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Jonathan Weisberg
@jweisber.bsky.social
philosophy prof posting in an uncomfortably personal capacity
I wish a philosopher would just nail it for once. Enough hemming and hawing!
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Y'all need to be softmaxxing
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Weisberg
We need Ted Chiang to write a story about a drug that stops you finding annoying people annoying
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Gotta make sure
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Watching all the way to the end out of respect for my wife
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The algorithm gets that just because I'm a skinny male metalhead doesn't mean I'm not woke
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Weisberg
what if the real distinction is not between analytic and continental philosophy, but between cope (philosophers who want to preserve some intuition) and seethe (philosophers who are super mad about it)?
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The flipside of "we need to bring back shame" is "we need to bring back owning shit"
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I'm sorry you had to take a whole seminar on cope
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
If you can be better, why shouldn't you? Because you'd rather not? That's just selfish
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Personally I don't really care that it departs from the novel I'm more bothered by the fact that del Toro is, spiritually, a 13yo boy who makes movies for other 13yo boys and yet is talked about as though he's some great visionary or revolutionary story teller
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Guillermo del Toro design a shot that doesn't feel tediously deliberate challenge impossible
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Yea I'm trying to get over myself
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM