jpober.bsky.social
Philosophy Research Fellow at ULisboa.
American (happy to be) in Europe
Philosophy of mind and psychology/neuroscience, metaphysics, and moral psychology
Dogs, history, 90s Simpsons, SNL, some SF/F, and lots of poasts
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That's good for Musk. For Trump I'd go with one of the Russian-bought kings of the later Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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I don't know if this group would count as genuinely good people--we'd need to discuss what being a good person really amounts to before I could say. But I'd try to spare them the pitchforks at the very least.
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Nice. Literally everyone in Philly didn't see shit. I do miss that place...
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In spirit, yes? In reality?
A literal army of ten year olds who call everyone over 19 "old head" chucking D batteries out of every window from the Delaware to the Schuylkyll
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It took me about 1.5 seconds to register that you have chickens, and during that interval I had some questions
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(And in a different way than the "giving billions away" that characterizes most of the others)
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IMO, being a billionaire in and of itself has a significant negative effect on society (the more so the more billions), but a handful or so of billionaires use their money and lives to make a sufficient positive impact to at least clear their moral ledger. Pritzker is earning a spot om the list.
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Pritzker's letter the other day was 🔥🔥🔥
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I mean i was mostly shitposting...but for a real answer there was some assimilation as well as replacement, the average European DNA is about 10% dtom that Neolithic population. So, some tests will find matches, especially to people who happen to be above average in the %tage of DNA from that source
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Really not sure whether I should be disappointed or relieved that no one has asked how to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day "the other way 'round"
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Except it's probably because the indo-european speaking invaders genocided the Neolithic Europeans
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Subtly subversive reverse celticization is something I can get behind. One of my best friends from undergrad was Irish, but born on 5 November. He insisted on treating his birthday as "Guy Fawkes day, but where we celebrate the attempt"
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Whoa--this puts your attempts to popularize it in a whole new context!
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Very cool--I learned something today!
@lastpositivist.bsky.social were you aware of this? Possibly of interest.
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Ohh then I wonder if 'yinz' is derivative? It's from Pittsburgh, which 1 was initially populated by Ulster Scots and 2 was a landing spot for many Irish immigrants in the 19th century.
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Ok I did not realize there were two of them. Now I'll have to check about the paper (the thesis was that works of literature as a whole performed something like their own illocutionary acts. It was clever)
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ERB gets credit, but they wasted it om Bezos before we all knew who Musk really was, so I've taken the liberty of correcting them
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Phony Stark is too kind. It makes it sound like his problem is he's just a poser.
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Lex Loser
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Was his uncle also a William?
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Is 'yiz' Atlantic-French colloquial or did you mean 'yinz'?
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He pops up in my work in a different context once a decade. In undergrad, Aryeh Kosman built an entire philosophy of literature course around a Wimsatt paper that he really liked. And then I gotinto philosophy of the life sciences and mechanisms as a grad student...
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Yuuup. Also Pitt is one of the places that benefitted the most from realizing you could have elite humanities programs just by funding grad students well enough.
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Absolutely. But at least for the time being, they will see this as a way to use their endowment muscle to put distance between them and the schools they think of as inherently lesser.
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I think needling extremely insecure evil people can be worth if as long as you don't need to use slurs or body shaming to do it
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And of course people are encouraged to wait to sign until they've heard back from everywhere, visited, etc... 😒
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Holy crap. No new offers across the board? Haven't people already been admitted for next year?
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Exactly. ERB used the line on Bezos, but I assume they would want a do-over with Musk if they could have it, so I took the liberty of correcting them.
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that's the difference between Lex Luthor and Lex Loser, though
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definitely don't hate it
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A lot really depends on the dems! Can they figure out how to talk to people who are unengaged and/or under 40? If they have a popular and charismatic head of the ticket, sure. But without either that or like 99% consultant turnover to millennials/zoomers idk how they do it.
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Dude just did the randomest shit in the late 80s and couldn't lose
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Yes but do you know who scored it?
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He takes one arguably ambiguous step as he stands up and then immediately slows his pace and relaxes his whole body.
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[sorry that ended up being so long. first time I put together a bunch of disparate thoughts I've had...]
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are targets, and that's plenty antisemitic (as is any exogenous demand for assimilation), but most American Jews assimilated without even really intending to do so. Given that, the fascists have a few decades worth of targets first. And I *really* hope that this is long over in a few decades /f
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segregation, because that's been (in their eyes) just a bunch of minorities trying to achieve equality on their own terms, which are terms fascists reject. Anyway....the ideology relates to Jews in expecting them to assimilate. The ones who don't assimilate (by being lefty and academic, for example)
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trans people who they are trying to erase from existence (because gender fluidity is inherently against their normative ideal) and undocumented people (who they are really trying to scare into sharecropper status more than deport en masse). Their next target is erasing history and returning to
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guys more as apartheid white nationalists who have a stereotype-based racism, with the normative exemplar being a white cishet Christian male patriarch. Often this is a difference w/o a distinction, but here it means they target people in a different order. Their primary targets right now are
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FWIW, I think that this iteration of fascism is powered by a different kind of racism than nazism was (though there are still nazis within this fascist movement). Basically, whereas Nazis were strong race essentialists, such that you couldn't be "in" without the right kind of blood, I see these
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yeah, and US citizens got deported in operation w**back. I'm sure the administration will do some really bad things to some Jews they don't like, just sort of off the record.
And given their ordering of targets, they'll take me out as a lefty academic far before they get to me as a secular Jew.
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Sure but the number of baby steps before they get to denaturalize people who can document when each of their ancestors were granted citizenship is large...it's basically the last step. To make *that* not the case, they'd have to gut the establishment clause of the 1st in addition to the 14th.
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But the Syriacs won their case eventually? They had a 3 wins, then the 1910-3 losses, then ultimately winning in Dow vs US in 1915. It was hotly debated, for sure--and again, separate from social whiteness, which Jews and Syriacs definitely didn't have in the 1910's