Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Our World in Data) How does food get traded around the world?
Our interactive tool helps you see where food is exported from and where it goes.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mood swing 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! Pluggers, 6/28/26 Oh, did you need Moses to commune with YHWH atop Mt. Horeb and bring down a…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fact-Checking Holly Schepisi (2) by Getting Delaney Hall Wrong | Policy of Truth
[…] I’ve argued at length elsewhere, the Department found the facility Conditionally Satisfactory. The article nowhere mentions this […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Getting Delaney Hall Wrong
Re-visiting the May 28 NJDOH Health Inspection (x3) The mainstream press is systematically misreporting the New Jersey Department of Health’s May 28 inspection of Delaney Hall. This is from an article in today’s NJ.com, “Federal judge demands answers after N.J is again blocked at Delaney Hall detention center“: In a limited inspection last month, state…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) The Spice Girls would hit that town like an atomic bomb
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! Beetle Bailey, 6/27/26 Beetle looks like he’s in a great mood in panel two, and honestly, why wouldn’t…
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(The GiveWell Blog) June 2026 updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It
This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In the last part, we looked at the various ways pre-modern armies might mobilize their armies, a process that mainly consisted of recruiting and equipping soldiers.…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly Walker-Browne Friday
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! Hi and Lois, 6/26/26 I dunno, maybe there’s something to this whole “boys are falling behind” thing, because…
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(QC RSS v2) Trip Of A Lifetime
there’s a software emulation for everything
Got any book recommendations?