Every generation of philosophy grad students needs to have the Analytic vs Continental debate. It is a rite of passage, a necessary step along path to understanding that they should probably have gone into a different field.
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Every generation of philosophy grad students needs to have the Analytic vs Continental debate. It is a rite of passage, a necessary step along path to understanding that they should probably have gone into a different field.
These guys are really fun. youtu.be/FXaih63Ng0Q?...
Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
These guys are really fun. youtu.be/FXaih63Ng0Q?...
Happy Halloween, from an earlier, calmer era of the internet: youtu.be/BjMiDZIY1bM?...
re: Your Brains
YouTube video by spiffworld
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October 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy Halloween, from an earlier, calmer era of the internet: youtu.be/BjMiDZIY1bM?...
I'm still thinking Abbott's use of a UT professor's LinkedIn post to call for a purge of Texas' public university. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
Abbott: ‘Texas is targeting professors’ over ‘leftist ideologies’
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Sunday that his state is targeting professors pushing “leftist ideologies” as he shared news of the latest college educator allegedly fired over their be…
thehill.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I'm still thinking Abbott's use of a UT professor's LinkedIn post to call for a purge of Texas' public university. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
There are a lot of reasons why fertility rates are declining in much of the world, but also, no one has ever been more right than Adorno was in that one passage in Minima Moralia that everyone quotes. medium.com/@hrnews1/new-s…
October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There are a lot of reasons why fertility rates are declining in much of the world, but also, no one has ever been more right than Adorno was in that one passage in Minima Moralia that everyone quotes. medium.com/@hrnews1/new-s…
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Zip ties. Crowded cells. Guns trained on bewildered workers. Foul water. Forced vaccinations. An unconscious detainee left on the floor by guards. A pregnant woman in cuffs. These are the details of South Korean nationals’ experiences in ICE detention after the raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia.
After Hyundai ICE Raid, Even South Korea’s Capitalists Question US Relations
Can the US and South Korea’s tenuous alliance survive Trump’s tariffs and ICE’s raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia?
truthout.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Zip ties. Crowded cells. Guns trained on bewildered workers. Foul water. Forced vaccinations. An unconscious detainee left on the floor by guards. A pregnant woman in cuffs. These are the details of South Korean nationals’ experiences in ICE detention after the raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia.
Every year on this day, my mother posts on Facebook the same photo of me from my early childhood in 16th century Denmark.
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Every year on this day, my mother posts on Facebook the same photo of me from my early childhood in 16th century Denmark.
That's a pretty long trend, there.
Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.
news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...
news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...
October 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
That's a pretty long trend, there.
Some of my favorites from last week's (10/3) new releases:
Ava Luna. Funky, with flute and more than one saxophone!
avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/ava-luna
Ava Luna. Funky, with flute and more than one saxophone!
avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/ava-luna
Ava Luna, by Ava Luna
11 track album
avaluna.bandcamp.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Some of my favorites from last week's (10/3) new releases:
Ava Luna. Funky, with flute and more than one saxophone!
avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/ava-luna
Ava Luna. Funky, with flute and more than one saxophone!
avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/ava-luna
I haven't made it very deep into last week's new music because I've been listening to Jeff Tweedy 's triple album from the week before, and it's so fucking good. And I'm not even much of a Wilco fan. So you should listen. youtu.be/gx4eUAlxcC8?...
Jeff Tweedy "Feel Free" (Twilight Override)
YouTube video by wilco
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I haven't made it very deep into last week's new music because I've been listening to Jeff Tweedy 's triple album from the week before, and it's so fucking good. And I'm not even much of a Wilco fan. So you should listen. youtu.be/gx4eUAlxcC8?...
RIP. Everyone remarking upon his death, and life, will inevitably talk about the Chinese Room and descriptivism and that sort of thing, but I hope some ink is spilled on the hilarious debate with Derrida. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
John Searle obituary
American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
RIP. Everyone remarking upon his death, and life, will inevitably talk about the Chinese Room and descriptivism and that sort of thing, but I hope some ink is spilled on the hilarious debate with Derrida. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
The position, held even by many progressive liberals, that the only way to defeat Trumpism is to do whatever it takes to win the next election, was falsified between 2020 and 2024, but so many liberals literally cannot think of anything else.
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The position, held even by many progressive liberals, that the only way to defeat Trumpism is to do whatever it takes to win the next election, was falsified between 2020 and 2024, but so many liberals literally cannot think of anything else.
Some of my favorites from last week's (9/26) new releases:
Geese. The hype is crazy (look at the Pitchfork review), but this shit is good. People are going to be talking about this album, this band, and Cameron Winter (the creative force behind the band) for a long time. youtu.be/kjxsaFB5svA?...
Geese. The hype is crazy (look at the Pitchfork review), but this shit is good. People are going to be talking about this album, this band, and Cameron Winter (the creative force behind the band) for a long time. youtu.be/kjxsaFB5svA?...
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Some of my favorites from last week's (9/26) new releases:
Geese. The hype is crazy (look at the Pitchfork review), but this shit is good. People are going to be talking about this album, this band, and Cameron Winter (the creative force behind the band) for a long time. youtu.be/kjxsaFB5svA?...
Geese. The hype is crazy (look at the Pitchfork review), but this shit is good. People are going to be talking about this album, this band, and Cameron Winter (the creative force behind the band) for a long time. youtu.be/kjxsaFB5svA?...
Some of my favorites from last week's (9/19) new releases:
Joan Shelley, always wonderful. Here with steel guitar. youtu.be/qVQmFmT4cMw?...
Joan Shelley, always wonderful. Here with steel guitar. youtu.be/qVQmFmT4cMw?...
Who Do You Want Checking in on You
YouTube video by Joan Shelley - Topic
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Some of my favorites from last week's (9/19) new releases:
Joan Shelley, always wonderful. Here with steel guitar. youtu.be/qVQmFmT4cMw?...
Joan Shelley, always wonderful. Here with steel guitar. youtu.be/qVQmFmT4cMw?...
In Texas, jays are fucking with induction.
September 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In Texas, jays are fucking with induction.
Some of my favorites from last week's releases.
Die Pitz. Guitars, screaming, fun. youtu.be/zVPFp4s2L_s?...
Die Pitz. Guitars, screaming, fun. youtu.be/zVPFp4s2L_s?...
Die Spitz - "RIDING WITH MY GIRLS" Official Music Video
YouTube video by Die Spitz
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Some of my favorites from last week's releases.
Die Pitz. Guitars, screaming, fun. youtu.be/zVPFp4s2L_s?...
Die Pitz. Guitars, screaming, fun. youtu.be/zVPFp4s2L_s?...
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There's a lot I love but all time favorite HAS to be this:
September 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
There's a lot I love but all time favorite HAS to be this:
Why don't all bus stops in Austin look like this?
September 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Why don't all bus stops in Austin look like this?
This morning I was walking downtown when I stumbled upon this truck!
Have you ever randomly run into an ex from long ago? You hug awkwardly, don't really know what to say, and after an uncomfortable few moments, part hastily...
This was nothing like that, and I got breakfast tacos.
Have you ever randomly run into an ex from long ago? You hug awkwardly, don't really know what to say, and after an uncomfortable few moments, part hastily...
This was nothing like that, and I got breakfast tacos.
September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This morning I was walking downtown when I stumbled upon this truck!
Have you ever randomly run into an ex from long ago? You hug awkwardly, don't really know what to say, and after an uncomfortable few moments, part hastily...
This was nothing like that, and I got breakfast tacos.
Have you ever randomly run into an ex from long ago? You hug awkwardly, don't really know what to say, and after an uncomfortable few moments, part hastily...
This was nothing like that, and I got breakfast tacos.
Some of my favorites from last week's releases. Portron Portron Lopez, guitar-fueled fun, as always:
youtu.be/8_Th7DY1STs?...
youtu.be/8_Th7DY1STs?...
Portron Portron Lopez - Au Pays des Merveilles de Juliet (Yves Simon cover)
YouTube video by Portron Portron Lopez
youtu.be
September 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Some of my favorites from last week's releases. Portron Portron Lopez, guitar-fueled fun, as always:
youtu.be/8_Th7DY1STs?...
youtu.be/8_Th7DY1STs?...
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I’ve confirmed with a person in the neighborhood where the truck crashed that the two men were *not* “El Salvadoran gang members” as the ICE thug so confidently asserted. They’re from Guatemala and Honduras, and one of them has lived here for 15 years and has multiple children.
When a Takoma Park resident was filming the ICE officers arresting the men they chased/made crash, one officer said to her “Ma’am, do you really want to defend El Salvadoran gang members?”
Another mocked, “Thank you for filming for our safety, ma’am, I appreciate it.”
Video shared with me:
Another mocked, “Thank you for filming for our safety, ma’am, I appreciate it.”
Video shared with me:
August 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I’ve confirmed with a person in the neighborhood where the truck crashed that the two men were *not* “El Salvadoran gang members” as the ICE thug so confidently asserted. They’re from Guatemala and Honduras, and one of them has lived here for 15 years and has multiple children.
If you were gonna make a best albums of the year so far list, these four would be a pretty great start. 4columns.org/columns-4/cr...
Critic’s Picks: Albums of the Summer
4columns.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If you were gonna make a best albums of the year so far list, these four would be a pretty great start. 4columns.org/columns-4/cr...
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I'd like to repeat that once the D.C. Democrats said after Ras Baraka was arrested in Newark that they "would respond at a time of their choosing" everyone understood where this was headed. I said AT THE TIME that it was a watershed moment.
Donald Trump just sent federal agents to intimidate Democratic federal and state elected officials.
This is the exact kind of abuse of power we’re fighting against. We won’t back down.
This is the exact kind of abuse of power we’re fighting against. We won’t back down.
Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
August 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I'd like to repeat that once the D.C. Democrats said after Ras Baraka was arrested in Newark that they "would respond at a time of their choosing" everyone understood where this was headed. I said AT THE TIME that it was a watershed moment.
37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster — theonion.com/37-record-st...
37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster
ATHENS, GA—Thirty-seven record-store clerks are missing and feared dead in the aftermath of a partial roof collapse during a Yo La Tengo concert Monday.
theonion.com
August 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster — theonion.com/37-record-st...