Forget Emily in Paris. We’ve Got Jason in Toronto.

You may have watched the most recent episodes of “Emily in Paris,” but did you catch the recent Toronto Star op-ed “Jason in Toronto”? “Emily in Paris” is a Netflix series, several years old, about an American fashion consultant who takes dreary old Paris and Rome by storm. It is a series whose treatment of […]

Techno-fascists are Ruining the World: Get Mad 

In this post, I want to reiterate an argument from my paper on LLMs and disaster ableism and emphasize that philosophers must stop discussing technology in isolation from techno-fascism, the prevailing social order. The Western mode of technological development has allowed techno-fascists like Elon Musk to ascend to a position of unchecked autocratic power, from which they […]

Stanley, The Stone, and Epistemic Humility

Jason Stanley is a nice guy. He is also an extremely influential philosopher, both within the discipline and profession of philosophy and beyond. I only wish that Jason would use that influence and, yes, power, to be a better ally to disabled philosophers. In particular, I wish that Jason would use the influence that he […]