Graham Hubbs
@grahamhubbs.bsky.social
Philosopher at the University of Idaho, writing on the ontology of money (and sometimes Anscombe)
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Earlier this year I started researching/writing an extensive piece about the Stalag rhythm as a follow up to my Sleng Teng piece. It's still in the works, but I couldn't miss the 40th anniversary reissue of Ring The Alarm without penning a few words for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Reissue of the Week: Tenor Saw's 'Ring The Alarm'
1985 was ostensibly the year everything changed for the Jamaican music industry, with the Casio tones of Wayne Smith’s ‘Under Mi Sleng Teng’ seeing every producer reaching for a synth and drum machine...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Earlier this year I started researching/writing an extensive piece about the Stalag rhythm as a follow up to my Sleng Teng piece. It's still in the works, but I couldn't miss the 40th anniversary reissue of Ring The Alarm without penning a few words for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Holophrasism!
According to Śālikanātha all words within a sentence, once connected, convey the sentence meaning.
The options he is disagreeing with are that the sentence meaning is obtained through a partless sentence (as in Bhartṛhari) or from the last speech sound or from the word-meanings (as in Kumārila).
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The options he is disagreeing with are that the sentence meaning is obtained through a partless sentence (as in Bhartṛhari) or from the last speech sound or from the word-meanings (as in Kumārila).
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November 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Holophrasism!
In Pop Song Math II: Fundamental Concepts we move on to higher-level topics, such as Mims inferences (shout to @lenorajoon.bsky.social for running this down):
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November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
In Pop Song Math II: Fundamental Concepts we move on to higher-level topics, such as Mims inferences (shout to @lenorajoon.bsky.social for running this down):
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Typo earlier: D Wilson, not D Jones, is the name of the ChrChr leader. You know, my bad. Vote update: Holmes 3511, McCetich 3498, Sumner 3392. Taruscio at 2097. ChrChr candidates: Slagboom 1977, Schoolland 1919.
City Council results from Moscow, ID, with a preface: Moscow has been in the news a lot b/c of Doug Jones/ChristChurch & their relation w/ Hesgeth. Search it, many stories. The two ChrChr candidates (Schoolland/Slagboom) are behind right now to the three progressive candidates (1/x)
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Typo earlier: D Wilson, not D Jones, is the name of the ChrChr leader. You know, my bad. Vote update: Holmes 3511, McCetich 3498, Sumner 3392. Taruscio at 2097. ChrChr candidates: Slagboom 1977, Schoolland 1919.
City Council results from Moscow, ID, with a preface: Moscow has been in the news a lot b/c of Doug Jones/ChristChurch & their relation w/ Hesgeth. Search it, many stories. The two ChrChr candidates (Schoolland/Slagboom) are behind right now to the three progressive candidates (1/x)
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
City Council results from Moscow, ID, with a preface: Moscow has been in the news a lot b/c of Doug Jones/ChristChurch & their relation w/ Hesgeth. Search it, many stories. The two ChrChr candidates (Schoolland/Slagboom) are behind right now to the three progressive candidates (1/x)
The original big short: Parmenides on change
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The original big short: Parmenides on change
If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula.
October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula.
There were Deadheads in Ancient Rome
Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper
#RomanArchaeology
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper
#RomanArchaeology
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 AM
There were Deadheads in Ancient Rome
In Canto 18 of the Inferno, Dante meets the panderers and the seducers. They manipulated the passions of others for their own benefit
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
In Canto 18 of the Inferno, Dante meets the panderers and the seducers. They manipulated the passions of others for their own benefit
In Canto 17 of the Inferno, Dante rides on the back of Geryon to see the userers
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
In Canto 17 of the Inferno, Dante rides on the back of Geryon to see the userers
@ninaecon.bsky.social puts the Beauty Contest Hypothesis to work in this installment of the Accidental Beauty Contest:
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Consumer Sentiment, Stocks, and Gold: Part 1
[Thinking About] Perceptions of the economy, risk, and assets
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October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@ninaecon.bsky.social puts the Beauty Contest Hypothesis to work in this installment of the Accidental Beauty Contest:
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ninaeichacker.substack.com/p/consumer-s...
"A permanent state budget cut will force the University of Idaho to cut 28 'essential' positions. The reductions — in staff and faculty jobs — will lead to larger class sizes, less individualized learning time and fewer research opportunities for undergrads."
Facing $13.3 million in permanent budget cuts, several of Idaho’s state-run colleges and universities are planning — or considering — staff reductions.
Budget cuts will force staff cuts at U of I and other campuses • Idaho Capital Sun
Facing $13.3 million in permanent budget cuts, several of Idaho’s colleges and universities are planning — or considering — staff reductions.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"A permanent state budget cut will force the University of Idaho to cut 28 'essential' positions. The reductions — in staff and faculty jobs — will lead to larger class sizes, less individualized learning time and fewer research opportunities for undergrads."
A Private Language Argument, for prices
this shit cracks me up because isn't Chicago economics supposed to be about using stable differences in relative prices to suss out "preferences" based on consumer spending? there's no price-relevant revealed preference in a universe where the prices are all different for each actor
You go into a store to buy a 2-litre bottle of milk at the supermarket and pay $3. But the person in front of you in line paid $3.50. And the person behind you paid $2.
Surveillance pricing is the practice of monitoring consumer data to charge you the most they think you will be willing to pay.
Surveillance pricing is the practice of monitoring consumer data to charge you the most they think you will be willing to pay.
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A Private Language Argument, for prices
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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Indiana University fires adviser of student media, stops printing Indiana Daily Student. While the digital (albeit news-less) version will remain, the newspaper that was founded in 1867 will no longer publish as a newspaper. (NOTE: This is a correction to an earlier article which I’ve since deleted)
IU fires leader of student media, including Indiana Daily Student
Media School Dean David Tolchinsky announced Tuesday night that campus leadership decided to end print editions starting this week. The word came hours after he fired Director of Student Media Jim Rod...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Indiana University fires adviser of student media, stops printing Indiana Daily Student. While the digital (albeit news-less) version will remain, the newspaper that was founded in 1867 will no longer publish as a newspaper. (NOTE: This is a correction to an earlier article which I’ve since deleted)
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UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
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They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
October 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
New paper by Matthew Chrisman and I on what suspension of belief can teach us about knowledge
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Epistemic normativity as autotelic: why suspension and judgment aren’t like archery
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October 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
New paper by Matthew Chrisman and I on what suspension of belief can teach us about knowledge
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