It seems like they shouldn’t be called “mistakes” either

Six seven

“This Truth”🤮FFS

I thought you were gonna say receiving one as tribute from a winner

Sorry to hear. We have power; furnace is out tho. Solidarity

This is literally not what they are literally doing. They are literally exactly engaged in an ethnic cleansing and fascist terror campaign. It has nothing to do with anything recognizable as law enforcement.

Funny. I had a very fantastical picture of you strolling near Spice Island, with a window unit going plop

Oakland?

Freiheiten ohne Freiheit - Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin Die DDR - historische Tiefendimensionen

… und die deutsche Zweistaatlichkeit ist aus dieser Perspektive eine Spätfolge des nationalistischen Turns der Sozialdemokratie. Historische Tiefendimensionen der DDR aufspüren: dietzberlin.de/freih... /3/

I suppose it is worth mention that UofC has an endowment north of 10 billion

Maybe if we throw trillions of dollars at this

Derby too on the nose

The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley This interventionist essay examines the affective politics of an ideology I term ‘reactionary futurism’ in Silicon Valley. The focus is on the emergence of this reactionary ideology among figures s...

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Some years ago, I posted a thread on X/Tw*tter about Marc Bloch. I thought it appropriate to update it and post it here. 0/

Nope—it’s all phony BS

Yeah I saw this same time you did. I love Ganz (and Riley ha ha)

Is this intended ironically?

“One way to reduce overall suffering and save resources is to allow sick people to die sooner, rather than pursue costly medical research in the hopes of eventually deploying medicine and therapies to ease their suffering” —somebody somewhere today

How does the old saying go?The point is to understand the world, not merely to change it… something like that anyway…

What Happened Here It's Very Simple Dialectics

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This is worth reading in the present moment.

Free by Lea Ypi

What’s particularly weird and disturbing is the triple combo of the slightly ironic disengagement you identify, plus Trump’s genuine lunacy, and the new quislings that are simply everywhere obeying in advance! What could go wrong?

Wherof one cannot speak, therof one must be silent.

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I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night.

We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is.

It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump.

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What are you, some kind of normativist about logic Erik? I expect you will soon be banging on about the so-called laws of thought, or criteria of correct reasoning or something.

Viols de Mazan : un procès pour le futur - L'Humanité Au tribunal d’Avignon, les avocats de Gisèle Pelicot et de ses enfants ont plaidé, sobrement mais puissamment, pour les générations à venir, afin d’amorcer le changement des mental...

Tonight I’ll be raising a glass to @manongarcia.bsky.social, whose work on consent was cited in the closing arguments of the Pelicot trial in France this week as a promise of a better world.

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OpEd piece: "A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn’t an ordinary man."

Speaking as someone who teaches logic and critical thinking, this is an *unbelievably* bad argument (if I'm reading it right). The kindest thing I can say about it is that it's an instance of denying the antecedent – a basic fallacy. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...