Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on 2013 Seminar Photo by Stephen Boydstun
Irfan – I wanted to let you and other friends here know that my husband Walter died last month. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4052830928289112&set=a.1383773711861527 LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Karl Ameriks, RIP by Stephen Boydstun
So sorry of this. I enjoyed him a lot at meetings of the American Philosophical Association. Also at the oral defense of the dissertation of rachael zuckert at Chicago. LikeLike
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(Our World in Data) Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year
Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.
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(QC RSS) Diminishing Returns
that sports bra cost as much as a nice used car
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(xkcd.com) Renormalization
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Who Was Killed at Pahalgam (2)? by Who Was Killed at Pahalgam? | Policy of Truth
[…] a follow-up to this post here. The total number of Indian intelligence and military personnel killed is now up to five. Despite […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Against Trespass
“Direct action,” in activist parlance, is a form of public protest to induce some party to meet one’s demands–a demonstration, a sit-in, a disruption. Some direct actions (not all, obviously) involve trespass of some kind. What counts as trespass in any given context, particularly a university campus, can often be a confused and confusing affair.…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Bleak Sunday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Shoe, 5/18/25 You know I’m a fan of the depressing Shoe strips where either the Perfesser or Skyler…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Who Was Killed at Pahalgam? by Who Was Killed at Pahalgam (2)? | Policy of Truth
[…] update on my earlier post on this topic: After persistent questioning of ChatGPT, it’s now begun to assert that in fact […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Who Was Killed at Pahalgam (2)?
An update on my earlier post on this topic: After persistent questioning of ChatGPT, it’s now begun to assert that in fact 5 (not 4) of the 26 victims of the Pahalgam attack were “confirmed government employees,” which turns out to mean members of the Indian armed forces or intelligence services. I asked ChatGPT for…
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