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Robert Wallace
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Philosophy Prof. @ Cal Poly, Free Will + Moral Responsibility but interested in everything.

https://www.roberthwallace.com/

Views my own etc.

History 30%
Philosophy 18%

I did not know about all this history until I started teaching Language, Truth, and Logic to undergrads and it completely changed my view of the whole movement.

And *poetry* my God we can’t even have tender, beautiful, artistic horrible gender nonsense

At least Mishima made his own art all we get is tweets and AI bullshit

Can I steal this for teaching please

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It would be impossible to overstate how deranged and fascistic the US government’s social media accounts have become. Protect “the west” against Spanish speaking Catholics?

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As a philosopher I come from a rich tradition of being annoying af
Abolish Border Patrol.
Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”

You should ask them if they had the machine "look" at your slides instead of actually looking at them again themselves! I have had students just upload my study guide and the slides. (Of course, the CSU system gave all the students access to ChatGPT so many of them do not realize this is a problem.)

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Every time Nazis try to use Tolkien to justify white supremacy, I like to float this 1941 letter in which Tolkien called Hitler a "ruddy little ignoramus" and accused him of "ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed" the spirit of the cultures upon which he based his works.

This has happened to me with in person exams - the students def use ChatGPT to study all the time. I had good luck having in-class discussions about studying with it and doing demos where we’d ask it study guide questions and work through its answers together.
This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.
Lawsuit Alleges Inhumane Conditions at Broadview ICE Facility
Federal authorities moved two plaintiffs in the suit out of state; a judge has ordered they be returned Monday.
southsideweekly.com
There are no words for how evil this is
RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.

Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com

Just look at this nonsense!! Why didn’t anyone tell me this!!! It makes so much sense!!! I found these demonstrations while trying to teach Plato!!!!
a person is holding a circle with a triangle in the middle
Alt: A clever visualization of the Pythagorean Theorem, where a central triangle (lengths a, b, and c) is attached to three square-shaped water tanks while on a rotating wheel. There is just enough fluid such that the two squares of a and b, and when you rotate the wheel so the square of c is at the bottom, the water drains to fill that tank, showing how a squared and b squared equal c squared.
media.tenor.com

When I teach Plato I do a whole bit about how I’d didn’t realize that when you square a number you are like, literally taking a line of that number in length and making a square out them *until I had a doctorate in the humanities*, and how “not being a math person” is bullshit that holds us back

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Again: what cruelty animates this action; even if it were legal, why would you do something this inhumane?
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

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NPR @npr.org · 8d
Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts. n.pr/4ombzk8
They were promised a lifeline to 'graduate' from poverty. Then it was taken away
Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.
n.pr

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I genuinely wonder if anyone on the NYT editorial team looks at the Mamdani coverage in total and thinks "yeah, we got this one right"
The story on the eve of the election is basically reporters asking the public "is Mamdani experienced enough?"

No actual news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...
Even for Some Mamdani Supporters, His Thin Résumé Is Cause for Concern
www.nytimes.com

Is this real? It’s one of the most offensive things to my faith I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It’s All Soul’s Day FFS. We’re supposed to walk the extra fucking mile and turn the other fucking cheek. What the fuck is this sacrilegious war porn??
Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”
After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees
More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...
www.ncronline.org

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If you draw the cognitive science hexagram, Jerry Fodor appears and calls you a relativist.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”
At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

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Ghosts say “boo!” because they’re moral emotivists

“Artificial intelligence, in particular, with its technical, cold and standardized knowledge, can further cut off students who are already isolated, giving them the illusion that they do not need others or, worse still, the feeling that they are not worthy of them.”
Pope Leo to Educators: “Today, in our educational contexts, it is worrying to see the increasing symptoms of widespread inner fragility, at all ages. We cannot close our eyes to these silent cries for help; we must strive to identify their underlying causes.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Pope Leo to Educators: “Today, in our educational contexts, it is worrying to see the increasing symptoms of widespread inner fragility, at all ages. We cannot close our eyes to these silent cries for help; we must strive to identify their underlying causes.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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These posters evoke not the New Deal but another thing that starts with N www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-ch...
What We Choose to Nazi
The Department of Labor is posting Heroic Realism propaganda. What, exactly, are they telling us?
www.thebulwark.com