Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(xkcd.com) Features of Adulthood
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) L’Affaire Dittmann
I’m not fond of Twitter as a communicative form — I still believe that the question “what if we put everyone on the same IRC channel?” was one that we didn’t need to run an experiment to answer. But I am enjoying having multiple reincarnations of Twitter, from the individual yurts of the Fediverse to…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) I’m not sorry if it offends, actually, never apologize for pedantry
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, 1/4/25 Yes, I still read the newspaper comics strip Blondie every day, and I actually learn things…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) getting out of bedrock
Continuing the Old Hippy mulling: instead of just trying to make old fires spontaneously light again using the same old ashes, my thought is — how do you find a role for the values, for the insight, and keep that in a place that preserves the best of it? I wrote about this a fair…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Lessons of History by Irfan Khawaja
Just in case you think I’ve gotten carried away here with my rhetoric, someone might wonder: how can I possibly say of Carter that “no matter what bullshit they shovel about their solicitude for the Palestinians, they regard the Palestinian…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Lessons of History by Irfan Khawaja
I know the thesis, but haven’t read it. It isn’t high on my to-read list. I don’t expect to be enlightened by it. Carter’s view is the conventional one that I myself held for decades but eventually had to abandon, namely: “…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what could you buy with how much) and then…
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