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Jason S. Canon

@uncanonical.net
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Peripatetic American in Europe. PhD candidate at Cambridge writing on empathy, democracy, and liberation.

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 12/10/2026
Ford Prefect
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 08/10/2026
Talk about civilizational risk. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 03/10/2026
The value of this life is clear to her doctors. Why not her executioners?
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 02/10/2026
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 01/10/2026
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 29/09/2026
The café color-matched the dog.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 22/09/2026
Some seriously good 0.0% beer. Best I’ve had by some distance.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 21/09/2026
CREEP VOLTAIRE
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 19/09/2026
This will never stop being weird.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 17/09/2026
The scaffolds are an improvement.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 16/09/2026
this random swiss design shop gets it
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 31/08/2026
JetBlue blocks qualia during announcements.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 17/06/2026
Ah, Glasgow — the Philadelphia of Britain.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 16/06/2026
Today's side quest: making my own orthotics. In college, I drove a moped into a ravine and split my heel in two. Many surgeries later, it's nearly impossible to find insoles/orthotics that fit. So I've made my own!
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 15/06/2026
Finally made it to St. Mary's, home to the 1647 Putney Debates
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 11/06/2026
where do I sign up
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 31/05/2026
The most internet comment that ever was commented.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 20/05/2026
Well, if this random tripadvisor reviewer was impressed...
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 14/05/2026
Inject this into my veins (and as much of the discipline as will consent to injections).
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 13/05/2026
Seems bad.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 11/05/2026
💯
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 09/05/2026
caturday off to a fine start
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 08/05/2026
Charmingly, the maintenance folks from Jesus College arrive on bike.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 03/05/2026
mood
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 02/05/2026
London/NYC: see this when you can.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 02/05/2026
!!!
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 02/05/2026
London hits differently from the water.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 01/05/2026
I have bad news for anyone expecting either dogs or canaries
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 30/04/2026
Step 3: Cajole @nescio13.bsky.social into writing up this aside. It’s true! And also: Rousseau himself sometimes gives the general will an anti-political cast (as I’ve argued in RoP). Which makes Eric’s point all the more intriguing.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 27/04/2026
Corrupted the youth last week with a talk on Adam Smith.
mid wit meme promoting moral sentiments
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 24/04/2026
I’m starving, but not like that.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 19/04/2026
The full version of the Frederick Douglass "I would unite with anybody to do right" line is even better than I knew.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 14/04/2026
CHICAGO POPE BRINGS ITALIAN BEEF
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 13/04/2026
"My precious child, When you saw only one set of footprints, That wasn't me, the bonespurs were terrible, you were just alone like the LOSER you are."
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 13/04/2026
Imagine making it to your third Trump vote and thinking "at least blasphemy is still off the table."
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 13/04/2026
the neighbour cat is so posh
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 10/04/2026
18th-century moral sentimentalists:
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 06/04/2026
YES.
In my view Smith is the first major social theorist to see the modern state in full. Book V of WN shows a deep understanding, in a way that Locke or even Montesquieu does not, of the political forms then coming into being. That understanding includes a realistic vision of particular political actors— judges, kings, priests, parliamentarians— as well as of organizations like armies, churches, parties, and bureaucracies. The political lessons he draws from that understanding are never simple ones. The vision of a free society he offers might seem like one characterized by inaction: don’t interfere with trade, don’t interfere with religion. But inaction, on his account, will never get us there. Executive domination, corruption of justice, the fusion of military and political power, imperialism and mercantilism motivated by nationalist pride, and religious state persecution of dissidents and nonbelievers: these are what he shows to be the normal course of things. Governments that are “oppressive and tyrannical” are the rule, and he maps out the challenges of finding our way to the occasional exception.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 05/04/2026
Ambrose Bierce said that war was God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 02/04/2026
In space, everyone can hear this scream.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 29/03/2026
Less tankie and more… slicie? Choppie?
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 27/03/2026
This is excellent.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 27/03/2026
When you get really, really excited by epidemiology
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 25/03/2026
This is the entire history of modern ethics and I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 25/03/2026
Far from our most pressing problem, but I’m shocked at how far university press hardbacks have fallen. Low-quality cover printing, glued bindings. And for eye-watering prices! Outrageous.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 23/03/2026
Land of the Free.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 23/03/2026
Some wild data on AI and language evolution. every.to/p/the-scienc...
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 20/03/2026
Heart is in the right place even if the words aren’t.
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 20/03/2026
Hell yeah posh soap shop
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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 19/03/2026
For all three of you who are Isaiah Berlin fans.
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