Finally, it’s slooooowly beginning to dawn on him. It’s like pulling teeth, waiting for these people to catch on.

It’s not possible to know everything and understand everything but it is very possible to stay quiet and not run your mouth like a chirpy kindergartner.

I was walking down the hallway and ran into a colleague I haven’t seen in months.

“You are thin!” she yelled. “Wow, you are thin! What happened?”

I’m not in the least thin but definitely much thinner than I’ve been in a very long time. The funny part is that I have never in my life eaten as much and as often as since I became a diabetic. But since the food includes almost no carbs, I’m deflating.

I never thought I would say this but I’m really tired of all this eating. Especially since none of the stuff I’m constantly eating is the kind of stuff I want to be eating.

It’s also annoying that everybody will now think the weight loss is a result of meds and not an eminently respectable chronic illness.

The previous sentence is supposed to be a joke, in case it’s not clear.

Also, people keep asking why I use AI for information. I’m not sure if they are aware that pretty much everybody under the age of 25 uses AI for information about 99% of the time. Yes, I know how to find reliable sources. Moreover, I know that AI is ideological and manipulative. But young people don’t. My 19-year-old students have absolutely no idea. It’s important to know how they learn about the world.

This is a big change. Previously, young people got their answers from a newsfeed that by default included all sorts of voices. And now they moved to a completely different kind of social media and use ChatGPT for information. If that’s not disturbing, I don’t know what is.

People keep asking if on tomorrow’s show I will talk about Trump’s lunatic statements on Ukraine. The answer is no because they have a much more knowledgeable expert who already spoke about it today. I highly recommend this video that includes his analysis on my channel:

The expert in question is Andrei Illarionov, and I don’t remotely claim to have the same level of knowledge and insight. He’s saying this is probably another Operation Snow type of thing.

I temporarily suspended the ban on anonymous comments in response to the continued malfunction of the WordPress commenting system. Immediately, our resident pouty crybabies got activated and came to pollute our discussiona with their weak attempts at sarcasm.

I apologize to all well-meaning readers, including those who are forced into anonymous commenting by WP’s shenanigans.

So what happened with that Delta flight that crashed and flipped over in Toronto? I asked my AI tool, and it refused to acknowledge the incident ever took place. I had to beat it into submission with links for it to even accept that the crash happened. Now it tells me the names of the pilots haven’t been revealed. Does anybody have fresher news?

This kind of thing started to happen way too often in recent months. And it’s always a struggle to find out the names of the culpable.

This will put inflation onto overdrive. Anybody who holds savings in US dollars should reconsider.

One would think that the very recent round of inflation caused by “sending out checks” should have served as a lesson but it didn’t. Musk is obviously doing this purposefully to undermine the dollar and strengthen crypto but Americans shouldn’t pay for this plan.

People seem confused by my recent statement that there are no female philosophers aside from Hannah Arendt. Here is what I mean by that.

We have an art festival in our town. It’s held every September and features work by a couple dozen local artists. Some are atrocious but some are quite good. They are artists doing art but not in the same way as Rembrandt or Degas were artists. I buy artwork there routinely because it’s enjoyable to look at and it’s good to support local artists. But I do it with a clear understanding that it’s art in a very different manner than the art you see in a museum.

Similarly, I am a writer in the sense that I write and publish books. But I’m not a writer like Cervantes or even Jennifer Egan. Of course, there are women who study philosophy and publish in philosophical journals and conference proceedings. I am one of such women. But I’m not a philosopher like Descartes, Hegel, or Arendt. And if you look at this last sentence, aside from Arendt, I have nobody of the female sex to list in a way that would be understandable to everybody.

I’m very interested in discussing why that is and how Arendt managed to become what women don’t usually try to become. But that there isn’t a list of female names to put next to Plato, Kant, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Lacan, etc cannot possibly be in dispute.

People say I shouldn’t be angry at colleagues for the impending elimination of departments and programs. I’m trying very hard to not be angry. I pray, I meditate. It’s very unpleasant to be choking with rage at your own colleagues. I’d so much rather detest only the administration.

But when I raised the question of how many DEI workers will be fired together with tenured professors, I was screamed down by tenured professors, some of whom are getting fired for sure. When I questioned how come there is money to hire DEI specialists from Washington, DC but no money to teach languages, colleagues pretended to be offended on behalf of DEI specialists. We are doing a 3-month DEI course with the DC specialists. I don’t want to imagine how much this costs because it’s not just the workshop but software to measure how thoroughly we are DEI-ed, the analysis of the testing, additional workshops to correct the insufficient DEI-ing of the remaining faculty, and so on. The only – literally the only one – person questioning this is me. Everybody else seems very sincerely to believe that this a fantastic way to spend money. Maybe they are faking but it changes nothing. Nobody is asking these questions openly and I’m getting tired of being the only person who cares.

Yesterday, when our Dean was announcing additional details about the firings, a professor who’s getting fired with 90% certainty interrupted. “This is because of Trump, right?” she said hopefully. “This wouldn’t be happening if he wasn’t in the White House, right?”

Even the Dean was taken aback with the ease of this extraordinary self-sabotage.

How is one supposed not to be angry at all this?

In the meantime, the Prime Minister of the formerly great Britain;

A murder is a result of knives, ladies and gentlemen. A crackdown on knife sales online – but not in stores because those don’t exist – will make murders disappear. If only humanity figured out faster how to make this happen.

What can one possibly conclude from these events other than that the nation-state is dead and nobody can bring it back? Besides the fact that politicians hate the English language and will torture it mercilessly, of course.