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History of modern philosophy, neo-Kantianism, sustainable transport, vegan tacos.
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Two hours of pointless administrative work and now I'm too depressed to eat lunch.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Imagine thinking the reason to read Victorian literature is to Learn The Plot.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I have now suffered through four minutes of two fake people using overly-chatty voices to steal my writing. Leave aside the theft that's happening here. I don't understand why anyone would subject themselves to that, rather than just skimming for the stuff they need.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Slurping nutrient slurry out of a plastic bag has freed me to focus on the one thing only humans can do: long for my own death.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The most powerful people in the world saw the third act of WALL-E and thought, "I could make a lot of money selling soda."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is excellent. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's not an anomaly when they all explode.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely the foundational text of my adult political consciousness.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I've learned an enormous amount in my reading over the past few days. I'm also quite sure none of it gets me any closer to understanding what I'm trying to understand.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Periodic reminder: metaphysical grounds should be composted, not washed down the drain.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Discomfiting uptick in the number of young men I'm seeing wearing Macho Man Randy Savage shades. This must be what getting old feels like.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

met a neuroscientist who trained an LLM on thousands of parables and was stunned by its capacity to interpret. no human could have done it, they said. a lot of ai amazement is people brushing against the humanities, being unable to imagine the scope of our work, the time it takes, the skills we have

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Not content with bullying regions that contain the opposition's voter base, the premier of Nova Scotia is thinking of bullying regions that contain his own government's voter base. We'll see how that goes for him. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

That sinking feeling when you've got to read Fraktur.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, "Please take a chair" made me laugh.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Finally, some astrology I can get behind.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Morning walk. Clear water.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Always nice to go back to an old paper I published years ago and realize it's terrible.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

The long nineteenth century is exhausting. I'm ready for it to be over.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

A weird time to be a Canadian is when a large segment of Anglophone political discourse assumes that a constitutional monarchy is a conceptual impossibility.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Arthur Pap is so HOPOS-coded.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Yes. Some people don't understand that "Bsky is dull" really just means "I don't know how to find interesting people to follow."

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

A towering figure. Everyone knows PET SOUNDS is incredible. But I'm here to say SMILEY SMILE is one of the weirdest (laudatory) albums ever recorded.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not going to do a 1000 posts about politics in my small Canadian city. But here's one, as a treat to myself: All of the mayor's confusing actions and statements make perfect sense on the assumption that, only 10 months into being mayor, he's already mostly just running for Premier.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I apologize to Becky Kent.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments