Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to butimbeautiful. So many things to be disgusted by in this post! I really know how to pack it in. But then, I have great materials to work with. I actually forwarded the post to Loren Balhorn, the Jacobin writer. I’m curious to see whe…

Chatgpt is essentially a boring person. Or non person. Useful for those many situations where modern life demands a boring response, such as legal queries and counselling sessions. LikeLike

Disgusting. LikeLike

And in case you think this is all “foreign stuff,” irrelevant to life in these fine United States of ours, never forget that when it comes to “Security,” including the threats posed by “Illegals,” our nation is commi…

To draw attention to the blatantly obvious to anyone who has spent time in the area: https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/04/04/50000-palestinians-enter-israel-illegally-through-holes-in-security-fence-each-day/ Tens of thousands of Palestinian workers cro…

More basics: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ben-white/did-israeli-apartheid-wall-really-stop-suicide-bombings LikeLike

A primer on Israel’s Wall, for those who may have missed the link at the beginning of my post. https://www.btselem.org/separation_barrier LikeLike

In my previous comment, I said, apropos of Hicks: “I’d like to think that if alerted to the fact of his error, Hicks will correct it.” He has corrected it–I wonder who alerted him?–but true to form, doesn’t admit having ma…

Just to underscore the irrelevance of Freiman’s comment to Balhorn’s argument: Freiman: “Here’s a pretty good heuristic: political regimes that people flee to tend to be better than political regimes that people flee from.” Balh…

I just posted the screenshots I promised in the previous comment. The first screenshot is from Chris Freiman’s Twitter feed. I regard it as a fundamentally dishonest presentation of Loren Balhorn’s article in Jacobin. It fails to mention th…