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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 11h

just think about how many interesting gigs philosophers could be working on if they weren't arguing about whether AI is or could be conscious

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

anyone who thinks Hobbes is the authoritarian guy par excellence should ask themselves why Bishop Bramhall would denounce Leviathan as the "rebel's catechism"

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

fuck I love reading poetry out loud by myself all alone. it's so cool. try it sometime if you haven't

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

no quarter for rapists. see how easy that is

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normal-wife @category-fury.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

got quite a funny reaction today when I announced to my business ethics class that for our next session we will be reading an essay about why business ethics education straight up doesn't matter

screenshot of the first page of an article by Alasdair MacIntyre called "The Irrelevance of Ethics"

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

can anyone explain to me the publishing crime that is Routledge putting almost everything in serif font but block quotes in sans serif

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is an awful admission to hear from Sridhar as a longtime fan and a committed joke realist. I hope he is pushed into some kind of person destroyer

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blade Runner actually asked and answered all the interesting speculative questions about AI 40 years ago and our real problems right now that seem like AI problems are all about mass collapse of media literacy and context loss

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm no rocket scientist but that doesn't exactly sound successful

New York Post article headline reads "Successful SpaceX Starship 12 launch ends with spectacular fireball", accompanied by a picture of a spectacular fireball

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

over on x today we got leftists saying that you gotta hand it to Nick Fuentes that he's very smart and a good rhetorician and MY FRIENDS. MY SWEET SUMMER CHILDREN. YOU JUST DO NOT GOTTA HAND IT TO NAZIS

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Derrida said that each death isn't the end of *a* world, it is the end of *the* world, and I think he's right. taking this insight seriously is what it means to actually not be a utilitarian monster

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is like when Scalia argued that lethal injections only count as 'unusual' as in 'cruel and unusual' because stupid liberal activists have made it politically unpopular and thus rarely done

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Negri once accused Badiou of affirming a communism without Marxism, to which Badiou replied that he'd rather be a non-Marxist communist than a non-communist Marxist lol

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

intellectual conservative critics of liberalism will be like 'it hollowed out our communal social fabrics and replaced them with a shallow individualism, leading to civic disengagement and crises of political legitimacy' and I'm like Uh huh and they go 'also we shouldn't have let women vote'

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it'll never not be funny to me that Marc Andreesen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto namechecks the following as among the enemies of progress: DEI, stakeholder capitalism, degrowth, the concept of precaution

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't have hot takes anymore, I'm just simply right about everything. it's a subtle distinction

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

as a student of history I am actually putting my money on "won't"

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

you know, we have this really elaborate detention apparatus here in the United States. we are really good at arresting people even when they haven't loudly proclaimed themselves to be world historical war criminals. it's insane that he gets to waltz in and out while doing a little whimsical racism

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What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

new episode out today! we discuss Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics, which diagnoses our present moment's curious combination of mass mobilization and debilitating standstill. it's time for a paradigm shift, comrades! www.patreon.com/leftofphilos...

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142 | Hyperpolitics in the Present | What's Left of Philosophy

In this episode we discuss the concept of hyperpolitics, as originally conceptualized by Anton Jäger. We contemplate the acute lack of subst

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it's mind boggling to think that Peter Thiel and Elon Musk go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning as though they're normal guys and not world ending sociopaths with immeasurable wealth and power

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it is such a baller move for the 1st footnote in Quentin Skinner's book on Hobbes and Republican Liberty to say "I mainly draw on Skinner 1996."

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it's really funny that Deleuze was like 'Leibniz was right except monads have windows' my dude being windowless is their whole dealio

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

that poem thing or whatever about how 'at first they came for ...' was written by an actual Nazi. I am shocked its lesson needs to be spelled out any more clearly but on the other hand maybe we should sell out trans people and it'll probably stop there

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I only read when I am deeply depressed. I got my PhD 7 years ago

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this just inverts the signs of neoliberal clintonite triangulation while ignoring all the real insights from feminist and intersectional theory. nate silver electoralist game theory pap with a nominally progressive sheen. would it kill anyone to have a single fucking principle

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

very fun to spend 2 weeks teaching about all the methodological and moral problems with utilitarianism only to let students know that this apparently outdated and deeply flawed theory is quite literally the only game in town among top AI researchers

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

no one makes it as far as part 4 of Hobbes's Leviathan but it should really not surprise you to learn that Of the Kingdome of Darknesse is some of his most relevant stuff today

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

do you realize how hard it is to debate two Ches back-to-back

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my insufferable pedantry extends so far that I just spent like 40 minutes drawing the graph that the author *described*, because that was different than the one they actually represented in the text and I just couldn't let it go. this is, needless to say, deeply unwell behavior

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the current moment is horrible and intolerable because there was no gap between the idea that consciousness raising was a project that made sense but failed and the fact that everyone now knows everything and it doesn't matter

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

has anyone tried switching off the Endless Horrors Machine

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this is how it's gonna feel when we finally decide to do communism

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

it is right to wield the infinite blade of pure mathematics against the reactionaries (people who don't listen to What's Left of Philosophy)

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William Paris @williammparis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This one is 🔥

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What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

new episode out today! we talk about Badiou's metapolitics, which asserts that there are in fact political truths and that it is our task as subjects to be faithful to their infinity against the state. full episode is a patreon exclusive; free teaser in the next post www.patreon.com/leftofphilos...

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

constitutionality is dead in the water and it is a waste of time to invoke it as any kind of political or (lol) moral standard if it ever had that function

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Augustine's argument for the existence of God in On Free Choice of the Will is literally just that numbers are in order and I for one am convinced

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

MacIntyre is a real sleeper hit for me, I bounced off his work incredibly hard when I first encountered it and now just about everything I read by him seems eminently reasonable and correct. pray for me comrades

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Malebranche, Rousseau, and Kant all reacted to reading other great philosophers by nearly passing out because of the overwhelming combination of inspiration and terror, and I think that rocks and we need more of it

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

wait e e cummings was a reactionary too?? man the modernists really could not form a coherent political thought

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

recorded a really good @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social today about Badiou because truth rocks and science love art and politics are what make us human in our boundless infinity

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

locking myself in my study until I demonstrate that this is the best of all possible worlds a priori

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I think there was a period when a lot of students were captured by genAI and that time is coming to an end. many of them now openly hate the tech's unasked for ubiquity and ill social effects. I invited my students to leave their screens in their bags and 95% showed up just with notebooks, attentive

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am starting to worry that the United States of America might be going down a dark path

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am glad to see dems counter-messaging Trump's world historically unpopular rhetoric, positions, and policy as we move toward election season. but it would be better if they realized that prosocial progressive policy is attractive on its own terms (see Ethics IV)

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Badiou can be such a meanspirited, cantankerous old bastard and I kind of love that about a dude who spends all his time trying to convince me to care about category theory and Mallarmé

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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

my contribution to the Nathan Cofnas discourse is that while I don't endorse race science, master race guys always look like that and we all know what I mean

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