Tamler Sommers
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Reviews for Why Honor Matters the audiobook are in!."I understand myself for the first time." - Achilles."I see now that I was wrong about ethics." - Immanuel Kant."And I was wrong about justice." - John Rawls."The narrator is incredible. I wish I had his voice." - Morgan Freeman.
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This is bullshit. Plenty of people complained about McEnroe and nobody celebrated Connors' rants because he was just a dick. Mac could at least be funny. Serena getting way more love than either of them for their outbursts. Which is fine, she's Serena, but this is just false.
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NOW REMEMBER SHE'S A SCIENTIST, KNOWS ALL THE PHYSICAL FACTS ABOUT COLOR PERCEPTION. AND NOW SHE'S COMING OUT THE BLACK AND WHITE ROOM AND SEEING RED FOR THE FIRST TIME - YOU SEE THE QUESTION RIGHT, DOES SHE LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT COLOR??
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Was watching the Sopranos with my daughter and I said 'you know what being a made guy means right?' and she said 'yeah it's like tenure'.
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I don't wanna start anything but the idea that critical theory has taken over the modern American university is crazier than QAnon.
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My little girl got her license today but I'm trying to tell myself that I'm not losing a daughter, I'm gaining a designated driver.
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RIP to my sweet boy Omar - followed me and Charlie home one night in 2011 and never left. The purest soul I ever knew, so grateful for the all the joy and laughs he brought us, he was the little brother my daughter never had. Our house has a big void right now without himđ
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here's my thing about coffee. Have your coffee enjoy your coffee, but don't act like it's fucking crack or meth, don't agonize over whether you should have a cup at 2 in the afternoon like it's some huge fucking decision, either have it or don't, and leave everyone else out of it.
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right except this is also performative (aimed at weird centrist tribes who think they've transcended natural human signaling). There's only one pure unalloyed non-performative entity on twitter and that's me.
So much of public discourse these days seems so performative; things said to appease a tribe. If we were all less performative with each other and more real with each other, I think we could connect more as humans and see that we all pretty much want the same things out of life.
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where do they find these morons
âThe Zone of Interestâ â a Holocaust movie without Jews â Read more from Peter Rutland here:
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If I don't get drunk and rewatch Deadwood the coronavirus wins.
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No power, coldest weather in 40 years, temp plummeting in our house - all alcohol related New Years resolutions are suspended indefinitely.
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Today, with a heavy heart, I am resigning from my senior post @verybadwizards. I love VBW, but there was an inherent tension between my status as a co-founder of the podcast and my desire to be a fiercely independent and at times contentious voice. Straws have one hole. Or two.
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New study shows that people who think they may be wrong are more likely to think that people who disagree with them may be right.
New study suggests that Americans who have intellectual humility are less likely to view people who disagree with them as morally or intellectually inferior:
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The internet poses so many complex problems, but this Covington thing isn't one of them. Just never comment one way or another on any short video clips of strangers. Unless you're 12, you've gone most of your lives without doing it, how hard can it be to stop?.
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My new book on honor, community, revenge, and justice is out on May 8. Pre-order your copy today! Please share with your friends (and even your enemies).
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Yesterday @peez tried to censor me for my views on the number of holes a straw has so I'm resigning from my post at @verybadwizards and joining substack.
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The attention to detail on The Good Place is amazing, they even capture the body type of most ethics professors.
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I play this every year for my intro class so they can learn the meaning of life. RIP to one of the absolute best.
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coddling is good now.
I am getting inundated with messages from young people--students & young academics--who are scared of the mob at their universities & feel despair for their futures. Absolute despair.
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Signed the contract for the audiobook of Why Honor Matters. And it looks like I might be narrating - be careful what you wish for @verybadwizards listeners!.
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Iâm expecting at least 15 emails from @peez when I open my inbox this morning.
A habit I'm starting to pick up: When you realize someone you disagreed with in the past was actually right, email them and let them know (even if the disagreement was months / years ago). Benefits:.(1) It's nice for them to hear it.(2) It makes the update stickier for you.
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dropped my girl off at college yesterday so if you see me slumped down on the street weeping inconsolably, that's why.
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Serious question: what if we instituted a full amnesty for all tweets posted before 2016. Wouldn't the benefits significantly outweigh the costs? (Maybe exclude politicians running for office, but that's it.).
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fuck everything.
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like âBlue Velvetâ and âMulholland Driveâ and network television with âTwin Peaks,â has died. He was 78.
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I am very happy for them and I wish them all the success in the world.
.@peez and I are thrilled to announce our podcast "Psych", where we discuss every aspect of the mind. Based on my book of the same name (, but you can listen without doing the reading. On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and right here:
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OK I admit it. The SJWs have gone too far, thereâs a free speech crisis. Weâre in the midst of a full blown sex robot panic.
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in addition to every other horrible thing about the Texas abortion law it turns the citizens into a bunch of snitches. Cowardly and dishonorable in every way.
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this is amazing.
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So you probably thought "no child left behind" was a policy for teachers on field trips.
@tamler I wasn't willing to spend a half on google; I took the phrase literally, because it seems, well, literal.
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Watched Darren Aronofski's Mother! with the family for Friday pizza movie night and now I've lost movie choosing privileges for the next three weeks.
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it's been two days, not a single call.
Please call a Jewish friend and ask if they're OK.
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UT fired my friend & former colleague Rich Heyman for being arrested on a bullshit charge of brandishing a water bottle at a state trooper in riot gear & damaging his 'state-issued bike bell' Rich taught at UT for 17 yrs. More disgraceful shit by UT admin
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Louis CK blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah Blah. Blah blah blah blah. Blah lbah blah blah blah blah blah blah? Blah blah blah blah. Blah.
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If it werenât for this I donât know where weâd be tonight
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One of kind, there will never be anyone like him. More than any director Lynch enriched the way I engaged with film and art. I'll always treasure going through his movies and then obsessively rewatching The Return with my daughter. RIP to my favorite artist
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is there a bigger fucking loser out there than this dipshit?.
Pitbulls should be banned and there is no sane argument to the contrary. They are dangerous animals, responsible for a vastly disproportionate number of fatal maulings in this country. The fact that you think they're cute does not outweigh the danger. Ban them.
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Hard to believe that smart people like @ezraklein can ask questions like this: "A move you make in the book. is that these new technologies donât just change us by changing our habits, they actually change our brains. " All habit changes are brain changes! And the reply. .
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Anyone who's willing to spend a half hour on google knows "abolish police" and "defund the police" are slogans (not literal) tied to concrete policy proposals, almost all of which are worth taking seriously. Here's one of set of articles on the movement.
@tamler Since when do you support abolishing the police?.
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OK now they're just randomly generating headlines with "millennials" in the title.
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"A controversial thriller about a serial killer in a woke university who captures professors and debates them," I'm so jealous of this idea it's driving me crazy.
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it's so nice that people will run entire studies just to give me and @peez an opening segment.
A study of people who engage in Orgasmic Meditation "a partnered practice that includes genital touch", but who are not romantic partners From @NicoleRPrause, Siegle & @jimcoan
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Coming next week - Why Honor Matters the audiobook! Narrated by me. (Liam Neeson pulled out at the last minute.) .
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This was a tough call because if thereâs one thing the world needs right now itâs another take on the Harperâs letter.
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Just got the J&J vaccine! Eligible Houston peeps there are plenty of openings at (where I got J&J) and Walmart too. Huge relief plus I barely even felt the government tracking device being inserted.
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this is somehow lamer than the thing it's trying to satirize.
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@primalpoly They remind me of the people who used to say "yeah I don't even own a television.".
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As the official arbiter of all honor-related judgments in the continental United States, my verdict is: not dishonorable.
President Trump on Rep. Rashida Tlaib's call to 'impeach that motherf*****': "I thought her comments were disgraceful. I think she dishonored herself, and I think she dishonored her family."
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You gotta admit @CHSommers, #4 is a great point.
1) congrats on the sex Christina.2) lots of your rock and roll was trash.3) boomers bankrupted our country.4) we have all the same drugs you had, PLUS Molly, K2, a brief encounter with 4Loco, way better weed than u, craft beers, etc
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And it's finally out! No more begging for preorders. Thanks so much to everyone who bought one - I hope you enjoy! If you do please spread the word. Now back to grading.
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The IDW have officially lost their fucking minds.
People calling for the abolition of Police. The very same folks will ask âWhere are the damn police when we have a white supremist active shooter in our church targeting black people!â. Do you get what The âIntellectual Dark Webâ was now? Do you get what Evergreen State was now?.
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libertarians are monitoring you on their scooters.
This morning, I conducted an experiment: On my scooter ride from my home to the officeâCapitol Hill to Dupont CircleâI counted every pedestrian I saw and made a note of whether they were masked. The result: 103 unmasked, 61 masked, for a (ludicrous) outdoor masking rate of 37%.
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ok so I have @peez (anti-semitism), my stepmother @CHSommers (hates women), but who should I use for my third?.
I'm friendly w/@paulbloomatyale . As a rule, I tolerate colleagues having up to 3 bigoted friends b/c otherwise I'd have no professional network. It sucks, but its the reality of academia. Still, I have a responsibility to call out bad actors even if I don't want to deal w/it.
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For someone who often complains about 'concept creep,' this seems like a very creepy use of the concept 'banned.'.
You can't make this stuff up: Philosopher James Flynn, of the eponymous Flynn Effect (rising IQ scores), and one of today's greatest liberal thinkers, wrote a book on free speech, and it was banned.
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hoo boy the Atlantic Quillette the Chronicle etc are gonna have a field day about this oh no wait. .
USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassumâs commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was ânecessary to maintain the safety of our campus and studentsâ. âI am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,â Tabassum said in a statement .
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Today's the day that everyone on Twitter reaches a consensus about how to react to Trump having Covid, I just feel it.
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the new passive aggressive thing of ending statements with a question mark is kinda annoying?.
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This is a great joke and as a side benefit explains the meaning of life.
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I will quit the podcast if we can't do this for an opening segment.
I feel like this paper ( fails to take into account that chess is a game, actually.
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thoughts and prayers aren't enough is the new thoughts and prayers.
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Saw Another Round last night which is great and I totally buy that philosopher Finn SkÄrderud's theory that human beings are born with a .05 blood alcohol deficiency. Love the idea that your true/best self can only come out when that defiency is remedied.
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look Back in Black is an all-time great album but that doesn't mean they should be making pivotal public health determinations
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yeah that sounds way less pompous.
â âUlyssesâ is not really a novel that one reads. It sounds pompous to say that itâs a novel that one experiences; I will say instead that itâs a novel to be wrestled with as the biblical Jacob wrestled with that mysterious angel.â #Bloomsday
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fuck all yâall.
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headlines with word 'neuroscientists" in them are 30% dumber, recent analysis shows .
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This is literal violence.
@paulbloomatyale @JonHaidt I see Paul has been brainwashed by @verybadwizards .Please intervene @fourbeerspod.
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Even better: "Cone of Honor"
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"anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism" - nice to see this in the Atlantic and not just in the normal left-oriented places. Whether or not you support Zionism you should be against tactics that try to demonize and silence a reasonable ethical position .
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All you honor haters and people who think honor doesn't matter - in one month your worldview gets shaken to its very core. Pre-order now so your delusion doesn't last any longer than necessary!
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yeah it would definitely be bad for neuroscientists if their audience developed critical thinking skills.
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We're running dangerously low on millennial think piece ideas.
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I had feeling that grad seminar I took on the ethics of sex robot brothels would come in handy one day.
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Happiness is seeing you've already graded/commented on a paper you thought you still had to grade.
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I'm exhausted by all the people on social media saying they're exhausted by what other people are saying on social media.
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To the people taking this seriously I agree that the long-term political effectiveness of these slogans is up for debate. In the short term, it inspires people to do some research about the policy proposals and ideals behind them, so that's a big point in their favor.
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Coming kinda soon! You can pre-order your copy at several different vendors here. So grateful to everyone who has done this already. (And thanks again to @paulbloomatyale!)
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Reaching across the philosophy podcast aisles to recommend this piece by @wesalwan
Wes Alwan: "Telling the millions of voters . that they are evil bigots is not a strategy for winning an election."
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