In the same interview he throws a crazy amount of shade at Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir for doing less to resist Nazi occupation than *a historian of mathematics*

There’s a really interesting moment in Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale where a character “achieves” the impossible task of removing coastal rock formations by hiring a magician to “maken illusioun”. No rocks are actually removed, but the narration certainly seems to legitimate his accomplishment!

Let’s all just be happy we’re not dealing with penis shrinkflation

Fortunately, Nick Bostrom didn’t consider that we could stop the superintelligence with robust intellectual property laws!

There’s no Kantian taste under capitalism

I think Bleak House works pretty well for that objective (and I found myself with new ideas for my own pedagogy reading the study)—but it’s not applicable to discussions of discourse on Bluesky or any other social media platform

This study is testing reading comprehension skills of English majors in college, to see how well Kansas 4-year English programs were doing at improving students capability of “reading lengthy, complex, abstract prose texts as well as synthesizing information and making complex inferences”