Matt Dinan

dad, prof, writer. director @stugreatbooks (say it like "dine in")

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

For @nytimes, I wrote about how great teaching in the algorithmic age involves getting a little weird: https://t.co/Y6deHFT4ed

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

It’s never been more important to insist that the lineage of modern technoscience begins with Bacon’s The Nee Atlantis

[Ari Schulman @AriSchulman]

Nota bene: Central to Amodei's vision for how AI will "cure" mental illness is genetic screening, meaning he expects human reproduction via sex to be largely replaced by mass embryo production and mass screening in labs on this same timeline:

[Megan Fritts @freganmitts]

“Sir, we’re entering an age of medical miracles.”

“An age of medical miracles! Wow, that sounds great! But tell me it’s not just high-tech eug—”

“It’s high-tech eugenics.”

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

@polanskydj Same for my roommate and me.

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

@zenahitz It had better be COLORS

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

.@SECWAR “The philosophical doctrines of the Frankfurt School – critical theory and the corrosive apparatus of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ – are fundamentally INCOMPATIBLE with military service and antithetical to the Constitution of the United States.”

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

It IS a yetzer hara trap

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

@j_ckh_ns_n needle in the hay (non-pejorative)

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

I'm listening...

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

@lionel_trolling He's like Paolo and Francesca

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

@Christo66947097 True!

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

Skate-style cross country skiing, especially when it's sunny out

[Sola 🇨🇦 @SolaTheAnalyst]

Canadians, what’s the one thing you do in winter that actually makes it feel fun instead of just ‘surviving’?

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

lol this sounds like the response of a damned soul Dante stops to talk to in Hell—The refusal of repentance and God's love, the continued obsession with old political enemies, the combination of defiance and self-pity

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?

TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest people, bad people, I love our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.

Q: In judgement before God?

TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.

REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?

TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.

Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.

He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't

One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.

[Nick Allmaier @NickAllmaier]

Prepare for the Strauss-Benardete correspondence.

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

@SWGoldman The fact of your having children doesn't make everyone addicted to their phones though, Sam

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Unfortunately it is simply impossible to educate children without Google search. Alas.

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

Reading for two hours uninterrupted

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Millennials, what was considered completely NORMAL in 2005 that would be absolutely unhinged today?

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

Stephen Miller is not a staffing person, and nobody is allowed to every correct Trump. So, today hw says the UFC chairman was offered the job of press secretary. He was not. This is a four seasons total landscaping situation, and it is on the anniversary of that hilariously incompetent event.

[Derek Duplessie @dnduplessie]

Ronna Burger and Svetozar Minkov have asked me to share this news:

"We've learned that The Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Seth Benardete, currently listed on Amazon with Nov. 3, 2026 publication date, will be available by early December."

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

@bengrossbg @bullfranx We restructured the discipline around his work, and now, except for maybe Oxford, everyone had moved on. So that seems to me to be a very clear example of someone being overrated. Much like Derrida in the 90s (whom I respect greatly)

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

@bengrossbg @bullfranx I took *two* seminars on Rawls! As many as I took on Plato