For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...

One side-effect of being around academics and universities is that relentless pessimism is often worn as a badge of honour. But it can be so anti-life and anti-living.

Writing the notes and flash cards is how the studying takes place. Running your eyes over them afterwards is just extra b

In the Mary Oliver sense, one must wrestle the angel to be stained with light.

"Touch grass" got a makeover. apnews.com/article/fore...

I only half-joke when I say that immigrants who do their PhDs in English (their 2nd/3rd language) while dealing with currency arbitrage, visa issues, separation from family, etc. on top of the usual challenges of academic life should get a distinguishing mark on their degree certificates, like PhD+

Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

Your periodic reminder -- You can post your syllabus on Canvas and then Never. Use. It. Again. For those following my journey into teaching an analog class -- I graded midterms recently and saw a full letter grade improvement over my averages for the past decade. Books work. Real, physical books.

Good news: not just one open job, but two! Both are postdocs in philosophy of science/ML working with my @technomoralfutures.bsky.social co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on issues in ML scientific understanding and explanation. Ads for a 3 year post and 2 year post are linked below, apply by 20 April

Your periodic reminder to start using Signal and encourage your friends and family too. WhatsApp, like all things Meta-owned, will disregard your privacy choices and try to monetise your usage. It’s a matter of when, not if.

I’m doing a series of talks at The Manchester Grammar School on heterodox philosophies. Last week was standpoint epistemology. Next week on Advaita monism and then Buddhist process metaphysics. I find younger students to be much more open-minded about these ideas. Not so much the older folks.

Can't critique without solutions, so: Ben Felix & The Plain Bagel are good evidence-based channels on economics/personal finance. The former also runs the much nerdier Rational Reminder podcast which interviews popular authors, Nobel laureates & finance professionals. Less rhetoric, more substance.

Watched Gary’s Economics after some friends recommended it. So underwhelming. He is a polemicist masquerading as an economist. The visual aesthetic obviously trying to position as the outsider inside the financial world. The everyman in your corner. But the substance of the videos is not economics.

In our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, Ajinkya Deshmukh @ajinkya-d.bsky.social encourages to reflect on how caste categories strengthen our conversations about discrimination of other social identities. justice-everywhere.org/general/we-s...

Tomorrow 10:30-11:30 GMT, I will be speaking at the Indian Political Theory Network about my paper 'Caste as a Social Kind' published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. DM me for a link to join online. The paper is available open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy to hear this! Making the switch to Graphene OS has been eye-opening. This means the privacy-focused OS won’t be limited to Pixel phones & the whims of Google/Alphabet. I hope more OEMs partner with Graphene. Phones need an alternative to the current duopoly. motorolanews.com/motorola-thr...