Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025?

This is very much not a contribution to the recent McCarthy Discourse, but I just finished Outer Dark and it sure is something

Bad question, apt response:

Little dog.

It’s finally coming out. November 28 from Bloomsbury. The weirdest project I’ve worked on—trying to capture the intellectual wild west of philosophy during the scientific revolution.

I’ll say more on the toc et al. later, but the publisher website for it is here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/early-mod...

Reading early modern race science stuff. Here’s Lord Kames in 1778 on the “degeneration” of individuals who move to climates their race is naturally unsuited to:

This book was upside down in its cover when I received it. Predictive failure on my mind’s part.

This is a fun chart of “all composite objects in the universe,” per the authors, arranged by mass. (I think some objects are missing, though.)

Source: pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

I think the manuscript of the early modern philosophy textbook I’ve been working on is finally done? (The question mark is because at every previous point at which I thought this, I turned out to be in error.)

Absolutely tearing through Venomous Lumpsucker. If you’re looking for climate-change sci fi with a garnish of philosophy, this is the one. Holy smokes.