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Jonathan Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Happy Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone Day, to all who celebrate.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

I wrote about a murder in the state where "'woke' goes to die," the people who want to be held innocent of making such things inevitable while insisting we persuade them to stop; about rules of engagement w/supremacists and what it means to find "common ground." armoxon.substack.com/p/the-finger...

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The Finger-Taker's Son

Rules of engagement, and what it means to find "common ground" with supremacists.

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Brandon Polite @politephilosopher.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Check out my interview with Peg Brand Weiser about Camus's The Plague: Philosophical Perspectives (2023), which she edited for OUP. We discuss pandemics, fighting fascism, modern death, heroism, and solidarity. youtu.be/V0FI7AgiZCE

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Jonathan Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Those unworn baby shoes will have to step aside:

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

When you see a peer-reviewed scientific journal article, it often says “pay $35 to read this.” Did you know that $0 of that goes to the authors of the article? Just email us and we’ll be happy to send you a copy for free. We’re usually thrilled that anyone cares. 🧪🦑🦈

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

Conservative political correctness is injecting ideology into campus hirings and firings across the country. It’s going to eviscerate public higher ed in multiple states. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/conser…

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Conservative Political Correctness Is Running Amok on Campus

A brief glimpse at goings-on in Texas and Florida

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Jonathan Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

We often describe our emotional attitudes towards fictional characters in terms that seem literal, and at least carry no flags of intonation etc to suggest they are nonliteral. E.g., “I felt sorry for Ken at first, but then later was disgusted at him for being such a douche.” 1/2 #philsky

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Jonathan Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

This was _exactly_ my experience of that movie.

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Brandon Polite @politephilosopher.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

New interview! I talk to Aderemi Artis about the aesthetics of playing fast-twitch video games. We also talk about the aesthetic value of boredom in open-world video games. Check it out!!!

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Ep. 55: The Aesthetics of Fast-Twitch (& Open-World) Video Games | A Discussion with Aderemi Artis

In this episode, Brandon Polite (Knox College | he/him) talks with Aderemi Artis (University of Michigan-Flint) about the aesthetics of fast-twitch video gam...

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

It needs to be repeated until it sinks in: when they say "critical race theory" what they mean is "we're not gonna teach accurate history"

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Jonathan Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

As someone who loves Trek; and loves musicals; and loves musical episodes in general… that was pretty meh. There were maybe three clever lyrics, tops? (The little Klingon number was great though — should have been way more of that sort of thing!)

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

ordinary language philosophy:

star wars "right" meme. captions:
panel 1: We need to focus on how people actually use language
panel 2: by doing systematic empirical linguistics, right?
panel 3: ...
panel 4: by doing systematic empirical linguistics, right?

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Jonathan Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

My search for “best biscuits in Oxford” yielded two _very_ distinct geo-culinary sets of hits.

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Daniel @escargotpro.bsky.social · 17/07/2023

So apparently Charles Barkley is repeatedly going to bars doing this routine

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Jonathan Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Was just on a pub trivia team of aestheticians that beat a team of STEM PhDs and the way we celebrated my goodness you'd think it was Lake Placid 1980 all over again.

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