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2022

2022

Well that was a year. I guess it was an improvement over the past couple years. Covid is largely under control. Though I’m currently at home sick with it. We also didn’t have a violent insurrection to overthrow the United States government. That’s something. Though we are still seeing the […]

Will Twitter Fail?

With recent management changes it seems a lot of employees have left the bird app. Turns out if you give people a choice between working long hours with little to no vision or three months severance pay, most people will take the pay. Employers often overestimate how much their employees […]

2021

2021

Well that’s it for 2021. It wasn’t great, but it was unambiguously better than 2020. We had vaccines. No presidential election. I completed my Master’s. And no viral videos of celebrities singing Imagine. Anyway, here is my playlist of 2021 music. https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7pqLyuD1XqKngAV7dt0oVj?utm_source=generator

No, Kant is not a “Woke” philosopher

No, Kant is not a “Woke” philosopher

17th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant was not a “woke” philosopher. This should be obvious to anyone with even a basic understanding of philosophy. Why would anyone think otherwise? Well it seems to have started with this paragraph in a Washington Post editorial about Critical Race Theory. Critical race theory, Guelzo […]

Pi Day 2021

Pi Day 2021

The bad thing about Pi Day under lockdown is that you have to eat the entire Pi Day Pie all by yourself. The good thing about Pi Day under lockdown is that you have to eat the entire Pi Day Pie all by yourself. Incidentally In NC, being overweight gets […]