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Very excited for the release of this paper, mapping the emergence of a moral panic around safer supply prescribing. Led by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸, our team uses established criteria for moral panics to explore recent rhetoric around safer supply, diversion and youth drug use 🧵

Portland State University’s library has been under occupation by pro-Palestinian protesters since Monday. Chairs are piled around the windows. Wood pallets are stacked next to the doors as fortifications. Here is a look inside the makeshift fortress. nyti.ms/3JJGOmE

Today I present at a conference and edit footnotes.

People will blame everything for a problem, but the actual problem.

Lászlo Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance, p. 184.

Beautiful argumentation by Alain Badiou, probably France's greatest living philosopher, accusing Alain Finkielkraut - one of Israel's staunchest defenders in France - of having "nationalized the word 'Jew'" and made it so legitimate criticism of Israel is considered antisemitic.

The contrast between talking to my brother who lives in Houston and looking at the news is striking. Millions without power in Texas heat and barely a word. As my brother says Katrina was just the start. Ignore, abandon, and carry on is the strategy for climate change disasters.

Today seems like a stay off the internet day.

We've been asking the wrong questions.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Yes, I have emphysema from my many years of smoking. I have to say that I enjoyed smoking very much, and I do love tobacco - the smell of it, lighting cigarettes on fire, smoking them - but there is a price to pay for this enjoyment, and the price for me is

Simondon on the transductive communication of a forest fire. I'll need to compare with how I've considered forest fire as a form of communication previously. (see journals.open.tudelft.nl/footprint/arti…)

Post only one of the books you're currently reading.

We're doing another workshop on philosophy and ai, this time in Oxford - apply until October 1!

Youtube just presented me a Christmas commercial.