I still like Chomsky but it’s just as a linguistics guy now. I no longer respect him as a sexual being

It’s nice when your enemies all line up at once. Only other thing needed here is a Duke jersey. youtu.be/K5OZeSre_sI

Shorter Capital chap. 1:

“Institutional auto-cannibalism” www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Notably, a lot of the current wave of "AI-infused" curriculum overhauls are being pushed by provosts looking to make the jump to president and trying hard to win the attention of the (callow, ignorant) trustees who make those hires

Clearly, the relevant admin have never themselves supervised undergraduate class presentations. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

We the Would-be-goods shall release a new album on 13 February, *Tears Before Bedtime*. At our Bandcamp page you can listen to ‘The Gallopers’, a single from the album, and watch the first ever Would-be-goods video . . . would-be-goods.bandcamp.com/album/tears-...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

4 More Innings!

A couple new articles on well-being stuff. Thanks to all y’all who heard inchoate versions of these ideas. philpapers.org/rec/WILWAA-10 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.

So so sad to learn about the death of Jonathan Lear. His work on Aristotle and Freud was formative for me. He was a model of philosophical intelligence and curiosity. More importantly he was a human human, with rare integrity and sharp judgment. It's hard to imagine the world without him in it.

New idea to create artificial intelligence that exceeds human capacity, not by programming a machine to be more intelligent than we currently are, but instead by making all the humans stupider by replacing reading and formal education with playing with a chatbot, thereby lowering the bar to clear

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

philosophers today

I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC. I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States. They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

The whole thing is worth reading

funny discourse where tech guys go 'i cannot tell the difference between LLM output and stuff written by professional humanists' and humanists are like 'exactly: *you* can't tell the difference'

Obligatory brag: My book The Philosophy of Envy was awarded the Joseph B. Gittler Prize (which in my head I keep calling Glitter) by the American Philosophical Association My prize was announced earlier, but now everyone else’s been announced too. Congrats to all the winners!

"The problem is that the bottom of the Democratic Party literally fell out." here an excerpt from @danieldenvir.bsky.social's interview of @keeanga.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/elec...

When I described Israelis hunting Palestinian children for sport I was not exaggerating or being purposefully outrageous. It is literally what the IDF is doing in Gaza. They are actually, literally, shooting civilians for fun. www.instagram.com/p/DDxdPV1v1BN

Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't

This is brilliant. And, if you’ve never seen _All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace_, change that in the next 72 hours www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bbc-al...

When I read conversations about "accelerating learning" I can't help but think of this @howiehua.bsky.social classic:

Yum

Snitches get stitches. Unless you’re denied coverage—then, no stitches

You know who else pardoned his son all of his sins?

Welcome @bufordrat.bsky.social (Matt Teichman) to bluesky! Matt started his philosophy podcast well before others in 2009. The interview I did with him and Charlie Wiland was both fun and philosophically deep (but I'm biased). Give his podcast a listen and him a follow! You won't regret it. #philsky

If utilitarians knew how much their view pains me, wouldn’t they finally have to stfu about it?

Zeno Vendler knew some impressive specimens.

This hit my weak point for massive damage

The plan: replace accreditation & “take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments… to endow a new institution called the American Academy.” FYI #AcademicSky www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/age...

Something grim but also fitting about university administrators pretending 20 year olds protesting a genocide was a threat to their very existence and a few months later realizing that maybe there was actually a much bigger threat

A searing diagnosis from the left of the failures of centrist institutions, including especially the Democratic Party.

You and me both, Black Hole.

I saw elk today.

It is hard for non-academics to understand the extent to which the typical academic administrator’s ideal university is one without faculty. Just ten layers of administration and students putting money in a vending machine that spits out a diploma. That’s it. That’s where this is going.

UW-Milwaukee will lay off nearly three dozen faculty, using the provisions of the decade-old law eliminating tenure. wiscnews.com/news/state-r...

Okay y’all, in honor of the Olympics, remind me in the morning to tell you about how my husband and I sorted all* known sports into five categories. That’s right, just five categories covers every** known sport with absolutely zero exceptions.*** * almost all ** almost every *** 0 < n < 6, probably

Slint "Spiderland" (1991)

Gotta fill out my post-sabbatical report. Hope admin buys this: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

oh my god there was just an antiwar protest and the counter protestors started chanting "fuck joe biden" and then the antiwar protestors started chanting back "fuck joe biden"

“It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.” www.youtube.com/channel/UCaX...

Statement from UCLA’s Department of History, on their official website (and, how long before administrations start censoring these) history.ucla.edu/2024/05/01/s...

Evergreen

The most insightful thing a drunk in a bar ever told me was “Punks are good people pretending to be bad ones, hippies are bad people pretending to be good ones”

New article from me! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/christ-of-...