At some point they won't be able to hide from him—and he won't be able to hide from himself—just how reviled he and his "populism" now are. That'll be some kind of psychic break.

I'm sure it's just a happy coincidence.

Whereof one (two) cannot speak, one (two) must howl.

The best time for scientists to realize that their survival depends on solidarity with humanists was six decades ago, the second best time is now.

Walking the dogs, it hit me why The Lost Boys spoke to a generation. It wasn't because we were independent beings forging our own way. It's because a lot of were and felt like strays.

so we have a super amazing deal that's gonna be here really really soon and also there are a bunch of new sanctions on Iran

I always have to remind myself that Gad Saad's training is in marketing. He had some weird chair in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences and Darwinian Consumption(?), but he's not what you'd call a scientist, not even an economist.

There are lots of candidates, but reality TV may be one of the most destructive forces in our culture.

The Plot to Enslave America

"why do people hate AI" b/c the explicit pitch is that it will ruin their life bsky.app/profile/maxk...

Nietzsche could’ve explained why the “very serious Christians” are supporting Paxton.

subtle.

No one in my household has ever donated to a political campaign.

When I'm thinking regular old masculinity, there are just so many names that come to mind: Miller, Trump, Vance, Watters, Musk.

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

Dunno, man, when I was a kid people thought it was bad when the rockets blew up.

Netanyahu orders Israeli forces to take control of 70% of Gaza ft.trib.al/R4qOQnE

I don’t think I’ve ever had a pleasant visit to the dentist. Today was no exception.

Close all the airports. Do it.

He has new ideas! And, you can probably guess all of them.

Lovely email today from the alma mater confirming that one’s rector was, in fact, a prolific rapist.

Dawg I was kidding when I said Israel was going to annex tyre the other day

Why didn't Oedipus just get a DNA test?

These guys.

It’s months away, but the next semester has allowed me to indulge in a pleasure since childhood: the purchase of stationery.

There is a grim consistency in Trump’s DOJ: whites are the real victims of racism as men are the real victims of rape.

Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll

Not the (entire) point, but this Canady (noted conservative) isn't an academic. He isn't an intellectual. He's not a historian or political theorist or anything relevant. He's a former politician and politically-connected judge. There's nothing educational about this project.

Some thoughts on the "vibecession", just from my personal vantage point. 🧵

There's no real need to share Twitter screenshots of National Review writers. They're uniformly mediocrities with nothing to add apart from their bitterness at being hated by MAGA while wanting the same things. Let them languish, forgotten, in the desert of their own choice.

U Florida chairs of departments most of whose courses no longer count toward gen ed degree—history, lit, any acknowledgment that Black people & women exist—forced to sign loyalty pledges to new rightwing program that has—what’s that word fascists use?—replaced them. So much “free speech” it hurts.

Concrete in the pool politics that so many people are totally unprepared to understand and analyze by choice.

Trump’s Secretary of Education. Pedocon theory isn’t a theory.

yesterday the company formerly known as facebook laid off 1,400 people in seattle. also yesterday mark zuckerberg’s $300 million yacht and its $100 million tender arrived in seattle

Was just looking at my fall schedule to find that we start classes on a Tuesday, but it will be a Monday for class purposes and, really, people who write these schedules need to spend some time in classes and with students.

Even by the standards of New York Times opinion writers, Mr Walther is mediocre and under-qualified.

paxton going to make gods genitals a centerpiece to his campaign

I’ve got some questions about his god.

That term "cafeteria Catholic" has always been a slur for people who had legitimate misgivings with actually existing Church practices by people who stood to benefit from an authoritarian Church

All done except grade submission—and the emails! Come, summer, come.

free tickets require a ticketmaster account and are only available for the simulcast at the ellipse, ringside seats are only available for the military and people who pay $1.5M a seat, what a fucking disgusting and enraging scam, everyone involved deserves to die in prison

Tony Blair has always been evil. We all know that, right?

At the Vatican with Olivia Reingold!

New Paper in Draft: Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness (with Jeremy Pober) Given the surge of interest in AI consciousness, the issue of "substrate independence" or "substrate flexibility" is now a hot topic in the metaphysics of mind. That is, does being 1/N

Some days you need a little silly. youtu.be/XzRzmKbffKk?...

I wrote about Elon Musk's attack on Lupita Nyong'o, and how it is important to put that in the context of the fact that Musk launched an actual ongoing genocide against non-white people which has already killed hundreds of thousands. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/musk-attac...

There was a definite lesson for right-wing legal scholars in the fame and honor accorded to Carl Schmitt after the war.