Nu nog Dijsselbloem en de PvdA is weer een respectabele partij.

In terms of most grievous misspellings of names, I think I found the most funny example. The guy is called Jörn Rüsen. (From Habermas' "the new obscurity")

The fate of Immanuel Kant. From great metaphysician to copywriter of taglines for shoe polish.

I’ve been listening to Aphex Twin while working all dat, and I’m now wondering if that was such a good idea. Perhaps I should’ve listened to Sunn O))) instead

Woke-Aristoteles: the personal is political

"THIS IS A VERY PLEASANT PINEAPPLE!" www.dailymotion.com/video/x8i2h30

It was the morning of 7 September 1303, and Pope Boniface VIII had a vague sense that thing might not go completely his way that day.

If the author’s portrait is anything to go by, I have serious doubts about how delightful the "heerlijke konterfeijtsels" (delightful portraits) in this book will actually be.

‘‘Vrede door wapens is als vleeseten voor dierenwelzijn’’’ … ja en je niet bewapenen met Trump en Poetin voor de deur is jezelf in de marinade rollen voor kannibalen

Vandaag precies tien jaar geleden. Drinken we op.

Was reading this beautiful piece on the ideology of our Silicon Valley overlords. It forwards the centrality of the notion of "the Singularity", a point at which AI surpasses human intelligence and merges with it. A thread🧵 viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/t...

This podcast episode is not only interesting because @michaelhobbes.bsky.social & Peter Shamshiri meticulously lay out how bad Yascha Mounk's "scholarship" is but also because they show how weak the empirical basis for the "anti-woke" movement is.

Same energy:

you can tell a lot about contemporary Thomists by the fact that the Thomistic Institute has a coffee mug about your dog's soul being annihilated upon death as a gift

Question for the economic theologians out there: Is the role of our banking system in pushing "the day of reckoning" into the future rooted in the Christian doctrine of holding back the end times (the kathechon and all that)?

France: Let’s democratize the central bank; it’s only logical. Bagehot (a true Englishman): Nice idea there, old chap, but we Brits simply don’t care about logic.

Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"

Surely I'm not the only one getting this vibe from the Switch 2's joycons:

French was according to J.S. Mill not a great language. Yet the French are so good in speculative bullshit that the intellectual mind cannot help but to feel compelled.

Cybernetic Capitalism is out now! It offers a social philosophy for the current age, detailing the cybernetic logic of neoliberal capitalism and radical-right reaction. www.fordhampress.com/978153150893...

Merry Christmas, my dear Bluesky friends!

asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.

Presentations on scarcity and visions of growth by @helmerstoel.bsky.social and @kaijzel.bsky.social respectively. Special thanks to Utrecht University's Critical Pathways and the Descartes Center for funding.

Coming soon: one of the best books I've read this year, and probably the clearest and deepest answer to the question "what's an economic model" By the great Verena Halsmayer #econsky cambridge.org/core/books/m...

WTF is frutiger aero jamband j-pop? And why am I listening to it?

Malieveld protest against budget costs higher education.

Vaguely remember a track I heard years ago—something like dubtechno with a saxophone, reminiscent of a David Lynch movie. Lacking any clue about the title or artist, I obsessively spent two hours trying to find it again. I hope you enjoy it; otherwise, I wasted my afternoon. youtu.be/L5eEMcoVBwY?...

No way better to spend your rainy Friday afternoon than in a dark corner of an archive.

"Anarcho‑Pacifist Egoism" does not describe my ideology but I still want this fancy Stirner flag: www.architectural-review.com/essays/platf...

Poor historians of Medieval architecture, one of the few available sources on the construction of buildings is just a guy doodling around, being very bad at drawing faces

🚨It's finally out! The #SciencesPo_CEE starter pack :) Add Europe's coolest researchers in #polsci and #sociology right here 👇 Credits go to @malojan.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social go.bsky.app/54D9Bjk

"I remember feelin' like someone had peeled a layer away from my brain, and my reality was no longer anchored to any point of reference, and I had to fight to keep from being crushed under the weight of an unforgiving new paradigm of ultimate reality. So cool, man. So why am I seeing this again?"

this touches something deep in my soul

At *sigh* 200 followers I will reveal the coherent formulation of verificationism.

I will have to teach the history of the concept of "progress" on Wednesday, I'm sure these graphs will come in handy...

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The Tradle is quite fun today:

Best footnote of 2024 so far...

Come join us for the New Year's Eve tradition of eating oliebollen, which is according to Wikipedia either an ancient German tradition or cultural appropriation of a Jewish tradition.

Toch wel weer fijn om even terug in Amsterdam te zijn.

It happens to the best of us.