I agree - this was post was pretty dumb.

But it’s too bad that there’s almost no middle ground between Rockhill’s paranoid marxism and the mainstream academy’s disregard for all kinds of conspiracy.

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Woke up today to more Palestinians than ever reaching out asking me to share their campaigns, they can't afford to buy food, there's very little food to buy, & they are surrounded by the hunger screams of their children while sometimes too weak to go to look for scraps of food. So we're doing this:

400 000.

Saeed just wrote me from Gaza. He and his family had to evacuate in the night due to heavy bombing. They desperately need donations for food, a new tent and mattresses. Please share and donate if you have the opportunity!

Again, I need to remind those calling for “reasonable” criticism of “AI” that it is not “reasonable” to try to find the good and useful in a technology whose inventors claim will destroy your career, industry, and, by proxy, your community

You’re literally demanding that people behave irrationally.

Saeed just wrote me from Gaza. He and his family had to evacuate in the night due to heavy bombing. They desperately need donations for food, a new tent and mattresses. Please share and donate if you have the opportunity!

Please donate or share. Help save this child's life. Please. Do whatever you can to help. Please. 🙏🏾♥️

lol fair enough!

"Cults recruit the curious, the unaffiliated, the trusting, and the altruistic." - Margaret T. Singer

it's sobering to realise that I'm the prototypical cult member. I've found something that will solve all my problems so many times - from therapy balls to mindfulness.

is there a good book on how people employ hypnosis in daily life? From my time in classical music, I’m starting to realise how often I’ve been hypnotised and brought into trance-like states…

So you believe in the redeeming potential of art? What are the historical precedents for such a view?

I agree. But it’s sadly an unenforceable principle when dealing with German musicology. Maybe I should just point out the people who were demonstrably not Nazis

Det er ganske mye modigere å kjempe mot Israel, tenker jeg.

Super important thread about censorship and racism towards Palestinian accounts on here.

I just sent some money to Lubna in Gaza. The situation there is beyond description. Please share and donate if you have the opportunity!

Hello dear Lubna, thanks for writing me. I just made a small donation. The situation in Gaza breaks my heart.

Thanks for writing me! I just made a small donation - hope you get many more!

I'm still struggling with this tbh!

And then there's also a whole list of subtle hints and phrases to show that one belongs among the privileged few

Another thing one doesn’t learn in German class is the one-way-Du. If a professor says Du, you’re still supposed to respond with Sie. It took a whole year before I got this

That’s a great story. It makes sense that the collegial Du was no longer appropriate. Still, it must be feel really strange to consciously distance oneself in this way.

A question about Germany:

A singing professor I knew said Sie to her bachelor students, and Du to the master students. This means that the change from the formal to the more intimate form was completely predictable and structured.

Is there a term for this phenomenon? Are there other examples?

Hell is what people are going through in Gaza, but I hope you will be able to cope with this difficult experience.

Thanks for the this. I’ve still to read Nietzsche, but I think this is correct. Or one could say that secularism killed Christianity.

Well, on the Nietzschean account (Genealogy), Christianity is woven into secular value systems, and in a negative way. So the roots of the problem are v. deep (for him).

Hehe, I agree. And that is basically my issue with Western Christianity, it doesn't offer a moral alternative.

However, to make this argument, I would have to have find examples of Christian groups that have had a genuine positive effect in the world...

True. But in many European countries, churches are state funded (or through Kirchensteuer).

That’s a fascinating hypothesis. In Norway, conversions to Catholicism (from mainstream Lutheranism) may be linked to the demands it asks from believers, and that it is more resistant towards secular trends.