Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) QC Rerun Time 2025 #44
It’s hard to believe the first Cubetown visit was like 800 friggin’ comics ago, holy crap. Time does weird things when you draw a comic every day for 20-odd years. As I recall, at this point I was still trying to figure out if QC would switch solely …
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Someday they’re gonna reveal who’s under the boxes and I promise it will be extremely underwhelming
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! Mary Worth, 12/10/25 We all know, of course, that Mary Worth takes place in a world similar to…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Contradictions of Institutional Neutrality by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. A spanking from Peikoff awaits. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Contradictions of Institutional Neutrality by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Ahhh, I didn’t see that implication. I have failed to use my mind properly! LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Contradictions of Institutional Neutrality by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. True that Hobbes’s view seems a bit un-Hobbesian. But the Hobbesian part is seeing the desire to please as a means to consciousness of one’s own power rather than any sort of concern for the other person. Which …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Contradictions of Institutional Neutrality by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. So why doesn’t the felicity of life consist in lust satisfied? I had actually read both of those passages before, but had forgotten that Hobbes’s conception of lust is so reciprocal. Seems un-Hobbesian somehow….
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(QC RSS) QC Rerun Time 2025 #3
A Bembo comic! Man I love these. IIRC, the whole idea for Bembo started off on twitter when I went on a bit of a “dumb barbarian but not in the way you’d expect” style of shitposting spree. Then later that year I needed some filler comics for the wee…
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(xkcd.com) Fishing
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 18: Behind the Planet Money ALIMA Grant Story
This episode follows up on the November 26, 2025 episode of Planet Money, “Saving lives with fewer dollars,” which covered GiveWell’s evaluation of a grant to the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) to maintain primary healthcare, hospital services, and malnutrition treatment in two subdistricts of North Cameroon following unexpected aid cuts earlier this year.…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) What vile Scots obscenity is Ian shouting here? Sound off in the comments
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! Blondie, 12/9/25 I’m pretty impressed that Alexander and Cookie have figured out how to mirror both their phones…
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