Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to radgeekdotcom. I’m pretty sure it is available; I had read about that fix online. It’s just that when you’re pressed for time, and not-great about tech things, it’s irritating to have to spend the time to fix things …

In reply to Brandon Christensen. I was happy with WordPress before this Gutenberg crap. Yeah, too much work to switch the blog over to another platform, but I’ve been looking for a place to post my writing, and both Medium and Substack are possib…

In reply to radgeekdotcom. I just came ere to post that. LikeLiked by 1 person

There are various ways to get around Gutenberg, but the most straightforward, if available to you, is probably to install and activate the (official, maintained by the WordPress dev team) “Classic Editor” plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugi…

WordPress sucks, yo. I’ve been looking into SubStack, lately, but it’s almost too much work to try and switch over… LikeLike

As some of you may have noticed, WordPress has, in its “wisdom,” introduced a new default editing system at its blogs, pretentiously called the “Gutenberg Block Editor.” It’s a flaming piece of shit which adds no value to the platform, subtracts (or hides) valuable functions that were present in the classic editor, is generally glitch-laden,…

[…] PornHub. They have a better mastery of the facts than I do. I simply offer up this challenge to critics of “cancel culture”: I can’t think of a more obvious counter-example to their complaints. No one doubts […] LikeLike

Though there’s room to quibble about its exact definition, on some conception of it, almost everyone agrees that pedophilia is wrong–very wrong. When the acts in question involve very young children, and involve obvious reliance on violence or coercion, the issues left to quibble about rapidly diminish to zero. In such cases, we’re just left…