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issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

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this is your annual reminder that I was not the lead of the 1993 adventure game "plumbers dont wear ties"

submitted 12 hours ago • 70 comments

This month, Helen Joyce said about her comments that trans people are "a huge problem in a sane world", "That’s going to be my epitaph, I’m very proud of myself."

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Yo gamers I often post inspiring and motivated posts here to support others but I’m on the grind to get out there on YouTube. I did a recent Vecna guide for Dead by Daylight & I’m here to humbly ask if anyone would watch and like, even if you just watch without volume. ❤️ youtu.be/NXJSBGACzUA?...

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‘The truth’ was her declaring that all LGBT+ people want to sexually assault children, something never once mentioned in this glowing profile and a belief that the tribunal directly refused to take prima facie as the common meaning of what she said, considering it mere hyperbole

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

If you leverage AI in any form of academic work, anyone with a spine should dismiss you out of hand. DO YOU OWN WORK!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

You'll out perform in appearance only, and the illusion will not last long. The moment you reach the limit of the model, the jig is up. You'll not only learn nothing, but your very capacity to learn will atrophy, confining you to the unthinking path of the model.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Spoken like a true acolyte of STEM without the wherewithal to realise that these people have never been motivated by the truth. It's not an 'organising opportunity', that rage only flows one way.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

the new Philosophy Tube about Nietzsche is awful. it's so shallow. I might accept the framing: 'is he woke?' but only if we'd interrogate any terms, which never happens. even as a Nietzsche hater it felt embarrassingly thin. it ends with a gross See You Next Time! —last man tier content. one blinks.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

That one could even conceive of this battle as a choice is indicative of an impoverished political consciousness.

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i think its bad that most of our political press sneers at the very idea of principles

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

Me, generally: I love literature. Of course I own more books than I have time to read, that's part of my reader's aspiration. Each volume is important to me. Me, while moving: How many fucking books do I need? How can they possibly be this heavy? The written word can go fuck itself.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Nice thing about this cabinet is that it’s a cure for imposter syndrome. If you ever think “I’m not qualified to do that” there’s always someone say, running public health, who’s even less qualified.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

an interesting phenomena going on in rightwing spaces is that despite rightwingers controlling the entire government, their base still seems to critique “the government” without including trump or musk or anyone in their orbit, as if they’re completely seperate

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments

Yep. And ditto for the wave of attacks on the humanities. It's easy to sit on the sidelines and turn your head when you're in a "safe" discipline, sitting on piles of research money. But the attacks on higher ed hurt us all. Solidarity is the only path in the face of these threats. Organize. Now.

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Saw someone make these silly #DBD valentines, so thought I'd make one for Vecna.

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Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

submitted 15 days ago • 74 comments

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 15 days ago • 145 comments

I think about this all the time. Every time all the shit these AI companies stole comes up. We wanted information to be free, but not so Facebook could rip everyone off and extract all value to the detriment of creators, we wanted to read our own history and science freely.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Peter Singer is a real demon, and it ought to count as a major strike against the academic discipline of moral philosophy as a whole that one of its leading lights is an open eugenicist who is willing to throw trans people under the bus and trades bylines for sexual favors from young female scholars

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Tech bros cheering on the cuts to grant funding built businesses and wealth on the back of decades of university R&D work. Much of that knowledge was given away to the public. This is basic pulling-up-the-ladder nonsense via rewriting history. They owe the public, not the other way around.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

In a board game café, playing D&D. Our table is one of three in this room. One of the other tables is so loud I have a pounding headache and can't hear the person sitting beside me without straining.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

He's not a "kid." He's an adult, with an important govt job. The posts weren't "stupid." They were hatefully racist. His life isn't "ruined." He lost a job. Holding a govt employee accountable is not a "reward" for a journalist. The reporter doesn't get a cookie.

submitted 17 days ago • 417 comments

What an absurd thing for a politician elected on a platform of destroying people to say.

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So glad that others are finally recognising that Peter Singer is among philosophy's greatest flops.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The insistence on confusing 'radical' and 'unpopular' is, apparently, as career-sustaining as it is banal.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

the fucking ego on these guys Shedletsky's claim to fame is working at Roblox, the game favored by pedophiles because of how easy it is for them to access kids that's the world he built

submitted 19 days ago • 285 comments

This is the only lesson EA ever seems able to learn. And it is always the wrong one.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

For these privileged white boys, the world has always worked seemingly according to magic. They never asked nor cared about all the labor behind the scenes done by people they didn't value. So now they think they are really on to something by shutting down what they don't understand.

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one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses

submitted 21 days ago • 198 comments

And this is a fairly natural, foreseeable consequence of the way that Holocaust education has been conducted in American schools, with an emphasis on students imagining themselves as the victims.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The psychology of people who are extremely active in Twitch chats is quickly becoming a morbid fascination of mine. Something about that space just makes some people completely unable to think.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

It's really easy to dismiss younger generations when you cast them as unrealistic and entitled, but it's more entitled to expect them to support a system that does nothing for them.

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This Govt has raised tuition fees, won't reopen Erasmus, is killing their trans friends, isn't serious about climate change, won't tax the rich, and has done nothing on housing. And it's elected and pretends to be left. And you ask why Gen Zs don't like democracy? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 66 comments

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. "This book establishes an account of identity and subjectivity partially in response to the shortcomings of contemporary identity politics." Hopefully my next one shall be better.

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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 68 days ago • 71 comments

In case it helps someone: The phrase “We don’t do / say that here” is immensely useful in managing people who feel emboldened to try to push boundaries and test behaviour norms in your spaces. It’s a bland statement of fact, doesn’t contain an accusation, and can be used by anyone including peers.

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

Writing-wise, most ridiculous moment of decade was as writer-guest for a workshop held at someone's house. During the workshop, I got a massive headache & asked for aspirin. Someone gave me aspirin after which I began to itch. "Sorry--gave u my anti-itching pills by mistake." 1/?

submitted 28 days ago • 50 comments

The problem with shoving Nazis out of public life has long been epistemological--how do you know who the Nazis are? You can only construct a process for getting rid of them if you have a way of identifying them. That's...not the problem anymore

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I love her even more …

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Seeing a Danish Member of Parliament telling Trump “fuck off” is the best thing I’ve heard all week 💀 youtube.com/shorts/VGCcI...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

It’s time to stop denying what we see with our own eyes and say plainly that Elon Musk is a fascist and the far-right project he’s pushing globally poses a serious threat. He needs to be stopped before it’s too late.

submitted 31 days ago • 53 comments