Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) One Good Turn
Hi Sven
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(QC RSS) In The Mouth Of Lewdness
Marigold continues to be my favorite
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on First and Second in a Series of Tubes by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Or rough approximations thereof. LikeLike
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Plato, Space Ranger
A new episode of my YouTube channel is up! This one focuses on the connection between philosophical thought experiments (from Plato’s Ring of Gyges to Judith Jarvis Thomson’s defense of abortion) and science-fiction (and fantasy) literature. In related news, a combination of unexpected expenses (e.g., high medical co-pays for kidney stone surgeries, plus my car’s…
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Undemocratic Policing in Portland
Federal law enforcement officers in various agencies in the Department of Homeland Security have been deployed to police protestors in Portland, OR. This development in the protests against police, and the police responses to them, highlight two different kinds of problems: those that come from the decentralization of local agencies and those that come from…
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(Cat and Girl) The Unearned Anhedonia of the Work From Home Class
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Ruffled some feathers
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Be Still My Beating Suit
One thing that every adaptation of Dune seems to get wrong: throughout the book series, the Fremen are always described as wearing robes covering their stillsuits. And a passage in God Emperor of Dune makes clear that “covering” means completely covering: The grey slick of a stillsuit could be seen underneath, exposed to sunlight which…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) spoolfeed, or the new news
Ever since I worked at the Guardian’s New Media Lab in the Nineties and it was my actual job, I’ve been thinking about how news media is produced. A lot of my thinking was originally driven by just extrapolating out where things were headed. The increasingly high frequency of the news-cycle, for instance, was so…
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(QC RSS) Shit Hits The Fan
he’s not wrong
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