By request, I'm bringing over here to Mastodon the story I posted to twitter about what happened when Rupert Murdoch bought the zoo where we liked to talk about Kant and eat frozen chocolate-covered bananas.

Context: people are angry at scientists for moving here because they think that in doing so scientists are violating their right to free speech, that scientists are playing politics by leaving when Musk takes ownership, etc.

Imagine that my friends and I like to meet at the zoo to discuss Kant.

But every time we settle in for a good conversation about transcendental idealism, a modest-sided herd of inebriated emus arrive, playing vuvuzelas and waving placards about how we should be tried at The Hague for reading Leibniz, reading Hegel, not reading Hegel, whatever.

@ct_bergstrom how does that logic even work. I would argue that it's logic like that which causes scientists to leave .. it's better here at least for scientific discussions
@ct_bergstrom @sri right?? It’s just mind boggling