Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Our World in Data) How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?
Data centers consume around 1.5% of global electricity, but demand is very geographically concentrated.
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(Policy of Truth) Unfortunate Sons
What’s remarkable here is the total lack of self-awareness with which these people will hold a graduation ceremony for soldiers (officers) in a public park, then rationalize the bombing of schools, hospitals, bridges, power plants, and crowds of starving civilians by claiming that the presumptive presence of n “terrorists” or “militants” at those locations makes…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sin and redemption (mostly sin)
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! Family Circus, 7/19/26 Dolly, thou shalt not mock this sign of God’s displeasure, neither by crude sophistry nor…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) I don’t think Blondie ordered that sundae for herself
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! Blondie, 7/18/26 Blondie likes to make extremely on-the-nose jokes about obscure holidays. But they usually show up on…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership
This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. We’ve talked about how armies are recruited, equipped and paid for. In particular, as we’ve seen so far, the structure of recruitment, organization and payment (such as it was) is…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Bummer Friday
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., 7/17/26 Wow, this is actually really depressing to me. I thought that Uncle (?) Rene…
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(QC RSS v2) Music To Their Ears
the magic words
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Wokeness Threat is a Right-Wing Scam by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’ve got something in the works that discusses it. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tomasi and Flier on “Commencement Neutrality” by A(nother) Reductio for Institutional Neutrality | Policy of Truth
[…] them, no matter how disingenuous, coercive, or preposterous. This is the actual agenda behind the convoluted word salad they’ve offered up in defense of institutional neutrality–not truth, viewpoint […] LikeLike
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