Mitch Whitehead
@mitchwhitehead.bsky.social
Itinerant philosopher, sci-fi and fantasy nerd, panettone enthusiast. Learning experience designer, educator, and facilitator.
www.mitchwhitehead.com
www.mitchwhitehead.com
Weeknote 12-14/2025
We've got death in the White House, cataclysmic wrath, faux-Ghibli, getting things in our hands, and just not laughing.
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We've got death in the White House, cataclysmic wrath, faux-Ghibli, getting things in our hands, and just not laughing.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
April 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Weeknote 12-14/2025
We've got death in the White House, cataclysmic wrath, faux-Ghibli, getting things in our hands, and just not laughing.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
We've got death in the White House, cataclysmic wrath, faux-Ghibli, getting things in our hands, and just not laughing.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
Blog Post for the #Philosophy and/or #Sci-Fi NERDS out there all about DUNE and Michel Foucault.
The Spice Must Flow: Power, Politics, and the Struggle for Arrakis
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The Spice Must Flow: Power, Politics, and the Struggle for Arrakis
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The Spice Must Flow
Power, Politics, and the Struggle for Arrakis
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February 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Blog Post for the #Philosophy and/or #Sci-Fi NERDS out there all about DUNE and Michel Foucault.
The Spice Must Flow: Power, Politics, and the Struggle for Arrakis
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
The Spice Must Flow: Power, Politics, and the Struggle for Arrakis
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
Do I need to be worried about what the other 4% is?
February 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Do I need to be worried about what the other 4% is?
Nine weeks old and the baby already has more books than most Americans.
February 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Nine weeks old and the baby already has more books than most Americans.
It’s time for #Weeknote 07+08/2025! We’ve got
God killers, zines, avenging spirits, game-jamming, magical Spaniards, infini-wiki, and not-quite Star Wars.
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God killers, zines, avenging spirits, game-jamming, magical Spaniards, infini-wiki, and not-quite Star Wars.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
February 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
It’s time for #Weeknote 07+08/2025! We’ve got
God killers, zines, avenging spirits, game-jamming, magical Spaniards, infini-wiki, and not-quite Star Wars.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
God killers, zines, avenging spirits, game-jamming, magical Spaniards, infini-wiki, and not-quite Star Wars.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
They’re searching for a new Bond, we need a new Archbishop of Canterbury, looks like we’ll be after a new Pope pretty soon, and there’s rumours of a new Doctor in Doctor Who. Can we streamline it all and roll them into one? The Archbishop of Doctor James Pope? Maybe get Henry Cavill on board?
February 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
They’re searching for a new Bond, we need a new Archbishop of Canterbury, looks like we’ll be after a new Pope pretty soon, and there’s rumours of a new Doctor in Doctor Who. Can we streamline it all and roll them into one? The Archbishop of Doctor James Pope? Maybe get Henry Cavill on board?
Our paediatrician always has Ghibli movies playing in the waiting room, which I love. But I can’t help but think they’re not *all* a great choice for tiny children.
February 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Our paediatrician always has Ghibli movies playing in the waiting room, which I love. But I can’t help but think they’re not *all* a great choice for tiny children.
Weeknote 05+06/2025
Moon music, pedagogic manifesti, Georgian jungles, massive murmurations, film school begins, kiosks, and D&D takes New York.
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Moon music, pedagogic manifesti, Georgian jungles, massive murmurations, film school begins, kiosks, and D&D takes New York.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
February 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Weeknote 05+06/2025
Moon music, pedagogic manifesti, Georgian jungles, massive murmurations, film school begins, kiosks, and D&D takes New York.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
Moon music, pedagogic manifesti, Georgian jungles, massive murmurations, film school begins, kiosks, and D&D takes New York.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
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I hate it when scientists act super smug and arrogant to ordinary people.
It's like they don't even realize that philosophers had been doing that for a thousand years, before science was even a thing.
It's like they don't even realize that philosophers had been doing that for a thousand years, before science was even a thing.
February 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I hate it when scientists act super smug and arrogant to ordinary people.
It's like they don't even realize that philosophers had been doing that for a thousand years, before science was even a thing.
It's like they don't even realize that philosophers had been doing that for a thousand years, before science was even a thing.
Thinking about recording the cacophonous menagerie of nocturnal noises our baby makes so that when he is a surly teenager who won’t get up I can play it back to him at full blast.
February 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Thinking about recording the cacophonous menagerie of nocturnal noises our baby makes so that when he is a surly teenager who won’t get up I can play it back to him at full blast.
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Fantastic philosophy of mind summer school in Budapest.
summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...
summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...
New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Mind | CEU summer course
summeruniversity.ceu.edu
January 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Fantastic philosophy of mind summer school in Budapest.
summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...
summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...
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Bertrand Russell: The Everyday Benefit of Philosophy Is That It Helps You Live with Uncertainty
Bertrand Russell: The Everyday Benefit of Philosophy Is That It Helps You Live with Uncertainty
On the strength of a few quotations and the popular lecture Why I am Not a Christian, philosopher Bertrand Russell has been characterized as a so-called “positive atheist,” a phrase that implies a hig...
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January 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Bertrand Russell: The Everyday Benefit of Philosophy Is That It Helps You Live with Uncertainty
Just finished reading Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili. A brutal, heartrending book that’s so beautifully steeped in humanity. Possibly the first book I’ve read set in Georgia (yes, the country)? Incredible to think it’s a debut, too. Also, what a cover!
#booksky
#booksky
January 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Just finished reading Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili. A brutal, heartrending book that’s so beautifully steeped in humanity. Possibly the first book I’ve read set in Georgia (yes, the country)? Incredible to think it’s a debut, too. Also, what a cover!
#booksky
#booksky
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The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.
January 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.
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Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
January 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
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"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Having given it a lot of thought, my strategy in #thetraitors —were I picked to be a traitor— would be to murder everyone starting with who I found most annoying all the way to who I found least annoying and just see how far down my list I could get.
January 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Having given it a lot of thought, my strategy in #thetraitors —were I picked to be a traitor— would be to murder everyone starting with who I found most annoying all the way to who I found least annoying and just see how far down my list I could get.
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Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
Weeknote 03+04/2025
Long London, cartooning on the bus, the passing of a great, and bundles of joy.
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January 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Weeknote 03+04/2025
Long London, cartooning on the bus, the passing of a great, and bundles of joy.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchwhi...
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My biggest artistic influence was probably the ancient mew pokemon card you got when you went to see the first movie.
January 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
My biggest artistic influence was probably the ancient mew pokemon card you got when you went to see the first movie.
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As a kid, I always wondered why I was so obsessed Star Wars. I always wondered why it was so important.
As an adult, I get it now. Star Wars at its core is a story about fighting authoritarianism.
As an adult, I get it now. Star Wars at its core is a story about fighting authoritarianism.
January 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As a kid, I always wondered why I was so obsessed Star Wars. I always wondered why it was so important.
As an adult, I get it now. Star Wars at its core is a story about fighting authoritarianism.
As an adult, I get it now. Star Wars at its core is a story about fighting authoritarianism.
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Gonna say it was autism when I karate chop a Nazi.
January 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Gonna say it was autism when I karate chop a Nazi.
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I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks
January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks
There was a time long, long, ago, where we said the dog wouldn’t go on the couch. And now he is king of all he surveys. Honestly, I’m very happy with this arrangement.
January 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
There was a time long, long, ago, where we said the dog wouldn’t go on the couch. And now he is king of all he surveys. Honestly, I’m very happy with this arrangement.
If you went to college:
1. What was your career goal when you started? Philosophy teacher.
2. your initial major? Philosophy & Classics
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Philosophy
4. What do you do now? Learning Experience Design & teacher training.
1. What was your career goal when you started? Philosophy teacher.
2. your initial major? Philosophy & Classics
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Philosophy
4. What do you do now? Learning Experience Design & teacher training.
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started? High school English teacher
2. your initial major? English education
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? English lit; then I added Philosophy
4. what do you do now? Teach & do research in logic at uni level.
1. what was your career goal when you started? High school English teacher
2. your initial major? English education
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? English lit; then I added Philosophy
4. what do you do now? Teach & do research in logic at uni level.
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started? Computer programmer
2. your initial major? Computer science
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Philosophy
4. what do you do now? Philosophy, but with computers
1. what was your career goal when you started? Computer programmer
2. your initial major? Computer science
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Philosophy
4. what do you do now? Philosophy, but with computers
January 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If you went to college:
1. What was your career goal when you started? Philosophy teacher.
2. your initial major? Philosophy & Classics
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Philosophy
4. What do you do now? Learning Experience Design & teacher training.
1. What was your career goal when you started? Philosophy teacher.
2. your initial major? Philosophy & Classics
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Philosophy
4. What do you do now? Learning Experience Design & teacher training.