Jeremy Pober
@jpober.bsky.social
Philosophy Research Fellow at ULisboa.
American, recently naturalized German, based in Lisbon.
Philosophy of mind and psychology/neuroscience, metaphysics, and moral psychology
Dogs, politics history, 90s Simpsons, SNL, some SF/F; 50% sh**posts.
American, recently naturalized German, based in Lisbon.
Philosophy of mind and psychology/neuroscience, metaphysics, and moral psychology
Dogs, politics history, 90s Simpsons, SNL, some SF/F; 50% sh**posts.
That and no one thinks the VP is remotely qualified to take the reigns
December 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
That and no one thinks the VP is remotely qualified to take the reigns
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In any case, bias in history departments against military history has nothing to do with DEI, it has to do with people disquieted by the study of war and suffering and it impacts folks that work on non-white or non-male aspects of military history (which are most of the aspects!) just as much.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In any case, bias in history departments against military history has nothing to do with DEI, it has to do with people disquieted by the study of war and suffering and it impacts folks that work on non-white or non-male aspects of military history (which are most of the aspects!) just as much.
It also kind of feels like they're comparing LA and Berkeley to exurban NJ, when the better comparisons would be like Manhattan and Cambridge, MA. But at that point the complaint is "you aren't carpooling your chauffeurs" not "your kids aren't taking the bus."
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It also kind of feels like they're comparing LA and Berkeley to exurban NJ, when the better comparisons would be like Manhattan and Cambridge, MA. But at that point the complaint is "you aren't carpooling your chauffeurs" not "your kids aren't taking the bus."
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"if you don't send your kid to school on the bus you're going to end up on one of the estranged parenting forums" is classic bluesky. we still have the juice
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"if you don't send your kid to school on the bus you're going to end up on one of the estranged parenting forums" is classic bluesky. we still have the juice
OTOH, dems and not Republicans actually have ideas that could help. OTOH, there are a ton of forces aligned against us which favor and select for a dem nominee who is afraid to act on those ideas
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
OTOH, dems and not Republicans actually have ideas that could help. OTOH, there are a ton of forces aligned against us which favor and select for a dem nominee who is afraid to act on those ideas
More generally, if one has spent as much of their life as he has in the northeast or older (Ohio/Indiana/parts of Illiinois) Midwest, where there are colleges and universities all over the place, I find it hard to believe he grew up not knowing any academic families
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
More generally, if one has spent as much of their life as he has in the northeast or older (Ohio/Indiana/parts of Illiinois) Midwest, where there are colleges and universities all over the place, I find it hard to believe he grew up not knowing any academic families
Name is a little too on the nose...
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Name is a little too on the nose...
Still the truck driving thing is a nonstarter. I had a friend in high school whose older brother had a truck with a confederate flag on it...in Guilford, CT, a town with dozens of Yale faculty.
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Still the truck driving thing is a nonstarter. I had a friend in high school whose older brother had a truck with a confederate flag on it...in Guilford, CT, a town with dozens of Yale faculty.
Yeah I know she worked at UCR her whole career, so I must have been misinformed. I'll have to try to remember where I heard that...
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Yeah I know she worked at UCR her whole career, so I must have been misinformed. I'll have to try to remember where I heard that...
My favorite Warmke post is about how no ivy league faculty set foot into a Walmart, as if all of the ivies were in NYC, not rural New Hampshire or upstate NY. My parents and brother are all ivy league faculty and we've gone to Walmart as a family because there wasn't a better store in Guilford, CT.
December 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My favorite Warmke post is about how no ivy league faculty set foot into a Walmart, as if all of the ivies were in NYC, not rural New Hampshire or upstate NY. My parents and brother are all ivy league faculty and we've gone to Walmart as a family because there wasn't a better store in Guilford, CT.
Warmke is such a joke (that he has a tenured job is a blight on our profession though). He's the son of a much more renowned and much more leftist scholar (Georgia Warmke) who pretends academic families are elitist based on a sample size of 1 (or 0 depending on his childhood)
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Warmke is such a joke (that he has a tenured job is a blight on our profession though). He's the son of a much more renowned and much more leftist scholar (Georgia Warmke) who pretends academic families are elitist based on a sample size of 1 (or 0 depending on his childhood)
Still my favorite Joker
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Still my favorite Joker
If any other country's head of state illegally ordered the military to take action that constitu4s an act of war, and the military obeyed, it would be war. It's not like there constitution has a magical power which means the same thing isn't when the US does it.
December 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If any other country's head of state illegally ordered the military to take action that constitu4s an act of war, and the military obeyed, it would be war. It's not like there constitution has a magical power which means the same thing isn't when the US does it.
If the US military commits and broadcasts its intentions to further commit acts of war, then as far as the rest of the world is concerned, the US is at war. International law reflects this fact.
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If the US military commits and broadcasts its intentions to further commit acts of war, then as far as the rest of the world is concerned, the US is at war. International law reflects this fact.
yes, and what Trump is doing is illegal under US law. That doesn't somehow supercede the fact that his actions *constitute* war according to international law.
"It is illegal under US law for Trump to X" does not mean "For the purposes of intl. law, Trump is *unable* to X"
"It is illegal under US law for Trump to X" does not mean "For the purposes of intl. law, Trump is *unable* to X"
December 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
yes, and what Trump is doing is illegal under US law. That doesn't somehow supercede the fact that his actions *constitute* war according to international law.
"It is illegal under US law for Trump to X" does not mean "For the purposes of intl. law, Trump is *unable* to X"
"It is illegal under US law for Trump to X" does not mean "For the purposes of intl. law, Trump is *unable* to X"
His biggest issue, imo, is that he somehow seems to think his quant skills make him immune from things like availability and selection biases in forming his hypotheses. A Bay Area Rationalist in spirit, before it was cool.
December 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
His biggest issue, imo, is that he somehow seems to think his quant skills make him immune from things like availability and selection biases in forming his hypotheses. A Bay Area Rationalist in spirit, before it was cool.
Explicitly stating that it's war according to intl. law is to allow Venezuela to respond and not be held liable by international institutions, not to circumvent American law?
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Explicitly stating that it's war according to intl. law is to allow Venezuela to respond and not be held liable by international institutions, not to circumvent American law?
Chain of events were:
- they realize Canada and Greenland are nonstarters
- Panama gives them everything they want when shaken down
- they realize Venezuela has oil
- they realize Canada and Greenland are nonstarters
- Panama gives them everything they want when shaken down
- they realize Venezuela has oil
December 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Chain of events were:
- they realize Canada and Greenland are nonstarters
- Panama gives them everything they want when shaken down
- they realize Venezuela has oil
- they realize Canada and Greenland are nonstarters
- Panama gives them everything they want when shaken down
- they realize Venezuela has oil
That's why he called the land stolen 😬
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
That's why he called the land stolen 😬
Kelly or Van Hollen, pick your fighter for the primary (should be a clear choice)
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Kelly or Van Hollen, pick your fighter for the primary (should be a clear choice)