Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(xkcd.com) Maze
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?
Agriculture has been the main driver of deforestation, but this has been concentrated in only a few commodities: mostly beef, palm oil, soy, and forestry products.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) It’s the Russ…ians, maybe?
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! Judge Parker, 8/2/26 Oh wow, as predicted, that big Hollywood exec loved Ann’s little sermon and green-lit the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Stirring the POT (2) by “Iran’s Fractured Leadership” | Policy of Truth
[…] CNA’s, not that any American news outlets had the honesty or integrity to report this. When I stayed at the Sheraton in Norfolk back in February 2025, it was full of naval personnel: their presence in the hotel and throughout […] …
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(Policy of Truth) “Iran’s Fractured Leadership”
I wrote the post below the line back in April, but got pulled into other things, and never posted it. But I feel pretty vindicated: since late March, the Times’s narrative has turned 180 degrees. In March, they were quoting officials quite sure that Iran’s leadership was too “fractured” to act in a unified way.…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday is for fraught relationships
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! Luann, 8/1/26 Much as it pains me to give Luann some credit, and much as it pains me…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, July 31, 2026 (On The Odyssey)
Hey folks, Fireside this week, as I am fresh back from a short family trip before the jaws of the Fall semester close upon me. I did get a chance to see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and I wrote a review of it for Foreign Policy (alas, paywalled, I assume), although by far the most…
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(QC RSS v2) Soggy
damp…
Got any book recommendations?