Jason S. Canon

I'm convinced that the oldest branch of liberal thought remains its most emancipatory. It aims at freedom from harm, and it uses sympathy to interrogate power from below. Let's call it "critical liberalism". Early notes at link. Quick summary below: [1/6] uncanonical.net/26-4-on-crit...

The last couple of months have been filled with conversations that have me more excited about the future of the internet than I've been in 20 years.

"People who believe their choices don't matter choose poorly." Indeed.

On 12 April 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt wanted to add #freedom of movement – ‘without red tape of any kind’ – to her husband’s Four Freedoms. Yet, a few months later, Art 13 of the Universal Declaration, which she was chairing the drafting of, guaranteed only the right to leave a country. #HumanRights

Headline of the week

best 404 page in history? music.apple.com/404

Nearly everything about the home. Do you remember how shabbily things at the cheaper end were built 40-50 years ago? And don’t get me started on the wonders of induction.

More of this please. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

As Kukathas has pointed out: immigration controls often cost our freedoms, as well.

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

Good, short explainer here. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Not sure how to explain the Guardian's current lovefest for Ghent, but I'm here for it. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/oc...

who wants to meet up in Ghent sometime before April? designmuseumgent.be/en/programme...

"These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially."

Third, you can't ignore training. German police are trained in a fundamentally different way than American police. If nothing else, it's 2 years vs. (at best) 6 months. The selection effect there is big. Plus the training is just ... different. We aren't hiring the same ppl.

god I hate poli-sci Halloween what do you mean you're

Lol. Not seen a better demonstration of 'desire path'

My folk theory of one aspect of Everything That Is Happening is that for a long time we had technologies of making publics visible that seemed to compress political debate down into mostly-one dimension, but (a) that turned out to be shit, and (b) when other technologies came along, it was disrupted

I know the NYT gets a lot of criticism for its headlines but you have to admit that this one is amazing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

You can smell the fires in Paris tonight.

I’ve been shocked at how police are responding to demonstrations generally. The smallest, completely unrelated gathering of a couple hundred workers gets met with riot gear. www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Never change, Missouri.

Academic Job Market (2026)

I’ve Levellered up.

We were once this America.

Somehow, all these centuries later, the French have yet to learn that the presence—or simply the rumour—of excessive force can turn otherwise peaceful protests toward violence.

Tender portrait of 1758 of his wife Margaret Lindsay of Evelick (they had eloped in 1752) by eminent Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III, friend of Samuel Johnson, born #OTD 1713; painted Bonnie Prince Charlie, Hume, Rousseau. National Galleries of Scotland

Ford Prefect

You’ll want to drop whatever you’re doing and read this.

In my mind, I picture wombats as badger or possum sized, but they're ... um ... not.

One for our “data collection process is model” slides