But… like… that guy was famously a nazi! what on earth

(I am well aware that ‘engaged with’ is doing a lot of work here)

More seriously, I do actually think that parts of his early work has, unfortunately, to be engaged with simply due to its influence, but that he was a fully horrid person (which also comes nicely through in ‘Time of the Magicians’)

What about an extensive footnote excoriating him

I know what you mean, but how are we going to avoid citing Heidegger

Tired: we’re living through a repeat of the 1920’s
Wired: were living through a repeat of the 1620’s

Very well done video that made me irrationally angry.

He rightly points out that we build very differently now than in Victorian times. But in opposing “the Victorians” vs. us moderns who have lost our way what goes missing is any context about aesthetic movements, politics, and maintenance.

one other side of this is something that I try to emphasize to my students: "what does freedom actually mean" is not a 21stC issue anachronistically read backwards into the 18thC. The US, French, and Haitian Revolutions happened at more or less the same time, with an overlapping cast of characters

People who say this also usually neglect that there were many different ways of being a person in the past too - you didn’t have to be awful! Not everyone was bigoted etc

Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate

Wait, who’s this villain? I may have forgotten/missed this…

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We all live in the USA, apparently!

They’re right: protesting genocide is ‘anti British’, as historically it’s often been the British supporting and on occasion committing genocide.

‘Did you girlboss too close to the sun’ is genuinely beyond satire

There was obviously a moment when not dismissing self-evidently bad popular art - such as the music of Taylor Swift - was original/interesting, but surely that moment is now long gone, and an insistence on seriousness, judgement, aesthetic value &c. has become the useful or unconventional position.

Why is the UK intent on speedrunning Children of Men?

This is really insightful and impressively done: Will Davies (@will-davies.bsky.social), "Stupidology: The outsourcing of judgment" (@nplusonemag.com): www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

I guess it’s time to continue work on my neo-luddite manifesto

No Enya?!?

No Kneecap?!

Andy Bartlett and I have a book coming out in November called Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry. Combing an STS analysis with cultural sociology we hope this contributes to the burgeoning field of the sociology of mystery. Below I include a list of abstracts for the main substantive chapters

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Apparently we have to rewrite a lot of sociology, because the origins of 'class conflict' are not more than 9 years old, beginning in 2016!