Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Cat and Girl) Nostalgia Cycle on Spin
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Parkland Trial (2): Asking the Right Questions by butimbeautiful
You make fair points. I guess there’s a bit of scapegoating going on here. Although it’s also quite possible that Petersen could have done something and didn’t, because he was scared. Understandable but not admirable in a police offic…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – You have to take zis
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(Policy of Truth) The Parkland Trial (5): An Orwellian Prosecution
In 1984, George Orwell described Newspeak, the language of the totalitarian regime depicted in the book, in this way: Newspeak was founded on the English language as we now know it, though many Newspeak sentences, even not containing newly created words, would be barely intelligible to an English speaker of our own day (George Orwell,…
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(QC RSS) Promulgation
Promulbombloplugation
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(Cat and Girl) What’s in your time capsule?
Drew a comic about time capsules, Flushing Queens and how long 5,000 years is – over at the Nib.
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(Policy of Truth) To Calvary and Back
I found myself thinking the other day of Peter Breughel the Younger’s 1564 painting, “The Procession to Calvary.” I used to teach it when I taught aesthetics in college. As is probably obvious, it’s a depiction of Christ’s being taken to be crucified. It reminds me of so many things happening now, and vice versa.…
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(Our World in Data) We published a major overhaul of our work on Illicit Drug Use
Explore global data on addiction and deaths from opioids, cocaine, and other illicit drugs.
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(QC RSS) Undah Dah Sea
Well *I* think your joke was very clever, Bubbles
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Failing the Empathy Exams Yet Again, Starring Chat GPT by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Robert McParland. Never thought I’d agree with T.S. Eliot. When I was a senior in high school, I took a class on utopian and dystopian literature, where we read Huxley, Orwell, Bradbury, etc. It all seemed like mere science fiction at…
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