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✊🏼 my colleagues at Harvard.

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Time is a flat circle: some 90 years ago this week, Anna Freud was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna and held in detention overnight. It frightened Freud enough to finally put into motion a forced emigration plan. Now, in our time, similarly young scholars are being snatched off the street.

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I’m thinking of writing an article that makes the philosophical argument in favor of Cybertruck vandalism, viewed from an ethical perspective. Who’s up for reading this?

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Thank goodness we have Thomas Edsall in the paper of record to block quote emails from academics saying things that are plainly obvious. And yes, I really needed 5 sentences from a law prof’s substack to tell me Trump’s world is illusory and solipsistic.

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Ok, didn’t see this one coming: YouTube videos recreating the Human League on vintage synths are now apparently my jam.

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Nothing says badass ruler of the world like sending a pro forma email. I’m starting to think his super special bizness skillz might not be that superior after all 🤔

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 69 days ago • 837 comments

Ok can we have the Finland anthem singer do every anthem from now on??

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Trending: An ethicist’s take on ‘rent tech’ software and housing market manipulation https://www.geekwire.com/2025/an-ethicists-take-on-rent-tech-software-and-housing-market-manipulation/

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

That’s more like it.

submitted 73 days ago • 1128 comments

Except, @bcdreyer.social , the last one should be Gulp of Mexico. Or maybe that’s only for Topo Chico.

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Going forward, I'm calling all bodies of water Gulf of Mexico. Long Island Sound? Gulf of Mexico. Lake Placid? Gulf of Mexico. Chattahoochee River? Gulf of Mexico. My half-full tumbler of Perrier? Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 78 days ago • 52 comments

Oh great, the Obamanauts are here to nudge everything better, people! We can all relax!

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Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

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Whenever I would teach Freud’s treatment of the commandment to love thy neighbor from 1930—which simply cannot overcome the “homo homini lupus,” he says—I had Syria in mind.

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With respect to the current news cycle: the use of “schadenfreude” is completely inappropriate here, simply because it’s not at all semantically relevant to this scenario.

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@geekwire.bsky.social readers! Any ethical questions you want to float?

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I asked Jordan Morris how it felt to not have to talk about Soubders’ winless run against LAFC anymore: ‘honestly, that’s the best part.’

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Is skeet the new name for tweet? Is that what we’re doing here?

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I never knew that deep down I’m actually a Kantian: www.geekwire.com/2024/an-ethi...

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The next time you hear someone trash Freud just remember the bullshit that comprises an entire field of psychology in business schools: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing like endless fundraising emails on Giving Day from your PhD-granting humanities program; hitting up all, all of the adjuncts.

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There should be a NWSL team in Philadelphia and they should be called Oracle SC.

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

Have not figured out how to use this soccer—er, social—app yet…

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