Jon Phillips
@jowiph.bsky.social
Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
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Jon Phillips
@jowiph.bsky.social
· Oct 5
I’ve shared these a few times on the other site, but since everything is new again, here’s a thread of extremist profiles on prominent scientific racists I wrote for @SPLC roughly 10 years ago:
The FBI may no longer be relying on SPLC, but their anti-extremist resources are still extremely worthwhile, especially these days. So in that spirit, time to re-up the thread of extremist profiles I wrote for them on scientific racists
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The Pioneer Fund would never sully its good name by associating with Nick Fuentes!
watching people like Charles Murray be (correctly!) horrified by the rise of people like Nick Fuentes is sort of bleakly funny. uh oh! maybe those hysterical libs had a point Chuck! maybe there was something there to worry about!
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The Pioneer Fund would never sully its good name by associating with Nick Fuentes!
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This is super fascinating and I'm interested in thinking about what we gain and lose with this kind of thing but the subfields that could benefit from this kind of technology are the first ones to have been completely hollowed out in higher ed.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is super fascinating and I'm interested in thinking about what we gain and lose with this kind of thing but the subfields that could benefit from this kind of technology are the first ones to have been completely hollowed out in higher ed.
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oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!
what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!
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my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
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If I sound angry, its because I was/am
'“I’m not interested in her incredibly bad writing," Nair said. "Real people are going to become disabled, sick, and die as a consequence of this.” And it could be years before we see the true scale of the damage.'
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
If I sound angry, its because I was/am
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Baltimore checking just behind Vegas and Miami. If you know, you know.
Bluesky: “Obviously the housing crisis is the only reason anyone would choose to live outside of NYC”
Actual Americans: “Vegas, baby!”
Actual Americans: “Vegas, baby!”
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Baltimore checking just behind Vegas and Miami. If you know, you know.
This is sorcery
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is sorcery
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ME POSTING: Good pussy sound like the Silent Hill radio
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
ME POSTING: Good pussy sound like the Silent Hill radio
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life
If I'm ever able to retire, I want this to be my life
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If I'm ever able to retire, I want this to be my life
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We did the math, and over 1% of the Mamdani transition team has either done a book event at Red Emma's, or is scheduled to do one in the near future.
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We did the math, and over 1% of the Mamdani transition team has either done a book event at Red Emma's, or is scheduled to do one in the near future.
Looks like I picked up a bunch of new followers today, so I'll take this as an opportunity to plug my starter pack of scientists, scholars, and journalists working to combat scientific racism
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Looks like I picked up a bunch of new followers today, so I'll take this as an opportunity to plug my starter pack of scientists, scholars, and journalists working to combat scientific racism
Oh god yes
this. I would also demand his Perdido Street Station and The Course of the Heart, and Revivified David Lynch's Book of the New Sun five season miniseries.
Guillermo Del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness."
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oh god yes
It's not cabbage, but the chili I currently have simmering on the stove is 🤌🤌🤌
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It's not cabbage, but the chili I currently have simmering on the stove is 🤌🤌🤌
It's true, tho
"only MDs are allowed to go by doctor" discourse is negatively polarizing me into being one of those "actually they STOLE the title from academics cranks"
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It's true, tho
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"Technically Edible: Why You're Missing Out By Not Boiling Shoe Leather"
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Technically Edible: Why You're Missing Out By Not Boiling Shoe Leather"
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“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”
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My personal Recession Indicator is when recipe sites/blogs start pushing cabbage and bean dishes.
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My personal Recession Indicator is when recipe sites/blogs start pushing cabbage and bean dishes.
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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you can purchase Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right directly from my publisher here
Speculative Whiteness
Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...
www.upress.umn.edu
April 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
you can purchase Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right directly from my publisher here
Also, not the main point here, but was Vic Fontane's name a nod to this drama?
Wait, so the actor who played the singer who used the godfather's influence to get a movie role in "The Godfather" (1972) apparently got his role in "The Godfather" because of the intervention of his own real-life godfather???
![Pasted in quote from Wikipedia:
Johnny Fontane
Johnny Fontane, a mob-associated singer and Vito's godson, seeks Vito's help in securing a movie role; Vito dispatches his consigliere, Tom Hagen, to Los Angeles to persuade studio head Jack Woltz to give Johnny the part. Woltz refuses until he wakes up in bed with the severed head of his prized stallion.
Al Martino, a then famed singer in nightclubs, was notified of the character Johnny Fontane by a friend who read the eponymous novel and felt Martino represented the character of Johnny Fontane.[3][4] Martino then contacted producer Albert S. Ruddy, who gave him the part.[3] However, Martino was stripped of the part after Francis Ford Coppola became director and then awarded the role to singer Vic Damone.[3] According to Martino, after being stripped of the role, he went to Russell Bufalino, his godfather and a crime boss, who then orchestrated the publication of various news articles that claimed Coppola was unaware of Ruddy having given Martino the part.[3] Damone eventually dropped the role because he did not want to provoke the mob, in addition to being paid too little.[5][3] Ultimately, the part of Johnny Fontane was given to Martino.[3][6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d6lghffuwlinx22c2rtfbdwv/bafkreiau7qifl7tt7pnmjtjjfv3yaejlpct66frjtufm57yuga66fxjpqa@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Also, not the main point here, but was Vic Fontane's name a nod to this drama?
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The way Bluesky works is that everyone is from the country they say they are but all the accounts are operated by versatile actor Jeffrey Combs
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The way Bluesky works is that everyone is from the country they say they are but all the accounts are operated by versatile actor Jeffrey Combs
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📖 Exciting reading for today, the anniversary of the publication of On The Origin Of Species:
The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!
buff.ly/uqYc9IL
The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!
buff.ly/uqYc9IL
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
📖 Exciting reading for today, the anniversary of the publication of On The Origin Of Species:
The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!
buff.ly/uqYc9IL
The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!
buff.ly/uqYc9IL
Tangential, but I love the fact that Planet of the Apes (the novel) and Bridge over the River Kwai (also the novel) are by the same guy
anyway the only film franchise i actually care about these days is THE PLANET OF THE APES (which i did write a column about)
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Tangential, but I love the fact that Planet of the Apes (the novel) and Bridge over the River Kwai (also the novel) are by the same guy
I know I'm getting old when my first reaction to this is "pull the fuck over to film your little movie, dude. you're gonna kill someone"
@rubengallego.bsky.social responds to Trump's threats on Sen. Mark Kelly: "This is fucking insane."
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I know I'm getting old when my first reaction to this is "pull the fuck over to film your little movie, dude. you're gonna kill someone"