Devastated & horrified by the Tai Po fire — but Dan & I are safe. As American Thanksgiving dawns across the Pacific, just want to say I am thankful for our family, friends, colleagues, boyos, our health & safety, & each of you. Hug a loved one pls, & keep HK in your thoughts. ♥️

crying yelling throwing up 😭😭😭

I’m putting together a list

Press release: Energy Department Announces $100 Million to Restore America’s Coal Plants WASHINGTON— The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for up to $100 million in federal funding to refurbish and modernize the nation’s existing coal power plants. It follows the Department’s September announcement of its intent to invest $625 million to expand and reinvigorate America’s coal industry. The effort will support practical, high-impact projects that improve efficiency, plant lifetimes, and performance of coal and natural gas use. “For years, the Biden and Obama administrations relentlessly targeted America’s coal industry and workers, resulting in the closure of reliable power plants and higher electricity costs," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. “Thankfully, President Trump has ended the war on American coal and is restoring common sense energy policies that put Americans first. These projects will help keep America's coal plants operating and ensure the United States has the reliable and affordable power it needs to keep the lights on and power our future."

Halloween Friday news dump: The Trump administration is giving out $100 million to “refurbish and modernize” coal plants

The Little Mermaid but make it your philosophy professor

How Musk fucked up Twitter's blue tick verification system, and its disastrous consequences.

an orange and white cat is cuddled by a brown tabby cat

good afternoon

that’s right 😎

An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X Exploring the changing nature of public debate

A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X Exploring the changing nature of public debate

Hey remember when Brian Leiter said philosophy grad students on Twitter had “job prospects de minimus” ? Anyway I’m a Dr. now and I co-wrote some philosophy about Twitter blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

Yeah! And ahh 🙈 thank you, was actually feeling self-conscious that it’s so messy in so many places!

University classroom whiteboard with concepts from philosophical paper written in expo marker

Teaching @add-hawk.bsky.social’s “Playfulness and Epistemic Traps” in my “Info, Misinfo, and the Media” class :)

I know my boyos are in safe hands with their grandparents in the states, but god help me if I don’t miss them so much it hurts :(

a man in a superhero costume is standing in the dark Alt: Peacemaker, a very muscular white man in a superhero costume, is standing in the dark and dancing under a series of spotlights

Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?

“That leaves us with a massive asymmetry, where Charlie Kirks work against rule of law democracy, Ezra Kleins pretend that they don’t, and together they work to convince everyone that all this is fine, just normal disagreement, so the people taking attacks on democracy seriously are the problem.”

‪Anyway, we’re still friends on instagram — and I just saw that he and his husband-to-be are getting married this week ❤️ what a wonderful, beautiful, much-needed reminder that joy is precious and worth fighting for. ‬

We ended up sitting there for hours. Just shooting the shit. And at some point it he confided in me — the first time he’d told anyone — that he was gay.

That was almost 15 years ago now. But I still remember how glad and also deeply sad I felt as he laughed away tears of relief.

Freshman year of college I attended the first queer-straight student alliance meeting, and later a boy from my dorm whom I’d seen there asked if we could talk. Sorta taken aback but eager to make friends, I proposed we get coffee, and we sat down at a picnic table on the quad.

Just good stuff all around

Love to feel my brain working less well and having to wonder if it’s just aging or if it’s permanent damage from covid or the spoon of microplastics up there or the decade of chronic stress from the global resurgence of fascism

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave

But his soul goes marching on

‪for the second time today: I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind ‬

playing footage of the President’s actual words with minimal editorial comment: immediate indefinite suspension

saying we should “just kill them” about the homeless: nothing, apparently

This is the kind of shit people were warning about when they said "hey there's these guys called Sinclair buying up every affiliate station in the country" but we didn't act then and now we're here

Ordinary people are out on the street giving their all against a bully who is not only corrupt but unpopular, not only flailing at the proof he’s a child rapist but visibly dying before our eyes. And people with actual wealth and power are *racing* to lick his boots. We’re on our own.

do they really think we’re that stupid? ARE we that stupid???

It’s really skeeving me out how ALL of these different news outlets are peddling the “because of Charlie Kirk comments” headline for Jimmy Kimmel’s show termination when he actually made zero “Charlie Kirk comments”

‪evil is banal, sure, but I guess I didn’t realize it was also so farcical and cringe ‬

for most of my education/adult life 1930s germany was incomprehensible to me but surreally it makes much more sense now :/