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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 57m

Whence arose the O'Lantern-O'Lantern family

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Diversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just so everyone is aware, bookshop.org is having an “anti-Prime” sale today. Part of the proceeds of their sales go to help independent bookstores and you can buy ebooks! 💜

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He that is without Zyn among you, let him…

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(I’m just bitter that I got stuck there last time I was in town…)

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That’s because it connects a pleasant-enough town to a deeply unlovely rail junction no one has any right mind being at unless they have an onward journey.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh great, the Brassicathars are at it again.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

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@nic_carter
X.com
this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al column

Andrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
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social obligation
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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All this in just the first six weeks!

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even when one feels they are getting some particular thing about the text wrong, the vivid sense that literature can make us think well, think more fully about what we are, is conveyed. And the readings and ideas are so ambitious when compared with most criticism and certainly with most philosophy.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm so glad I decided to teach Martha Nussbaum and Stanley Cavell in my Philosophy and Literature class. Nussbaum's FRAGILITY OF GOODNESS, which we read alongside Aeschylus's Agamemnon and Plato's Symposium, and Cavell's "Avoidance of Love", which we are reading with King Lear, are both so splendid.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t think teaching a canon is bad, and studying intellectual traditions as historical phenomena is important to understanding culture, past and present. What’s bad is teaching a specific canon as if it’s above history and somehow universal. The frame matters, as does what’s available beyond it.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s a little known fact that all the words associated with paying to see the Bayeux Tapestry are derived from Anglo-Saxon while all the words for being invited to see it by a corporate sponsor derive from French.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What kills me is that it's no longer Internet randos using AI to cosplay as philosophers, historians or scientists. It's established philosophers, historians and scientists surrendering their hard-won intellectual agency and integrity in a rapid cascade, faster than even my darkest prediction. 1/1

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And a few of us with full-time jobs that have flexible work hours.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have to change your name to JT Fakemuto now.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still enjoying being there, but I don't enjoy going there.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(My job is teaching. Writing philosophy journal articles and monographs is not in any obvious way socially necessary.)

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not quite, I think. It certainly doesn’t help that very few jobs are both personally meaningful and socially necessary. I optimized for this combination — and it took first spending my 20s in relative (and actual) poverty as a graduate student.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026

I think students should read full books.

Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech," from "The Four Freedoms," 1943
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I work at CUNY. Can confirm we have amazing students. The defunding though is taking a heavy toll on everyone

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Getting rid of just some part of the tax exemptions for Columbia and NYU’s massive real estate portfolios, which function as a private source of authority for these unaccountable institutions, and redirecting the money to CUNY would be just, meet, and right.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We do so with just a fraction of the resources, and, while there are significant challenges, to a high standard, in my experience.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I often find myself explaining to people that Hunter College, just one of a long list of senior colleges in CUNY, educates more undergraduates (~17,000) than Columbia University, even if you include all the Barnard students, too (~13,000).

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I read in the Inquirer today that UPenn’s endowment *increased* by $6 billion last year. The FY27 executive budget for CUNY is $6.4 billion.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tag yourself. I’m PROMPTS* & POSSIBILITIES * handwritten essay prompts

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s easy to keep them straight! One of these creates elaborate escapist fantasies and the other is a games company.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hm. I agree that this is extremely bad.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Human errors have recourse. Computer errors do not." I suppose I'm mystified by this.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They really don't seem ready in a lot of real world conditions. I share your concern. But if they're safer per-mile-driven than human drivers by say a factor of 3 or 4, how do you feel about them?

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

God bless you. (Your work really is admirable!)

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It wasn’t advice. My point is it’s so terribly brain-melting at this point that I can’t stomach it any more.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't use Google without the &udm=14 flag added to the search (which gets rid of the foolish summaries and the promoted content/ads alike).

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not a matter of trusting one or the other. The data seem to bear out that Waymos are involved in many fewer accidents leading to serious injury or death. I'm skeptical, still, and waiting for further data, but it's promising.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, this is also my top priority. But we need to get passenger vehicles of the street in every way possible.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My view of self-driving cars has steadily changed over the past few years. Human drivers have collectively lost their minds, between anger problems, insane risk-taking behavior, and terminal levels of phone/screen distraction, in recent years. We’d be better off with a LOT more of these vehicles.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Approaching China or Australia levels of time zone incoherence

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 20/09/2026

“As you finalize the plan, we urge you to adopt metrics tied to affordability, liability and the freedom to move,” reads the letter, which was provided to The City Reporter.

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Mamdani, Here’s How to Do Better on Street Safety, Advocates Plead

After failure by the Adams administration to meet bus and bike targets, safety activists want a lot more accountability from the current mayor.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was introduced to New Haven-style pizza in Chicago and, while I hate to admit it, it is superior. (Requisite addendum: Chicago-style "pizza" is not pizza, but rather disgusting cheese pie.)

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 19/09/2026

Last night, at the intersection of 14th Street and First Avenue, a truck driver hit a Citi Bike, injuring one 16-year-old rider and killing a 15-year-old rider. The riders were crossing First Avenue with the right-of-way to turn onto the protected bike lane heading north.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When it's baseball-themed he has no problem.

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