i showed my students fleeing ghost the other day (promise it was relevant) and i was, as always, surprised by people's reactions to that painting. i need to find some excuse to teach aesthetics or something. i love teaching philosophy but eliciting hot takes about art from undergrads is also so fun
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
i showed my students fleeing ghost the other day (promise it was relevant) and i was, as always, surprised by people's reactions to that painting. i need to find some excuse to teach aesthetics or something. i love teaching philosophy but eliciting hot takes about art from undergrads is also so fun
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i miss drew, who never got to know all of who and what they were
i miss everyone i'll never meet because other people's bigotry fear and smallness left no place for them in the world
i miss everyone i never would've met
they all deserved better, because all it is possible to deserve is the best
i miss everyone i'll never meet because other people's bigotry fear and smallness left no place for them in the world
i miss everyone i never would've met
they all deserved better, because all it is possible to deserve is the best
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
i miss drew, who never got to know all of who and what they were
i miss everyone i'll never meet because other people's bigotry fear and smallness left no place for them in the world
i miss everyone i never would've met
they all deserved better, because all it is possible to deserve is the best
i miss everyone i'll never meet because other people's bigotry fear and smallness left no place for them in the world
i miss everyone i never would've met
they all deserved better, because all it is possible to deserve is the best
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*at the Christmas Eve service* when do we get to the part where we recite the green man’s twenty-two vices?
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
*at the Christmas Eve service* when do we get to the part where we recite the green man’s twenty-two vices?
i hate grading essays already but grading chatgpt essays is so fucking demoralizing. what an incredible waste of everyone's short time on earth
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
i hate grading essays already but grading chatgpt essays is so fucking demoralizing. what an incredible waste of everyone's short time on earth
curb your enthusiasm episode where larry, although he's quick to say he never would have gone, expresses disappointment that he was never invited to any of epstein's events. "i'm an important new yorker too, you know"
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
curb your enthusiasm episode where larry, although he's quick to say he never would have gone, expresses disappointment that he was never invited to any of epstein's events. "i'm an important new yorker too, you know"
woke avril lavigne: he was a boy, she was a girl, he was straight, she was straight, he was interested in her, she was interested in him, can i make it any more obvious?
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
woke avril lavigne: he was a boy, she was a girl, he was straight, she was straight, he was interested in her, she was interested in him, can i make it any more obvious?
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sorry i'm too young to remember 9/11 and thus am incapable of engaging with statements about possible worlds
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
sorry i'm too young to remember 9/11 and thus am incapable of engaging with statements about possible worlds
faculty hiring meetings are wild. just crazy style. do not like the vibes.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
faculty hiring meetings are wild. just crazy style. do not like the vibes.
the "merely" here is interesting. i feel like whether contrastivism is inflationary or deflationary, or otherwise is the more content-heavy sense of [thing discussed], varies wildly between disputes. i guess whether or not being by contrast is "mere" is a notion that is what it is by contrast.
for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
the "merely" here is interesting. i feel like whether contrastivism is inflationary or deflationary, or otherwise is the more content-heavy sense of [thing discussed], varies wildly between disputes. i guess whether or not being by contrast is "mere" is a notion that is what it is by contrast.
people act like econ majors in neoclassical departments are the brainwashed scions of empire or whatever but you know they're not out there talking with these guys because i can deprogram an econ bro in 15 minutes and radicalize him the other way in 25
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
people act like econ majors in neoclassical departments are the brainwashed scions of empire or whatever but you know they're not out there talking with these guys because i can deprogram an econ bro in 15 minutes and radicalize him the other way in 25
this isn't exactly right but not exactly wrong either. share of americans who live alone is at peak, but share of young americans living with "roommates" is *also* up. how is this possible? increases in both are offset by fewer married couples living together, since people get married later.
Okay I'm going to flag this not to dunk on Sandra but because I want to point that one major driver of increased housing costs is that young people today are MUCH more reluctant to have roommates than in the past. I personally know a number of folks who just refuse to consider it!
A loan and because I was a young woman my dad had to co-sign and the car was $2500. My apartment was $200, my share $100, heat and electric included. No IPhones, computers and other must have expensive tech. Once the gas went crazy high from .35 to over .52 sold the Mach and bought a VW bug.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
this isn't exactly right but not exactly wrong either. share of americans who live alone is at peak, but share of young americans living with "roommates" is *also* up. how is this possible? increases in both are offset by fewer married couples living together, since people get married later.
this is my grandmother 100% (can you guess who the "grandson" is)
A key figure in US politics that I think a lot of European observers obsessed with MAGA voters haven't really got their heads around is your average boring middle class suburban voter who in the face of incomprehensible reactionary chaos hankers after a Normie Revolution.
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
this is my grandmother 100% (can you guess who the "grandson" is)
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This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
been feeling exhausted this semester, a bit unmoored, like im trapped in a small airtight room and water is flowing in from the ceiling, etc., but a student just made an adorable depiction of me explaining aristotle's metaphysics and im feeling very Powerful and Determined and like It's Worth It now
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
been feeling exhausted this semester, a bit unmoored, like im trapped in a small airtight room and water is flowing in from the ceiling, etc., but a student just made an adorable depiction of me explaining aristotle's metaphysics and im feeling very Powerful and Determined and like It's Worth It now
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I don't actually think this is true re the PMC but I do believe key thinkers on the Right believe this and it explains their behaviour
The right has correctly identified the professional-managerial class as the class with the most revolutionary potential in the current period and have directed all their energies to destroy it before it becomes aware of itself and its own power
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I don't actually think this is true re the PMC but I do believe key thinkers on the Right believe this and it explains their behaviour
ime the idea of saving a much larger chunk of my money is just silly — mortgages in anywhere that i'd want to live are so expensive that even if i subtracted 100% of the enjoyable things from my monthly expenses i would struggle to accrue enough money for a down-payment, lot less afford retirement
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
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October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ime the idea of saving a much larger chunk of my money is just silly — mortgages in anywhere that i'd want to live are so expensive that even if i subtracted 100% of the enjoyable things from my monthly expenses i would struggle to accrue enough money for a down-payment, lot less afford retirement
oh my god. this is crazy shit. it's insane insane that they are doing 2008 again with bonds backed by TECH COMPANY RENT PAYMENTS instead of subprime mortgage payment instruments.
quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
oh my god. this is crazy shit. it's insane insane that they are doing 2008 again with bonds backed by TECH COMPANY RENT PAYMENTS instead of subprime mortgage payment instruments.
*voice in my brain* avoid writing a paper titled "the metaphysical sense of should" avoid writing a paper titled "the metaphysical sense of should" avoid writing a paper titled "the metaphysical sense of should"
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
*voice in my brain* avoid writing a paper titled "the metaphysical sense of should" avoid writing a paper titled "the metaphysical sense of should" avoid writing a paper titled "the metaphysical sense of should"
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H2O is water for people whose Hesperus is Phosphorus
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
H2O is water for people whose Hesperus is Phosphorus
here it's basically impossible to prove AI use to the standards of the deans, so we need to just find reasons for giving really bad grades to the AI generated stuff. unfortunately, this means we have to be insane about citations and stuff, which is not a skill everybody got from their high school!
It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
here it's basically impossible to prove AI use to the standards of the deans, so we need to just find reasons for giving really bad grades to the AI generated stuff. unfortunately, this means we have to be insane about citations and stuff, which is not a skill everybody got from their high school!
just asked my gf to turn off the cocteau twins because i "find it overwhelming when they're on a phone speaker.... like they're hunting me"
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
just asked my gf to turn off the cocteau twins because i "find it overwhelming when they're on a phone speaker.... like they're hunting me"
im good at playing vtm because graduate school has vampire coded social dynamics
October 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
im good at playing vtm because graduate school has vampire coded social dynamics
i've done a lottttt of mentoring for people applying to philosophy phd programs, so ive been involved people's "should i do a philosophy phd" questions very many times. one thing that's difficult is that no matter how hard you convey the questionable odds, everyone thinks they are built different.
Every time there is a major announcement of cuts to PhD programs at a major institution, it reactivates my own deep worry: to reduce or shutter doctoral programs endangers whole fields, and yet to bring young people into those fields, with no ability to provide jobs for their future, seems wrong.
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
i've done a lottttt of mentoring for people applying to philosophy phd programs, so ive been involved people's "should i do a philosophy phd" questions very many times. one thing that's difficult is that no matter how hard you convey the questionable odds, everyone thinks they are built different.
was reading a bunch of wacky puritan names the other day, and i think we need to bring back naming your kid stuff like "Joy-in-sorrow [lastname]." we can leave out first names like "Humiliation" and such but "Run-not-from-love" is a great first name for a baby boy.
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
was reading a bunch of wacky puritan names the other day, and i think we need to bring back naming your kid stuff like "Joy-in-sorrow [lastname]." we can leave out first names like "Humiliation" and such but "Run-not-from-love" is a great first name for a baby boy.