Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Ancient-ish times
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! Hagar the Horrible, 8/30/25 Look, despite the fun (“fun”) I have here detailing all the anachronisms in Hagar…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) LLMs for the Old and Infirm
A few people have asked me (an old man) how I manage to use LLMs in my life without being driven insane by their horrid new-fangledness, their hallucinations, their wanton sycophancy, the hype, the grift, and the everpresent risk of being lured into psychosis. The simple answer is that, as a command-line fogey, I use…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, August 27, 2025 (On Defending History)
Hey folks, Fireside this week! As I noted a couple of weeks ago, things are probably going to get more than a little fireside-y over the next few weeks, simply because of the start of the semester – and a semester in which I am undertaking a set of entire new preps (that is, teaching…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Hell is for (and created by) children
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! Dennis the Menace, 8/29/25 We take the eternal struggle between Dennis and Mr. Wilson so much for granted…
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(Policy of Truth) The Activist As Revenue Manager
Between doing the numbers for Hartford HealthCare, and prepping the inventory reports for the Atlantic Health System—and blogging to excess in the middle of it all—I left the office late, got on a late train home, and once again got my ass stranded at Princeton Junction Rail Station. No sooner did I get there, but…
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(QC RSS) They’ve Changed
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(xkcd.com) Sea Level
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Resistance in Action (2) by ITA Resolution for Montgomery | Policy of Truth
[…] every campaign’s got to start somewhere. We just had a win in Princeton, and we’ve had more than a dozen wins before that. At my friend Sadaf Jaffer’s […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Resistance and Retaliation by ITA Resolution for Montgomery | Policy of Truth
[…] lot of municipalities sign on. So far something like 14 or 15 have (see the first footnote of this post for a list), but there are 564 municipalities in New Jersey. So we’ve got a ways to […] LikeLike
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