Philip Koop 🇨🇦
@philkoop.bsky.social
Computer programming / financial risk management.
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Hegel missed a trick, not writing up "Pent-up Spirit Letters"
"Dear Reason, I never thought the Master-Slave dialectic would happen to me but one day I was regarding my slave ...'
"Dear Reason, I never thought the Master-Slave dialectic would happen to me but one day I was regarding my slave ...'
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hegel missed a trick, not writing up "Pent-up Spirit Letters"
"Dear Reason, I never thought the Master-Slave dialectic would happen to me but one day I was regarding my slave ...'
"Dear Reason, I never thought the Master-Slave dialectic would happen to me but one day I was regarding my slave ...'
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the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
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There are reports of an active shooter situation at Brown University, but if you try to look up information about it, Google will automatically fill in your search field, demonstrating how common this has become in the US.
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
There are reports of an active shooter situation at Brown University, but if you try to look up information about it, Google will automatically fill in your search field, demonstrating how common this has become in the US.
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Seeing Like a Nate.
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Seeing Like a Nate.
I blame Yossarian.
December 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I blame Yossarian.
More of a demotion than a promotion, really.
I have to say that if I'm going to have to watch promos of Bari Weiss interviewing Erika Kirk during my morning shows it's rather going to turn me off of CBS This Morning.
December 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
More of a demotion than a promotion, really.
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Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
Putin said Russia had taken Kupiansk weeks ago.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
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Meanwhile, Steve Witkoff is too chickenshit to visit Lviv. www.euronews.com/2025/12/12/z...
Zelenskyy appears in Kupyansk after Russia claimed it was occupied
The Ukrainian president published a video Friday from Kupyansk in Kharkiv region, visiting Ukrainian positions less than 2 kilometres away from Russian troops and well within the range of Moscow’s drones and artillery.
www.euronews.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Meanwhile, Steve Witkoff is too chickenshit to visit Lviv. www.euronews.com/2025/12/12/z...
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They say he's still running his old Prius with a musket rack in Key Biscayne near the old Nixon compound, where he's been since his 2010 mayoral run.
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
They say he's still running his old Prius with a musket rack in Key Biscayne near the old Nixon compound, where he's been since his 2010 mayoral run.
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Institutional autonomy is a major facet of academic freedom. Institutions set academic priorities through internal collegial processes.
Starving unis into hiring freezes and then telling them they can only have funds to recruit if they check vapid government PR boxes attacks that autonomy.
Starving unis into hiring freezes and then telling them they can only have funds to recruit if they check vapid government PR boxes attacks that autonomy.
Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.
December 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Institutional autonomy is a major facet of academic freedom. Institutions set academic priorities through internal collegial processes.
Starving unis into hiring freezes and then telling them they can only have funds to recruit if they check vapid government PR boxes attacks that autonomy.
Starving unis into hiring freezes and then telling them they can only have funds to recruit if they check vapid government PR boxes attacks that autonomy.
Trumpism, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
Another datapoint for how Europeans should pay less attention to Trumpian rhetoric about destabilising the European Union and more attention to Trumpian actions that are destabilising the United States
December 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Trumpism, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
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This is why many consider Nazarbayev one of the statesmen of the era
learning about how Nazarbaev prepared for his famous drinking bouts with yeltsin. he would line his stomach with olive oil and step away occasionally to throw up. rinse repeat. this is the president of Kazakhstan btw
yeltsin would just slam the vodka and pass out like a simple soul
yeltsin would just slam the vodka and pass out like a simple soul
December 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is why many consider Nazarbayev one of the statesmen of the era
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It is extremely funny to me to imagine this happening in an American context.
It would be like Marco Rubio was on track to win 2028 with record numbers, cratered to Ben Bernanke as the Dem candidate and then Bernanke proceeded to convince multiple senators to join the Democratic caucus.
It would be like Marco Rubio was on track to win 2028 with record numbers, cratered to Ben Bernanke as the Dem candidate and then Bernanke proceeded to convince multiple senators to join the Democratic caucus.
BREAKING: Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative caucus and joining the Liberals. #cdnpoli #canpoli #cpc
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Another MP leaves Conservatives, crosses floor to Liberals | CBC News
Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative Caucus and joining the Liberals.
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It is extremely funny to me to imagine this happening in an American context.
It would be like Marco Rubio was on track to win 2028 with record numbers, cratered to Ben Bernanke as the Dem candidate and then Bernanke proceeded to convince multiple senators to join the Democratic caucus.
It would be like Marco Rubio was on track to win 2028 with record numbers, cratered to Ben Bernanke as the Dem candidate and then Bernanke proceeded to convince multiple senators to join the Democratic caucus.
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This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
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As @abenewman.bsky.social and I might say, hegemonic enshittification has consequences www.wired.com/story/enshit...
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
As @abenewman.bsky.social and I might say, hegemonic enshittification has consequences www.wired.com/story/enshit...
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I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
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so e.g. hitler, stalin, mao were all capable of bringing their ideas to the people, speaking to the people *directly* and getting mass buy-in based on a well-articulated set of ideas
today's dictators want the opposite of that--they want mass demobilization
today's dictators want the opposite of that--they want mass demobilization
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
so e.g. hitler, stalin, mao were all capable of bringing their ideas to the people, speaking to the people *directly* and getting mass buy-in based on a well-articulated set of ideas
today's dictators want the opposite of that--they want mass demobilization
today's dictators want the opposite of that--they want mass demobilization
American Dead Fish.
Between this and Fetterman's book, there are going to be some truly rancid remainders tables at Barnes and Noble next month.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
American Dead Fish.
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
The whole 🧵 is great
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The whole 🧵 is great
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People looking for information on the 2025 edition of the Fraser Valley floods can find it here. BC’s “urgent” update is set to begin soon. www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/flood-...
B.C. Flood Warning Information - EmergencyInfoBC
Flood - The River Forecast Centre has issued the following Flood Advisories:
www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
People looking for information on the 2025 edition of the Fraser Valley floods can find it here. BC’s “urgent” update is set to begin soon. www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/flood-...
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Highway 1 eastbound closed to Hope. Highway 7 already closed.
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Highway 1 eastbound closed to Hope. Highway 7 already closed.
We could this easily if we just rewrite the laws of physics.
“When we start talking about things like space-based interceptor, I've got to flip that equation on its head,” he said. “I've got to have high magazine depth, low cost per shot. How do I do that?”
Golden Dome chief: Space interceptors feasible only if Pentagon rewrites cost equation | InsideDefense.com
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- The Pentagon's top official for the Golden Dome missile defense initiative said space-based interceptors are technically achievable today, but only if the United States abandons dec...
insidedefense.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
We could this easily if we just rewrite the laws of physics.
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One day I'm going to (a) have enough time and (b) be annoyed enough about restrictive covenants on land titles to try to figure out something to do about them.
Our house has a covenant from when it was built in 1948 decreeing that no alcohol other than that purchased from the brewery who built the estate should be consumed on the premises.
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One day I'm going to (a) have enough time and (b) be annoyed enough about restrictive covenants on land titles to try to figure out something to do about them.