Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
I teach philosophy at Purdue. My opinions are my own and don't represent my employer
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Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
· Oct 31
I wrote a book that I'm proud of: www.amazon.com/Lockes-Image...
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ages ago, when i had an ongoing beef with a real unhinged neoconfederate, he went to the trouble of finding out where my family cemetery plot is. he drove there & desecrated their graves. he went to all that trouble but didn't bother to find out the bones in some of those old graves were on his side
January 17, 2026 at 8:51 PM
ages ago, when i had an ongoing beef with a real unhinged neoconfederate, he went to the trouble of finding out where my family cemetery plot is. he drove there & desecrated their graves. he went to all that trouble but didn't bother to find out the bones in some of those old graves were on his side
The River Rouge, which sounds fancier than it is
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The River Rouge, which sounds fancier than it is
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“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
January 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
There's a session on Locke and Tyranny this evening at 7 at the Eastern APA. Holly Brewer will speak on Locke’s experience with tyranny and his reaction to it, Dan Layman on how a American revolutionary used Locke's analysis of tyranny, and
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk on the Soviet reception of Locke
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk on the Soviet reception of Locke
January 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
There's a session on Locke and Tyranny this evening at 7 at the Eastern APA. Holly Brewer will speak on Locke’s experience with tyranny and his reaction to it, Dan Layman on how a American revolutionary used Locke's analysis of tyranny, and
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk on the Soviet reception of Locke
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk on the Soviet reception of Locke
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i hope this email finds whewell
January 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM
i hope this email finds whewell
Poor handwriting as a mark of status
As I make my way sweating & cursing through an archive of the worst 18thc handwriting I’ve ever had to deal with… it’s nice to find a cheeky epigram from one of my subject’s mates indicating that they had trouble too
January 4, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Poor handwriting as a mark of status
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Jupiter and the Moon just now. [Astronomer for scale]
January 3, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Jupiter and the Moon just now. [Astronomer for scale]
If grok started spamming twitter with demands that Musk be arrested for producing child porn, that would be something interesting
Respectfully, even if they were generated without those requests, would they be meaningful in any sense? Wouldn‘t they just be an algorithm’s probabilistic shot at what order words would go in?
January 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
If grok started spamming twitter with demands that Musk be arrested for producing child porn, that would be something interesting
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Actions speak louder than words, especially if the action is playing the tuba.
April 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Actions speak louder than words, especially if the action is playing the tuba.
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Merry Christmas to all who are looking forward to sitting down with new books (and to everyone else too)!
December 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Merry Christmas to all who are looking forward to sitting down with new books (and to everyone else too)!
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Frohe Weihnachten to all the deadpan absurdists out there.
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Frohe Weihnachten to all the deadpan absurdists out there.
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michael stipe: stand in the place where you live
santa: ok
michael stipe: now face north
santa: fuck you
santa: ok
michael stipe: now face north
santa: fuck you
December 25, 2023 at 12:48 AM
michael stipe: stand in the place where you live
santa: ok
michael stipe: now face north
santa: fuck you
santa: ok
michael stipe: now face north
santa: fuck you
Self-fashioning
there’s a woman across the aisle on the bus crocheting a pocket onto a cardigan *that she’s wearing*, incredible, a thing of beauty
December 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Self-fashioning
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Over the last two weeks I helped research & write this amicus brief in the Hemani case before the Supreme Court. It considers whether habitual drug users have unlimited 2nd amendment rights to purchase, own, & use weapons, rights that should overturn a federal law, & that an an appeals court upheld
NEW amicus from @earlymodjustice.bsky.social et al. has a very important interlude discussing the difficulties of historical analysis for originalist litigation that, in turn, emphasizes the need for courts to look more to principles than to analogues...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
December 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Over the last two weeks I helped research & write this amicus brief in the Hemani case before the Supreme Court. It considers whether habitual drug users have unlimited 2nd amendment rights to purchase, own, & use weapons, rights that should overturn a federal law, & that an an appeals court upheld
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Eating a tangerine just to peel something
December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Eating a tangerine just to peel something
What's the most effective thing a person can to fend off war with Venezuela?
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
What's the most effective thing a person can to fend off war with Venezuela?
Watching Spinal Tap II for Rob Reiner. He was a good person who did good things
December 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Watching Spinal Tap II for Rob Reiner. He was a good person who did good things
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Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
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A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
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me: if one is not free, all are not free
cashier: *confused* no you have to buy the first one to get the second free one
me: this is a travesty
cashier: *confused* no you have to buy the first one to get the second free one
me: this is a travesty
February 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
me: if one is not free, all are not free
cashier: *confused* no you have to buy the first one to get the second free one
me: this is a travesty
cashier: *confused* no you have to buy the first one to get the second free one
me: this is a travesty
As a reminder, our deadline for Association Association submissions is Monday. Please consider applying
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As a reminder, our deadline for Association Association submissions is Monday. Please consider applying
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An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez