Tootfinder

I love how Guido is unapologetically clear on his stance on “AI” in this interview: https://www.odbms.org/blog/2025/10/beyond-the-ai-hype-guido-van-rossum-on-pythons-philosophy-simplicity-and-the-futu…

Tony Dokoupil's CBS News road trip, where each episode ends in a squishy pabulum, revealed the problems with CBS' Bari Weiss-era focus on viewers' feelings (James Poniewozik/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/arts/television/cbs-news…

Tony Dokoupil’s Road Trip on CBS News Hits a Rough Patch
A stretch of big news revealed growing pains for CBS’s new evening anchor and problems with its Bari Weiss-era philosophy.

University bans philosophy professor from teaching about Plato because it's too gay - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/university-bans-philosophy-professor-from-teaching-about-plato-because-its-too-gay/

🔧 YAML frontmatter converts directly to CLI flags: model: opus becomes --model opus, mcp-config: ./mcp.json becomes --mcp-config ./mcp.json, dangerously-skip-permissions: true becomes --dangerously-skip-permissions
🔄 Full Unix philosophy support: Pipe data in and out with stdin/stdout, chain agents together like git diff | review.claude .md or plan.claude .md | implement.codex .md, transparent logging shows what runs

By me
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/12/01/change-everything-natalie-bennetts-green-philosophy-a-review/

‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has ou…

#Philosophy vs. #Terminator
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/626 🤣

‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has outlined her political philosophy in this book whose first edition appeared last year. She argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with…

‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has ou…

♟️ ‘Extreme Moneyball’ architect puts Astros scandal behind him in pursuit of global football takeover
#sports #football #soccer

‘Extreme Moneyball’ architect puts Astros scandal behind him in pursuit of global football takeover
Jeff Luhnow has moved on from baseball disgrace and is deploying his data-driven philosophy to develop African talent at Le Havre and Leganés

There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts.
Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's
science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled
by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.

Analyzing Jaguars "Next Man Up" Philosophy in Week 9 https://www.jaguars.com/video/k000487-jaguars-next-man-up-philosophy-week-9-film-room

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous #philosophy #Texas

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next

"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)

Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on
Read to the end for the only place you should go when your wife becomes a sex addict and starts cheating on you with everybody

During a recent visit to Yale, Buddhist nun and chef Jeong Kwan shared her philosophy of mindful, plant-based cuisine and treated community members to an unforgettable meal.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/10/31/mountain-temple-ya…

From mountain temple to Yale Commons: Buddhist Chef Jeong Kwan offers ‘attainment in one taste’
During a recent visit to Yale, Buddhist nun and chef Jeong Kwan shared her philosophy of mindful, plant-based cuisine and treated community members to an unforgettable meal.

Bennett argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with socialism.
In my view the claim is problematic, as I explain in this review.
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review | Steady State Manchester

‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has ou…

Schottenheimer's, Cowboys' approach to Week 18 made zero sense https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/04/cowboys-week-18-philosophy-dak-prescott-giants-schottenheimer/…

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/627

📝 #UMHB: tenure-track Assistant Professor position with specialties in Theology and Philosophy - National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion https://nabpr.org/umhb-theology/

Socrates has the right idea...
#llm #ai

AI Socrates
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

I'm not a fan of the "users won't understand error messages any way, so we can just not give any meaningful error messages" philosophy... Is there a way to tell @… that I want to see more meaningful error messages?

Perhaps I will give FreeBSD another shot (after 30 years). Looks like it may better align with my philosophy than Linux does these days.

I'm Sick of the ASI Fear-Mongering (Hank Green's Video Made Me Rage, Featuring Nate Soares) by Ontology Explained: Philosophy and AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXCAGStCOMA

Cedar river yesterday and today. Planning on checking it out again tomorrow. Saw a lot of logs and a few stumps floating by
#Seattle #WAWx #atmosphericriver

Say what you will, I read Sartre, and I don’t need anyone’s permission to think for myself.
#JeanPaulSartre #Sartre #Freedom

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Honey Ltd.:
🎵 Love (The Devil)
#HoneyLtd
https://chaingangof1974.bandcamp.com/track/philosophy-of-love

We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed
-- of what use are literature, philosophy, and history when we have problems to solve right now?
And yet colleagues meeting in wartime Kyiv have a clearer sense of purpose, more esprit de corps, , and a better instinct for the essential.
And soldiers on the front (as they tell me) want to talk about history and culture.
In traumatic conditions, people think about where they stand amidst larger force…

Ukrainian History Global Initiative
The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction

Next Thursday at YDS! Scholar of ancient philosophy David Runia giving the Classics-Divinity Lecture. Dr. Runia's lecture is titled "On the Indestructibility of the Cosmos: Philo of Alexandria’s Most Controversial Work."
5:30 p.m. Niebuhr Hall, reception to follow. Open to all.

Wilson 'shocked' by trades, still trusts Jets brass https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46874232/garrett-wilson-trust-jets-front-office-amid-trades

Indonesia and other developing countries are becoming AI hubs amid the multitrillion-dollar spending boom, in part driven by an "AI decolonization" philosophy (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

2026 Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference
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You cannot simply distill an entire philosophy to a four letter catch phrase on a shirt.
The Shirt
#4WordPhilosphy

My brain on philosophy.
#ProjektMaster

There are 3 fundamental freedoms outlined in Dawn of Everything:
(1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings;
(2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and
(3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.
I think these can all be captured in one statement when reframed as a system constraint: for a system to be free, participation must be optional for all members.
People must be part of *some* system. Even individualistic survivalism is itself a system (if not a very good one). Then there is a corollary as well: any system that is not free, that is not optional, can turn optional systems into mandatory ones, and thus (adopted from the MLK quote) un-freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Edit:
I'm gonna drop the #Philosophy tag on here because apparently that's where I went with it. Challenges and push-back welcome.
Edit:
Aaaaand Its a blog post
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/an-algorithm-for-liberation
As usual, comments, typos, and questions are always welcome.

Reading Berys Gauts essay «The Philosophy of Creativity" (2010) while listening to Gangstagrass — a music collective that combines, well, blugrass with rap... Wondering whether this music is an example of combinatorial creativity or transformational creativity (ref. Boden) or something else entirely.
Did they discover this musical mashup, or did them bring it into existence from nothing?
More and more I find myself in disagreement with the emphasis on the *product* of creati…

Feeling absolutely rubbish this morning. It's beautiful weather, I should be doing joinery on the north end of the new workshop, I want to be writing philosophy, I don't think I have the energy to do either.
I don't like being old.

The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump's Demands (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/trump-federalist-society.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p70#a251122p70

Day 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
#30AuthorsNoMen

I've always been a critic of "Stoicism for the military" events and talks. I think the military often abuses a philosophy whose core aspects include cosmopolitanism and that pushes people to do the right thing, especially against power.
But I am ready to be proved wrong by all the guys filling Ryan Holiday's rooms, standing up for "justice" against bombing fishermen in the Caribbean.
Any minute now.

"This too shall pass"* ☸️
- Buddha on SAMSARA
*for €30
#pun #philosophy #marketing #packaging #Deutschland #Germany #household

Muad'Dib's teachings have become the playground of scholastics, of the superstitious and the corrupt. He taught a balanced way of life, a philosophy with which a human can meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe. He said humankind is still evolving, in a process which will never end. He said this evolution moves on changing principles which are known only to eternity. How can corrupted reasoning play with such an essence?
- Words of the Mentat Duncan Idaho

#Socrates on #AI:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/629

Brutal.
Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633

Aristotle on Democracy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Jim Leonhard Could Be the Cowboys' Best 2026 Hire https://insidethestar.com/jim-leonhard-could-be-the-cowboys-best-2026-hire

🔧 Install via: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code then /plugin install ralph-wiggum@claude-code-plugins
💡 Philosophy: "Better to fail predictably than succeed unpredictably" - prompt engineering becomes the critical skill
https://paddo.dev/blog/ralph-wiggum-au

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

MAGA-oriented voices say that they want fearless judges
— but many of them seem really to want judges who will do Trump’s bidding,
Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project,
a legal nonprofit that, like the Federalist Society, also espouses originalism,
but is more closely aligned with the MAGA movement, said too many of the Federalist Society’s leaders were “missing in action” during the Biden years,
when Trump faced criminal investigations and a length…

The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump’s Demands
Guided by Leonard Leo, the society built a pipeline for traditional conservative judges. But that might not be enough for President Trump in his second term.

AAR 2025, Yogācāra Studies Unit, upcoming panels
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Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
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I've always been a critic of "Stoicism for the military" events and talks. I think the military often abuses a philosophy whose core aspects include cosmopolitanism and that pushes people to do the right thing, especially against power.
But I am ready to be proved wrong by all the guys filling Ryan Holiday's rooms, standing up for "justice" against bombing fishermen in the Caribbean.
Any minute now.

🪞 The Existential Spectrum! 🪞
#Existentialism #Nihilism #Absurdism #Philosophy

American Academy of Religion Book Awards
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H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
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Every opportunity in life is a test. Of whether we use the opportunity, how we use it, what we use it for, and who (all) we use it for. 🌈
#life #philosophy #opportunity #test

SYMPOSIUM> Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
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AAR 2025, Yogācāra Studies Unit, upcoming panels
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ANN: US Naval History Conference: “Military and Politics: Proper Participation or Perilous…
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American Academy of Religion Book Awards
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H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
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Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136310/fifty-year-anniversary-nanzan-institute-religion-and-culture

SYMPOSIUM> Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136308/fifty-year-anniversary-nanzan-institute-religion-and-culture

American Academy of Religion Book Awards https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20129793/american-academy-religion-book-awards

AAR 2025, Yogācāra Studies Unit, upcoming panels
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AAR 2025, Yogācāra Studies Unit, upcoming panels
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ANN: US Naval History Conference: “Military and Politics: Proper Participation or Perilous…
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AAR 2025, Yogācāra Studies Unit, upcoming panels #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20132871/aar-2025-yogacara-studies-unit-upco…

TALK> Asst. Prof. Klairung Iso, "KARMA AND CAUSATION IN THERAVĀDA BUDDHISM: RETHINKING DETERMINISM AND EXTERNAL PHENOMENA”
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TALK> Asst. Prof. Klairung Iso, "KARMA AND CAUSATION IN THERAVĀDA BUDDHISM: RETHINKING DETERMINISM AND EXTERNAL PHENOMENA” https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135810/asst-prof-klairung-iso-karma-and-causatio…