Adrian
@age.bsky.social
Associate Editor at Liberal Currents
Bioethics & ethics of science and technology are what I mostly teach these days
Bioethics & ethics of science and technology are what I mostly teach these days
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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Yesterday we raised over $35,000. Today, we are excited to announce a donor who has generously offered to match the second $35,000. If you help us reach $35,000 today he will match you dollar for dollar. Please help us get there! gofund.me/638697766
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Yesterday we raised over $35,000. Today, we are excited to announce a donor who has generously offered to match the second $35,000. If you help us reach $35,000 today he will match you dollar for dollar. Please help us get there! gofund.me/638697766
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I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
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To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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“Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by one or some combination of supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group.” www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by one or some combination of supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group.” www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
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A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.
'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.7
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary
'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.7
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary
October 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.
'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.7
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary
'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.7
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary
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Passing out printed copies of Liberal Currents articles at the factory gates like it’s the Daily Worker.
August 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Passing out printed copies of Liberal Currents articles at the factory gates like it’s the Daily Worker.
I’m not entirely sure why but nothing makes me more irrationally annoyed than fantasy sports culture.
The videos, the get-togethers, the drafts, the traditions and ceremonies, the seriousness.
The videos, the get-togethers, the drafts, the traditions and ceremonies, the seriousness.
August 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I’m not entirely sure why but nothing makes me more irrationally annoyed than fantasy sports culture.
The videos, the get-togethers, the drafts, the traditions and ceremonies, the seriousness.
The videos, the get-togethers, the drafts, the traditions and ceremonies, the seriousness.
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“Labor unions have become a bit of a punching bag for abundance thinkers. While no one accuses them of being the only cause for why it’s so hard to “build” effectively and efficiently, many argue that the union as an institution is inherently opposed to a society that builds.”
Abundance and Labor Unions
Strong labor unions are not at odds with a society that builds.
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August 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“Labor unions have become a bit of a punching bag for abundance thinkers. While no one accuses them of being the only cause for why it’s so hard to “build” effectively and efficiently, many argue that the union as an institution is inherently opposed to a society that builds.”
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Humanities to STEM
August 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Humanities to STEM
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My reply to @nescio13.bsky.social today
"How can I be a liberal committed to a tolerant, pluralist society and yet call Marc Andreessen and his tech reactionary cohort traitors?" www.liberalcurrents.com/pluralism-pa...
Pluralism, Partisanship, and Patriotism
There is no conflict between liberal institutions and liberal partisan politics.
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August 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
My reply to @nescio13.bsky.social today
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The anti-vaccine movement is built on the ideas that autistic people live fundamentally devalued lives and that autism itself is basically contagious.
I wrote about this in light of RFK’s most recent assault on vaccine research. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
I wrote about this in light of RFK’s most recent assault on vaccine research. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
Degenerate Nation: RFK Jr’s Far-Right Disease Prevention
RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda is of a piece with Trump's nativist, Darwinian politics.
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August 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The anti-vaccine movement is built on the ideas that autistic people live fundamentally devalued lives and that autism itself is basically contagious.
I wrote about this in light of RFK’s most recent assault on vaccine research. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
I wrote about this in light of RFK’s most recent assault on vaccine research. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
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not everyone in society needs to have taken philosophy 101, but imo our dogshit discourse around AI suggests that it probably should have been mandatory for the elite classes
July 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
not everyone in society needs to have taken philosophy 101, but imo our dogshit discourse around AI suggests that it probably should have been mandatory for the elite classes
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my latest with @liberalcurrents.com
humiliation is a deeply unpleasant & immoral act, it's also *politically* important
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
humiliation is a deeply unpleasant & immoral act, it's also *politically* important
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
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July 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
my latest with @liberalcurrents.com
humiliation is a deeply unpleasant & immoral act, it's also *politically* important
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
humiliation is a deeply unpleasant & immoral act, it's also *politically* important
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
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Michelle Obama: this Congress-passed law improving school lunch heath standards is good
Right: THIS IS MARXISM
Trump: I will change the ingredients of Coke by threatening executives with deportation
Right: MY LIFE FOR YOU
Right: THIS IS MARXISM
Trump: I will change the ingredients of Coke by threatening executives with deportation
Right: MY LIFE FOR YOU
July 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Michelle Obama: this Congress-passed law improving school lunch heath standards is good
Right: THIS IS MARXISM
Trump: I will change the ingredients of Coke by threatening executives with deportation
Right: MY LIFE FOR YOU
Right: THIS IS MARXISM
Trump: I will change the ingredients of Coke by threatening executives with deportation
Right: MY LIFE FOR YOU
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I didn't even mention the literal tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money that have gone to Elon Musk's personal businesses because frankly I don't think that counts as the normal way this whole thing worked, but was rather a symptom of something already gone very wrong
Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor
It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I didn't even mention the literal tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money that have gone to Elon Musk's personal businesses because frankly I don't think that counts as the normal way this whole thing worked, but was rather a symptom of something already gone very wrong
Sometimes when I read posts like these, I feel like I’m losing my mind a little bit—people acting like searching something on Google hasn’t been utterly broken for 10+ years now.
June 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Sometimes when I read posts like these, I feel like I’m losing my mind a little bit—people acting like searching something on Google hasn’t been utterly broken for 10+ years now.
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Debates over whether it’s cheaper to cook at home or eat out would really benefit from a clearer understanding of marginal vs average costs, especially for pantry staples. If you have to buy olive oil, balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard & salt, the first salad is indeed expensive.
June 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Debates over whether it’s cheaper to cook at home or eat out would really benefit from a clearer understanding of marginal vs average costs, especially for pantry staples. If you have to buy olive oil, balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard & salt, the first salad is indeed expensive.
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
As an Ohioan, this is 100% true.
And I will continue to rationalize it.
And I will continue to rationalize it.
After experiencing “four seasons” I’m calling bullshit on people saying they prefer that more than California weather. Bullshit you do. You just experience such a massive dopamine rush in spring after the hell-dark that you rationalize it.
June 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
As an Ohioan, this is 100% true.
And I will continue to rationalize it.
And I will continue to rationalize it.
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"Immigration laws are restrictions on what citizens are allowed to do." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...
The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls
Reading Chandran Kukathas' "Immigration and Freedom" during the second Trump administration.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"Immigration laws are restrictions on what citizens are allowed to do." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...
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"Liberals prior to Trump became complacent. We somehow, preposterously, took the media ‘both sides’ shtick at its word. Yes, there were some false equivalences, but we’d always be guaranteed our spot. We weren’t." www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...
No Kings Shows Our Power (When We Have Messaging Reach)
Basic, liberal, anti-fascist messaging is energizing and persuasive when media actually amplifies it.
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June 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"Liberals prior to Trump became complacent. We somehow, preposterously, took the media ‘both sides’ shtick at its word. Yes, there were some false equivalences, but we’d always be guaranteed our spot. We weren’t." www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...
There are a lot of (apparently) “smart people” who are AI haters.
My question for these people is why they don’t take the “smart people” doing research in AI seriously? Not the tech bros, the actual academics—much of the time, their actual colleagues.
My question for these people is why they don’t take the “smart people” doing research in AI seriously? Not the tech bros, the actual academics—much of the time, their actual colleagues.
June 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
There are a lot of (apparently) “smart people” who are AI haters.
My question for these people is why they don’t take the “smart people” doing research in AI seriously? Not the tech bros, the actual academics—much of the time, their actual colleagues.
My question for these people is why they don’t take the “smart people” doing research in AI seriously? Not the tech bros, the actual academics—much of the time, their actual colleagues.