Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Jokes, with pictures
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! Crock, 5/16/26 This is one of those Rodney Dangerfield-style one-liners that sort of makes sense when you first…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) The Anarchists Who Thought Mao Was on Their Side
As the Cultural Revolution turns 60, here’s a look back at some of the fantasies that people projected onto it—and at one moment of possible prescience.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026
Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odds and ends’ components (slingers, elephants), before looking at how that mixture of troop-types was employed in battle during the third century. For this week’s musing, I figured I would answer a question that…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Friday is for failure
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! Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/15/26 Oh, I had sort of forgotten that Lonnie didn’t just turn to blackmail because…
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(xkcd.com) Speedrun
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 29: Behind the Analysis — Assessing Past Malaria Nets Grants
GiveWell’s research doesn’t end once we’ve made a grant. We evaluate a subset of completed grants, comparing what we thought would happen to what actually took place, then try to use what we learn to improve our future funding decisions. Over the past year, we’ve formalized and expanded this work, publishing comprehensive “lookbacks” for select…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Youth, old age, and so on
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! Mark Trail, 5/14/26 Many years ago, we were visiting Vancouver during the delightful summer months, and in Stanley…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Days like this
New comic!Today’s News: You can still late pledge in our 2026 Kickstarter. Find it here: tinyurl.com/2wjw2bw6You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix! Check the nav bar!Subscribe to the Spice Rack newsletter here!Want printe…
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(Policy of Truth) “Terms of Repression”
You’re invited to our 2026 Reunions Event: Terms of Repression Join us for a panel discussion with Dr. Sadaf Jaffer, Aditi Rao, and a student (now alum) participant in the 2024 encampment and expert on Princeton’s complicity in war crimes. Moderated by Irfan Khawaja ‘91. What types of repression have students and faculty been facing since the 2024 encampment? How…
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