Excited to be participating in Fiction Lab at Stony Brook today! A cool gathering where scholars in psych, media studies, comp lit, law, lit studies, and philosophy will all discuss fiction-- and what a cool poster!

Here at Hatsune Miku's concert to see what the hype is about! What makes this virtual singer so irresistible??? (10 min past concert start time, hasnt started yet, girl next to me "i need you to hurry up, youre like, all of 2D" 🤣)

Wow this is a mood in a restaurant bathroom, esp on Easter

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

It's like the I-III-V-I chord build up 🥹

Check out the Aeon philosophy prize for early career researchers - offers the chance of intensive mentoring in writing public philosophy @aeon.co aeon.co/philosophy-p...

“The more opinions you have, the less you see.” - Wim Wenders

Viewers noticed Ryan Coogler appears to have a guitar and treble clef braided in his hair at the #Oscars

We can owe others morally good treatment, but what do we owe to ourselves? And is it even possible to owe something to yourself? Yes, argues the philosopher Thaddeus Metz in this Essay interweaving different strands of African philosophical traditions

wow this shit is really good

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

I argued that AI personas are fictional characters in 2023 when LLM chatbots dropped! Remember the panic around "Sydney", anyone?? www.wired.com/story/artifi...

move slow and repair things

Kinda with the Danes here

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

I love it when the bassist whips out the bow ugh 😩

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

New SEP entry for "Aesthetics in Chinese Philosophy: Painting and Calligraphy" just went live!!! Very excited to have this published. plato.stanford.edu/entries/chin...

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Just bought tickets to go to a Hatsune Miku concert. She's a virtual pop star so really curious what the experience will be like! Also first time going to a concert for research so that'll be interesting...

Korean Philosophy: From a Comparative and Intercultural Perspective, International Conference October 5–6, 2026, Hildesheim University www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2026/... Organized by The North American Korean Philosophy Association (NAKPA) under the auspices of Prof. Sool Park.

Future is unclear but good news for my house plants

The ‘bel’ in ‘decibel’ is for Alexander Graham Bell. Since the ‘B’ in 'dB' is a name-derived unit, it is capitalized when abbreviated.

The always-worth-reading Hannah Kim on Rental Family and labor. "The first human job was a creative one involving classification and invention. Labor wasn’t something Adam had to do to survive; it gave him a way to introduce order and meaning."

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

hold on i gotta take this

After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists. 2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

the people who want you to believe that generative AI can paint like Picasso tend to gloss over the fact that Picasso didn’t have hundreds of Picassos to learn from. He had to make something new, which a model trained on old art is definitionally incapable of doing.

Fine essay about RENTAL FAMILY, one of my favorite (and one of the most woefully underseen) films of the year.

My latest for the inimitable @brightwalldarkroom.com!! Rental Family gave me a lot to think about & I enjoyed writing about the emotional + relational labor found in it. Also still excited about the Brenaissance 🤠

Feels like -33F outside & lake Michigan is frozen as far as I can see. Missing Tucson!

Benicio del Toro up first at @nyfcc.bsky.social awards. And here’s my booklet essay, for his Best Supporting Actor win.

of joy, of art!

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

Had my first drum lesson in like 15 years and it was so fun 😭 learned a few afro-cuban beats. what a perfect start to the year

My two moods of the year. Happy end of 2025!!

my latest for LA Review of Books!! I feel like "storytelling" was everywhere (at least pre-pandemic)... and suddenly it disappeared! I wondered whether narrative is now driven more by character or mood rather than plot-- and what all that means.

Thus redacted Zarathustra

From IMDb: “After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.”

I was interviewed on freelancing while keeping up with teaching + research, what it was like learning how to pitch, and what I find refreshing + rewarding about freelancing! A cool series that I was grateful to partake in. open.substack.com/pub/howimake...

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Coming up: Could you reliably narrate the story of your life? Ray & @profjoshlandy.bsky.social tell tales with Helena de Bres from @wellesley.edu, author of "Philosophy in the First Person" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso.... #PhilSky #narrative #meaning

Toki Pona is a tiny invented language with only 120-140 words-- and the cutest script ever! I wrote for Psyche's new Notes for Self series about metaphor in Toki Pona. When every word is meant to stretch, what happens to the literal-figurative distinction? psyche.co/notes-to-sel...

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

The University of Arizona rejects the compact and instead submits a Statement of Principles to the Department of Education: president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...