Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy
@sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy. AOS; ethics. AOC: philosophy of science & neurophilosophy.
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Weird choice to be worried about “viewpoint discrimination” when the viewpoint is “I get to use slurs in an academic paper.”
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Weird choice to be worried about “viewpoint discrimination” when the viewpoint is “I get to use slurs in an academic paper.”
Me, next time I'm asked to serve on a committee.
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Me, next time I'm asked to serve on a committee.
It says Utah because there's no such place as Salt Lake City. It's just a metaphor.
I’m very sorry to announce this to the rest of the country & the world, but a transitional logo has been chosen for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics & this is it. Why does it say Utah? We don’t know. Why is the font illegible? Yet another mystery. Did they go ugly on purpose? Again, no idea.
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
It says Utah because there's no such place as Salt Lake City. It's just a metaphor.
Me, the next time an administrator asks if I want to serve on a committee.
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Me, the next time an administrator asks if I want to serve on a committee.
"When feminism retreats into exclusionary logics, it cuts itself from the alliances that have historically kept it alive, and people like Trump are counting on that."
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"When feminism retreats into exclusionary logics, it cuts itself from the alliances that have historically kept it alive, and people like Trump are counting on that."
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He was held civilly liable for sexual abuse and slandered his accuser. He’s been accused by roughly two dozen women of rape and sexual assault. He was best friends with a pedophile. He bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and said Ivanka had to beg him not date younger than her when she was 17.
Nancy Mace: "You can see in the Epstein emails that he's clearly targeting President Trump as retribution for him being a good man ... he's a good man who protects women. That's what real men do."
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
He was held civilly liable for sexual abuse and slandered his accuser. He’s been accused by roughly two dozen women of rape and sexual assault. He was best friends with a pedophile. He bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and said Ivanka had to beg him not date younger than her when she was 17.
"The nation that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"The nation that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
But then again, once is enough.
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
But then again, once is enough.
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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
“The test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring.”--Willa Cather
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
“The test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring.”--Willa Cather
Zombies say "BRAINS!" because they're moral cognitivists.
Ghosts say “boo!” because they’re moral emotivists
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Zombies say "BRAINS!" because they're moral cognitivists.
“The simple act of caring for the world is itself a victory. Take a stand—not because it will lead to anything, but because it is the right thing to do. We never know what can or can’t be done; only what must be done.”—Andrew Boyd
October 31, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“The simple act of caring for the world is itself a victory. Take a stand—not because it will lead to anything, but because it is the right thing to do. We never know what can or can’t be done; only what must be done.”—Andrew Boyd
Why is he called "NarcissUS" instead of "NarcissME"?
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Why is he called "NarcissUS" instead of "NarcissME"?
"If the suffering of children make up the sum which is necessary of the purchase of truth then I say that the entire truth is not worth such a price. We cannot afford to pay so much for admission. It is not God that I do not accept. I merely most respectfully return him the ticket”-Dostoyevsky
October 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"If the suffering of children make up the sum which is necessary of the purchase of truth then I say that the entire truth is not worth such a price. We cannot afford to pay so much for admission. It is not God that I do not accept. I merely most respectfully return him the ticket”-Dostoyevsky
Just trying to steal a little more time from death.
October 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Just trying to steal a little more time from death.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think a guy who was sued for fraud over the fake University he created should have any say in how higher education is run.
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
October 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think a guy who was sued for fraud over the fake University he created should have any say in how higher education is run.
"A heretic is someone who shares almost all of your beliefs. Kill him."--Ivan Stang
Ezra Klein is making money from telling comforting lies to right wingers and he should be shunned and ignored.
I’ve heard Ezra now twice take one part of Hilary Clinton’s “deplorables” speech, without mentioning the rest of it, which does exactly what Ezra calls for Dems to do. I recognize that we have a politics of sound bits, but in full context the speech hits differently than he suggests.
September 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"A heretic is someone who shares almost all of your beliefs. Kill him."--Ivan Stang
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In some states, America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement is scouring homes and businesses to find illegal migrants. As a result, many of the people arrested have no criminal record, as these charts show
Criminals make up a shrinking share of ICE arrests
Our five charts show why America’s deportation drive is becoming increasingly unpopular
econ.st
September 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In some states, America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement is scouring homes and businesses to find illegal migrants. As a result, many of the people arrested have no criminal record, as these charts show
"We've seen men lie, degrade, kill, deport, torture & it wasn't possible to persuade them not to do these things because they were sure of themselves. Mankind's dialogue has just come to an end. And a man with whom one can't reason is a man to be feared."- Camus, "Neither Victims nor Executioners"
September 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"We've seen men lie, degrade, kill, deport, torture & it wasn't possible to persuade them not to do these things because they were sure of themselves. Mankind's dialogue has just come to an end. And a man with whom one can't reason is a man to be feared."- Camus, "Neither Victims nor Executioners"
I hate it when people say "I never want to see you again" when what they means is "I want to never see you again." The prior is at best false, and at worse meaningless. Only the later is a truth-apt claim.
September 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I hate it when people say "I never want to see you again" when what they means is "I want to never see you again." The prior is at best false, and at worse meaningless. Only the later is a truth-apt claim.
Hot take: if you can't pronounce "acetaminophen" you should not be setting health policy, or opining about it in public.
JFC the President of the USA, repeating debunked conspiracy nonsense from behind the seal, that even his crank conspirasist health advisors are not claiming, relayed live all around the world.
People will fkn die, because this shitstain needs the stories about Homan and Epstein to go away.
People will fkn die, because this shitstain needs the stories about Homan and Epstein to go away.
September 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Hot take: if you can't pronounce "acetaminophen" you should not be setting health policy, or opining about it in public.
I contain multitudes.
But "multitudes" also contains "I."
But "multitudes" also contains "I."
September 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I contain multitudes.
But "multitudes" also contains "I."
But "multitudes" also contains "I."
You've heard of super-intelligence?
Get ready for supercilious-intelligence!
Get ready for supercilious-intelligence!
Meta spent billions on AI so Mark Zuckerberg could look like a dipshit in front of millions of people:
aftermath.site/meta-display-a...
aftermath.site/meta-display-a...
September 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
You've heard of super-intelligence?
Get ready for supercilious-intelligence!
Get ready for supercilious-intelligence!
Scientifically minded philosophers need to stop arguing about 'free will' and start trying to wrap their heads around this.
I think about this diagram a lot. This is a *simplified* schematic of *some of* the brain regions and circuits involved in behavioral control. (From: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
September 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Scientifically minded philosophers need to stop arguing about 'free will' and start trying to wrap their heads around this.