Rob Trumbull, PhD ⚽️ 📚 ✊🏼
@r-trumbull.bsky.social
Ethicist, analyst in training. History of Consciousness PhD, monograph on Derrida & Freud (Fordham UP, 2022). Byline: @geekwire.bsky.social
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This is actually a fantastic example of the logical untenability (and thus bald bad faith) of the “the fairest way to deal with race is not to see race” charade currently in vogue in right intellectual and political discourse: it is utterly and absurdly unable to contemplate any *history* at all
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Has @MLS or @InterMiamiCF said anything yet about Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets, and co?
It happened Sunday night, and still no word. #LeaguesCup
It happened Sunday night, and still no word. #LeaguesCup
September 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Has @MLS or @InterMiamiCF said anything yet about Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets, and co?
It happened Sunday night, and still no word. #LeaguesCup
It happened Sunday night, and still no word. #LeaguesCup
✊🏼 my colleagues at Harvard.
April 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
✊🏼 my colleagues at Harvard.
Time is a flat circle: some 90 years ago this week, Anna Freud was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna and held in detention overnight. It frightened Freud enough to finally put into motion a forced emigration plan. Now, in our time, similarly young scholars are being snatched off the street.
March 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Time is a flat circle: some 90 years ago this week, Anna Freud was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna and held in detention overnight. It frightened Freud enough to finally put into motion a forced emigration plan. Now, in our time, similarly young scholars are being snatched off the street.
I’m thinking of writing an article that makes the philosophical argument in favor of Cybertruck vandalism, viewed from an ethical perspective. Who’s up for reading this?
March 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I’m thinking of writing an article that makes the philosophical argument in favor of Cybertruck vandalism, viewed from an ethical perspective. Who’s up for reading this?
Thank goodness we have Thomas Edsall in the paper of record to block quote emails from academics saying things that are plainly obvious. And yes, I really needed 5 sentences from a law prof’s substack to tell me Trump’s world is illusory and solipsistic.
Opinion | Vengeance Is His
Vengeance is his.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Thank goodness we have Thomas Edsall in the paper of record to block quote emails from academics saying things that are plainly obvious. And yes, I really needed 5 sentences from a law prof’s substack to tell me Trump’s world is illusory and solipsistic.
Ok, didn’t see this one coming: YouTube videos recreating the Human League on vintage synths are now apparently my jam.
February 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Ok, didn’t see this one coming: YouTube videos recreating the Human League on vintage synths are now apparently my jam.
Nothing says badass ruler of the world like sending a pro forma email. I’m starting to think his super special bizness skillz might not be that superior after all 🤔
February 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Nothing says badass ruler of the world like sending a pro forma email. I’m starting to think his super special bizness skillz might not be that superior after all 🤔
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New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
Ok can we have the Finland anthem singer do every anthem from now on??
February 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Ok can we have the Finland anthem singer do every anthem from now on??
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Trending: An ethicist’s take on ‘rent tech’ software and housing market manipulation https://www.geekwire.com/2025/an-ethicists-take-on-rent-tech-software-and-housing-market-manipulation/
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February 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Trending: An ethicist’s take on ‘rent tech’ software and housing market manipulation https://www.geekwire.com/2025/an-ethicists-take-on-rent-tech-software-and-housing-market-manipulation/
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That’s more like it.
February 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
That’s more like it.
Except, @bcdreyer.social , the last one should be Gulp of Mexico. Or maybe that’s only for Topo Chico.
February 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Except, @bcdreyer.social , the last one should be Gulp of Mexico. Or maybe that’s only for Topo Chico.
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Going forward, I'm calling all bodies of water Gulf of Mexico.
Long Island Sound? Gulf of Mexico.
Lake Placid? Gulf of Mexico.
Chattahoochee River? Gulf of Mexico.
My half-full tumbler of Perrier? Gulf of Mexico.
Long Island Sound? Gulf of Mexico.
Lake Placid? Gulf of Mexico.
Chattahoochee River? Gulf of Mexico.
My half-full tumbler of Perrier? Gulf of Mexico.
February 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Going forward, I'm calling all bodies of water Gulf of Mexico.
Long Island Sound? Gulf of Mexico.
Lake Placid? Gulf of Mexico.
Chattahoochee River? Gulf of Mexico.
My half-full tumbler of Perrier? Gulf of Mexico.
Long Island Sound? Gulf of Mexico.
Lake Placid? Gulf of Mexico.
Chattahoochee River? Gulf of Mexico.
My half-full tumbler of Perrier? Gulf of Mexico.
Oh great, the Obamanauts are here to nudge everything better, people! We can all relax!
Pete's here
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
February 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Oh great, the Obamanauts are here to nudge everything better, people! We can all relax!
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
Whenever I would teach Freud’s treatment of the commandment to love thy neighbor from 1930—which simply cannot overcome the “homo homini lupus,” he says—I had Syria in mind.
December 9, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Whenever I would teach Freud’s treatment of the commandment to love thy neighbor from 1930—which simply cannot overcome the “homo homini lupus,” he says—I had Syria in mind.
With respect to the current news cycle: the use of “schadenfreude” is completely inappropriate here, simply because it’s not at all semantically relevant to this scenario.
December 7, 2024 at 4:33 AM
With respect to the current news cycle: the use of “schadenfreude” is completely inappropriate here, simply because it’s not at all semantically relevant to this scenario.
@geekwire.bsky.social readers! Any ethical questions you want to float?
December 3, 2024 at 12:37 AM
@geekwire.bsky.social readers! Any ethical questions you want to float?
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I asked Jordan Morris how it felt to not have to talk about Soubders’ winless run against LAFC anymore: ‘honestly, that’s the best part.’
November 24, 2024 at 7:19 AM
I asked Jordan Morris how it felt to not have to talk about Soubders’ winless run against LAFC anymore: ‘honestly, that’s the best part.’
Is skeet the new name for tweet? Is that what we’re doing here?
November 24, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Is skeet the new name for tweet? Is that what we’re doing here?
The next time you hear someone trash Freud just remember the bullshit that comprises an entire field of psychology in business schools: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:09 AM
The next time you hear someone trash Freud just remember the bullshit that comprises an entire field of psychology in business schools: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Nothing like endless fundraising emails on Giving Day from your PhD-granting humanities program; hitting up all, all of the adjuncts.
November 20, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Nothing like endless fundraising emails on Giving Day from your PhD-granting humanities program; hitting up all, all of the adjuncts.
There should be a NWSL team in Philadelphia and they should be called Oracle SC.
November 11, 2024 at 6:42 PM
There should be a NWSL team in Philadelphia and they should be called Oracle SC.