Chris Weaver

Humanities Professor, dad, etc. THE account for the many in the Venn diagram seeking philosophy, soccer, and music content in one place.

[herculez gomez @herculezg]

Representing my country has always been one of the greatest privileges of my life. As the son of Mexican immigrants, wearing the crest meant more than fulfilling a childhood dream. It was an opportunity to represent so many people who share similar roots, values, and hopes for a better future. I continue to believe.

Happy 250th, America.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Say what you will about analytic philosophers, you can't deny they have a great sense of humour.

[Chris Weaver @onlythingiknow]

@DavidAFrench It says a lot about human greed that not even an NBA salary is enough to keep people from doing this.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

I think it's extremely important to talk about bad things that happen to you as openly as you reasonably can and are comfortable with. You never know who it helps. A few friends have started doing this about their miscarriages and they're really paving the way for new knowledge and support here

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This story is disturbing. A woman in the US *legally* has been in immigration jail for 9 months. DHS admits she has status & does not oppose her release.

ICE still won't let her out. Whatever your politics, no one should be OK with this insane government incompetence & cruelty.

[Molly McKew @MollyMcKew]

I'm rewatching Battlestar Galactica because man vs machine vs the unexplainable is pretty much the philosophy we need right now.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. https://t.co/Cptx3aWppI

[charlie @BUNNlCULA]

community college challenges every classist notion of education and academia and having access to it has changed my life. it should be preserved, supported, and destigmatized with everything we have. hard to name a more precious educational resource for those over 18.

[Christian Miller @CharacterGap]

**Book Giveaway!**

With *The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World* to be released in exactly a week, it is time to give away some free signed copies!

Must retweet and follow (if needed) to enter. I will randomly select three winners and cover mailing costs. Please share!

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

It was clear for thousands of years that the cultivation of our humanity was the most important project we could undertake. The fact that the value of this is no longer legible to us--that we see no "point" to education beyond earning a wage--is the real crisis.

[Hollis Robbins @anecdotal]

Academia is dismantling itself faster than its critics can. Students (and paying parents) want an education from subject matter experts, not glitchy course software. Do not be fooled that this means access. It means the soft bigotry of low expectations.
https://t.co/nkw97BpFmi

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

@tomhfh Both sides deem themselves the arbiters of what is good and right. Republicans drew a map that will try to add 5 GOP seats in Texas; Democrats responded with one that will add up to 4 in Virginia. Gerrymandering is gerrymandering.

[Chris Weaver @onlythingiknow]

@PAHoyeck Phenomenal question.

[Peter Moore @PeterMooreUSA]

It got me thinking…who is this World Cup actually for?

In 1994, I was able to take my family to matches here in the United States. It wasn’t a luxury decision, it was something that felt within reach, and that mattered because that’s how the game grows and that’s how memories are made. I was living in Boston working for Reebok at the time, and so we were able to go to so many games at Foxborough as well as in New York City. In full disclosure, my work also allowed me to travel to games on the West Coast, including the final. While that was not the best shop window for The Beautiful Game it was stunning to see the Rose Bowl fulled to the brim with 94,000 fans.

Now fast forward to 2026.

Imagine a young family here in America today. Mum, dad, two kids who love the game. They sit down and look at the cost of attending just one match…tickets, travel, maybe a night or two in a hotel…and they pause. Not because they don’t love the game enough, it’s because they simply can’t justify it.
in my 45 years living here in the US and being involved in the game at so many different levels, I’ve never seen its popularity spike like it is today. Gen Z has fully embraced the game, Welcome to Wrexham has laid bare the passion and the joy it can ignite in a previously beleaguered community,
and we are spoiled for the choice of just about every major game in the world brought to us by streaming channels fighting for their place in broadcasting live sports.

Or think about a supporter from abroad. Someone who has followed their national team their entire life. For many, this isn’t just a trip, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage.

Between ticket pricing, travel costs, and uncertainty around access, that dream starts to slip out of reach.

That’s the part that sits uneasily with me.

The World Cup has always been more than a tournament. It’s been a gathering of people, cultures, stories. A place where the game feels like it belongs to everyone.

If too many of those people are left watching from afar, we lose something that can’t be measured in revenue. It becomes a made-for-tv spectacle like the Super Bowl, and then we lose the soul of it…

And once that starts to go, it’s very hard to get back.

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

JUST IN: Israeli Police prevented Cardinal Pizzaballa from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre today, as he went to say Mass.

@LPJerusalem calls it a “grave precedent” which “constitutes a manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate measure.”

Full statement from @LPJerusalem below

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Joint Press Release
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land

Holy City of Jerusalem
Palm Sunday, 29 March 2026

This morning, the Israeli Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, together with the Custos of the Holy Land, the Most Reverend Fr. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, the official Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.

The two were stopped en route, while proceeding privately and without any characteristics of a procession or ceremonial act, and were compelled to turn back. As a result, and for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

This incident is a grave precedent,and disregard the sensibilities of billions of people around the world who, during this week, look to Jerusalem.

The Heads of the Churches have acted with full responsibility and, since the outset of the war, have complied with all imposed restrictions: public gatherings were cancelled, attendance was prohibited, and arrangements were made to broadcast the celebrations to hundreds of millions of faithful worldwide, who, during these days of Easter, turn their eyes to Jerusalem and to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Preventing the entry of the Cardinal and the Custos, who bear the highest ecclesiastical responsibility for the Catholic Church and the Holy Places, constitutes a manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate measure.

This hasty and fundamentally flawed decision, tainted by improper considerations, represents an extreme departure from basic principles of reasonableness, freedom of worship, and respect for the Status Quo.

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land express their profound sorrow to the Christian faithful in the Holy Land and throughout the world that prayer on one of the most sacred days of the Christian calendar has thus been prevented.

[Philosophy Matters @PhilosophyMttrs]

Today’s graffiti

[Chris Weaver @onlythingiknow]

@WillatFIRE If a rollercoaster is designed to decapitate riders is that free speech?

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Denmark prepared for a possible U.S. attack: Flew blood supplies to Greenland and planned to blow up runways

Key sources in Denmark and Europe are now revealing for the first time what happened during the most critical days, when Donald Trump threatened to take Greenland “the hard way.”

When Danish soldiers were rapidly deployed to Greenland in January this year, they brought explosives with them. The plan was to destroy runways in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq to prevent American military aircraft from landing troops on the island, should the U.S. president ultimately decide to seize Greenland by force.

They also transported blood supplies from Danish blood banks so wounded personnel could be treated in case of combat.

This is reported by DR, which over the past year has spoken with central sources in the Danish government, top military officers, and high-ranking officials and intelligence sources in Denmark, France, and Germany.

All sources have played—and continue to play—key roles in the international crisis triggered by the United States’ demand for control over Greenland.

Together, the sources describe an unprecedented year marked by sleepless nights. None of them had concrete intelligence of specific American attack plans against Greenland. Still, many feared in January that the historically important ally, the United States, could attack at any moment.

At the same time, Denmark reached out to its European allies, leading to closer cooperation.

“With the Greenland crisis, Europe realized once and for all that we must be able to handle our own security,” said a French senior official involved in the intense period.

A rapid-response force consisting of Danish, French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish soldiers was first deployed to Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq.

Shortly after, a main force followed, including:
-Soldiers from the Danish Dragoon Regiment in Holstebro
-Elite troops from the Jaeger Corps
-French alpine troops trained for cold and mountainous warfare

At the same time, Danish fighter jets and a French naval vessel were sent to the North Atlantic.

According to several sources, the goal of having multinational troops on the ground was to ensure that any U.S. attempt to take Greenland would require a large-scale hostile action—thereby deterring such an attempt.

“We have not been in such a situation since April 1940,” said a Danish defense source, referring to the days before Denmark’s occupation during World War II.

Unlike in 1940, when Denmark chose not to resist militarily, the government and defense leadership this time decided—after extensive confidential discussions—to take the opposite approach:

If the U.S. attempted an attack, Danish forces would be armed and ready to fight. Danish F-35 fighter jets deployed north were also fully armed.

All this despite the understanding that Denmark could not realistically withstand a U.S. military attack.

“The cost for the U.S. had to be raised. The U.S. would have to carry out a hostile act to take Greenland,” said a senior Danish defense source.

Source: DR

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

The concept of the social media account for the gambling app that lets you bet on war announcing the existence of a human rental service for chatbots.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

We had an exceptional applicant pool