AR Hanlon
@aaronrhanlon.com
anti-disciplinary generalist and letter of recommendation abolitionist
The Enlightenment; historical epistemology; computational philosophy of fiction
Audere est facere #COYS
The Enlightenment; historical epistemology; computational philosophy of fiction
Audere est facere #COYS
Skyfall
Make a Bond movie academic
Tomorrow Never Hires
Tomorrow Never Hires
Make a Bond Movie academic
Best, Russia
Best, Russia
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Skyfall
I’d never actually heard a clip of Tate’s voice until I came across something explaining why he should’ve won that fight where he got knocked out by an amateur; having heard the way he talks I’m not surprised he’s so insecure about masculinity.
Andrew Tate faces sexual assault and related charges in three different jurisdictions, and was sprung from house arrest in Romania through intense diplomatic intervention by the Trump administration. He's best buds with Trump Jr.
December 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’d never actually heard a clip of Tate’s voice until I came across something explaining why he should’ve won that fight where he got knocked out by an amateur; having heard the way he talks I’m not surprised he’s so insecure about masculinity.
Championship football on Boxing Day
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Championship football on Boxing Day
I was raised in a devout Catholic household and tradition and this is the least Catholic way I’ve ever heard of trying to express this sentiment. This rings very evangelical Protestant to my ear.
December 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I was raised in a devout Catholic household and tradition and this is the least Catholic way I’ve ever heard of trying to express this sentiment. This rings very evangelical Protestant to my ear.
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I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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ICE refuses to accept hospital record confirmation of her birth in the US, puts her in a black hole in Texas. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
Maryland woman moved to ICE detention facility in Texas as lawyer seeks to prove U.S. citizenship
A 22-year-old woman is now being detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas, after initially being held in Louisiana.
www.cbsnews.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ICE refuses to accept hospital record confirmation of her birth in the US, puts her in a black hole in Texas. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
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Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃
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In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
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i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Bari Weiss doesn't want you to see this unless it includes "the other side" from an administration official
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Bari Weiss doesn't want you to see this unless it includes "the other side" from an administration official
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These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
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New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada
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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Read @jvl.bsky.social on "a focus group so vile that if it hadn’t been published approvingly by a Trump-loving publication, you’d have thought it was parody."
www.thebulwark.com/p/behold-the...
www.thebulwark.com/p/behold-the...
Behold! 🔥 The Focus Group from Hell 🔥
Hitler! Fuentes! Jews! Dating problems! Young Republicans tell you who they really are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Read @jvl.bsky.social on "a focus group so vile that if it hadn’t been published approvingly by a Trump-loving publication, you’d have thought it was parody."
www.thebulwark.com/p/behold-the...
www.thebulwark.com/p/behold-the...
Once more to point out: Bari Weiss only rose in the media world by the attention she got trying to get her professors fired. Censorship is her greatest media credential. It’s the only reason anyone has ever hired her.
Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.
December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Once more to point out: Bari Weiss only rose in the media world by the attention she got trying to get her professors fired. Censorship is her greatest media credential. It’s the only reason anyone has ever hired her.
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
It’s funny this author of the ‘guide to the constitution’ didn’t buck when Project 2025 was unveiled to destroy the constitution and the constitutional republic.
I think this is an another data point concerning where things are going, nothing more. but, it’s worth a read. reason.com/volokh/2025/...
December 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It’s funny this author of the ‘guide to the constitution’ didn’t buck when Project 2025 was unveiled to destroy the constitution and the constitutional republic.
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They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.
This is true and also not a basis for inferences about whether it’s also good or bad.
AI is not going to go away
December 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is true and also not a basis for inferences about whether it’s also good or bad.
Nothing against LLMs, but the book is an exceptionally amazing technology. You’re a fool if you haven’t grasped that by the end of 2025.
For example, one obvious and extremely important thing for which a book is far better than an LLM is validating a stable citation trail. If a book says X you can trace the claim in the citation and it never changes; if an LLM says X you can’t, it a black box. Where does X come from?
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Nothing against LLMs, but the book is an exceptionally amazing technology. You’re a fool if you haven’t grasped that by the end of 2025.