It was already widely reported that RFK Jr. didn’t believe in the germ theory of disease, but now we know he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is.

Really jarring watching Marge explaining her millennial 90s high school fashion trends to Lisa. The writers need to really figure out this non-aging plotline because the logical conclusion is Marge and Homer explaining what it was like going to high school during the pandemic.

Join us in person or on Zoom on Thursday 12/4 as we host @hiphination.bsky.social for 2 back-to-back events! 1) Humanities Podcasting hiphination.org 2) Delegating Decisions to Machines? The Case for Human Discretion dhc-lam.eventbrite.com

Man, the cultural aristocracy is even more cringe than the moneyed one. (This is a Nuzzi sub-skeet).

Me: Generative AI is technological pollution. It is a rotting carcass on top of an already enshittified internet. Internet: Here’s Vin Scully calling the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7, World Series 2025. Me: 🥹…😭.

New York City, come see me give the keynote at World Philosophy Day at City College New York, Finding Philosophical Conflicts in the Real World, a love letter to philosophical journalism. Next Thursday Nov. 20th at 6pm. www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/ann...

Consciousness is overrated. I’m conscious, and I can’t do multiple layers of matrix multiplication. I couldn’t even remember the mineral water I’ve ordered 30 times in the past. Was in Tampico? Pico de Gallo? Consciousness is the precondition for preferring to be unconscious.

What is the tax rate at which billionaires won’t leave the city and also would pay rather than move money around so as to avoid the taxes?

Hey @mixedlinguist.bsky.social, I just heard an exchange whereby someone "goes to the gym" even if they never work out at the gym. As in "hey Jimmy, you look like you go to the gym." Jimmy, who works out at home says: "I do." What's this called? Idiom, euphemism? Seems more interesting than that.

Bay Area peeps! See you at 2pm today (11/2), Book Passage in the Ferry Bldg! If you can't make it today, come find me at Stanford's "Philosophers for a Brighter World" working group tomorrow at 4! @mitpress.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social #booksky #socialchange

All of you trying to shame us Angelinos on social justice grounds, I get it. No one likes the moneyed Goliath. But, I mean, know your baseball history a little.

Look if we’re allowed to fantasize about the storybook ending, Ohtani for the go ahead, Kershaw for the save.

it’s like the baseball gods wanted to manufacture the most dramatic end to this series.

I can’t believe it, the great Rebecca Goldstein is now on Substack! Everyone go read and subscribe now! The Mattering Map rebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com?r=i44h&utm_c...

Rojas the hero tonight. Dodgers can’t win tomorrow unless they pick it up on offense, but it’s one game, anything can happen. Hell of a series.

Looking forward to all of the think pieces about how to understand the Mamdani voter, why unreasonable demands of orthodox thinking drove voters to Mamdani, and why we need to tone down the rhetoric so as not to alienate Mamdani voters.

Every nutrition/wellness piece I've read in the NYTimes in the past 20 years: "Is (tumeric/green tea/protein/crossfit/seed oil) really good/bad for you?" There is theory to support the claim, not enough experimental data, experts recommend moderation/reversion to received wisdom.

My unpopular view that everyone I know, including my spouse, disagrees with me strongly about is that we coddle our children more this generation of parenting because we love them more than our parents loved us. They figured; eh, if they're kidnapped while out 9am-7pm, I'll just have another one.

It's pub day (birthday 0?) for Writing Through Writer's Block: Lessons from Modern American Fiction! This is a study of how authors have used the archetype of the blocked writer to identify, analyze, and ultimately work through both internal and external constraints on their creative abilities.

From far away, this looked like another Luigi’s arcade.

This Halloween, my family decided to dress up together as a theme. I was thinking Regressive U.S. Tax Policies. I'll be the Carried Interest Loophole, wife will be the Estate Tax Exemption, and my kid will be the scariest, the Step-up in Basis.

Shohei Ohtani is one good thing about living in the 20s. Matcha and Dubai chocolate are two bad things about it.

some thoughts, with folk like Barry Lam, Ethan Kross, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michele Tugade, and Dave DeSteno in mind! @hiphination.bsky.social @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @micheletugade.bsky.social @daviddesteno.bsky.social @vassar.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mirr...

This looks like a hell of a job and a hell of a salary. Mellon Foundation Program Officer $300K. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

In 2022, philosopher Erin Kelly won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Last year Kate Manne was a finalist for a National Book Award. As a field, some of us should strive to win these things. It would be particularly amazing if we ever won any of these specifically for philosophy.

Why I Hate how PE is taught in Public Schools, and how what it says about the philosophy of education. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Wouldn’t it be funny if these AI-polyamorous people, people with many different AI-companions, decide after a couple months that it’s just too high maintenance?

I’m so old Im asleep by 10:30pm, and have been for years. But I do watch bits and clips, and I have to say, even independent of all the current events, it’s been a really good era for late night. I think it’s been a golden age.

This piece is amazing. Incredible. Couldn't agree with it more. What insightful and provocative source material. Bravo.

From a chair’s perspective, this is what the politics of course scheduling feels like. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Every “the problem with college these days” thinkpiece cites all these practices only the Yales, Stanfords, and Dukes of the world can afford to do. The modal college student commutes into a state school, does some classes online, majors in business, health, or engineering, and finishes in 6 years.

Join me and friends at NYU for an afternoon about podcasting as scholarship. Everyone welcome but must RSVP w/ Fanny Gribinski, Mara Mills, Benjamen Walker, @chenjerai.bsky.social Barry Lam, @bartona104.bsky.social, Joy Connolly, Robert Boynton. 10/10/25. www.paperlesspost.com/go/BBrDGDgfL...

Quietly without any fanfare or hype or endless profiles across more that three decades, Mike Judge has got to be the greatest comedy mind of this generation. If you just look at the entire body of work and its quality and impact and social commentary, it’s so impressive.

“Her tumor turned out to be benign, but her anger was malignant.” Can’t tell if I should learn to write like Dateline NBC or learn to do the opposite.

Are your invitations to speak or participate in events ramping up? Here is a guide to best practices I wrote, for both people being invited and also people doing to inviting, including everything you wanted to know about money. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

When you’re in one of those moods, so you put on “Con te partiro” on Spotify, and a Gen X on the train happens to look over, and sees the Bocelli on the screen, so I quickly switch it to Rage Against the Machine to keep my cred.

Oh shit, just realized that the Nobel Laureate who came to my talk last week was John Coetzee. Funny how things don't register until way later! Where to start with his books? connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/2...

So grateful to Frank Augugliaro for designing the cover of our new book! Available everywhere on Sep 16 but never too early to preorder: somebody-book.com @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #SocialChange

I went to follow an Australian pop culture icon on Instagram to feel more connected to the country. Then the algorithm does me dirty by recommending a very non-Australian icon. Do better Instagram.

Google AI, killing it again.

Really honored to have been invited to give the Gavin David Young lecture 2025 at the University of Adelaide. If Lewis, Quine, Dennett, and Putnam were good enough why not Barry Lam?

I learned a lot from this post about the way many are mistaken about the relationship between strategy and morality in war. The World Learned the Wrong Lesson from Hiroshima open.substack.com/pub/grahampa...

What is the preferred name of this item of clothing?

Since I was in my 30s, I became convinced that the best time to peak was in my 50s. I never really had to defend why. I did that today.

I’m way too old, and haven’t been single since I was 19. But the discourse gives me the impression that young people are all on apps screening out each other by undesirable traits, men screen out unhot women, women screen out short men. Isn’t that enough to entail men not getting laid?

I love this episode of Decoder Ring about the culture war issue: do Brits or Americans have better teeth? Raises a lot of philosophical questions: do you include aesthetics into measures of well-being? slate.com/podcasts/dec...

I wrote abiut EA and the hazards of joining causes based on the latest academic trends. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Starting to feel a little bad for the Coldplay couple.

When in Oz, do as the Aussies do.