schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cubs-White Sox World Series and Pope Leo throws out the first pitch 1174
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Deneen’s focus on nostos and restlessness in the Odyssey is flat but easily allows him to smuggle in right wing views. His reading cannot structurally connect the Phaeacians with Polyphemus and ultimately with Odysseus arriving in Ithaca as a stranger, the way, say, xenia does 120
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026with all due disrespect, you have to be functionally illiterate (in English and Greek) to read the gospels and get anything resembling muscular Christianity 060
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026me: “your crypto-erotic hangups are not our issue.” them: “watch us make it your issue” 020
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Transparent cash grab by these losers. They included the pastor who famously malfunctioned for hours after he had a waitress who wore yoga pants. Basically disturbed individuals with podcast equipment religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...religionnews.comThe rise of the Jim Crow theobros(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ... 020
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026simply making fun of meta glasses, calling them “pervert glasses,” is why Zuck is sheepishly retreating for the moment. Nice to see 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“you should engage Kuyper and neo-Calvinism” 150
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026STOP ASKING YOUR SON "HOW WAS SCHOOL." HE'LL SAY "FINE" EVERY SINGLE TIME. A CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST TOLD ME TO REPLACE IT WITH THESE 3 QUESTIONS INSTEAD: “What can I know?” “What should I do?” “What may I hope?” 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026also, certain aspects of Rawls can be almost spiritual practices if you take them seriously. Liberalism as a way of life 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026years ago I shed the veil’s more technical implications and view it as basic political empathy. Too many arguments boil down to “if I look like X, have history Y, and/or believe Z, I should occupy a different level in society” 120
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026they don’t know optimization culture is deeply inhumane 091
Reposted by schleiermockerEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs? 26082421644
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...nytimes.comHow DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to LoseData science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction. 000
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Can Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/m...nytimes.comCan Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground?A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith. 011
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026AI is causing “cognitive surrender”? As a Platonist I reached that point years ago 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I can’t believe somebody yelled “give us a thumbs up!” And an aid defensively responded “he already did” 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Schmitz is our least talented and most tendentious cultural commentator. Another masterpiece where he exactly misdiagnoses the events he’s observing Ella Langley. ‘Landman.’ The Rural Vibe Shift Is Real. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Ella Langley. ‘Landman.’ The Rural Vibe Shift Is Real.Social marginalization means something different today. 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026re the Sydney Sweeney ad: have any American celebrities or sports stars decried the scourge of betting like Mbappé has? 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“AI will kill us all” is just another secularized eschatology. Just as likely you’ll live 500 years absorbing AI slop 24/7 and there will be advertisements in your dreams 020
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Barron’s dishonest eristics often work like this. Notice the subtle merger of empathy as “feeling with others” with “never hurting feelings.” Empathy is the former, not the latter. He combines them so he can pretend empathy is not a supreme gospel value, which it obviously is 050
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026You could say Kant was “sleepmaxxing” before he read Hume 0153
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026the corporate mindfulness retreat got too real, now the colleagues are escaping suffering through renunciation of all craving 030
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026it’s just something people value or enjoy doing — not everything is an “ersatz religion” 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I’ve been saying: the Mamdani effect combines 1) active government WITH 2) accountable government and a *gasp* 3) forward-looking communitarian vision of family and community flourishing. The contemporary rightwing can cry and moan about point 1 but have lost all moral authority or vision on 2 and 3 030
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Inside the Left’s Playbook for Winning Elections www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...nytimes.comThe Campaign Tactics Helping Progressives Win Primaries Ahead of the 2026 MidtermsProgressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed. 020
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026that would be 23 million working Americans. 23 million people who could be freer, more innovative, and less dependent on jobs/bosses they hate 040
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Democrats Prepare for Possible Election Clashes With Federal Government www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...nytimes.comDemocrats Prepare for Possible Election Clashes With Federal GovernmentTop officials overseeing state elections and law enforcement are stepping up plans to prepare for what they worry could be interference in the midterms. 000
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026DSA is not a “gift” to MAGA. It is a gift, possibly, of MAGA. And since I don’t care about the DSA at all, but about a socialist presence within the Democratic Party, it could be a gift to Dems as well if they’re smart about it 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026can a rogue GPT model hack into my student loans and delete them 0123
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026democratic socialism is the only hope for the Democratic Party 010
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Homer bros arguing over Odyssey translations, but not embarrassed they’re reading it in translation smh 100
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I don’t get envious easily but today a guy got on the train with his golf clubs and a fishing pole. Can’t do that to me on a Monday morning 😣 030
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“I’m so hungry I could slaughter Helios’ sacred cattle” to a Chili’s waitress before seeing The Odyssey 1153
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026the thing about playing the political game with nefarious actors, is sometimes your heart explodes before you have the chance to extricate yourself from evil. Montaigne should be a constant guide for us 020
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026generational achievement by the MAGA movement to substantially weaken red-baiting (an American institution!) as a political tactic. Look how pathetic they are 😭 5496
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I always love these vapid gestures toward an anemic civil Christianity. Because even if it works, do they think the greatest 19th century atheists and historical critics were unversed in the Bible? Will be cool to get a Texan Feuerbach or Strauss 130
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026men used to philosophize with a hammer; now they hit their cheekbones with a hammer 😔 050
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 26/06/2026they should re-create the 1908 Red Special on an Amtrak line 000
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 26/06/2026silence, AI agent. I approach the nuances of this software with a prudent and refined phronesis that you could not begin to imagine 030
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 26/06/2026“It gives a touch of cheerful enjoyment to exegetical studies to watch the athletic exercises of interpreters when they confront these sayings of Jesus about wealth.” Rauschenbusch 041
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 19/06/2026First Things carved out an annoying niche, but theological libs since about 1990 have been too shy (or embarrassed?) to reiterate without equivocation: autonomy is the true vision of humanity, the goal of human existence, and compatible with Gospel truth. All else is imbecile dogmatism 140
schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026this is still when analytic theology peaked 0195
