The onion chili podi uthappam at Amma's in Philly is insane.

This was a great read, but the best part was the high-quality graphics of the matte-painting backgrounds. Hadn't realized how gorgeous they were when I was playing the game!

Ladies and gentlemen, MAGA Christianity. ----------------- Striking a far different tone from that of Mr. Kirk’s widow, Mr. Trump said he disagreed with the view of wanting the best for one’s opponent. “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them,” he said. He added: “I am sorry, Erika.”

it's almost as if the text extruders aren't actually capable of evaluating the truth of the colossal masses of words they extrude

When the histories of this period are written, I want there to be an emphasis on the fact that he **really thought** that asylum was about mentally ill people and not people migrating under threat of violence.

Not a single one of the people who spoke on stage save Erika give even the tiniest fuck that Kirk is dead and but are absolutely thrilled by how his death helps them personally and politically

Ladies and gentlemen, MAGA Christianity. ----------------- Striking a far different tone from that of Mr. Kirk’s widow, Mr. Trump said he disagreed with the view of wanting the best for one’s opponent. “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them,” he said. He added: “I am sorry, Erika.”

noticing more "oh so you hate waffles?" style randomly aggro replies these days. winter is coming

Pro tip: Don't use AI to write your PhD inquiries

John Calvin Klein

The era of experts freely sharing and organizing their knowledge for the benefit of the world was/is a golden age

Happening today!

in before rfk

Manuscript submitted for review! 95,000 words. 48 chapters. 4 years of work. Extremely excited to be bringing this into the world with my brilliant collaborators Olivia Haynie and @justinseward.bsky.social!

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

okay this isn't really even my beat anymore and I was never actually an epistemology person BUT the ability to recognize the limits of your knowledge is the basis of knowledge creation anything that can't say "I don't know" when it doesn't know (bc it doesn't know it doesn't know) knows nothing

Our Religious Studies colloquium this week! Islamic Law, History, and Class in Early Nineteenth Century India Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Princeton) Sep 18, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204 Cosponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies

sounds like we need a Washington Post opinion piece about "personal liberties" to condemn the Washington Post's firing of an opinion columnist for exercising her "personal liberties"

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Mr. Personality.

A lot of folks on the left have drastically underestimated the raw power of the performance of something like "decency" as a tool for masking fascist politics. And conservatives are carefully curating their own information ecosystems to make sure they only get that side of the performance.

Conspiracy theorists already hard at work on the case.

Oxford University's Institute for Ethics in AI is hiring a manager www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ482/i...

Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Today in unhelpful AI suggestions

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

None of the young male mass shooters and now political assassins I've written about in recent years had stayed in higher education and pursued a bachelor's degree. Crazy enough, it's almost like college is a positive socializing force, not a radicalizing one

you could write an entire book about this post and I will for the right price

look Charlie Kirk started, maintained, & promoted turning point usa’s professor watchlist I’ve been on it for over a decade and until this year I was the *only* UVM professor on it which means his life’s work = my death threats

This is a man utterly lacking in compassion, love, or concern for anyone other than himself. He is fundamentally not like us.

Lmao

Sunshine prince

Sunshine prince

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

they just decide what they think we’re like and proceed as though

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

Extremely proud of my former student and False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social collaborator Olivia Haynie, who has written this excellent piece on the comparison between Nazism and Confederate commemoration for her new column at The Forward @forward.com forward.com/culture/7669...

Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism' We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans

my PhD is in religious studies with a concentration in Islamic studies I finished in 2012 I began, w a 2 yr masters first, in 2005 and we were trained to assume students in our classroom would be reporting us to authorities, esp toward the end of that timeframe 1/x

Generative AI is a tool for fascism, example one million

Remember folks, campus free speech is the right to use to n-word and say colonialism didn't kill enough Natives, not to teach transgender literature in a literature class.

Teaching a research methods class today, so I had to wear my new tshirt…

Super-excited to have Liz Ault @lizault.bsky.social at Penn tomorrow to talk all things academic book publishing in 2025! Philly folks, come join us!

Another September, another deluge of social media posts from PNWers convinced they have fiddle, wolf, or recluse spider infestations. Comrades. It's just giant house spider mating season. You don't have an infestation. They've been there the whole time. Now they are risking death for girlfriends

Two tenure-track positions at Haverford College in the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program, with links to the Kim Ethics Institute. An amazing place working with incredible colleagues! (Deadline Oct. 24) www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

It means we need to do a better job teaching people that they are people, and also that we need to do a better job teaching AI that it is not people.