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Hello. If you are a prospective (or current) graduate student, or a faculty member or administrator, seeing federal cuts/policies impact graduate school admissions, funding, or operations, I would be interested in speaking with you: [email protected] Signal ibogost.47

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magazine screenshot (1993) archive.org/details/MSXF...

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When volcanos spew lava what they're saying in the Volcanic language is "FEED ME BILLIONAIRES"

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Something fun: A list of words that purport to only have been used in the blog post documenting them. www.michaelkferber.com/blog/hapax-l...

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It is I, the well-rounded interdisciplinary thinker that universities love to produce and hate to hire.

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I'll remember this email my entire life.

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Writing about Root this week/end. It's a good time!

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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I fundamentally believe that if a president makes a public proclamation that he is a king, he's violated his oath of office and that office should be forfeit. Could not think of a higher crime or misdemeanor than to pervert the constitution in such a way

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Hey allies here’s something you can do

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My mother snapped this photo of a couple of sleepy deer resting at the homestead. She says there's a third one that she couldn't capture in the frame.

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

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One thing I'll never understand is how even the corporate Democratic wing fumbled the pronoun battle. There are plenty of reasons to include pronouns in communications (besides it being the good and right thing).

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This unique self-portrait, also known as “view from the left eye”, is the creation of Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (famous for his work on supersonic fluid mechanics), who was born #onthisday in 1838. Read more about the image here: buff.ly/38AEKc5 #OTD

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Still majorly a work-in-progress, but for those interested in the intersections between autobiography and philosophy, I've started compiling a bibliography of philosophical autobiographies (broadly construed). Find it here: www.alexanderbjoy.com/philosophica...

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Neat utility I stumbled across: "The Philosophy Paperboy," which lists all the philosophy papers (that it can find) published each day. thephilosophypaperboy.com

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what would you do differently if you were actively trying to cause more plane crashes? www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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Wrote some quick notes on time as a metric for the moral dimension of bad art: alexanderbjoy.com/temporal-neg...

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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Tonight's reading was "The Signal-Man," an industrial ghost story by Charles Dickens. Deeply unsettling if you take the time to think through and envision the setting in its full dismal intricacy. en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sig...

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folks someone put together a "Trump crash plane" tracker trumpcrashedthis.com

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One of my favorite things on the Internet: A summary of the history of Western philosophy, arranged in a visual map that shows who is responding to whom, and what they're arguing. Quite a project. www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/browse

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Reading Laruelle now, because the enemies of hermeneutics never cease being interesting. Whether they're right is a different question entirely.

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Bouba's Delivery Service

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It's going to be a long four years, especially if we make ourselves insane misreading budget documents. This is a story where multiple things are true at the same time and it's a warning about how we consume information going forward gizmodo.com/the-400-mill...

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Today I was introduced to the work of Henri Prestes, whose beautiful photography reminds me of Tarkovsky's compositions. henriprestesp.com

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ME (being burned at the stake): Ravioli are sandwiches! Ravioli! Are! Sandwiches!

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The sobering realization that all Western thought is built upon Socrates fanfiction...

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Murderers all

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The silver tree of Karakorum. History is full of footnotes that make Caves of Qud appear like educational software.

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sprawlbug.com/2025/02/05/p...

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Oh, cool! My FFMQ article made the cut for this week's Critical Distance roundup.

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