gil, a finite mode

has he denounced Cecil Rhodes

while this *seems* true on the face of it as good empiricism and politics, next time there's an off-putting unprincipled white guy with a checkered past running for comptroller we leftists should probably shout down everyone pointing out the red flags until electoral loss becomes inevitable

in the most deranged society on this blasted earth the openly genocidal prime minister, already wanted for war crimes and responsible for unimaginable death and suffering, is being outflanked by the extremely popular even-more-genocide wing. so stay tuned for normal electoral politics news

I'm excited to share my new work, which is meaningful! just kidding

what nobody seems to understand, Obama included, is that he massively expanded illegal drone warfare and state surveillance systems *for the sake of* Cheesecake Factory

Wendy Carlos is still in a league of her own

it is so goddamn funny to argue against Trump actively and intentionally destroying what little is left of US democratic norms because it'll likely be bad for the stock market

[very bravely] I think the character Junglepussy from One Battle After Another might be somewhat underwritten

it's actually very funny that it is possible to 'take down the entire world economy' since it's just a thing we made up and consists primarily of us making and doing stuff

sometimes it becomes clear that not a single student even tried to read the 10 pages you assigned, at which point the only move is to cancel class on the spot

it's an incredibly stupid journalism problem that so many headlines read "tech billionaire says they will do good thing" when they've never done a good thing even once

very cool new kind of guy at philosophy conferences now who asks 'how does your argument relate to the fact that AI is conscious' at every single panel

French high schools are kind of overcrowded and a little too hot so the entire country is in open revolt, burning down town halls and fighting the police in the streets. meanwhile here we're like 'dang well I guess we just have to tolerate stupid pedophile fascism forever'

thanks to everyone who came to the @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social live show last night on post-liberalism!

new episode out today! we talk about Alain Locke, the 'Dean of the Harlem Renaissance', reflecting on his ideas about the role of art in the development of social consciousness for Black Americans. tensions and paradoxes abound! avoid artless propaganda! www.patreon.com/leftofphilos...

meanwhile I've been chainsmoking marby 27s for 16 years now because I like pleasure and want to die

pitching an article to Jacobin about why we shouldn't let girls into the treehouse

I had a dream where I solo bartended a large DSA event and they were just awful customers

OpenAI's flood release of 700+ papers on Tuesday must be understood as a hostile attempt to destroy the discipline of mathematics proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/1...

I thought we were over this kind of milquetoast dissimulation and these people just used the n word again now

the only acceptable position about capital punishment is unconditional abolition with no room for exceptions or compromise

I love teaching this one standard business ethics textbooks because they're constantly doing weird self-reports like saying 'you should care about stakeholders because otherwise you might get a bad reputation and lose money' or 'make sure you prioritize the stakeholders who can hurt you the most'

what do you mean you'll never forget 9 books? I'm sick of your lies

catch us next week at the Radical Philosophy Association's (@radicalphilosophya.bsky.social) biennial conference at Pomona College for a live show where we will discuss post-liberal political theory!

dogshit sellout war criminal garbage but hey what do I know

sometimes you're a really finite mode, you know?

who else also used to be better at sublimation

it's very funny to defend philosophy's dignity and value when just from any casual glance around it clearly hasn't worked

Kalshi is the only thing my phone thinks I ever want

it seems like it's increasingly impossible for people to hold more than one idea in their mind at once and things aren't about to become way less complicated anytime soon

our capacities as critical commentators are fundamentally not up to the task of the present moment. this is case in point: the satire is not and can't be exaggerative when he literally said evil is good actually, so what's the joke? the LotR reference? *he* named his company Palantir

just think about how many interesting gigs philosophers could be working on if they weren't arguing about whether AI is or could be conscious

people will never stop making art

anyone who thinks Hobbes is the authoritarian guy par excellence should ask themselves why Bishop Bramhall would denounce Leviathan as the "rebel's catechism"

fuck I love reading poetry out loud by myself all alone. it's so cool. try it sometime if you haven't

no quarter for rapists. see how easy that is

Hey all I am trying to stay here in Australia (and out of America) permanently but the cost of a partner Visa is a bit extreme. Please help me stay here with my beautiful partner Lucy for good! gofund.me/b264e145f

got quite a funny reaction today when I announced to my business ethics class that for our next session we will be reading an essay about why business ethics education straight up doesn't matter

can anyone explain to me the publishing crime that is Routledge putting almost everything in serif font but block quotes in sans serif

this is an awful admission to hear from Sridhar as a longtime fan and a committed joke realist. I hope he is pushed into some kind of person destroyer

Blade Runner actually asked and answered all the interesting speculative questions about AI 40 years ago and our real problems right now that seem like AI problems are all about mass collapse of media literacy and context loss

I'm no rocket scientist but that doesn't exactly sound successful

Derrida said that each death isn't the end of *a* world, it is the end of *the* world, and I think he's right. taking this insight seriously is what it means to actually not be a utilitarian monster

this is like when Scalia argued that lethal injections only count as 'unusual' as in 'cruel and unusual' because stupid liberal activists have made it politically unpopular and thus rarely done

Negri once accused Badiou of affirming a communism without Marxism, to which Badiou replied that he'd rather be a non-Marxist communist than a non-communist Marxist lol

intellectual conservative critics of liberalism will be like 'it hollowed out our communal social fabrics and replaced them with a shallow individualism, leading to civic disengagement and crises of political legitimacy' and I'm like Uh huh and they go 'also we shouldn't have let women vote'