This is old but I am still feeling this way up to this day.

make the cops shovel.

What I'm saying is that maybe we NEED mewithoutyou to come back. The times demand it.

Truly, ebiking in winter extends your commuting "season." Only thing I'd add is that you make sure you plan for what cold does to batteries. There is a genuine difference in my bike's range when it dips below 25F.

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from just staring into the distance for hours on end. They look like they're about to solve crimes on a PBS drama import.

It is the first day of Spring Semester for me and I continue to have hope because I get the privilege of working with undergrads. The kids, they really are quite alright. Moreso even.

Let’s induce some better demand in 2026!

Conan O’Brien tipped his hat to me outside of Back Bay station in Boston. taller in real life

if we feed the AI's to each other, at what point do they create Marvin the Paranoid Android?

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

At what point do we admit that the most comfortable aesthetic is Kirby?

NGL, I thought "Sunrise on the Reaping" was a track off the new Coheed and Cambria album. Truly, a good title.

The number of my students writing their final papers on Levinas gives me hope but also, the way they have been so thoughtful all semester long also gives me hope.

Whole lot of "spent so much time thinking you could instead of thinking whether you should" energy these days. Also how sick of a year was 93?

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These days, I think about this scene as a diagnosis of social ills and bad motivations a lot. Once more, the brilliance of Brennan Lee Mulligan youtu.be/1OH5Kz3uXh8?...

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

I said a while back that the country was turning into a christian college and this is what I mean. I used to work at a place that would absolutely froth at the mouth to put on a series like this in the mandatory thrice weekly chapel they held for all students.

Posting this one for no reason whatsoever tonight doesn't feel like 2003 at all what are you talking about no the size of the kids jeans being relatively the same has nothing to do with it youtu.be/aAD6lJiHBdA?...

Never Post. Great podcast, better life advice.

and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you

dear beloved Boston...the green line is right there waiting.

I remember asking someone from Atlanta what temp brought out the parkas and they said 55 degrees. Some people adopt the cold, some of us were born into it I guess

I find the whole “takes” genre hit or miss (mostly miss) but this is maybe my favorite one if only because I feel “it’s not confusing, IDK, read more dude” in my bones. Also this is why public transit rules youtube.com/shorts/czK16...

The only wood panelling I want to see is as a novelty wrap on the new green line trains as they snake through Allston and Brighton.

Today, on the anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s passing, it is a good day to read “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship“ and also “Truth and Politics.” I find Arendt, like Kant whom she loved, the kind of teacher you disagree with but asks that one question that will live rent free in your head.

In my experience, you can write your way to good thinking (in the sense of clarity of thought) and think your way to good writing (in the sense of your ideas actually sounding good). There are just a few dozen drafts in-between start and finish on that front.

Shouting this one from the rooftop along with my old favorite "and institution is its people"

For a small fee, I will go to your philosophy enemy’s keynote and have more of a comment than a question really

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? 1) It's gonna be bad for the bad guys. Like, almost feel sorry for them bad. 2) Post-adventure meal is gonna be epic.

What one needs to bike in most of Worcester now: 1. A bike 2. Heroic bravery 3 Comprehensive health insurance What one needs to bike in Worcester with proper infrastructure: 1. A bike

They thought they’d buried us but they forgot we were seeds

San Diego has the best looking transit card. i also miss the MBTA.

I wrote a four word letter…

I was not prepared for this to get me like the first five minutes of Up.

People dressed up for the airplane when seats were comfortable and you got dinner if your flight was long enough. Also trains are better anyway.

I am on the west coast for a conference but I have an east coast circadian rhythm which means that I have been wide awake since 3am and feel like I have superpowers now.

It amazes me how much of self-optimization “thought” is just reinventing Puritanism.

Its days like today that I really miss the Boston Phoenix.

Where's my A24 version of "Animal Farm" directed by Yorgos Lanthimos where it's just human actors in animal masks and we give Emma Stone the oscar for it? The times, they call for it.

Cleaning up the rails on a laser train turnto10.com/weather/weat...

if The avengers are based in New York, why didn’t they simply get Choitner to interview Thanos?

My most woke opinion is that everyone should study the humanities.

I love how Arendt’s “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship“ is basically the Walter Sobjak meme but as an essay. It is REALLY good and also wild to teach post-emails getting released

Now where did I put my Fanon with laser eyes jpeg…or my Sylvia Wynter with laser eyes for that matter…

When I teach ethics I make a distinction between ethics proper and etiquette. 'Propriety' or a perceived sense of goodness still reigns for a lot of people over actually doing what is morally right. In other words, some value etiquette over ethics. And I turn into this legendary vine in class

how do you take your coffee? Jan-Oct: "black. no sugar" Oct-Dec: "look, we could all save a lot of time if the egg nog was just caffeinated"

When it comes to hoodies, I swear by the classic from American Giant. My dad was a welder and had all these old champion hoodies that were built like a tank but have 1000 holes from sparks in them so I don’t have them. The AG classic feels like those and the difference is truly significant

Me to my students every day.