Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Have a Tough Month by Roderick T. Long
There also seems to be a difference of opinion between Jews and Christians (well, most Christians; not Adventists, obviously, though I’m sure there’s some disagreement about details there too) as to which day is “the sabbath.” …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Driving with Thrasymachus by Roderick T. Long
Your failure to refer to your driver as an “Ubermensch” seems like an opportunity missed. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Unsafe at any Bandwidth by Irfan Khawaja
A PS on my post: I haven’t gone through the full list of 50 medical facilities on the Killnet list, so I can’t confirm that Killnet has hit all 50. That said, mainstream reporting on this topic has been woefully inadequate and incomplete. M…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) zero to sum
Sad about the District Court decision in Hachette vs. Internet Archive; not just because of the ruling against the Archive, but because of many people’s reaction to it online. People have strange intuitions, not just about the status of the law, but also of how it progresses. There’s some tut-tutting that an august institution like…
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(Policy of Truth) Unsafe at any Bandwidth
No one was particularly impressed a year ago when I predicted on Facebook that if we got involved in Ukraine, we could expect Russian hackers to attack American medical facilities, with worrisome consequences. Big deal, I was told. Ukraine must be defended, and if so, such costs must be discounted. Fair enough. I just want…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Defining “Wokeness”: Socratic Dialogues with Bethany Mandel by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. I regard Plato as the first theorist of wokeness, which is why I find the polemicists who argue against wokeness as though it was some offense against “Western Civilization” so ingenuous (or disingenuous). Once y…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Have a Tough Month by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. Counting the minutes until I can eat. Cold, hungry, and sick of it already. Day 2. LikeLiked by 1 person
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Have a Tough Month by mlyoung57
This makes me want to observe Ramadan. May you deepen your appreciation of the felt cost and motivational difficulty of virtue. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Driving with Thrasymachus
Woke up late this morning, so had to take an Uber to the train station. After congratulating me on my foresight for ordering a car before the rain (I had no idea it was going to rain), and complaining about the cut Uber was going to take out of the fare (almost 70%?), my driver…
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