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@tylerhower.bsky.social
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Dogs, philosophy, books, house music, opera, musicals, theater, gym, (there's a conclusion to be drawn), horror, a few other things
ND, OSU, now teach at a liberal arts school
Hoosier living in southernmost California
Etiam si omnes ego non
Dogs, philosophy, books, house music, opera, musicals, theater, gym, (there's a conclusion to be drawn), horror, a few other things
ND, OSU, now teach at a liberal arts school
Hoosier living in southernmost California
Etiam si omnes ego non
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@tylerhower.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
www.nytimes.com
This is the one and only good thing that George W Bush did as president. It has saved millions of lives at very little cost. Why pause it—for a period long enough to cause major damage and death? Because you want (those) people to die.
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I look forward to seeing the powerful, searing statement of a famous Minnesota Catholic bishop with a global audience and large PR machine condemning the shedding of innocent blood in his state, standing up for Catholic pro-life teaching against murder and violence
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I look forward to seeing the powerful, searing statement of a famous Minnesota Catholic bishop with a global audience and large PR machine condemning the shedding of innocent blood in his state, standing up for Catholic pro-life teaching against murder and violence
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ICE just murdered a legal observer in Minnesota.
She was driving away from the scene, not towards law enforcement, so any "self-defense" claims are bogus.
This is what a police state looks like – and Secretary Noem and President Trump are responsible.
She was driving away from the scene, not towards law enforcement, so any "self-defense" claims are bogus.
This is what a police state looks like – and Secretary Noem and President Trump are responsible.
January 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
ICE just murdered a legal observer in Minnesota.
She was driving away from the scene, not towards law enforcement, so any "self-defense" claims are bogus.
This is what a police state looks like – and Secretary Noem and President Trump are responsible.
She was driving away from the scene, not towards law enforcement, so any "self-defense" claims are bogus.
This is what a police state looks like – and Secretary Noem and President Trump are responsible.
Used to be pretty close to universalism. Less and less so.
January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Used to be pretty close to universalism. Less and less so.
Do not believe the evidence of your eyes.
January 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Do not believe the evidence of your eyes.
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it's so funny watching Walsh (a self-proclaimed Catholic) not realize that IHL literally came out of medieval-era natural law
January 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
it's so funny watching Walsh (a self-proclaimed Catholic) not realize that IHL literally came out of medieval-era natural law
Two things: The Symposium is beautiful and funny and everyone should read it. Fascism is always just this stupid.
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Two things: The Symposium is beautiful and funny and everyone should read it. Fascism is always just this stupid.
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I’m afraid this is real and on the White House’s website www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
January 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I’m afraid this is real and on the White House’s website www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
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okay who gave ed feser the woke juice
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
okay who gave ed feser the woke juice
Fascism always assumes a thousand-year reign: that there will be no after.
January 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Fascism always assumes a thousand-year reign: that there will be no after.
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If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.
January 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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im genuinely curious if this resonates with voters. this naked appeal to imperialism from a shrieking, shrill man
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
im genuinely curious if this resonates with voters. this naked appeal to imperialism from a shrieking, shrill man
Have a class this spring that I haven’t taught in almost four years. Hoping I’ll learn some stuff.
January 6, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Have a class this spring that I haven’t taught in almost four years. Hoping I’ll learn some stuff.
Not the point, but positioning themselves as the Holy Family in that particular narrative is really a choice.
It’s hard to imagine better free advertising than this.
Hilton: 📈
Hilton: 📈
January 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Not the point, but positioning themselves as the Holy Family in that particular narrative is really a choice.
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good article
Applying Hayek to the folly of state-building. www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-anti-s...
The anti-socialists who love to social engineer
Central planning, with helicopters
www.theargumentmag.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:05 PM
good article
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I disagree with this. There's got to be a minimum, "commercially reasonable" standard when it comes to the way your commercial software behaves. Same as with cybersecurity -- yes it's hard, yes hackers can always find a way in, but if the maker is negligent then they should be liable.
January 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I disagree with this. There's got to be a minimum, "commercially reasonable" standard when it comes to the way your commercial software behaves. Same as with cybersecurity -- yes it's hard, yes hackers can always find a way in, but if the maker is negligent then they should be liable.
Can’t wait for his totally-normal musings on penises he’s seen, the absence of racism in the US* and the importance of the** family.
*why did dad have that hood?
**not his
*why did dad have that hood?
**not his
January 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Can’t wait for his totally-normal musings on penises he’s seen, the absence of racism in the US* and the importance of the** family.
*why did dad have that hood?
**not his
*why did dad have that hood?
**not his
Read that article about the NYU Stern guy running oral exams(?) via LLM. He sees himself at war with his students but also wants the cheapest and laziest victory.
We maybe oughta rethink the way business education works.
We maybe oughta rethink the way business education works.
January 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Read that article about the NYU Stern guy running oral exams(?) via LLM. He sees himself at war with his students but also wants the cheapest and laziest victory.
We maybe oughta rethink the way business education works.
We maybe oughta rethink the way business education works.
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Sure seems bad that governments are falling over themselves to subsidize an industry actively and consciously destroying our capacity to understand things, but what do I know I’m just a simple communication scholar
In interviews, 22 independent food creators said that AI-generated “recipe slop” is distorting nearly every way people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses while causing consumers to waste time and money.
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Sure seems bad that governments are falling over themselves to subsidize an industry actively and consciously destroying our capacity to understand things, but what do I know I’m just a simple communication scholar
Singer's got quite the history of bleeding Latin American countries.
The corruption is so much more massive and rampant than anything we’ve ever seen in the US before.
H/t to the great @juddlegum.bsky.social for this essential read on Trump’s billionaire buddies making bank off Venezuela.
popular.info/p/venezuela-...
H/t to the great @juddlegum.bsky.social for this essential read on Trump’s billionaire buddies making bank off Venezuela.
popular.info/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
popular.info
January 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Singer's got quite the history of bleeding Latin American countries.
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Brief memo re: integrating the university academic aims and LLMs
Oh FFS
January 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Brief memo re: integrating the university academic aims and LLMs
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Went to a concert tonight. So many people watching it on their phone screens filming the side screen showing the stage. Plato would have a field day.
Also, Duran Duran can still put on a show.
Also, Duran Duran can still put on a show.
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Went to a concert tonight. So many people watching it on their phone screens filming the side screen showing the stage. Plato would have a field day.
Also, Duran Duran can still put on a show.
Also, Duran Duran can still put on a show.
"Well, that's not very Torvill and Dean of you," he utters to himself with no one but the dogs around, before remembering how many of his relatives end up dying in mental institutions.
January 5, 2026 at 2:59 AM
"Well, that's not very Torvill and Dean of you," he utters to himself with no one but the dogs around, before remembering how many of his relatives end up dying in mental institutions.
Even when they’re right, maybe accounts with 100k+ followers shouldn’t call out nobodies they aren’t even interacting with.
January 4, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Even when they’re right, maybe accounts with 100k+ followers shouldn’t call out nobodies they aren’t even interacting with.