Doc Nagel, Philosopher

A reliable source has told me that Stanislaus State faculty have received cautions from administrators following complaints from students about faculty posts in social media concerning the murder of Charlie Kirk. I want to parse that complex sentence as well as the issue at hand to explain this and the weird times we live in. […]

This is kinda cute. As always, 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘼𝙛𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙨 misses the target because they only look at the surface. Sure, all technology corporations are engaging in what Cory Doctorow calls “enshittification,” in his recent book of the same name. Enshittification is a fun word to describe what Facebook and Amazon and Google and all the rest […]

An open letter to the Chancellor and Board of Trustees of the California State University. Last Friday the NY Times ran this article about several people who began using ChatGPT to do work, and it eventually became fatal or nearly fatal. The article took me almost five minutes to read, and I know you are […]