Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on An Open Letter to the Jewish Community of Northern New Jersey by Irfan Khawaja
As an addendum to JVP’s letter, I highly recommend reading this piece by Joshua Leifer in The New York Review of Books (May 11, 2023). On Israel’s not having a constitution and the need to write one: Writing any kind of constitution will, …
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(Policy of Truth) Failing the Empathy Exams
The wounded woman gets called a stereotype and sometimes she is. But sometimes she’s just true. –Leslie Jamison, “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” The Empathy Exams* On the day before New Year’s back in 2021, I found myself riding the train to work when, one stop after mine, a vaguely familiar woman got on.…
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(QC RSS) Sophisticated Humor
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(Policy of Truth) An Open Letter to the Jewish Community of Northern New Jersey
An Open Letter to the Jewish Community of Northern New Jersey From Jewish Voice for Peace of Northern New Jersey May 5, 2023 Massive demonstrations have been taking place in Israel over the future of its judiciary amid rising authoritarianism. Democratic activism is most welcome, but, overwhelmingly, the protests do not focus on the more…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on We the Living by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. Exactly. I was thinking of artificial intelligence and robotics, but the same applies in either case. It’s one thing if there is an infrastructure in place to handle the transition, unemployment insurance of some kind,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on We the Living by butimbeautiful
Yes, absolutely. This argument is raised a lot in regard to job losses associated with the transition to green energy. When the coal mine shuts down, you’ll just shift over to the hydrogen plant or whatever. It’s not real world thinking. On…
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(Policy of Truth) We the Living
Encountered this quotation on Facebook today, in a post intended to dismiss fears of job loss through technology: It is much easier to imagine someone losing their job to a new technology than it is to imagine many people gaining jobs that haven’t been invented yet. Yes, it’s definitely easier to imagine something that’s happened…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: The Great War: Western Front, A Gain of Inches
This week we’re looking at The Great War: Western Front, a hybrid turn-based/real-time strategy game about the First World War developed by Petroglyph Games, a renowned maker of real-time strategy titles. Petroglyph generally tend to do games set in science-fiction or fantasy settings, so when this product was announced I was immediately interested to see…
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(QC RSS) Dramatic Exit
Evanescent Q. Incinerator, the Q doesn’t stand for anything
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Total girlboss energy
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