NYT: "How are the very rich feeling about..."

Hattie's difficult life continues...

Slightly diminish a band: The Off-White Stripes

Slightly diminish a band: They're Probably Not Giants

Slightly diminish a band: Affordable Trick

The f*&%ing library.

Remembering that time in 2006 when I invited someone to come give a philosophy talk, offered our normal $500 honorarium, & got a polite reply if, "Because you are a friend, I will only ask for $5000." We had never met. We never did meet. But that's how we became friends.

But don't worry. All the bathrooms can also be used for document storage.

Savoring that moment in a meeting when an administrator pulls up income/career data on graduates of a "practical" business degree & pulls up, on an impulse, Philosophy as an impractical degree for comparison. Friends, the data quite emphatically did not show what he thought they would show.

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Hattie likes it warm. How warm? Wait, REALLY?? deck temp, 137F, Hattie temp 114F. I couldn't believe is, so control leg temp, 99F.

Come for the good photography. Stay for the alt text.

*Me and my book project. (Two of my friends are reacting.)

Wow. The gazpacho plants are going gangbusters in the garden. This is today's harvest two days after a similar harvest.

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Bold message from the Cuomo campaign over the last two days: "I'll jump you! I won't take no for an answer."

Door-to-door pest control sales guy gives his spiel. Me: "Thanks, but I'm really not interested." FPCSG: "Is it a cost thing?" Me: "No, I just don't want to kill bugs & spiders in the yard." FPCSG: "Is it an eco thing? Our stuff is mammal-safe." Me: "Cool. Is it bug-safe? That's what I want."

It was the stupidest of times. It was the stupiderest of times.

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

Thread on the importance of the history & understanding of marginalized citizens (the majority of the public, in the 19th century) to original meaning. I've long hoped justices would systematically take the "history & tradition" folks to task (like lots of scholars already do) on actual history.

"Certain essential aspects of the world are accessible only to laughter." -Mikhail Bakhtin

****majors are not the only metric of a department or program’s value****

Anthony Weiner wants you to forget why you think, "wait, is that really how you say his name, or is that just how we ended up saying his name?"

HARD ❌ Playing Beethoven’s Sonata No 28 in A major op 101 EASY ✅ Playing the Schenker graph of Op 101

Take your min to the max.

I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.

The entire internet right now.

Any international candidates out there looking to do a PhD? I'm available to supervise in the areas of mind, aesthetics, well-being and personal identity. Scholarship applications are due in August www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Call for papers in a special issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on AI and Philosophy of the Arts. Pretty quick publication turnaround (aiming for Spring 26).

Thought we could mix some of the kibble Hattie does not like into the kibble he does, and he would just eat it and not notice. No.

in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life

Nothing makes for sincere hugging like thinking about your mortality. Which I would do all the time if I were unvaccinated.

He's mad because Springsteen makes it seem like being born in the USA should mean something.

Amazingly detailed archival work on Boyd Rice's iron clad connections to the neo-Nazi scene from @transform6789.bsky.social

I have a new piece up @thequietus.com about how Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, Nikolas Schreck & Michael Moynihan used the 1980s/90s underground scene to promote neo-Nazi terrorist doctrines. Please share with your music friends! thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Anyone going to be at MaMi later this month? I'm thinking of stopping by that Friday and would love to connect especially if you have a book project to discuss or want to know more about our new series PALGRAVE STUDIES IN TV MUSIC & SOUND.

Apparently it is book release day for this edited volume I did with Lori and Francisco Gallegos on philosophical issues concerned with Latina/o/x/es. www.routledge.com/The-Latinx-P...

he's out

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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

This is clearly right, but does Leo XIV have to retweet it in order for it to be infallible?

like, seriously, if you need a moment of musical transcendence

In this episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, historian Sarah E. Bond joins Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian to discuss the 3,000-year-old legacy of workers rebelling against unjust wages and working conditions.

Hey institutional neutrality folks: now that Trump’s military trans ban is back in effect, are you going to say anything about the fact that you’re violating your own nondiscrimination policies when you host military recruiters? Is that an attack on your mission?

If you are an American Philosophical Association member, come chat about "bad" emotions this Thursday at 10am Pacific! @kkthomason.bsky.social and Samir Chopra are the other panelists, and @jdelston.bsky.social will moderate. #philsky #philosophy

I think it's less that he's joking and more that he recognizes that some of the desires that he actually has, and sincerely articulates, are seen as funny.

TIL deviled eggs grow on trees.

The strategic, the reflexive and (especially!!) the performative are not mutually exclusive. That I reflexively recoil at racist brutality doesn't prevent me from being strategic in my opposition to racist brutality. If I DIDN'T reflexively recoil, you might rightly be worried. Worse, 1/4