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Philosophy & politics. #Technology, #Edtech, #Linux, & #highereducation policy.♥️📚🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇺🇸
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Near Houston, Texas.
Person dressed up as the Cookie Monster with an American flag taped to their sign that reads “me want cookies and rights” Crowd along the street in Woodlands, Texas for the no Kings Rally
October 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
vpterson.bsky.social
When the powerful pick their judges, critics, or voters, the system ceases to be democratic, market-driven, or meritocratic—it becomes self-sealing. Think of the self-liking ice cream cone of crazy.
Picture of an ice cream cone with eyes and tongue licking itself.
July 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
vpterson.bsky.social
I've often thought about putting a tracker on my cat's collar--ooh, or under her skin because she sometimes slips her collar--to see where she goes at night and learn what she gets up to.

Conclusion: Sam Altman and the Tech Lords see ordinary humans as pets.
Kitty with a tracking device on her collar. Ad copy reads at top of image, "Anti-dropping device. Searching for things with one key."
May 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
vpterson.bsky.social
Two 2022 films worth watching. Slow burners.
Promo shot for the film Acidman. Movie poster for the film You Won’t Be Alone.
April 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
vpterson.bsky.social
Conroe!
April 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
vpterson.bsky.social
$787.5 million. Fox paid Dominion for spreading falsehoods.
March 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
vpterson.bsky.social
How’s this for a gothic stoic masculine aesthetic? (Dall-E created image.)
Image of an older man dressed in black amidst an abandoned farm scene.
February 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
vpterson.bsky.social
Text of the Everett copy of President Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here, have, thus far, so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
January 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
vpterson.bsky.social
A Leaf Cutter ant hill.
Photo of an ant mound where identically cut tiny leafs make up the mounding material. There is an entrance hold near the center of the mound.
December 31, 2024 at 5:29 PM
vpterson.bsky.social
When your kid takes algebra study seriously and puts in the work to ace the final. Very proud of him.
Handwritten list of algebra topics, including side doodles
December 15, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Heidegger on being anti-Cartesian and qualifiedly skeptical about scientific supremacy:
In order for knowing to be possible as determining by observation what is objectively present, there must first be a *defenciency* of having to do with the world and taking care of it. (Quote from Heidegger, Being and Time, page 61)
November 30, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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The faculty ain’t all that. Many books & articles came out over the last quarter century or so chronicling the dramatic shift away from shared governance & faculty direction to centering more & more of those powers to administrative & corporatizing decisions in higher education.
Cover for Bill Readings’ 1996 book, The University in Ruins.
December 20, 2023 at 5:22 PM
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Engagement is engagement, right? Good ol’ xWitter. I’ve followed Josh Shepperd for years. Smart poster and scholar.
Quote post, “How could I ever leave? Love it here.” Quoting post, “Kinda Snoozy.” Over the first poster’s article about “Literary Fiction” having a short life. Then responds to second poster, “fair!”
October 11, 2023 at 1:08 AM