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MCNULTY MINDSET

@rationalcreatur

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale. I tweet in a purely personal capacity.

 New Haven, CT
philosophy.yale.edu/people/jacob-mcnulty
Joined March 2011
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Christopher Frey@FreyChristopherNov 4
Have current events left you depressed and in need of a pick me up? Or are you thrilled and want the good times to keep rolling? Either way, the end you seek arrives early next year!
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THE GODS: Ithaca is in your sights. Go home ODYSSEUS: I can't, Sir. I'm Woke! ME (watching in IMAX 70mm): He's woke! He wont do it!
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LeBron James
@KingJames2 Oct 2012
Well at least i can always fall back and watch SpongeBob Squarepants.
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Will Gish@wwgishAug 13
Tarkovsky is transcendence as cinema
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Shuja Haider@shujaxhaiderAug 11
i’m actually on woke 3. i have a few invite codes left, dm me if you want one. you’re not gonna believe the new takes this baby comes with
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John Attridge@John_AttridgeAug 10
A "trivia night"? To me, all human culture and society is important. It's called history from below, look it up sometime
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Ben Page
@BenpagelondonAug 6
BBC Archive interview with Evelyn Waugh from 1960. Interviewer: You didn’t do very well at Oxford, did you? Waugh: No, I took a bad third. Interviewer: How did that happen? Waugh: Sloth. Interviewer: Why are you appearing in this programme? Waugh: Poverty
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Amazing: nytimes.com/2026/08/01/arts/…
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7/11 Truther
@DaveMcNamee3000Aug 3
What’s the charge? Eating a meal? Eating a succulent sun god’s cattle meal?
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John Attridge@John_AttridgeAug 1
Ohhh my god are you telling the story out of chronological order? Should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Homer
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horse dentist
@equine__dentistJul 31
i bet it feels good as hell to be a fat bear floating down the river
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guy who is not especially familiar with genie-related narratives
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SAM ALTMAN: “We are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish.”
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birds' hell@saturnalreturnJul 26
The British prime minister is replaced 24 times per second, creating the illusion of a smoothly flowing image
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John Attridge@John_AttridgeJul 14
(my son) hi dad (speaking to my meta glasses) meta who is this? (Glasses) It's your son sir *Smiling warmly* hi buddy (To my glasses) Meta resume playing Titanic
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John Attridge@John_AttridgeJul 11
Every nonfiction book is called like Republic of Cheese: How Gouda Saved Democracy and Created the Modern World
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cj@chronowerksJul 5
The Swimmer (1968) is one of the few movies that really captures the feeling of coming up with a bit that's only funny to you
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Anton Jäger@AntonJaegermmJun 17
RIP to a giant
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Samuel Moyn 🔭@samuelmoynJun 15
Nice piece (well-informed and -written). If we take its thesis seriously-that Adorno’s pessimism about public reason has been vindicated-we ought to glaze such figures as Jay Bernstein or Raymond Geuss who protested where Habermas took critical theory. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age

Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age

The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.

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Joe Bernstein@BernsteinJun 14
Every other city after winning a sports title: That was awesome. I hope we do it again New York writers after winning an NBA title: it was as if humanity rediscovered its hidden social potentiality, rescuing a lost Weltanschauung from the depths of neoliberal anomie
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narsa.@rathor7_Jun 14
Why aren't Football teams trying this technique to score easier goals.. Are they stupid?
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