just last week, at the top of this episode, @quinnslobodian.com, @bentarnoff.com, & I discussed the challenges facing historians in the internet era, which include planned obsolescence, slop tsunamis, austerization, etc. Internet Archive is one of the few orgs between us & archive death...

He's been an inept mob boss for decades. A thug w/6 bankruptcies doing shakedowns. "Trump still seems to believe that negotiations he has as president are basically the same as strong-arming a small business into giving him a better deal on some new curtains for one of his hotels." 🧾 is.gd/XpBtUJ

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.” www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

The Roberts Court just gave Steve Bannon a symbolic win with alarming implications for Democrats, should they retake the House/Congress in the midterms. The lawless hacks at SCOTUS might be signaling that they'll greenlight stonewalling congressional oversight & subpoenas apnews.com/article/supr...

This is what I'm talking about. Vince McMahon is a case study in depravity. His behavior (with his wife, now Trump's Education Secretary Linda, allegedly covering up for his predatory behavior for years), is detailed by Janel Grant in her declaration against him. 🦋 is.gd/RXX1Dp ⚖️ is.gd/Nryxax

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

If there is going to be a reckoning about violence in progressive organizing spaces, we need to be prepared to hear survivors’ critiques of restorative justice. A lot of progressives think restorative justice is the only path forward, but it can be weaponized and co-opted just like other processes.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Remember when Google's corporate mission was "Don't be evil"? That was a long time ago.

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal." She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%! Context:

in a free market, X would be dead and Elon Musk would not be able to open a credit card. This is not a free market, and the people who tried to organize a boycott against a bad website got sued out of existence.